Robert Textor Remembers Writing the In-Up-and-Out Memo
Fifty Years Ago Today, Sunday, December 11, 2011 Today I find myself reminiscing about this day fifty years ago, when I was serving as the first full-time cultural anthropologist in Peace Corps/ Washington. I had begun my consulting role the previous June, at the request of various officials of the then-fledgling organization. Since I was a Thailand specialist, my original assignment was to help plan the training program for Thailand One. Pretty soon, however, “mission creep” set in, and I was working on other assignments as well — notably for the Talent Search, to find linguistically, culturally, and otherwise qualified people to serve overseas as ” Peace Corps Representatives,” or “Reps.” By December, 1961, after six months of the most frenetic work imaginable, it had become clear to me that I ought to plan to leave soon, and return to academic life. (I had a nice grant waiting to be . . .
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