European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse He rend reports sought help from a num Ber of colleges and universities consulted educators technicians men with experience in underdeveloped countries. Week passed. By the end of february 1961, or. Ken Nedy was beginning to express asked Shriver Why can t we announce the peace corp Shriver says that even his wife the former Eunice Kennedy asked Why he was so slow. So River nays i was looking it it this Way the worst mistake a Young president could make would be to fall in something involving Young people. You Rould full at something Cne but not in in undertaking of thin kind. I in need to he us sure As anyone Rould be that this was not coins to be n childish soft. Do gooder operation so i would t recommend it until it seemed there Wasyl least a fighting within � year after the first Volunteer sailed a Washington Wisecrack saluted Lite corps Kennedy funded Sarge n Lemon and he s making lemonade out of Sargent shr Vrr he is known by his Middle mime because there Are three other Robert in be family is n one Man image of the organisation he Heads nig bustling Energy tar. Idealistic far Flung and Success wan crud tinted cum laude from Yale in 1938 and holds the Yule me til for out standing Vicc to the eight other colleges find universities have Given him honorary degrees As doctor of Laws. In 1w r. The Illinois veterans of foreign wars voted him Veteran of the Shriver works a 15 or 16-hour Day in Washington. It is usually longer in the Field. On peace corps missions be has travelled More than 500.000 Miles in Africa Asia and latin America. He handles himself Well in press conferences and before congressional commit tees. In Bangkok not even bring drenched in a tropical Rel storm disturbed him. He stood for nearly two hours shipping and answering questions put l y thai news men. Standing in rain however. I not an uncommon thing for Man of Shriver s Menand women in the fled. Some endure greater Hanu hips is a mutter of , they re tent what they con Sider in outlandish Imago of themselves being spread among american. They Dis like a Cong pictured us heroes building schools with in in Bare hands while dicing physical hardships in faraway they Hale visitor who Lake a Quick look at a peace corps project and say you re doing a great Job. Keep up the Good or. Joseph g. Oilmen chief of the lie search division travelled t t units in Tanganyika Colombia the Philippines and St. Lucia in the West indies to hold discus Sion meetings Slih the volunteers. About half the volunteers he said experienced some measure of frustration because of a Reah Alinn that their achievements during Tho Tun years did no completely match their personal goal. In some cents jobs Ted incl Vladu s did t match unanticipated things Cun happen be tween the time n Job is set up and a Volunteer gets their to fill it col me explained. A country for instance Cun ask for a history tender. When the Volunteer gels there he finds they really need a a ology i Pitcher. Luckily he said. American College students Are not to narrowly trained assume think. Many could do to often according to the volunteers the press and even the Pence corps internal publications Piny up the Concrete achievements Ihn mad. The school House. The pig pen but not the volunteers efforts of a More Subtle hut More important nature within the Community. The volunteers also object to the emphasis in the publicity on physical hardship. Physical hardship a Mich i no prob Colmen pointed out. The volunteers with the highest morale Are those in the most primitive a munitions. Given a of the volunteers would go in the primitive Village where it in easier to seethe results of your own but there Are Many of the Volunteer sin relatively Large it to such As Bogota where there Are movies and ice Cream ones. These people feel resentful and some what guilty at All the publicity about hardship. Friends Back Home think. What s wrong with you they had to Send youth a civilized one of the greatest personal problem faced by peace corps volunteers overseas is the Lack of intellectual stimulation. Many of the volunteers Are College trained individuals who Are dealing wit persons of limited education. From letters and teams of evaluator in the Field the peace corps anticipated some of the difficulties that might result from that com try to help foot lot Kern of pocket books have been Kent to each household of volunteers. The footlockers contain balanced collection ranging from the work of Goldwater a Ariz to that of president Kennedy from history to mystery stories. In or unit pay. The study of the outgoing volunteers indicates the books did Rio solve the problem. The More you rend the More you want to talk about Colmen explained. Even for volunteers who Are in a team opera Tion Fulli Rushton with the some person be come some of the volunteers suggested Dur ing the Siudy that they need More Access to the i Din ated nationals of the hos countries. There is no Rule Agni not such mixing but it does present n conflict Basic idea of the peace corps was to get the volunteers oui in the Field dealing with the grass roots. Some of the volunteers have met the problem by starting hobbles. Or. Colmen reported that one for instance was Mak. Ing an exhaustive collection of the Folk music of of the Volunteer agreed that their effectiveness would be enhanced by greater fluency in the language of the Host country. The language problem also runs int practical difficulties. To do the most Good the Volunteer should have his language facility at the beginning of his tour when he is trying to break into the Community. After a period he picks up enough of the language to pet along anyway so continuation of language training after the volunteers Are assigned does not make it big contribution. Fass fam with surveying equipment in Texas in preparation for duty in Tanganyika. Volunteer Andre co Pitti teaches sciences in British Honduras. Thanks to the discussion group it now has 3.000, plus another 1,500 that have not been unpacked and to Tell More on the Way. Wineba now has the second largest Library of any Ghana school and it May be the Best selection anywhere in the coun try. The peace corps does not really know How Many gifts have been sent directly to volunteers in the Field while still other offers have been declined for a variety of reasons but the gifts from business organizations Nurt private groups and individuals Are pouring in. They go beyond the now famous wind Mills and fire engine requested by peace corps director r. Sargent Shriver. The include a jeep a Respirator science kits a hydroelectric Power dam kit an Oil painting folding choirs transistor radios livestock considerably More than 100,000 books thousands of Dollum in Cash and More than 1100,000 from care. Medical supplies have been contributed for Togo Malanyn. East Pakistan Sierra Leone and Bill Van. Seeds have been shipped to Colombia the dominican re Public Ghana and Iran. Hooks have found their Way to Turkey. Sierra u
