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University Daily Kansan, September 26, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
Grad shares experience in Peace Corps
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
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For two years, Susan Collins used her rural Midwestern experiences to teach the people of a small West African country how to raise rabbits and gardens.
As a Peace Corps volunteer from 1982 to 1984, Collins, a 1981 KU graduate lived in Tonga, a country in southwest Virginia, on the West African coast.
"I had never been out of the United States," she said yesterday. "I wanted to live in another culture. And I felt working in a developing country would be a good experience."
COLLINS AND TWO other Peace
Corps recruiters will be at the University of Kansas next week to talk with students about oppor-tations and work in developing nations
Collins' work with the Peace Corps first took her to a village of about 300 people where she helped to establish agricultural education programs in primary schools and community agriculture projects.
"The second year, I lived in a bigger village with about 2,000 people," she said with a smile. "I had electricity and running water there."
Tom Lassiter, a Peace Corps recruiter, said agriculture was only one area of assistance the Peace Corps provided to developing coun-
categories that are most- needed. he said, "Forestry, math, science and special education are a few. People with foreign language skills, particularly French and Spanish, are needed. And engineers are hard to come by, but their expertise is needed overseas."
"There are some 50-plus skill
A free film, "The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love," will be shown at 4:30 p.m. on Oct 1 in 405 Wescue. Answer and question session will
COLLINS, LASSISTER AND ROY Baughman, a former Peace Corps volunteer who served in Liberia and the Fiji islands, will have an information table on the third floor of the Kansas Union next week.
Interviews will be conducted Oct. 4
and 5 in the University Placement Center in room 223 Carruth-O'Leary Hall and in the engineering library
Lassiter said, "This is one interview that they don't have to have a resume for. It's more an information interview."
ALTHOUGH COLLINS, WHO has a bachelor's degree in social work, spent 12 weeks in training before she began Peace Corps work, she said she drew on knowledge she already possessed.
She used the French she had learned in junior high and high school to communicate, and she used personal experiences with raising rabbits and gardening to organize animal and garden projects in her village.
THE CENTER OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, will sponsor a brown bag lunch at noon in 109 Lippincott Hall. Charles Stanier, director of the center, will present "Cuba: A Personal Account."
THE BIOCHEMISTRY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in 610 Haworth Hall.
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