First Veteran Of Peace Corps Speaks Out
By WARD CANNEL
NEW YORK (NEA)-lt is now
exactly two years since 62 young
Americana assembled on the
campus of Rutgers University to
lead (his country on a new,
dramatic and dangerous step in
international relations as the first
contingent of the U.S. Peace
Corps.
Today, w ith Peace Corps volun.
tcors on two-year tours of duty
in almost every underdeveloped
nation in the world, the pioneer
squad is coming home consider
ably changed after 24 months in
Colombia, the heartland of ex
plosive South America.
"We went out there idealists."
says Jim Puccctti, volunteer lead
er of the northeast region. "Wc
are coming home realists."
The assignment handed to Puc
cetti and his fellow volunteers
was wrapped up in the mislead
ing simple two words: commu
nity development. In a nation
and a continent where individual
ism and initiative have been pun
ished and corrupted for five cen
turies, the prospect of a commu
nity acting to help itself is some
thing less than hopeful.
"But after nine weeks of train
ing at Rutgers and another six
weeks in Bogota," Puccetti
says, "we went out to the job
feeling that we could walk right
in and change everything.
"Well, we were wrong. Chang
ing attitudes like those we found
will take a long, long time."
It is a situation that has cost
U.S. business and industry mil
lions of dollars in executives and
their families who cannot adjust
or cope and must be brought
home. But in two years, the pio
neer corpsmen suffered no casual-
tics from the difference in culture
With no precedent to follow,
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nities to see that by group effort
they could soke many of their
own problems.
"Getting a well dug." Puccctli
says, "is easy by comparison
with getting a community to ex
press its need lor a well or a
school, or a bridge, or anything
else.
Once the corps gained tlie con
fidence of the campesinos, the
project would be accomplished
quickly, easily and, most import
ant, inexpensively. A school that
JIM PUCCETTI
and no book of rules on how to gel
tilings done, the Colombia Corps
had to make its own way. The
first step was to win the local
priests support. The second, to
get the women to join in the cam
paign.
Both, However, were easy com
pared with getting rural commu-
Unkind Thing Said
In Temper Moment
By ANN LANDERS
Dear Ann Landers: I would like
io thank all the people in the
world who have kids. Especially
i my mom and
, dad. I know it
isn't easy to
bring up a fam
ily, but it isn't
S easy to bo a kid
either.
I would like to
lot my mom and
I dad know that I
love them the way they are and I
really don't want them to change.
Yesterday I lost my temper
something terrible and said some
tilings 1 didn't mean. I called
them unfit parents, if anyone is
unfit H's me. I'm so mad at my
self for what I said I'd like to
bite off my tonsuo.
Althoutth I am only 13 years old
I know very well the best'
Mends kW have are their mom
and dad. From now on I'm going
to -control my big mouth and
show tlicm how much they
mean to me. SORRY NOW
Dear Friend: Thank you for
writing. I am withholding your
initials and city, even though you
asked me to print them. I'd like
thousands of parents to think per
haps your li'tter was written by
their fmn teenager, I'm sure it
could have been.
Dear Ann Landers: Five mar
ried couples used to take turns
having the gang over onco a
week. Wo women sat and talked
after supper while the men played
cards. It was enjoyable but wc
had to give it up because the men
never knew when to quit. It was
too difficult for us girls to party
until 2 or 3 a.m. and then get up
the next morning and do our
housework and chase after young
children.
Now tho men have their card
games and the women stay home,
but they STILL don't know wlien
to quit. And it's worse. Last week
Clifford came homo at 6:30 in the
morning. Yesterday it was almost
8 a.m.
One of the women claims wo
shouldn't gripe. She said, "We at
least know whore they arc. They
could be doing worse." I say if a
man wants to do worse he will.
I hate for our children to sec
their father coming in at such dis
graceful hours. Last week the
milkman saw him.
Do you have a solution for
this? THE JOKER IS WILD
Dear Mrs. Joker: You girls
made a big mistake when you
dealt yourselves out. Reactivate
those man and wife get-togethers
starting at your home. Alter two
or three evenings, bring up the
question and settle on a sam
quilting time.
Encourage the consistent win
ners to spearhead this campaign.
You'll find them surprisingly re
ceplive. The winners always want
to quit earlier than the losers.
Dear Ann Landers: Wo live
about two miles from a shopping
center. Every Friday my hus
band's parents do their grocery
marketing out this way so they
just drop in to see their little
grandchild.
They don t stay more than a
half hour but all the same it up
sets me to have them just
pop in like that. Don't you Uiink
they should telephone in advance
and ask if it is convenient?
They are lovely people, Ann, and
I do like them, but we have our
own life and our own friends. Am
I wrong to consider this an inva
sion of our privacy? I'd like
your opinion KEYPORT, N.J.
Dear Keyport: One of the Lan
ders Laws for Jn-laiu Is (hat
there should be no popping in un
expccledly. A telephone call Is
easy to make and It should be a
must.
I can see no evidence, however,
that these lovely people are trying
to "lake over your life" pr "In
terefcre wilh your friends" so re
tract your claws, Tools, and gel
your blood pressure back to nor
mal. Your In-luw troubles arc
plenty minor.
Confidential to CLUMSY OX: 1
agree It sounds as If you nut on
the floor-show. There's nothing you
can do now but replace the ligu-
rinc and be more careful In the
future. And maybe you should
stick to glngernlc.
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Kennedy Visit
Not Assured
WASHINGTON UPH - The
White House says it is not sure
whether President Kennedy will
be in town Aug. 28, when a Nc-
gro-sKnsoicd civil rights march
of 100,000 persons is planned.
There have been reports Ken
nedy will be in Texas the day
before to speak at a Democratic
fund-raising birthday dinner for
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
might cost the Colombian govern
ment 25.000 pesos to build for an
area, would, if a community
wanted it and helped build it
cost less than 10,000. Bridges that
might never have been built now
cross dozens of streams in interi
or of a country that farms, buys
and sells much as it did in the
limes of the Spanish conquest.
In many areas, cooperatives set
up by the corps are bringing 20th
Century methods to Colombia.
'We didn't do it by bringing
the people up to our level, Puc
cetti says, "or by lowering our
selves to their level. It had noth
ing to do with levels, it was sim
ply a matter of plain, personal
contact that made the difference."
And if that contact made a dif-
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ference to Colombians it was
equally effective on the young
Peace Corps men and women
who worked seven days a week
for $119 per month among people
who had hardly heard of the U.S.
Four of the Colombian corps,
like Puccetti, have married Co
lombian girls. Most of the pioneer
group are going Dack to college
for graduate studies or, like Puc
cetti who has joined CARE with
post in the Philippines, into
foreign assingments in health and
welfare.
"it changes you," Puccetti says.
"Before the Peace Corps came
along I was going to San Fran
cisco State College studying busi
ness and management. My friends
were going into real estate or
leaching.
"But when the corps came
along . . . well, I could never
go back to a life like that. I see
things differently. I'm different.
The world is different."
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