1997 - 1998 Guestbook

Guestbook 1997 & 1998
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From: DrlabrisaPCPF@aol.com
Please add my e-mail address to your info bank. Yours in peace, Daisy (Ehlert) (Miller) Roberts "64-66

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From: Barbara Benson

My new address is: 3290 Thompson Avenue Alameda, CA 94501

e-mail

Best to all, Skip and Barbara Benson

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From: Carolynne Ayoub

We recently purchased a computer and in my browsing Peace Corps websites, I realized that the directory needed my name and stats.

Carolynne Muehsam-Ayoub, 1994-1996, Environmental Education/ teacher training, La Escuela Normal in Santiago, Veraguas.

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From: Jim Calonico

I have a brother-in-law in the Peace Corps in Panama (since November). He asked if I could track down a book for him, and in the process I stumbled on the PCPF Web Site. The title of the book, he says, is Hiking in Panama, but I have been unable to locate it on the Web, at the local public library (in San Francisco) or in the Library of Congress. If you have any news on such a book or can give me some direction, it would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime, I will keep an eye on the Web Site for information which might be of interest about the Corps in Panama. Thanks

Jim Calonico

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From: "Patrick McMahon (LCA)" To:

I'm not much of a RPCV. I think I was in group 16 ('69 - '71). Ralph Blessing was in our group and was from Cincinnati. Would you happen to know how Ralph is doing?

Regards, Pat McMahon

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From: Jason E. Tidwell

Hello. My name is Jason Tidwell. I served in Panama in the Integrated Resources Program beginning on Aug 3, 1995. I served for 9 months before electing to ET for personal reasons outside of my peace corps experience. I am currently a graduate student in Forestry at the University of Minnesota. I have served as the Peace Corps Campus Representative for the University of Minnesota last year, and will again be the Peace Corps Rep in the coming year. I would like to be included in your directory. My info:

Jason Tidwell 1086 16th Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 55414

I served in the small village, El Cacao de Capira in the province Panama Oeste.

Thank you, Jason Tidwell.

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From: Vicki E. Ludden

I am an RCPV of Peace Corps Panama and I would like more information about the Friends of Panama group. My COS was July 16, 1998 and I was part of the environmental education program. I was located in Chepo, Las Minas, Herrera. I am presently starting my Master's work at the University of Montana in Missoula. I will be researching aquatic invertebrates in wetlands. I am very interested in staying connected with Peace Corps Panama related things and would love to hear how I can help or be involved.

Please e-mail me at luddenvePCPF@juno.com.
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Thank you so much for your help.

Vicki Ludden 1606 Cooper St. Missoula, MT 59802

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From: Diana McQueen

My name is Adam McQueen and two months ago I recieved my country assignment from the Peace Corps. I will be leaveing for Panama on January 11. Although I will recieve some information from the main offices in Washington I was wondering if it would be possible to gain information on what to bring and what to expect. I appreciate your time and advice.

Adam McQueen

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From: Kevin Webb DP

I recently received this e-mail from Janice Jorgensen, the Country Director in Panama. I thought you would like to read it as well.

From: Janice

Kevin... what is new with you and PC? We are busy and having fun. Getting ready for the holidays and our AVC during Thanksgiving week and then a COS conference in December..etc. Would love to include a letter about Friends of Panama and other information the group would like to provide in the COS booklet. It would be great to make it a regular part of the COS information the pcvs get. It used to be done, but has not been used for a while. Can you help me with this?

How was the conference in Cincy? Sounded like fun. We are making new t-shirts, mugs. and patches.Maybe the group would like some?

I have a new email: jjorgensen@PCPFpa.peacecorps.gov
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:54:24 -0400

From: "Steven D. Orr"

Subject: San Diego Names / NPCA Annual General Meeting

I'm wiping egg off my face about omitting Susan Mysing Miller and Marshall Mouw from the roster of PCPFers who attended San Diego last July, Of COURSE they were there! I think what happened was that the "roll-call" was derived from the passengers on the bus to Lobster Village. if I recall, both of them had to leave the conference early, and missed that fantastic trip.

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From: susanmillerPCPF@tcsn.net
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To Steve Orr.

I loved your account of the San Diego reunion. It was pretty complete. However, Marshall Mouw who served in David de Alanje and I were there too. Good fun was had by all and the stop by the guardia gave an added spice to a fun evening.

Sue M.

Please note that I have a new E-mail address:

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From: MMcnam9567

Subject: Marty McNamara - Panama '65 -'67

Here's my update: Marty McNamara

Served in Palmas Bellas, Colon 1965 - 1967

Home address: 5251 S. Alton Place Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Home Tel: (303) 220-8086

Work: Paul Davis Systems of Arapahoe County 1602 S. Parker Rd., #214 Denver CO 80231 Tel: (303) 338-8232 Fax:(303) 338-8191 E-Mail: MMcnam9567PCPF@aol.com
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Returned from Panama, then went the "Thunderbird" - American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix. Joined American International Group and worked for the next 22 years overseas - living in Guatemala, Ecuador, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Hong Kong, & Brazil. Left AIG in 1991, moving to Denver and bought a franchise called Paul Davis Systems -specializing in Insurance Restoration work. Married Conchita Estrada Dardon in Guatemala in 1970. We have two children - Sean Michael who is a systems analyst at US West in Denver, and Jennifer who will graduate as an MBA from Notre Dame in June, 1999.

