By Admin1 (Admin) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 10:20 am: Edit Post |
Pat Klinger who served in Commonwealth of Dominica
from 88 to 92 and worked in Health
can be e-mailed at pataaabbdorg
Dylan Kowalewski who served in Commonwealth of Dominica
from 94 to 96 and worked in Education
can be e-mailed at dkowalewaindianadedu
Curtis Staggs who served in Commonwealth of Dominica
from 94 to 96 and worked in Youth Development
can be e-mailed at mobs70aaoldcom
Mark Chan who served in Commonwealth of Dominica
from 95 to 97 and worked in Health
can be e-mailed at chanstrainsaprodigydnet
By Admin1 (Admin) on Wednesday, May 23, 2001 - 10:28 am: Edit Post |
Desmond Ford who served in Dominica
from 66 to 69 and worked in Education
can be e-mailed at DESFORDaGATEWAYdNET
Tom Barron who served in Dominica
from 81 to 84 and worked in Education
can be e-mailed at 74134d1155acompuservedcom
Raymond Philen who served in Dominica
from 83 to 85 and worked in Forestry
can be e-mailed at RayPadordwadgov
Joan Lisetor who served in Dominica
from 85 to 87 and worked in Community Development
can be e-mailed at jlisetoramarindccdcadus
Joan Lisetor who served in Dominica
from 85 to 87 and worked in Community Service
can be e-mailed at jlisetoramarindccdcadus
Linda L. Wehbi who served in Dominica
from 89 to 91 and worked in Agriculture
can be e-mailed at Dipshahaaoldcom
Linda L. Wehbi who served in Dominica
from 89 to 91 and worked in Agriculture
can be e-mailed at LindaL3aaoldcom
Barbara Greenwood who served in Dominica
from 89 to 92 and worked in Education
can be e-mailed at barbgraalbanydnet
Michael Peter who served in Dominica
from 92 to 94 and worked in Education
can be e-mailed at mpeteraassetcampusdcom
Todd Knight who served in Dominica
from 93 to 95 and worked in Environment
can be e-mailed at parksacidrichmonddindus
Todd Knight who served in Dominica
from 93 to 95 and worked in Environment
can be e-mailed at toddkacidrichmonddindus
Todd Knight who served in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean
from 93 to 95 and worked in Environmental
can be e-mailed at NSCainfocomdcom
Tom Barron who served in Dominica, West Indies
from 81 to 84 and worked in Education
can be e-mailed at wtbarronaearthlinkdnet
Karen Glowa Ducreay who served in Dominica West Indies
from 88 to 89 and worked in School gardens teacher
can be e-mailed at karendu1aaoldcom
By Admin1 (admin) on Friday, January 04, 2002 - 9:57 pm: Edit Post |
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer David H. Landis ,Jr. can be contacted at DavidlandisaNetzerodnet
Country of Service: Dominica
Arrival Year: 1981
Departure Year: 1983
Work Description: Fishpond Specialist
By Admin1 (admin) on Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 10:03 pm: Edit Post |
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ingrid Hekman Fournier can be contacted at fournierawmisdnet
Country of Service: Commonwealth of Dominica
Training Group: 91-93
Cities you served in: Calibishie
Arrival Year: 1991
Departure Year: 1993
Work Description: teacher
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
Peace Corps Fellow, Univ of Mich 93-95, Married Tim Fournier RPCV
Dominican Republic 1996. Daughter, Talea, born Oct. 1998.
By Alan Gamble on Monday, April 01, 2002 - 11:10 pm: Edit Post |
RPCV Alan Gamble served as a music teacher/ethnomusicologist in northern Dominica from 1982 - 1984. Currently live in Mt. Pleasant Michigan with Dominican partner Prisca and 2 daughters Charlotte & Ginger.
By Dylan Kowalewski (dkowalew) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 9:57 am: Edit Post |
Dylan Kowalewski who served in Commonwealth of Dominica from 94 to 96 and worked in Education can now be reached at dylanbroker@hotmail.com
By Elizabeth Lepkowski on Sunday, July 27, 2003 - 1:27 pm: Edit Post |
Elizabeth Lepkowski who served in the Commonwealth of Dominica and worked at DCA from 1999-2001 can be contacted at elizabetha22@yahoo.com.
