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Wednesday, March 9, 1994
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Carol Bellamy, director of the U.S. Peace Corps, speaks to students at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The corps is celebrating its 33rd anniversary this week. Bellamy is the first director who used to volunteer.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN*
Students contribute to Peace Corps
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Bob Lominska's Christmas Eve in Nicaragua was rattled by an earthquake.
Right now, 62 KU graduates are
The next day, in 1972, Lominska and other U.S. Peace Corps volunteers traveled from their rural locations to Managua, the capital, to see what they could do to help in the battered city. However, they were pulled from their duty when they realized that they could do little to help.
"The U.S. Air Force was already flying in supplies," said Lominska, a KU graduate. "We were flown home for a month."
Rarely in its 33 years has the corps needed to pull volunteers out of countries to protect their safety, said Carol Bellamy, director of the corps. Bellamy spoke to about 100 people yesterday afternoon at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union about the corps.
"KU is the No.1 contributor to the Peace Corps in the four-state area of Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska."she said.
serving and eight more are preparing to work for the corps, said Philip Lesniewski, public affairs specialist for the corps.
The corps has 6500 volunteers serving in 95 countries, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, Bellamy said.
During their three-month training period, corps volunteers are trained in many areas, Bellamy said. They learn technical and health measures such as boiling water and building latrines.
Volunteers serve for a minimum of two years. Their duties range from planting trees in national parks in Guatemala to teaching others about business, AIDS and the environment, Bellamy said.
Fritz Snyder spent two years in Tanzania teaching high school students government, commerce, world history and English.
"It was a great experience," said Snyder, associate director of the Law Library. "The students were so willing to learn."
Volunteers also learn the language and the culture of the area to avoid culture shock.
"There's not a culture shock when you go to the country because you're all psyched up about it," said Lominska, who now works as a kindergarten teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hilltop Drive. "It's when you come back. You've changed. And you're not used to the U.S."
"It took time to get used to it. I still haven't adjusted totally."
Lominska said his time in the corps had given him a desire to organize projects designed to help others. He said he had helped organize a volunteer fire department.
Twenty-one years after his return, Lominska's time in the corps still affects him.
"It made me realize what's important in life: health and people," he said.
Volunteers must be 18 years old and, in most cases, have a bachelor's degree. Some knowledge of a foreign language is recommended.
Participants can receive a partial cancellation of student loans and deduct from 15 percent to 20 percent for each year completed.