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From: "F. D. Rousar "

Subject: Franklin Dale Rousar, Panama 9, La Palma, Provincia de Los Santos, 1965 -- 1967

Dear Peace Corps Panama Friends,

The following are some personal notes about your humble correspondent, for PCPF records and the next directory:

I was a volunteer in group 9 (Panama 9), assigned to La Palma, Los Santos Province. After a week of orientation in Philadelphia, and about 3 and 1/2 months training at Camp Radley near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, my group arrived in Panama in January of 1966. I and the other members of Group Nine departed Panama in mid December, 1967 at the end of our term of service.

My work in Panama focused on agricultural extension, development of a credit co-operative for small scale farmers, and community organization. I was also an informal volunteer leader (sort of / mas o menos), and did site surveys for volunteers who were to follow my group in the Azuero Peninsula.

At the end of my first Peace Corps term of service I had hoped to continue working with Peace Corps, but instead was obliged to do a two year tour in the US Army (1968 -- 1970). My Army service included a year in South Korea working on high school equivalency testing (GED) for GI's.

After the Army in the 1970's, I worked in public health for CDC/US Public Health Service in epidemiology and programme management in communicable disease projects (STD's) in California.

In 1978 I joined the World Health Organization (WHO), Smallpox Eradication Programme, in Mogadishu, Somalia, as Transport and Supply Officer. After smallpox was eradicated, I was reassigned by WHO to the Expanded Programme on Immunization.

My present occupation is Technical Officer, Expanded Programme on Immunization, World Health Organization, Suva, Fiji Islands.

My Mailing address remains (as in the 1991 Directory): F.D. Rousar, P.O. Box 12661, Suva, Fiji Islands.

An alternative mailing address, at work, follows: F.D. Rousar, c/o WHO, Box 113, Suva, Fiji Islands.

My e mail (at home) is: fdrousar@PCPFis.com.fj
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I would also mention that I have returned to Panama to visit old friends most recently in 1995, and twice before that in the 1970's. Suprisingly little has changed in my old site of La Palma and surrounding towns. The many friends and colleagues from over thirty years ago fondly remember 'los del cuerpo de paz' as if we had departed only a few months ago. For those who have not gone back to Panama or written for some time, it's up to you of course, but certainly in Los Santos Province and likely elsewhere, old friends would be very happy to hear from you. Many people now have home telephones you can dial direct from anywhere, even Fiji. Travel to Panama is much easier than before, although in Panama it's worse due to traffic. I suggest avoid driving on the Pan American Highway, and instead fly direct to Chitre. You can rent a car from there.

I would like to send my best wishes to all of the old Peace Corps colleagues and friends, and of course I would like to hear from you. And for those off to New Zealand or Australia, remember that Fiji is on the way and makes a nice stopover. Look me up or give me a call, anytime.

For those who continue to put in their personal time, and diligently work to to keep PCPF going, please accept my many thank you's for your efforts on behalf of the rest of us.

Yours truly,

Franklin Dale Rousar

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Ellis Jones 1612 Bradley Drive Boulder, CO 80303

(2nd post-invasion environmental ed group) Las Minas, Herrera

I have been teaching and working on a PhD in Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder specializing in global social change.

Ellis M. Jones University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Sociology Kethcum 219 Campus Box 327 Boulder, Colorado 80309-0327 jonesem@sobek.PCPFcolorado.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

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From: Laspipas

Hello,

This is Joey Souvignier RPCV Panama 1995-1997. My new accomadations are:

1983 Oakwell Farms Pkwy #502 San Antonio, TX 78218 email joeyrsPCPF@juno.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

My wife who is also RPCV is formerly Alicia Glass now Alicia Souvignier. Her email is

aliciaruthPCPF@juno.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Would anyone there happen to know the email address of Raiza Ruiz in Panama? Thanks for your time. Hope y'all are doing well.

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From: "Steven D. Orr" multifacetedPCPF@email.msn.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: hange of Email address

Happy New Year!!

