Will Newman (Nepal) Remembers Early Peace Corps Years
By 1970 most of the country desk officers had been Volunteers and APCDs in the field. We were a noisy, can-do bunch, within the NANESA Region roughly half females. I was on the Nepal desk my second 30-month tour from mid-1970 through early ‘73. Don Hess was the Peace Corps Director, leading the formerly independent agency that was then part of ACTION. On my last day Hess called me to his office and asked me to contract to lead a team to revise the entire Peace Corps Manual. [It was not lost on me that the last gasp of a dying bureaucracy was to redo their rule book.] I did agree, provided I could hire an editor and an experienced typist. I also asked for someone from A&F to serve with me. Hess agreed. Don Romine joined our little team. My first act was to visit the Peace Corps print . . .
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Well spoken Jerry, As one of the PCVs who served under Chris Sheldon, he was an awesome leader. Never knowing…