2009.10.31: 69-year-old Marian Blake Rowe left in September for Paraguay and a 27-month stint with the Peace Corps
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2009.10.31: 69-year-old Marian Blake Rowe left in September for Paraguay and a 27-month stint with the Peace Corps
69-year-old Marian Blake Rowe left in September for Paraguay and a 27-month stint with the Peace Corps
On the job, Rowe will help farming families learn about sustainable food production and increasing their crop yields. Rowe taught high school Spanish and biology and already has some Peace Corps experience under her belt. In the 1950s, she joined the Corps and worked in Morocco as a large animal scientist. Rowe is the grandmother of six, and the mother of Marine Capt. Alan Blake Rowe, who died at the age of 35 in 2004 when a bomb went off as he returned from inspecting a bridge in al-Anbar province, Iraq. "I feel strongly motivated to promote cross-cultural awareness and understanding as our only hope for eventual peaceful co-existence among an increasingly globalized population," Rowe said before she left for Paraguay.
69-year-old Marian Blake Rowe left in September for Paraguay and a 27-month stint with the Peace Corps
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The 69-year-old resident of Gooding left in September for Paraguay and a 27-month stint with the Peace Corps. On the job, Rowe will help farming families learn about sustainable food production and increasing their crop yields.
Rowe taught high school Spanish and biology and already has some Peace Corps experience under her belt. In the 1950s, she joined the Corps and worked in Morocco as a large animal scientist.
Rowe is the grandmother of six, and the mother of Marine Capt. Alan Blake Rowe, who died at the age of 35 in 2004 when a bomb went off as he returned from inspecting a bridge in al-Anbar province, Iraq.
"I feel strongly motivated to promote cross-cultural awareness and understanding as our only hope for eventual peaceful co-existence among an increasingly globalized population," Rowe said before she left for Paraguay.
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