Friday, December 8, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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KU instructor ran wire service amid Lima slums
By S. Alien Winchester Kansan Staff Reporter
Daniel B. McCarthy is a former foreign correspondent, a free lance writer, and the author of a new book. He is also an assistant instructor of journalism at KU.
In 1962, he and his wife, Mary Ellen, went to Lima, Peru, as Catholic Church-sponsored Papal Volunteers in Latin America (PAVLA).
"I went to Peru as a journalist, worked as a journalist, and though we were Papal Volunteer lay missionaries, I never taught
tive, somewhat like an autobiography, of our three years in Peru (1962-1965)." McCarthy said.
The book includes McCarthy's part in organizing the Catholic Information Center (now Allied News) in Lima. The Information Center supplied the Peruvian news media with articles and photographs of slums and welfare centers, written and taken by McCarthy.
His only salary for this work was $70 per month—$40 for room and board and $30 for expenses. To earn extra money, McCarthy
worked as a foreign correspondent for the National Catholic Welfare Conference news bureau in Washington, D.C., and for the Religious News Service in New York City. He also was a free lance writer.
Mrs. McCarthy worked as a nurse in a Lima clinic and as a substitute kindergarten teacher. She established a health clinic in one of the parishes. She is now a nurse at Watkins Hospital.
McCarthy said the volunteer work in Peru is being sponsored by many denominations as well
as the Peace Corps and other Peruvian groups. He said the volunteers work together to help the people of Peru help themselves.
The remarkable thing about the
people living in the Peruvian slums, he said, is that they all are attempting to raise themselves. They want education, health, food and work.
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DANIEL B. McCARTHY
catechism class, baptized a pagan baby or went without a meal. However. I was prepared to do so, should the occasion have arisen," McCarthy said.
McCarthy recounted his experiences in a book, "Mission to Peru," which was published in October by Bruce Publishing Co.
"The book is a personal narra-
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