Word: corpsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stories this week illustrate how it goes. To tell how the Peace Corps is really doing, as opposed to what its press agents boast and its critics suspect, correspondents headed for the hinterland to see young people on the job. John Blashill sought out Peace Corpsmen upcountry in Chile and Colombia; Lee Griggs interrupted his watch on the uneasy Congo to fly to Tanganyika, and Herman Nickel from Johannesburg turned up with Peace Corpsmen in Nigeria. Still another set of correspondents here in the U.S. went off on a different trail-to see what Congressmen home for Christmas recess...
Toilets & Air Conditioning. After further indoctrination at the University College outside Accra, the Peace Corps teachers were assigned to 27 secondary schools scattered across the country. Compared with Peace Corpsmen elsewhere, those in Ghana are well off. In addition to their Peace Corps stipend of $75 a month, they are paid $1,960-a-year salaries by Ghana's government. Most of Ghana's schools are less than three years old and come complete with faculty homes that have two bedrooms, running water, flush toilets, electricity and, occasionally, air conditioning...
...first, many Ghanaians were suspicious of the Peace Corpsmen. But most have since come around handsomely. At Tafo, natives wanted to make Barnett Chessin. 23. a tribal subchief in gratitude for his contributions to town life. In Dodowa, one of the few school districts with no faculty apartments, the local chief volunteered to share his own modern home to accommodate Peace Corps Teacher Thomas Livingston. Ghanaian students, used to the magisterial ways of British-trained masters, have responded well to Peace Corps teaching. Says Martin Larbi of Accra's La Bone Secondary School: "They're better than...
...girl. Ike was exercised about Peace Corps Member Margery Michelmore, who had committed the sin of writing accurately about the primitive conditions that she had seen in Nigeria and having her postcard fall into the hands of leftist Nigerian students.* There was, cried Eisenhower, "postcard evidence" that Peace Corpsmen "did not even know what an undeveloped country...
...post office, Margery dropped the postcard-and it was picked up by a person or persons unknown. The postcard's text was mimeographed and passed around the school, and one Dapo Falase, a campus radical and president of the Student Union, called a rally to denounce the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of American imperialism" and "members of America's international spy ring." Margery Michelmore offered her resignation to the corps, her apologies to the students of the college for her "thoughtless postcard." Then she flew out of Nigeria...