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(s/ P % Vo R]EPRES AVE PEACE CORPS VL This is a random selection of Volunteers who arerain in the United states for specific Peace Corps projects a e people appearing below are generally representative of those who have, to this time, been chosen for the initial Peace Corps programs. Future projects will probably not require talents differing from those illustrated here. WILLIAM R. AUSTIN, 26, of Bennington, Kansas, has spent the past two academic years teaching world history and coaching football and basketball at Trego Ccinaity High School in Wakeeney, Kansas. He received his A.B. degree in history in 1959 from Kansas Wesleyan Univer- sity, where he was co-captain of the football team and vice-president of the student council. He has worked suemers as a laborer in a grain elevator and as an agricultural field hand. For two years he served as a group captain at simmer conferences of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Estes Park, Colorado. At present he is training for the Ghana project at Berkeley. JAMES LANCASTER, JR., 22, of 4421 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., received his B. A. degree in economics this June from Howard University. He was active in a number of student activities there, serving as president of the Economics Club and secretary of the Business Club. He has had extensive experience in working with youth groups at the Fellowship House in Washington and with an American Friends Service Committee group in Turkey. He is now studying at Harvard in preparation for the Nigeria projects. HABLAN DAVIS HIBBARD, 24, of 56 Francisco Avenue, West Caldwell, New Jersey, just finished his first year at the Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland. He is taking a leave of absence from his medical studies to begin Peace Corps training. He received his B.A. degree in 1959 from Oberlin College, where he was president of the Ski Club and a member of the varsity football and lacrosse teams. He spent last simmer in Nigeria. He is preparing at Harvard for the Nigeria project. ARTHUR G. BHUER, 23, of 216 Hillcrest Road, Raleigh, North Carolina is presently in training at Iowa State for the St. Lucia project. He is a graduate student in forestry at North Carolina State College, in Raleigh. A graduate of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, in Ruston, Louisiana, he BYRON T. HOPEWELL, 821 7th Street, Havre, Montana, is 22 years old and was graduated this June from the University of Washington, where he specialized in the sciences. In high school he played on the football team and in 1956 was an All-State selection for guard. He speaks Spanish fluently and knows Mexico well. He is skilled in carpentry, masonry, and automotive engineering. He is now training at Rutgers in the CARE-Peace Corps project headed for Colombia. P~EER DeSIMDES of 195 Goldenrod Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut, is 24 years old, single and is employed by the New York-New Haven and Hartford Railroad as a structural draftsman on bridge construction prob- lems. He has also worked as an apprentice carpenter on frame building construction in Bridgeport. He received his Bachelor's degree in engi- neering in June 1960, at the University of Connecticut, and he also worked for the National Park Service as a student engineer in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Ajo, Arizona in survey work in construc- tion and topography. He is now getting instruction at Tenxas Western in preparation for the Tanganyika project. PAULA WEBB, 31, of 351 G living and studying this last teacher in the years 1952-195 School, in Providence, Rhode Massachusetts. She also has teachers at Lesley College, i Miss Webb was an. editor with D. C. Heath and Company. She project. ray Road, West Falmouth, Maine, has been year in Mexico. An elementary school 7, she has taught in the Mary C. Wheeler Island, and in the public schools of Seekonk, taught demonstration classes for student n Cambridge, Massachusetts. More recently, the Boston educational publishing firm, is studying at Iowa State for the St. Lucia A. TMDCTHY PEERSON, 21, of 1315 received his B. A. in history at the He attended high school and one year fornia. Since 1958, he has been work and home repair company in Honolulu. has traveled in Mexico, stumer of 196 for the Philippine project. Opus Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii, in 1961. of college in Sacramento, Cali- :ing as a salesman for a construction He is fairly fluent in Spanish and o0, He is studying at Ohio State MICHAEL LANIGAN of 5608 Valley Road, Falls Church, Virginia, i years old. He is presently training at Rutgers for the CARE-Peace project which will leave about the first of September for Colombia. was currently working for the U.S. Steel Company and has worked as pharmacist's clerk in a hospital. He is a handyman by inclination, interested in repairing a motor, making things with carpentry tools building radios or doing plumbing. He is also a photographer. He football and was on the swimming and rifle teams at school. He has completed two years of college work at Georgetown and American Univ .s 23 Corps He a equally and played rs ity. Wa- 4. +ha ann atr r-P a Maf-Sna eflnwna fonarnl ann hnm ceTaroA1 In tha Ws flnrwns STALEY M. of 1707 Dundee Way, Louisville, Kentucky is the husband of Clarice Heller Berman. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree this June from the Harvard University School of Law. He was graduated, cum laude, in 1958 from Amherst College, where he majored in government. He has worked summers as a law clerk and bank teller. He is training at Harvard for the Nigeria project as one of the first husband and wife teams chosen by the Peace Corps. MRS. CLARICE HELLER BERMAN, 22, Kentucky, is the wife of Stanley M. English this year from Smith College semesters at Wellesley College. She projects at Smith, serving as house of the Electoral Board, and as head House. She and her husband are both in Louisville. of 1707 Dundee Way, Luuisville, Berman. She received her B. A. in , although she spent her final two was active in extra-curricular editor of the yearbook, as a member of freshmen advisors at Sessions graduates of Atherton High School JACOB FLEMAN of 1301 N. Harrison Street, Wilmington, Delaware, is 21 years old, single, and a graduate in civil engineering of the University of Delaware. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been an athletic counselor of Camp Arcady, New York and Camp Lindenmere, of Tannersville, Pennsylvania. He was vice president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Student chapter, when he graduated this June at the University of Delaware. He has had on the job experience in handling surveyor's tools and other engineering equipment. He is getting field training and instruction at Texas Western Tanganyika project. in preparation for the LAURA P. DAMON, 23, of 11 Saybrook Place, Buffalo, N. Y., has been a librarian at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library since last September. She received her B.A. degree in English in 1960 from Smith College, where she was vice-president of her class and secretary of the House of Representatives. She speaks French fluently and traveled to East Africa on a study tour for two months in 1959. She is studying at Berkeley in preparation for the Ghana project. E2RIQUE MDRALES of 2206 Federal Avenue, El Paso, Texas, old. He is studying at Rutgers in preparation for going to the CARE-Peace Corps project. He graduated from Bowie High El Paso in 1952 and attended Texas Western College. He is a electric and acetylene welding equipment and has worked in a refinery. He is trained in photographic processes and is cu loyed by the Department of the Army as a physical science te . is 28 ye Colombia School in Killed wl r copper rrently e tchnician. tars on .th ap- DOLORES D. HAWRANEY, 23, of 2738 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, received her B.A. in literature at ornell University in 1960. Last year she taught high school English at LSng Island, New York, while taking night BERMAIB, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA II3 I I 1 112 1 1 1 4I 11111 3 1262 08851 7148 |