Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2016-004
Joseph C. (Joe) Hanlon served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from 1966 to 1968 on a community organization project. Joe and his new wife Beverly joined the Peace Corps after Joe completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University. After training in St. Louis, Missouri, the couple began their service in the town of Goascoran, near the border with El Salvador. Joe's activities as a community organizer included working with communities to use funding from the relief agency CARE to construct school buildings, working with local farmers to grow demonstration farming plots using seeds donated by the United Nations, and organizing a local credit union. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, October 14, 2015. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).