Just letting you know that effective Jan. 98, We are re-established with Microsoft with a different e-mail address of: . We're upgrading hardware, too, so it's a constant test! Regards from me,

Steven Orr

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From bmike24uPCPF@webtv.net (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 03:56:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Panama Canal Group

invitation to friends at peace corps panama friends

I would like to invite and welcome you as individuals and as a group to our Panama Canal Group of PlanetAll, which is presented primarily as a social networking resource for folks who have had anything to do with the canal and panama over the years, and who are now scattered about the globe. we hope this group will have effects beyond mere socializing, i.e., spreading the message that panama is a tropical paradise, worthy of tourism and investment ventures, etc... we hope to see panama enter the new millenium poised for a new economic prosperity which has eluded her for so many years, and i know that members of your group would like nothing more than to contribute to this effort.

mike trout panama canal group of planetall http://www.planetall.com

(We have added this site to our list of other links.)

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From: Steve & Barb Spangler

Readjustment Problems
-- Panama Volunteer Newsletter, circa 1965 --

From El Guaicaipuro, Venezuelan Peace Corps Newsletter, reprinted in El Piscorino from Chile:

Dedicated to the problems of PCV's returning home.

PCV to police officer: "It's a big road! Why can't I drive down the middle of it?"

PCV to friend: "It's only a three-day trip to New York. What are you waiting for?"

Father to PCV: " I don't care if we do only have warm Coke, I won't put it in my bourbon."

Girl to PCV: "Must you scratch yourself there in public?"

PCV to mother: "But, mom, I always drink three beers for a nightcap!"

PCV to date: "You mean your mother isn't coming with us?"

PCV's mother to neighbor: " I just don't understand my son anymore. He knows that we have dinner by candlelight every Friday night, but when I put a "cazuela entrada" on the table he roared something in a strange language and stomped out."

Friend to PCV: "Get your hand out of my pocket. If you need a cigarette that bad, just ask."

PCV to enraged date: "I know its ten o'clock, but I said I'd be here at nine, didn't I?"

Mechanic to PCV: "What on earth is a cosa and where do I put it?"

Boss to PCV: "That's the fifth time you've shaken hands with me today."

PCV to friends in a jostling crowd: "Quick! Duck in here before the shooting starts."

Mother to PCV: "Please!!...Flush the toilet!"

Steve Spangler, 1/18/98

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Kark S. Chiang 1055 Clarkson Street, # 9 Denver, CO 80218

Desperately seeking RPCV's from Panama 1993 - 1996. Please contact Karl Chiang above address or come to Colorado & visit. Sincerely, Karl

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From: Karen Hoel Subject: No known address

William Flemming c/o La Crosse County Health Department 300 N 4th St La Crosse, WI 54601 Re: Panama Group 1 - Karen Hoel

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From: Wade Kniseley Subject: '98 Directory Update

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From: "Janice F. Jorgensen" Subject: getting on the list

Name: Janice F. Jorgensen Mailing address

Peace Corps Director American Embassy Unit 0945 APO, AA 34002 Telephone: 507-269-2100

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From: Linda Ramsey Subject: Update for 1998 PCPF Directory

Current Information

Linda G. Ramsey 1958 E. Smith Springfield, MO 65803

Group 14, 1967 - 1968 La Raya de Santa Maria, Veraguas

I am currently Assistant Director of Library Services and Chief Electronic Services Librarian at Ozarks Technical Community College. Hobbies include canoeing and aimless net surfing. Son Gabe is a law student at Berkeley and daughter Dana is a senior at SMSU.

************************************************************************* Note--- You have Dana Ramsey listed as a PCV on your list. I think that is a mistake, as Dana is my daughter. Unless, of course, there was another Dana Ramsey in Peace Corps Panama.??? Would you please verify receipt of this info, if possible. Thanks,

Linda Ramsey

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From: jeff busch Subject: - Personal Information

Jeffrey Busch 1545 145th Place SE #G7 Bellevue, WA 98007

Served 95-97 Rincon de las Palmas, Penonome, Cocle

I moved to Washington state and am currently employed as a computer instructor.

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From: Odhin Subject: Searching for a friend

Hello!! Have a friend named Pamela Porterwho is somewhere in the jungle. She moved from the jungle in NY to your jungle in hopes to find herself By signing up with PeaceCorp. Just want to let her know there are people who love her very much living in California that would love to come visit her sometime. Take Care, and very Happy Holidays to who ever receives this email. SHAUN

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Re: Melissa S. Mayernik (formerly Melissa S. Brunton)

Dear PCPF,

It was great to hear from the other Panama RPCV's! Of course, I still fee very attached to Panama. I was there '67 - '69: First year in the Darien jungle and second year in La Mesa (the interior). In both areas I did rural community development.

My first daughter, Jennifer , was born in Panama, just before the first moon landing. I'm sure the volunteers from our group would remember her -- she was the only baby! Both Jennifer and my second daughter, Lauri, still visit Panama regularly. Jennifer is in a doctoral program at Columbia University. Lauri is a writer/editor in Philadelphia. I'm studying graduate level Gerontology and trying to keep up my Spanish. I am the Director of Volunteers in the City of Stamford.

Hoping to hear what some members of our groups are up to . . .

