2011.09.14: September 14, 2011: Peace Corps Interactive Timeline of first Peace Corps volunteers
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2011.09.14: September 14, 2011: Peace Corps Interactive Timeline of first Peace Corps volunteers
Peace Corps Interactive Timeline of first Peace Corps volunteers
Learn about the history of Peace Corps over the last 50 years with our interactive Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Timeline! Explore the important dates, images and videos that tell our story from 1961 to the present.
Peace Corps Interactive Timeline of first Peace Corps volunteers
Caption: Founding Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver with members of Colombia 1 at their training facility at Rutgers University on June 25, 1961 The NY Times featured a photograph of Shriver addressing the group in New Brunswick, NJ.
Learn about the history of Peace Corps over the last 50 years with our interactive Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Timeline! Explore the important dates, images and videos that tell our story from 1961 to the present.
Tanganyika I and Colombia I Begin Training for Peace Corps Service in June 1961
June 1961
Tanganyika I and Colombia I begin training for Peace Corps service. Peace Corps training activities are conducted at U.S. colleges, universities, and private agencies. Many trainees head to Puerto Rico, the Rocky Mountains, and other locations for field-training activities.
11,000 Completed Applications and Shriver Visits Colombia I Training Program on June 25, 1961
Jun 22, 1961
Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the agency has received "about 11,000 completed applications" in the first few months of the agency's existence.
President Kennedy Hosts a Ceremony in Honor of the First Groups of Peace Corps Volunteers on August 28, 1961
Aug 28, 1961
President Kennedy hosts a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden in honor of the first groups of Peace Corps Volunteers departing for service in Ghana and Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania).
First Group of 51 Peace Corps Volunteers arrive Overseas on August 30, 1961
Aug 30, 1961
The first group of 51 Peace Corps Volunteers, Ghana I, arrives in Accra to serve as teachers.
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Headlines: September, 2011; Peace Corps Ghana; Directory of Ghana RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Ghana RPCVs; Peace Corps Colombia; Directory of Colombia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Colombia RPCVs; Peace Corps Tanzania; Directory of Tanzania RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Tanzania RPCVs; 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps; The 1960's
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| DC you in September Come to Washington DC to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps from September 21 to 25. There will be an open house at Peace Corps Headquarters, advocacy training, a service day, a staff reunion that all living directors will attend, Peace Corps Night with the Washington Nationals, the Peace Corps Gala, Third Goal Bash, a memorial to fallen Peace Corps Volunteers at Arlington Cemetery, the 50th Anniversary Walk of Flags and the NPCA's Peace Festival. Here's the schedule of events. |
| Peace Corps Featured at Smithsonian Take a look at our photo essay of Peace Corps' featured program at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington DC to see how the festival showcased the work of Peace Corps volunteers in economic development and income generation; ways volunteers have helped support local groups to help educate communities; and food and cooking traditions that have played a role in the Peace Corps experience. New: Enjoy photos from the second week of the exposition. |
| Peace Corps: The Next Fifty Years As we move into the Peace Corps' second fifty years, what single improvement would most benefit the mission of the Peace Corps? Read our op-ed about the creation of a private charitable non-profit corporation, independent of the US government, whose focus would be to provide support and funding for third goal activities. Returned Volunteers need President Obama to support the enabling legislation, already written and vetted, to create the Peace Corps Foundation. RPCVs will do the rest. |
| How Volunteers Remember Sarge As the Peace Corps' Founding Director Sargent Shriver laid the foundations for the most lasting accomplishment of the Kennedy presidency. Shriver spoke to returned volunteers at the Peace Vigil at Lincoln Memorial in September, 2001 for the Peace Corps 40th. "The challenge I believe is simple - simple to express but difficult to fulfill. That challenge is expressed in these words: PCV's - stay as you are. Be servants of peace. Work at home as you have worked abroad. Humbly, persistently, intelligently. Weep with those who are sorrowful, Care for those who are sick. Serve your wives, serve your husbands, serve your families, serve your neighbors, serve your cities, serve the poor, join others who also serve," said Shriver. "Serve, Serve, Serve. That's the answer, that's the objective, that's the challenge." |
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