Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2017-040
Robert L. "Bob" Staab served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey from 1965 to 1967. He applied and was accepted to the Peace Corps before finishing his bachelor's degree. His training began in Oregon at Portland State University, and continued in Ankara, Turkey, at the Middle East Technical University. Staab was assigned to work on a rural community development project in a village near Edirne, in western Turkey. His work focused on building and developing a community center. Three months into his service, Bob and his fiancee, Sylva, married in a traditional Turkish wedding ceremony. The couple spent their final five months of Peace Corps service teaching English to adults in Ankara. The Staabs returned to Turkey to visit the village in 2001 and again in 2014. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, 7 March 2017. 2 digital files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).