UNIVERSITY
Peace Corps offers
cultural education
By Mandy Baucum
fmetaid Reporter
Although three former Peat t*
Corps volunteers had different
reasons lor making the journey
overseas, they sav experitnu e
i hanged their lives
President John I Kennedy's
challenge asking Ameru arts to
do what they can for their
country pro rn pt ed David
Povev. professor and direr tor of
urban and regional planning, to
enter the Pear e Corps in
Kennedy created the Peat e
Corps that year .is an opportu
nity for Amerit a to give ter.hni
i al assistant e to developing na
tions and to bring about a cul
tural exchange between the
U S. and the rest of the world
The Pence Corps sends .1,000
volunteers overseas annually
and 6.000 volunteers are c ur
rentlv serving in over 100
countries. The Peat e Corps is
now in Pastern Europe, a newer
development since the end ot
the Soviet Union.
Povev anti his yyile were sent
to the Philippines as part of the
seventh group of Peat e Corps
volunteers to enter the < ountrv
Povev was sent to a remote
Philippine island where the
nearest Peace Corps volunteers
were an hour away by plane
He and his wife wen given
supplies by plane nr boat tint e
a week
Their mission was to teat h
English ns a second language
and sciente to elementary
si bool t hildren. hut Povev said
he later came to realize the job
was mm h more
On one occasion, a native
bov drowned in a stream and
the people did not know how
to resust date him. Povev tried
in vain to rev ive the hoy hut he
said he thought his elforts
helped strengthen the trust of
the people
"I tried to share that vy e
(Ameru aos) were i armg pen
Gerry Fry
pic. Povev said 'Our )ol> was
to come work side h\ side with
the people .iitd share with them
skills ,mti ti-i hnology lo itn
prott> their w i\ of life
Also w liilc in (lit* Philip
pint's. Povev said hr nolo oil
lhal sonif powdered milk sent
ovt>r lor relief fllorls was being
list'd lo in.nk pl.int* lifltls and
landing sirips The milk was
living usftl mtn h as iliv I S
would usv limit lo linv Itasfhall
fit'Ids
Tin* Filipinos knvw ihtt pow
dvr was milk, hid wouldn't
drink il and so loiintl tlu-ir own
usv lor il
! In- incident lor Povev was
iinr (hot opvnvtl Ins vvvs lo thv
t omplvxdivs of change
"(The Peace Corps experi
t'llt.ti) allows \oti lo haw a till
fvrvnl perspective of ihtt
world," 1‘iivnt sanl You Ivarn
about how slow change t omvs
m general '
Laura Stroiohert. a Ihirly
ihrvv war-old post-doctoral fol
low- in ihtt University's institute
of neuro-si lent v went lo Nepal
as a Peace Corps volunteer in
ll s allrt ted my w hole life I
sort of look at hie as a cross
( ullural esperiem e,” Siren fieri
said Aon reallv can't know
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