Waiting for the Snow : The Peace Corps Papers of a Charter Volunteer
Waiting for the Snow : The Peace Corps Papers of a Charter Volunteer
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by Thomas J. Scanlon, Sargent Shriver, Theodore M. Hesburgh
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Paperback - 253 pages (January 1997)
Posterity Pr Inc; ISBN: 1889274038 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 8.90 x 5.96
Reviews
Book World, The Washington Post,, March 23, 1997
Scanlon the letter-writer had reportorial skills. He was a peace, not a war, correspondent, sending back dispatches from places in southern Chile that few outsiders had ever penetrated.... Hundreds of books have been written by former [Peace Corps] volunteers.... Tom Scanlon's is among the finest.
Shillelagh, Newsletter of the Notre Dame Club of Washington, DC, June 1997
...Scanlon composed letters to family members and friends about the struggles and triumphs of his sojourn, one that changed my life forever, he says....More than thirty years later, these letters are living testament to the power of human service.
The Scranton Times, January 19, 1997
[Scanlon] lived among Chile's poor for two years, struggling to cross cultural and linguistic barriers while serving as a youthful ambassador of his country. Scranton native Thomas J. Scanlon was among the first Peace Corps volunteers. His two-year stint as a community development worker in South America was by times exciting, challenging, discouraging and frustrating. It also changed him forever.
The Georgetowner, February 5, 1997
...Waiting for the Snow is full of learning experiences, of embracing a new culture, of sharing and exchanging ideas, of the mundane work of crop rotation, of living with people completely different from himself. And however serious the thoughts, the feelings are generous and vivid.