Best regards, Melissa Mayernik (Brunton)

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Elaine Lohanas Samaniego

August 26, 1997

Elaine Lohnas, native Upstate New Yorker, B.A. in political science, William Smith College. Panama Group VI, July 1, 1964- June 30, 1966. Trained at the University of Arizona and received Outward Bound at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Served in Villa Rosario, District of Capira, Provence of Panama, right on the Panamericana 20 minutes west of LaChorrera. I was involved in the usual community development projects i.e. latrines, bridge, school, gardening, sewing, etc. Highlights were a full-page spread in la estrella with pictures and raising the Panamanian flag at the Capira town square on the "3 de noviembre".

Upon termination, I was married to a Panamanian "hombre de campo" and have five children, who still reside in Panama, one son in Panama City, two in Villa Rosario, a daughter outside of puerto Armuelles in Chiriqui, and a younger daughter also in Villa Rosario. I have ten grandchildren. After living for twenty- seven years in the bosom of a Panamanian family I think that I probably have a different perspective from that of those on the outside looking in. All in all, it is an easy place to live. I think that alcohol consumption is their biggest problem. An exaggerated proportion of the family budget is spent on beer and liquor in most cases, enough to create a lopsided economy.

I returned to the U.S. in 1991 and just completed five years at Upstate Administrative Services, a third party administrator (we process health insurance claims for self-insureds) where my sister is a partner. I do some of their book-keeping. I plan to retire in two and a half years, if not sooner.

I was in Panama for two weeks in March, 1994 and again in February, 1996. I hope to make another trip after the first of the year. Most people are having a hard time finding work, and crime is out of sight.

Please let me know if there are any dues, or of anything else I can do to help. I might even dust off my literary skills.

Sincerely, Elaine Samaniego

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 14:09:05 -0400

From: Florence Reed

Subject: from Florence Reed, rpcv Panama 91-93

Dear friends,

What a pleasant surprise to get your newsletter. I'm so glad that PCPF is still alive and send my thanks to those who are resucitating it, as well as those that kept it going over the years. The address that you have for me is correct. I wish I was in better touch. I do get down to Panama 2 or 3 times a year for my work and have recently founded a non-profit organization called Sustainable Harvest International. We are already working in Panama a little bit and hope to expand the program soon. I'm looking forward to staying in touch with PCPF. Best wishes, Florence Reed Served: Santa Rita de Anton, Cocle 1991 -- 1993

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:14:04 -1000

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 97 17:58:44 0000 From: M. Carolyn Gray"

Carolyn (Burgin) Gray update for 1998:

Carolyn has retired from teaching Spanish and social studies in the Fairbanks, Alaska schools after 26 years. Her husband also retired after teaching 23 years (in 1993) and is a stock broker with Dean Witter Morgan Stanley now. Their daughters are both in college. The oldest is studying music education and the youngest is studying for the foriegn service.

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Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 20:10:35 -0500

From: "Matthew S. Hamada"

Subject: update for PCP directory

Name: Matthew S. Hamada (currently a student in the business school at the University of Chicago) Served in Panama: 1992-1994

Location in Panama: Alto Ibala de Canazas, Veraguas Other: Married a Panamanian! (Is there a special listing of RPCVs who have Panamanian spouses? Also is there a listing of RPCVs in the Chicago area?)
Thanks!
Matthew Hamada

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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:21:51 -0700

From: "Nancy H. Cady"

Subject: Update for directory

Hi folks. I just found the PCPF website and directory. Yikes - I wrote alot last time! Here's an update:

working at the Department of State's Foreign Buildings Office. Nothing else new!

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From: Bud Keith
July 29, 1997

budkeithPCPF@netcom.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

As of this date I have added more information to the post from Gary Admire on this board, and have also added information at the end of the report on the San Diego conference on how to obtain tapes of the conference.

We're also wondering if anyone knows the location of Alanje and La Barqueta beach, mentioned in the following article:

La Barqueta Beach Equipment Project Housing Construction The Environmental Committee of Alanje was formed in 1985 to protect and preserve the mangrove forests and wildlife surrounding the area. The committee's primary activities include collection of sea turtle eggs, placing them in a nursery, and returning the baby sea turtles to the ocean. Although La Barqueta Beach is designated as a national park and protected area, nest robbing is still a problem. Community members recognized the need for protection of their sea turtles and raised funds to construct a small turtle nursery. They are now requesting assistance in building a facility to house students and volunteers to live and work at the project. A nearby university has agreed to provide student help, and housing space is necessary to ensure their involvement. Total request: $4,294; remaining balance: $2,487. Peace Corps Volunteer: Heather Cameron of Gaithersburg, Maryland Notes: If you know of a project in Panama that needs help, please email us a description that we put on the PCPF website. The La Barqueta project described above is from the July 1997 Project Listing sent to PCPF by the Peace Corps Partnership Program. For over 33 years, the Peace Corps Partnership Program has raised funds for Peace Corps volunteer projects. In 1996 alone, 26 Returned Peace Corps Volunteer groups raised nearly $26,000 for Peace Corps Volunteer projects in 26 countries. From building water systems in rural Africa to bringing textbooks to the Pacific, RPCV groups have made sustainable development possible in many rural communities across the globe. You can reach the Partnership Program at: Peace Corps Partnership Program 1990 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20526 (800) 424-8580, Ext. 2227 (202) 606-3406