By Admin1 (admin) (pool-151-196-48-41.balt.east.verizon.net - 151.196.48.41) on Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 11:31 am: Edit Post |
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Adrianne Sever can be contacted at adriseverahotmaildcom
Country of Service: Dominica
Training Group: EC65
Cities you served in: Marigot
Arrival Year: 1998
Departure Year: 2000
Work Description:
I worked as a public health educator in the Marigot Health District.
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
I am in my last year of medical school at the University of Pittsburgh.
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
We had it good--the sun, the ocean, the people, the mountains, the waterfalls.
Any message for returned volunteers?:
This is fun. We need to get more people online.
By Admin1 (admin) (pool-151-196-232-99.balt.east.verizon.net - 151.196.232.99) on Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 10:58 pm: Edit Post |
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer jay wasserman can be contacted at jayrwasdfayahoodcom
Country of Service: Dominica
Cities you served in: Grand Bay
Arrival Year: 91
Departure Year: 93
Work Description:
Science Teacher Trainer
By lmbennett (165.83.200.183) on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 3:44 pm: Edit Post |
Hello,
I work for National Park Service in the Office of International Affairs. I work with a small program that places individuals from other countries in the National Parks called, the International Volunteer-in-Parks Program. If you know of individuals in natural resource careers,from the country where you worked in the Peace Corps, consider referring them to our program. The catch is that we have no funding and volunteers must pay their own expenses but in some cases we can provide housing. Our web site is: http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/ivip.htm.
By lmbennett (165.83.200.183) on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 3:44 pm: Edit Post |
Hello,
I work for National Park Service in the Office of International Affairs. I work with a small program that places individuals from other countries in the National Parks called, the International Volunteer-in-Parks Program. If you know of individuals in natural resource careers,from the country where you worked in the Peace Corps, consider referring them to our program. The catch is that we have no funding and volunteers must pay their own expenses but in some cases we can provide housing. Our web site is: http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/ivip.htm.
By Admin1 (admin) (pool-141-157-42-145.balt.east.verizon.net - 141.157.42.145) on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 12:20 am: Edit Post |
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Mary Alfano (Judge) can be contacted at editimagesayahoodcom
Country of Service: Commonwealth of Dominica
Training Group: Ministry of Education
Cities you served in: Roseu, Eggleston
Arrival Year: 1996
Departure Year: 1998
Work Description:
Supported Health education unit with graphic design and video production. Aquired funding for digital video system and training.
Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:
I'm living in Massachusetts with my husband (whom I met in Dominica) and my amazing son. Still doing graphic design and shooting video.
Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:
It was a turning point in my life. I was enriched and enlightened. The warmth and beauty of Dominica and her people shine in my heart to this day.
Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:
Any RPCV from 1996-1998.
Any message for returned volunteers?:
Keep the love alive and remember all is good.
By Barbara Bell Goebel (bess-proxy.cameron.k12.mo.us - 204.185.112.1) on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 11:07 am: Edit Post |
RPCV Barbara Bell Goebel (Dominica, EC, 1980-1983) would like to hear from other Dominican PCVs. ofgAcenturytelDnet
By Dan Tanner (24-177-38-254.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com - 24.177.38.254) on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 9:48 am: Edit Post |
Can anyone help me? This is my story:
To begin, I wish to state that I am writing about the permanent, salaried, US-based Peace Corps bureaucracy, not the dedicated volunteers who have served and are serving in Dominica and other countries. In fact, we are friends with a former Peace Corps volunteer who is godmother to a young lady we know, and together we’ve been trying to get her a visa so that she can spend half of her summer school vacation with us and half with she and her husband as an educational and culturally enriching experience for this excellent student.
