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According to William Delano, who all the drive, the decrease in volunteers hay be attributed to a substantial degree of self-selection. "The people who signed up this year seemed really serious about it," he remarked at the conclusion of his visit...
...Delano pointed to the fact that the relationship between the sign-ups" and the "show-ups" is extraordinarily good at Harvard. At many colleges, he explained, much of the recruiters' time wasted on talking to people who are not sincerely interested in serving...
...Delano disagrees that the experience of volunteers abroad is merely a "fringe benefit." Young Americans acquire a perspective in foreign societies that is "fed back" to the entire society, broadening its values and preparing it for international responsibility. Delano argues that Sevareid underestimates the importance of social development--health, education and community organization--in economic development. The volunteer acts as a kind of "human catalyst." He emanates the idea: "We can do something about this.' " He initiates the process of organizing resources and assigning priorities. "The photographs show the same village, physically unaltered before and after," says Delano (referring...
...this individual level that Delano believes the Peace Corps is ultimately most effective and rewarding. "These two years," he says, "can be a time for learning and growth--a time for finding out who you are and where you want to go." He compares the concept of a Peace Corps to Henry James' "moral equivalent of war." The struggle against economic undervelopment must involve the total commitment of human energy, the institutional invention and the mobilization of resources which in the past has occurred only during wartime...
Eventually, Delano will be leaving the Peace Corps to return to his law practice. He will remain active in civil liberties and he hopes to be "called again and again to serve in government." He deals with ideas in the currency of action. And the success of the Peace Corps has been due, in no small measure, to men like William Delano who, having fought one war on the battlefield, now seek a moral equivalent in public service...