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From: Bud Keith

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At the recent NPCA conference in San Diego, several people asked about Dr. Hess and His wife, Adriana. I called and spoke with him to day, July 21. He reports that his wife suffered a serious stroke a couple of years ago and is confined to a nursing home in the Tacoma area. She is unable to speak and Dr. Hess says that it's hard to tell how much she remembers. If anyone wishes to send a note, I'll be happy to send back his address via email.

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From: Podolsky

podolskyPCPF@aros.net (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Hello!

Golly it is wonderful that PCPF has an email address and webpage. I am tickled with the possibilities.

Just got El Bochinche Saturday the 5th of July, so I'm unable to join you in San Diego. Please keep me posted.

I wonder if anyone has heard about Segundo Cano, the Agricultural Extension Agent for La Provincia de Los Santos, headquartered in Las Tablas? Is he still alive? I wrote to him last summer, at Dale Rousar's request, and never heard if he made it through the summer/year. Segundo was/is a wonderful person who cared deeply about the PC mission.

I'm still in Salt Lake City, hoping that at least one of our three children will apply for PC placement. I may do so myself, if we can find an English speaking placement for my MD husband.

Please add me to the list. I'm really tickled to think that we're online at last! Nano Byrnes Podolsky, PC/Panama 65-67

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From: Wade Kniseley

wkinselePCPF@specent.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Biographical update

Married 30 years to Ana Rodriquez D. of Tonosi, Los Santos, R.P., two daughters, Susan, 27, teaches English in Taegu, Korea; Marinel, 18, fresh. at Southwest Missouri St. Univ., Music Major. Head of foreign language department at Northwest Arkansas Comm College. Teaches Spanish and Latinamerican History and Culture. Active in Catholic Hispanic ministries in region and in promoting multicultural tolerance and education in NW Ark.

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From: Jim Beyer

james.a.beyerPCPF@state.or.us
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Subject: Hi

Just to let you know that I am still alive and well. Now you have my e-mail address. My street address and phone number are unchanged. Glad to hear from you after so long; I had given up on the organization. Thanks for all your collective work. I am very active in the local returned PC group, West Cascades Peace Corps Assoc, and have been hopeful that the Panama group would come back to life!

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From: "Gary D. Admire"

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Subject: Current Directory Information

The following is current information for the directory: Gary D. Admire Two years in Panama Chiriqui and Divisa

Since Panama: Immediately upon returning from Panama, I was drafted. I chose to join the Navy and spent most of my tour on an admiral's staff in Pearl Harbor.

Attended law school (Unversity of Washington); taught criminal law and procedure for a while; was Director of the Legal Aid Program at McNeil Island Federal Prison. Then became a deputy district attorney in Southern California (specialized in homicide prosecutions). Also served as Housing Authority Commissioner.

I then accepted an appointment as a state judge and a few years ago I was appointed a Federal Administrative Law Judge (serving as chief judge in Pasadena; currently in Downey, CA).

Married almost thirty years (Leslie Quinlan). No children, one dog.

Leslie and I are off to Panama for the first time in 30+ years. We leave on December 12 for a brief ten day stint. Do you know who I might contact before going to get current information on Peace Corps offices in Panama. I would like to find out if my original assignment site is still served by the Peace Corps (El Tejar de Alanje, Chiriqui); I think the easiest way to do so is to call the office in either Panama or David (but I have no information on either). I might try to make it to Chiriqui and look up old ties (including John Filis if he is still in the area). Also, do you know if the Hotel Lux (the original Panama City Peace Corps Hotel) is still in business; I might want to stay there a few days for old times sake. Thanks for any info; keep in touch. Gary D. Admire

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From: George Pool

georgepoolPCPF@compuserve.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Pcpf

Hello, my name is George Pool, and I served in Panama from 1992 to 1994 in La Yeguada, Veraguas.

I just finished my Masters degree at Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, and I am in the process of finding employment and relocating.

I would like to keep in touch with Peace Corps Panama. Please keep me updated.

Thanks.

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From: Larry Wolf

LWOLFPCPF@pcpfDOHLAN.NYCNET.CI.NYC.NY.US
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Subject: contact

Dear PCPF: Thanks for sending me your newsletter. Sorry I can't make the party in July in San Diego. I was in Panama from 1969 to 1971, when the PC program ended there. I didn't know that the Peace Corps went back there in 1990! I thought we were the last group. Do you know if there are any RPCV's in New York City? Also, my assignment was a small town called Lidice, in Capira, near the Canal. Do you know if there are any volunteers there now? I may want to get in touch with them. Thanks.

