Peace Corps urgently
needs individuals to serve as
volunteers with skills in math
and science education,
agriculture, forestry and
fisheries, home economics
and nutrition, or civil
engineering.
Math and science
teachers are ranked highest
on the most-needed list. In
some developing countries, a
student’s ability to score high
on entrance exams
determines whether he or she
will attend high school.
According to one Peace Corps
volunteer serving in Togo, the
education system is such that
it is harder for a Togolese
student to get into high school
than into college. It is
important that increasing
numbers of people in
developing nations gain post
secondary education to fill the
leadership positions in their
countries that have opened
since independence.
Other skills badly needed
Bill Greiman, a 1977 agriculture engineering graduate of
Montana State University, serves in a water and soil conservation
project in Antigua.
Christine Elias, a 1975 elementary education graduate of Illinois
State University, plans and organizes women cooperative
farming projects in the Gambia.
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High School, Fountain, NC)
had 14.
SHORT SHOTS:
Sophomore Rita Johnson, is
fifth in the nation in scoring
and seventh in field goal
accuracy. She is scoring 22.2
points per game and is 48-85
for 56.5 percent field goal
accuracy.
Rose Edmonds leads her
team in field goal accuracy
(20-35, 57 percent) and is
second in rebounding.
(Edmonds has not taken
enough shots to meet the
minimums required for
national rankng among field
goal percentages.)
Priscilla Rickenbacker is
averaging 13.6 points per
game to hold down the second
position in scoring on the
team.
The free throw accuracy
leader is Jetanna McClain
(Central High School, High
Point, NC), at 77.8 percent, 7-
9.
Schedule Change:
Wesleyan’s DIAC game with
St. Andrews, originally
scheduled for last Thursday,
will be played Monday,
January 25, at Wesleyan. St.
Andrews is the number five
team in the country in scoring,
averaging 73.5 points per
gmae. Wesleyan is holding its
opponents to an average of 58
points pergame.
by the Peace Corps include
industrial arts and vocational
education, mechanics,
medical lab technology, and
occupational and physical
therapy.
In Zaire, for instance,
children suffer from
malnutrition because there is
no skilled labor to maintain
vehicles to transport food.
“There is an incredible need
in Zaire for mechanics who
can repair a«d maintain
vehicles,” says Baudouin de
Marcken, former Peace Corps
country director for Zaire. It
is critical that Zaire begin to
develop vocational and
training courses in
everything, from auto repair
to carpentry, according to de
Marcken.
The work of a single
skilled volunteer can trigger
benefits in many areas of
community life. A recent
agriculture volunteer in
Honduras pointed out that
improving the diet of local
children resulted in better
health, which increased
school attendance and opened
the way to a better education.
As Peace Corps moves
into the decade of the 80s, the
agency will begin to consider
means of making a greater
impact on the people whom
they strive to help. At the
agency’s 20th anniversary
conference, held in June at
Howard University in
Washington, D.C., Prime
Minister Edward Seaga of
Jamaica called for more
agronomists, agriculturists,
and others to help train his
people. He wants to see Peace
Corps work in those areas that
have more of a multiplier
effect.
Peace Corps director
Loret Miller Ruppe stated in
her speech before the 1981
summer commencement of
Northern Michigan University
of Marquette that Peace
Corps can take well-motivated
Americans and train them for
service in the Third World.
“We train them to be able
to encourage village farmers
to dig a pond, fill it, stock a
fast-growing fish, and within
three months they can harvest
a crop of protein-rich food and
refill the pond and start the
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sweetie
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cycle anew,” maintained Mrs.
Ruppe. To provide a place
that might have a 50 percent
infant mortality rate, 50 to 70
percent nlalnutrition and an
annual per capita average
income of $180, with a system
of productive fish ponds gives
the whole area a source of
income and a source of
protein. This gives them a
future, she said.
Persons interested in
information about service in
the Peace Corps may call 800-
424-8580, Ext. 93, toll free, or
write Peace Corps,
Washington, D.C., 20525.
Kimberly Campbell, a 1977 natural resources graduate of the
University of Michigan, serves in- a forestry program in Upper
/olta.
Charlene JftBders, a, 1973 chemistry graduate of Simmons
College, teaches science at a college in Western Samoa.
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