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Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2007-018-001
James (Jim) Hamill served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1965 to 1967 in an urban community development project. A graduate of Iowa State in architectural studies, he completed training at Cornell University. Hamill was assigned to Arequipa to work at a local housing agency on building design and engineering. He married a Peruvian woman during his second year of service. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, December 8, 2006. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-013-007
Noel Roger Chapin served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1966 to 1968 working in community development. After obtaining his degree in history from the University of Wisconsin, Chapin trained at the University of Kansas rural training center. He was assigned to the small village of Chiquan in the mountains off the coast in the north to work in cooperative development. There was little productive activity until he shifted to Austrian Peace Corps - like civil engineering to work as a surveyor on small village engineering projects. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, July 25, 2004. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-020-006
Isaiah Zagar served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1964 to 1966. At the time he joined, he was an artist. Zagar was deselected in training, then re-selected. He served alongside his wife. The couple worked in various Peruvian locations and after six months, finally settled on helping to develop a crafts industry. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, April 26, 2002. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-016-010
Joel Meister served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1964 to 1965 in a school nutrition program. He started with a school breakfast program using Agency for International Development (AID) food supplies, and later branched out into community development. Meister befriended a sixteen year old boy, Alejandro Toledo, who later became the President of Peru in 1999. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, January 22 and February 12, 2002. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-001-005
Nancy Deeds Meister served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1964 to 1965 in a community development project. She befriended a sixteen year old boy, Alejandro Toledo, whose family Meister lived with. Alejandro Toledo later became President of Peru in 1999. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, October 13, 2001. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).