Larry Wolf,

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From: RonGreenPCPF@aol.com
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Subject: MUY BUENAS>>>>

Que asusto, encontrar una directoria.....

I have been living in Bedford, MA with my wife Maria since 1976. Yes, she is the same woman who visited my site in Buenos Aires/Chame in 1967, swept out the scorpions, swam at Gorgona Beach, married me and served as "non-matrix spouse" while I was regional PC Director in Venezuela. My 2 daughters were born here and are now starting to leave the nest. Maybe one will be the volunteer. She's the one who tried out for the boys lacrosse team.

After many years with private industry in Massachusetts in the International Human Resources area, I began a small consulting practice about 5 years ago.

I am very interested in learning the whereabouts of Neal McElinney, Tony Carusone, Neal Horenstein, and (I blush) Karen Hesley......

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From: LEA ANN BROOKENS

chornmorPCPF@juno.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Background Information Request

Thanks for the Summer 1997 El Bochinche edition. Even though I am a dinosaur PC Panama volunteer, I thought I'd give you young folk my info as requested: Cerro Punta, Panama, from 1964-66

Biographical sketch: University of Denver, BSBA, 1960-64 University of Illinois, MEd, l966-68 Up With People, Inc, 1968-69 Elementary School Teacher, 1969-72 Colorado Department of Corrections, 1972 to present

Present position = Director of Academic Education Married to Lea Ann; 4 kids = Todd, Kristin, Isaac, and Ryan

Extracurricular: Bicycling, camping, hiking, tutoring kids Hope this helps!

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From: Meredith W Cornett

corne004PCPF@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Update

Dear PCPFP, Meredith Wynn Cornett Ethan Foster Perry (husband)

*I was the PCV, not Ethan, although he was an honorary member.

'91-'93, I was in San Vincente de Tranquilla, Parque Nacional Chagres.

After completing PC service, I obtained an MS in Forest Ecology from the University of Minnesota, where I am currently working on a PhD in Forest Restoration Ecology. I also served as the Peace Corps Campus Representative at the U of Minn last year (1996-97).

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From bduvalPCPF@foodsci.umass.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Greetings from Brian, Bocas del Toro 1995-97.

Brian Duval, Bocas del Toro (Isla Bocas), 1995-97.

Thats it! Thanks.

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From: (Steven Orr

smorr525PCPF@msn.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

As you might imagine, I have visited dozens of web sites, nay, hundreds of web sites. I find the PCPF site to be one of the very best I have encountered. The plethora of hyperlinks is great -- and intelligent. The historical, environmental, and current information is superb. My hat is off to you two.

Now, an observation: job-hunting as I am, my ears perked up at the comment that Peace Corps Panama is currently looking for a Training Director. In that PC/W has already vetted me for APCD Training (and for APCD Programming and APCD Administration), I attempted to go into the PC Panama web page to send an e-mail of expressed interest to the CD. Unfortunately, the message at that point is that there is no e-mail capability with the PC office in Panama right now. Oh, well, never mind.

Back to the PCPF web site... I thought I had finally encountered the best web site yet last week when I got tuned into http://www.jobspan.com, a domain of EthoSolutions, Inc., in Seattle. It is an absolutely excellent web site, I kid you not. But PCPF's is even better. Again, my hat is off to you guys.

Saludos y un abrazo.
Steven Orr
smorr525PCPF@msn.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 16:12:10 -0700
From: Kendall Mau

kmau@PCPFmcfeely.concentric.net (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)
Subject: Update

Name: Dr. Kendall P. Mau
E-mail: kmauPCPF@best.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Group: Panama 16
Yrs. In Panama: May 69 til Nov. 69. Transferred to Senegal til 4/72.
Site: Bella Vista de Guarare, Los Santos

Doing: Spent 10 years in Central & South America with Dole Fruit Comp. Retired 12/20/97 from Silicon Valley Federal Credit Union where I was VP Finance/Admn for 10 year.

Now own my own Consulting Company - Kendall Philip Consulting specializaing in Strategic Planning & Financial Operations Analysis for Micro-Enterprises.

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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 17:59:00 -0700
From: michael.madisonPCPF@internetmci.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)
Subject: database update
Michael Madison
email: Michael.MadisonPCPF@InternetMCI.Com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

I served from September 1993 to December 1995 in a reforestation project in Soberania National Park in the town of La Union in Agua Buena in Chilibre, just about 12 miles north of Panama City.

Just this past January, I returned to Panama and was married to a beautiful Panamanian woman named Elba. We reside in Cincinnati where I'm a stockbroker for Fidelity Investments and my wife is teaching Spanish at Berlitz.

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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:58:27 -0400 (EDT)

From: HALVJpcpf@aol.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: update info

Name: Harold V. Jones (Hal)
E Mail: HALVJpcpf@AOL.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Group: Panama 3
Years: 1963-65
Site: Los Pozos, Herrera

What doing since: Went to grad school for a couple of years after returning to U.S., then back to Panama in 1967 to marry Lydia Ruiz of Chitre.

