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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Nov. 16, 1964
KU Peace Corps Volunteers Return Home
By Janet Chartier
"My first year I lived with a family in a nice home near the university in wealthy part of town."
"We had breakfast in bed every morning."
"I went to school about 8 a.m. because classes were supposed to start then. But the girls all lived about 170 blocks from the school so they were always late."
"I WROTE on the black board, 'don't cheat.'
"There were boys in the class that year and I saw about five of them gathered around a desk exchanging answers.
"I told them if they cheated I would give them a 0.
"The next day one of the boys came to school with a gun in his pocket for Miss Susan. Evidently other teachers hadn't carried out threats to give failing grades,
"FOR LUNCH WE always had potatoes, yuka, rice, and the same cut of meat.
"In the afternoons I taught a class downtown for older people. Then I went home and went to bed. Sometimes we also had supper in bed."
That is the story Mrs. Susan Keppler, volunteer to Bogata, Colombia, told KU students last week in a panel discussion sponsored by the KU Peace Corps committee.
WHEN INTRODUCING the returned Peace Corps volunteers, George Waggoner, dean of the college of liberal arts and science, said, "It's a small world. I think that's a point well worth making."
During the past six months Dean Waggoner has traveled in Latin America. "When you sit down on the plane next to some one of college age or older, he's likely to be a Peace Corps volunteer," he said
"Providing one is a little bit more of the active type and less a library type, Peace Corps offers more opportunity than a Fulbright," he said. "It all depends on what you want to do."
From his experience talking to chairmen of departments and committees here, Dean Waggoner doesn't think Peace Corps volunteers have wasted their time.
THEY HAVE A social consciousness and a maturity that is well worth competing for, he said.
"I find now there are more opportunities for us than I was aware of when I joined the Peace Corps," Bob Krisko, anthropology graduate student, said.
Krisko, who recently returned from Ghana where he taught mathematics and science in high school, spoke on the topic, "Things look different now."
THE SECOND LANGUAGE Peace Corps volunteers learn is valuable when they return. "Peace Corps training and experience gives two years experience in the civil service," he said.
He mentioned many fellowships available for study overseas. Ford Foundation gives International Development scholarships to many universities.
"I'm more interested in looking at things on a world wide basis," Krisko said. "It opens all sorts of career opportunities even matrimonial opportunities, if you're inclined that way,"
"GIRLS, REMEMBER these boys have been selected by the United States government," he said laughingly.
Krisko is a 1960 KU graduate in mathematics and astronomy. After returning from Ghana he worked in the training program for volunteers to West Africa.
"Physical education is very important to some of the emerging nations," Loyd Kepferle, graduate student and recently returned volunteer from Bogata, Columbia, said.
WHILE IN COLOMBIA, he taught physical education at the same university where he met his wife, also a Peace Corps volunteer, who was teaching English.
"Susan taught at a university for lower and middle class girls," he said. "She taught English to those who would be teaching English in schools there."
The work isn't tied to any particular field, Kepferle said. "Any specialization you have, the Peace Corps will find out about and use sooner or later."
MANY STUDENTS ask, "Is there a Peace Corps type?"
"People in the Peace Corps seem to be internationally minded in their thinking," Don Harris, volunteer from Ethiopia, said. "They have a feeling of being a part of the world, not just America."
Harris thinks this is a fortunate trend in the United States, as well as in other countries.
"Several countries have had this type of program, but not on such a large scale." Janet Karan, volunteer from the Philippines, said.
MISS KARAN, who taught English as a secondary language, said 75 per cent of her training group had been outside the U.S. before.
Terry Brungardt, past volunteer to North Borneo, said his training group was an assembly of all types of people.
"Our group was not so internationally minded as Janet's but they became so afterward," he said. "The college graduates and older volunteers had a more serious and
realistic outlook on the Peace Corps. They knew what to expect."
A B Γ Δ E Z H Θ J K A M
BRUNGARDT HAD Peace Corps training in Hawaii and went to North Borneo to teach English in a Chinese primary school.
Hyacinth Abamadu, graduate student from the eastern part of Nigeria, also sat on the panel to answer questions on his country's feelings on the Peace Corps.
"My people would be delighted with one who is able to speak their language, not necessarily fluently," he said.
HE SAID THE PEOPLE in the United States move very fast. "In Nigeria if you meet someone on the road, he expects to be greeted and to greet you in return."
In greeting, he said, they will ask what he can do for you and about you, your family, and your home.
Nigerians want someone interested in their difficulties and willing to go right into their homes, Abamadu said.
Moral Decline Probed
"Is There a Moral Decline in the United States?" will be the topic of the KU-Y Current Issues Forum at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
David Jones, professor of philosophy, will examine the charges of moral decadence made in the 1964 presidential campaign.
PEACE CORPS volunteers are welcome there because there are many children in schools and very few teachers. There is a school about every seven miles in the rural areas, so volunteers will always be close to other volunteers.
"The mosquitos, lions, and snakes are not so bad as you think," he said. "The heat of the soil is not so bad as you think."
Dennis Michaelis, Lawrence senior and Kathy Curtis, Arlington, Virginia, senior, also sat on the panel. They trained last summer at Dartmouth University in the senior year program and will go to French speaking North Africa next summer as Peace Corps volunteers.
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