1961.11.01: November 1, 1961: Headlines: COS - Tanzania: COS - Ghana: 1960's: Peace Corps News - Volume 1, No. 3: Eighty Ghana and Tanganyika Peace Corps Volunteers, the first to be assigned overseas, were given a personal sendoff by President Kennedy - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
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1961.11.01: November 1, 1961: Headlines: COS - Tanzania: COS - Ghana: 1960's: Peace Corps News - Volume 1, No. 3: Eighty Ghana and Tanganyika Peace Corps Volunteers, the first to be assigned overseas, were given a personal sendoff by President Kennedy - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
Eighty Ghana and Tanganyika Peace Corps Volunteers, the first to be assigned overseas, were given a personal sendoff by President Kennedy - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
"You will be the personification of a special group of young Americans, and if you impress them with your commitment to freedom, to your pride in your country and its best traditions and what it stands for, the influence may be far-reaching and will go far beyond the immediate day-to-day task that you may do in the months that are ahead."
Eighty Ghana and Tanganyika Peace Corps Volunteers, the first to be assigned overseas, were given a personal sendoff by President Kennedy - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
White House Reception for PCVs
Eighty Ghana and Tanganyika Peace Corps Volunteers, the first to be assigned overseas, were given a personal sendoff by President Kennedy.
In a short talk in the rose garden of the White House, Mr. Kennedy praised the group for their sense of service, and said they had a great opportunity to help their country.
"There are a good many hundreds of millions of people scattered throughout the world and you will come in contact with only a few," he said, "but the great impression of what kind of country we have and what kind of people we are will depend on their judgment in these countries of you."
"You will be the personification of a special group of young Americans, and if you impress them with your commitment to freedom, to your pride in your country and its best traditions and what it stands for, the influence may be far-reaching and will go far beyond the immediate day-to-day task that you may do in the months that are ahead."
The President told the Ghana group their work would be "important and valuable" because one of the new African nations' greatest problems was a lack of "experienced, educated leaders during these first days of their independence."
The engineers, surveyors and geologists assigned to the Tanganyika roads project were told that they were particularly needed to help "open the back land."
"The Peace Corps is the most original, stimulating and promising foreign affairs project thus far appearing on the New Frontier ... If America is to be better and more favorably understood abroad, it is imperative that more Americans live abroad and work with the less privileged people."
Dr. Jim Dan Hill, president, Wisconsin State College
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