In the thirty years since we have had two sons and two daughters (oldest now 29, youngest 14), and I've taught high school science and social studies in Azusa, Calif. and currently in Hallandale, Florida. For eight years we took time out from teaching to run a small office supply store but gave that up when Office Depot moved in down the street.

Lydia currently tutors Spanish, and I do the education thing day and night.

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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997

From: Brian Moore

briancnsPCPF@mtolympus.ari.net (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Thanks for the communications via El Bochinche today which I reeived in the mail.

This is to inform you of my e-mail address and please add "Avenue" to my home address:

Keep up the good work. Best regards,

Brian,

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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:09:02 -0600 (CDT)

From: Charles Wheeler

wheeler@PCPFuis.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Bio update

Dear PCPF,

Here's the latest info on myself:

Charles N. Wheeler III
E-mail: wheeler.charles@PCPFuis.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

I was in Group 9, arriving in Panama in December, 1965, and returning to the U.S. in February, 1969. I was stationed in Canto del Llano, a "suburb" of Santiago de Veraguas. My first two years, I helped in the development of the Cooperative Juan XXIII as an asesor working with CEPAS (Centro de Estudios, Promocion, y Asistencia Social, if memory serves after some 30 years), the community development agency of the local Roman Catholic diocese. My thid year, I was an instructor in a training program for rural community leaders at the Juan XXII institute in San Francisco, again under the auspices of CEPAS. I also taught English to 5th and 6th graders at the Canto del Llano school.

After returning to my hometown of Joliet, IL, I was hired in April, 1969, as a general assignment reporter by the Chicago Sun-Times. Later that year, I was assigned to cover the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention, which led to a career as a government/political reporter. I began covering the Illinois General Assembly in 1970, became a full-time legislative correspondent in 1971, and was transferred to the Sun-Times Springfield bureau in 1974. For the next 19 years, I covered state government and politics for the Sun-Times, the final seven as chief of the paper's Statehouse bureau. During that time, I served 16 consecutive one-year terms as president of the Illinois Legislative Correspondents Association, the organization representing the Statehouse press corps.

Among the highlights of my Sun-Times career was the opportunity to visit Panama twice to do stories on the canal treaties. The first time was in connection with a visit by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was considering the treaties. The second was to cover the treaty signings by President Carter and General Torrijos. I also had time for some personal visits, and enjoyed renewing acquaintances with many of my former CEPAS co-workers and friends in Santiago. I was especially pleased to learn that the cooperative's general store, which began in an Avenida Central storefront with some $200 worth of goods around 1967, finished the previous year with sales in excess of $100,000 and branch stores in a half a dozen outlying locales, all achieved under the leadership of its campesino officers.

I left the Sun-Times in August, 1993, to become director of the Public Affairs Reporting program at then-Sangamon State University. (We became the third campus of the U of I in 1995, as part of a legislative reshuffling of higher education governance in Illinois.) Public Affairs Reporting is an MA program that prepares students to be working reporters covering government, politics, and public policy issues. Perhaps its most attractive feature is its internship, in which students work for six months as full-time journalists assigned to a Statehouse bureau. The hands-on experience gives students the type of experience that makes them very employable following the program. I still keep my hand in writing, doing a monthly politics column for Illinois Issues, a public affairs magazine.

On a personal note, my wife, Paula, and I were married in 1972 and have three children. Chad, 20 in March, is enrolling at Columbia College in Chicago this fall as a theater major after two years at our local community college. Rachel, 18 in January, is leaving for DePaul University in Chicago to pursue a degree in athletic training. Becky, who turns 17 in August, will be a senior at Sacred Heart-Griffin High School here in Springfield and is thinking about becoming a lawyer.

In closing, let me say how pleased I was to receive the latest El Bochinche and learn about the Web site. I'm very grateful to those of you who'e devoted the time and effort to put it up, giving former volunteers like myself the opportunity to renew ties with some of the finest people and dearest friends we've ever known.

Muchisimas gracias, y hasta luego!

Carlos

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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 97 15:50:52 EDT

From: "Modzelewski-DMH, David"

David.ModzelewskiPCPF@state.ma.us (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: New Directory Info

I was pleased to find the Peace Corps Panama web site and enjoyed purusing the old directory for familiar names and anecdotes. I am particulary interested in locating Jim and Cathy O'Malley from Panama 15 and Eleanor and Tom Geiger from Panama 13 or 14.

My information is as follows:

David W. Modzelewski, Panama 15/ el Canafistulo / Provincia deLlos Santos. 1967/1970
Community Development activity

Married to Margaret Neville for 25 years in 1997, two daughters Molly and Kate. Molly a graduate of Trinity College and Katie is a junior, also at Trinity.