Here is the background: I am 67 and retired. I have degrees in electronic engineering and physics and secondary education, and am accredited to teach physics, science, and mathematics at grades 7 through 12 in both Massachusetts and New Jersey. I also have about 80 percent of the credits toward a master’s degree in business administration and over 45 years of experience in the computer industry. Thinking that I would like to contribute to science and mathematics education as a volunteer in Dominica, where my wife and I have built a house (in Calibishie) and plan to retire to and live in permanently, I attempted to volunteer in the Peace Corps for that purpose.
I made it clear that I do not want the stipend that the Peace Corps pays its volunteers and also would not need or accept any Peace Corps-paid transportation. I explained that we have a house to live in and planned to go there anyhow, and that we have been going to Dominica frequently ever since 1987, and have had Dominicans as guests in our home here too. I stated that my only reason for wanting Peace Corps association was my belief that such affiliation might make appeals to groups in the US to send books and/or classroom science apparatus to Dominica more effective than if I tried to be a lone non-affiliated volunteer.
My initial encounter with the local Peace Corps bureaucrat in Boston was a big disappointment. I had researched the Peace Corps’ Web site and discovered that Dominica is not listed on it, but is rather lumped in the catch-all category of “Eastern Caribbean”. The Web site says that family and village ties throughout the area are “weak”; while I know that Dominica has strong, loving families and vibrant, interdependent villages. I called the Boston office and found the bureaucrat had never head of Dominica and insisted that the Peace Corps had never sent any volunteers there – despite the fact that I actually named some for her.
Then, after she did some checking, she advised me that the Peace Corps had only one mission in Dominica, and that was AIDS education. I told her that I knew that children in government schools knew about the danger of AIDS and how to avoid it. She then told me that the Peace Corps could not send anyone to work in an area that the government had not asked for (but she could not or would not say what Dominica was requesting) and that in any event volunteer science or mathematics education would be unacceptable because “Dominica lacks the necessary infrastructure”. (In other words, no sense trying to help, the country is too bad off anyhow!)
Finally, she fell back on the real bureaucratic excuse the Peace Corps would ultimately use to reject my volunteer application – I was requesting to serve in a particular place and the Peace Corps solely determines where its volunteers serve. (But a past volunteer who had served in Dominica and who had that as her initial goal got around the issue by contacting the head Peace Corps person then in Dominica, whom she knew, and getting him to request a volunteer who had a résumé precisely matching hers in her application. Unfortunately, I don’t know who presently heads the local Peace Corps office in Dominica, so I could not adopt that strategy.) I should also point out that although the Peace Corps asserts that it is overwhelmed with volunteers, this and other bureaucrats nonetheless make frequent government-paid junket “recruiting” trips.
I have been rejected because I have stated where it is that I would like to serve. I have been told that “I should live in a grass hut with a dirt floor and no electricity or running water like the natives” and would not be able to use my house. To that I replied that most Dominicans live in houses and have running water and electricity, and that in my house I could use the Internet, a telescope, a microscope, books, and more of my time to help students; but that had no effect.
I appealed my rejection to the Washington DC Peace Corps office and have received a denial of appeal letter from the DC-based bureaucrat on the same basis. I also contacted my local representative in Congress’ office and the matter was assigned to one Ms. Gladys Rodriquez-Parker who was supposed to follow-up on my behalf. When the final rejection letter arrived today I called for Ms. Parker at my Congressman’s local office and was told that she was going to be out until after the end of May, and that she know of the rejection but had decided to “let the Peace Corps tell me”.
This is the way the US government bureaucracy works. (The enemy of freedom is not tyranny; it is simply an effective bureaucracy.) I had hoped, naïvely, that Ms. Parker would contest the matter on the basis of the senselessness of the Peace Corps’ bureaucratic pretext, but I’d failed to recon with the fact that our Congress is also a bureaucracy, and if there’s anything that bureaucrats do exceedingly well it is to close ranks.
If you support me in this, please send an e-mail to Gladys.Parker@mail.house.gov. My own contact info is 508-366-7980 in the US and my e-dress is djt@dan-ruth-tanner.com.
Thank you.