The Peace Corps in Vanity Fair magazine
When you are young and the group and organization are young too there is not much protocol development and so…
The October 2017 issue of Vanity Fair carries an article by Meryl Gordon from 
her upcoming book The Life of an American Style Legend being published by Grand Central Publishing. It is the story of how Jacqueline Kennedy turned to her friend Bunny Mellon to help Jackie fix up the White House Rose Garden, JFK’s favorite spot. The new Rose Garden was finished in June 1962 and began to be used by Kennedy for ceremonial occasions. One of the very first events in the garden was in August. Kennedy welcomed to the garden the PCVs for Ghana and (then) Tanganyika the day before they left for their assignments.
That summer there were other PCVs in Training in the DC area who would meet the president on the White House lawns. They were at Georgetown, Howard, American, Catholic, George Washington, and the University of Maryland, over 600 in all.
To read the whole article go to: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/09/how-bunny-mellon-invented-the-white-house-rose-garden
Using the Peace Corps as a reference point for the Rose Garden in the VF article (page 147) was a suggestion made by Research Editor at Vanity Fair, Bea Hogan, who was a PCV in Uzbekistan from 1992-94. RPCVs are everywhere and doing everything! Thanks, Bea!
“everywhere and doing everything ” Always figured the third goal was met automatically.
As the Rose Garden wasn’t finished, Kennedy met the Colombia 1 ( the first group) inside before the group left for their assignment.
That was a special time. You were very fortunate. Of course you were group one
When you are young and the group and organization are young too there is not much protocol development and so you don’t make others’ mistakes, and just make your own that are less error and mistake and more just the mischances that are part of being new.