October 6, 2015 – Peace Corps Worldwide

New books by Peace Corps writers — September 2015

Oct 06 2015

To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover, the bold book title, or the publishing format you would like — and Peace Corps Worldwide, an Amazon Associate, will receive a small remittance that will help support the site and the annual Peace Corps Writers awards. • Dog Rescue A to Z: A Beginner’s Alphabet Mary Blocksma (Nigeria 1965–67) Beaver Island Arts 2015 116 pages $15.00 (Beaverislandarts.etsy.com) . • Venezuela Sojourn: The Peace Corps Diary of Jon C. Halter Jon C. Halter (Venezuela 1966–68) CreateSpace September 2015 264 pages $12.00 (paperback) . • The Italian Summer: Golf, Food, and Family at Lake Como Roland Merullo, Jr. (Micronesia 1979–80) PFP September 2015 280 pages $15.85 (paperback), $7.85 (Kindle) • King of the Gypsies: Stories Lenore Myka (Romania 1994-96) BkMk Press September 2015 215 pages $15.95 (paperback) • The Awareness Gene Stone (Niger 1974–76) and Jon Doyle The . . .

IVS and the Foundation of the Peace Corps, Part 2

Oct 06 2015

The Fortunate Few details some of the organization of the International Voluntary Services (IVS) and its links to the Peace Corps, but the majority of the 370 page book is spent telling the stories of individual volunteers and their tours. And they have, not unlike PCVs, stories to tell. In reading the book, I was particularly drawn to the stories of the PCVs who were also in IVS, and especially those volunteers who served in Ethiopia as PCVs. There were at least six such volunteers to IVS. One name in particular jumped out at me. Gary L. Daves (Ethiopia 1964-66), IVS/VN 67-73 (Captured in Hue, South Vietnam by the Viet Cong in 1968 and spent next 5 years in a Hanoi, North Vietnam prison. Now here was a story I had never heard. According to the accounts in The Fortunate Few, IVS’s involvement in Vietnam began in 1957. Noffsinger had . . .

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