ʻAʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi │ One learns from many sources │ A web publication from the Office of the Chancellor, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Bill Sakovich spent his Peace Corps days in the water, never realizing that the ten-year-old boys in the lanes would one day become the leaders of international swimming.
As a Peace Corps trainer, Arthur Mersereau learned that most of what we think we know is provisional, open to challenge, and that the most effective leaders are those who listen before they decide.
Craig Severance came to the realization fairly early on in his Peace Corp volunteer work: His role wasn’t to change the island, but to learn from it.
The Hawaiʻi Island environment of ethnic and cultural diversity was precisely why Hilo had been chosen as a Peace Corps training site for Southeast Asia volunteers.
“Every (Peace Corps) volunteer I’ve spoken to agrees that we took away more than we contributed.” — Artem Sergeyev.
John Kleinschmidt’s Peace Corps group was instrumental in running Malawi’s 1st and 2nd national meets. Only a few years after they left, the country sent track and field athletes to the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Jasmin Sison Kiernan spent her time in Swaziland in the Lubombo District providing health screenings, oral exams, vaccines, and checking water sources for parasites.
Many years later, Patrick Bryan wrote a colorful, entertaining, and enlightening memoir about life in the Peace Corps. “In 1960’s Palau, life was raucous, laughable, and harrowing.”
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