I have worked in the field of community development and housing almost since my return from Panama and am currently the Coordinator of Housing Services/ Department of Mental Health for the four western counties of Massachusetts. I have worked for municipalities, not for profit housing agencies and for a private housing developer... nothing compares with my time in Panama. I miss my Panama "compas" very much and would love to hear from them.

David W.Modzelewski

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:43:37 -0400 (EDT)

From: Earl Whitlatch

whitlatch.1PCPF@osu.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: address, etc.

Hola! I should be among the addresses for PCPF, since I received their mailings for years (I even paid my dues occasionally). At any rate, here's some current information:

Dr. Earl Whitlatch
e-mail: whitlatch.1PCPF@osu.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Countries of Service: Panama 7/67-12/68 (Panama City)
Uruguay 1/69-8/69 (Treinta y Tres)

Brief Bio: Aging professor of environmental systems engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science at The Ohio State University. Have sweet wife and two "children", ages 22 and 19. Just published an engineering textbook with Prentice Hall publishers. I do water resource and environmental planning, and am Director of the Ohio Water Resources Center. Like jogging, softball, and swamps.

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:38:30 -0400

From: "Robinne L. Weiss"

rxw23PCPF@email.psu.edu
(Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Saludos!

We were excited to receive El Bochinche. We are not, however, on your mailing list. Here are the particulars:

Ian A. Dickie and Robinne L. Weiss
Panama 1993-1995

Current address (well, as of July 1, 1997):
e-mail (Ian): iad1PCPF@psu.edu (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)
e-mail (Robinne): rxw23PCPF@psu.edu
(Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

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Subj: Yahoo! Listing
Date: 97-06-24 19:20:47 EDT

From: andrewPCPF@yahoo.com
(Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Hi,

The URL you submitted has been added to Yahoo! It will appear after our next update which will probably occur within the next 2-4 days. You can find your listing at that time by looking through the "What's New" listing or by doing a keyword search.

Please note: you may see your site listed in our directory before it appears in our search engine database. Further, it has come to our attention that various organizations have been sending unsolicited messages to new sites that appear in our listings. We're sorry if you're inconvenienced by messages of this kind; Yahoo! does not condone these messages in any way nor do we divulge contact information for the sites we list to anyone.

Thank you for taking the time to add your site. We rely on users like yourself to make Yahoo! complete and comprehensive. In order to keep Yahoo! accurate as well, please let us know of changes to your listing in the future.

If you haven't already done so, and you'd like to return the favor and put Yahoo! on your own site, please see http://www.yahoo.com/docs/yahootogo/ for detailed instructions.

Thanks again,

The Yahoo! Team

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:57:33 -0400 (EDT)

From: Willy646PCPF@aol.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Panama 1 PCV Alive and Well in Wisconsin.

Hi there,

I found this newsletter in my mailbox today and felt the warm rush of memories wash over my mind of my time as a volunteer in Panama from Nov. 25, 1962 to Nov. 25 1964.

I was a 25 yrs old and could hardly speak the language, but with some unknown power, I was able to stay with it and I hope do some good for the people of Lidice, a small village northeast of El Chorrera just off the Pan American highway.

In those two years I lost my father, my president and was able to weather a revolution and stay in place due to the wishes of the people of my town. I have often wondered how they are doing and what If anything I might have done to them or done for them.

I, to wonder how many of my comrades are still kicking and where and what they are doing with there lives.

How interesting that on June 23, 1997, several pages of paper and print could move me to go to an electronic tin can with some string attached say to you whom I do not know............hello in there.........how are you?

If you do not reply, thats ok, for your letter has prompted me to go to the boxes in the closet and check back in to a world that once was, and as Walter C say, and I was there.

Thank You
Bill Fleming PSV
willy646PCPF@aol.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

I have been a Case Manager for HIV infected persons for the last eleven years and continue to do so.

I would like to be in touch with any members of Panama 1 that would like to contact me.
My E-Mail address is willy646PCPF@aol.com (Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)
Please let me know if you get this message.
Thanks
Bill Fleming

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 08:35:46 -0700

From: "Carolyn L. Smith"

carsmith@PCPFasrr.arsusda.gov
(Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)

Subject: Update for your database

Hi, I'm sending the following info to help you update your volunteer database.

Carolyn L. Smith
e-mail: carsmith@PCPFasrr.arsusda.gov
(Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)
1994-6, Aguacate/El Cacao, Panama

I am an agricultural research technician with USDA. I enjoy many outdoor activities including hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and golf.

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Subj: Letter to PCPF

March 26, 1997

Hola,

The National Peace Corps Association guided me to you. I am a RPCV, Panama 93-95 environmental ed. I am eager to remain connected with Panama and her struggles.

What does the friends of panama do? How can I join? Who are you? How can I help? Any answers and/or info would be greatly appreciated.

Con carino,

Andres Perchlik chikabeePCPF@sover.net
(Note: To use email address, remove "PCPF".)