JFK Inspired Them
Volunteers Find Action, Respect一And a Mate
A homecoming Peace Corps worker is bringing the Peace Corps home to KU students.
Gilbert Hall, 1963 KU graduate from Arkansas City, is visiting KU this week with Richard and Mary Ann Wanush, who both served as field workers in Liberia; Hugh Parmer, regional director for the Plains States district; and Janet Kifer, a member of the corps selection committee.
HALL SAID during an interview yesterday that a volunteer must remember that foreigners form their opinions of the U.S. by watching the volunteers in action.
Hall also said that while a stint with the Peace Corps is fine, returning to the U.S. afterwards may create a problem.
"It's hard finding a job equally as challenging as the one overseas," he said.
THE FOUR BASIC motivations for volunteers applying for the Peace Corps were listed by Miss Kifer as the opportunity to travel in foreign lands; the chance to become fluent in a foreign language; idealism, which basically deals with fighting for a cause; and the image of the late John F. Kennedy.
The late President's death, Miss Kiter said, had a profound effect
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The first fall meeting of the KU Dames will be held at 7:15 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Room. The organization is for all student wives.
on the number and wording of the applications. Many applications, arriving now, mention that the applicant wants to help continue Kennedy's program, citing Kennedy's words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
The Peace Corps now has 13.000 members overseas and in training, but more are needed.
"Because of my experiences in
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The Peace Corps also provided the setting for the courtship of Richard and Mary Ann Wanush.
"CULTURE SHOCK" is the most common of the problems facing the Peace Corps volunteer, hitting practically every member to some degree, Hall noted.
the past two years, I have gained a greater appreciation for the United States and a greater respect for my Ecuadorian friends. Someday I intend to return," Hall said.
supermarket, just pointing, while my mother picked out the things I wanted," he said. "We had nearly a $150 grocery bill that trip. I was awed."
"I went down the aisles of a
THE COUPLE MET in Liberia through their volunteer work and were married shortly before they left the country.
do around the school to clean it up, and so on, which had to be supervised." Wanush said of his Liberian schoolchildren. "Later in the afternoon we would play various sports, and in the evening I would teach an adult education class.
"Many of the kids had jobs to
MRS. WANUSH TAUGHT a class of 65 children in a small cramped room where the students had to sit on cement blocks.
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