Group XXII description
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The Director of Training was Bill Southworth http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/467/2013757.html, and the staff included | The Director of Training was Bill Southworth http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/467/2013757.html, and the staff included | ||
| - | The political A A Castagno of BU, http://books.google.com/books?id=9fAjtruUXjEC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=aa+castagno&source=web&ots=RahwagV90e&sig=7AT3tXYl0Z9jWLatbVhLMl8m8TI, who provided an academic view of Africa. | + | The political scientist A A Castagno of BU, http://books.google.com/books?id=9fAjtruUXjEC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=aa+castagno&source=web&ots=RahwagV90e&sig=7AT3tXYl0Z9jWLatbVhLMl8m8TI, who provided an academic view of Africa. |
The Hausa expert John N Paden, who had lived in Kano, gave lectures on Hausa culture, including the very useful advice that, to learn proper pronunciation, listen to the Hausa kids, since they speak more slowly and clearly. http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/9950/ | The Hausa expert John N Paden, who had lived in Kano, gave lectures on Hausa culture, including the very useful advice that, to learn proper pronunciation, listen to the Hausa kids, since they speak more slowly and clearly. http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/9950/ | ||
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Hausa "informants" Haroun al Rashid Adamu, Zakari Kano, Felix Obinani, Benji Ishyaku | Hausa "informants" Haroun al Rashid Adamu, Zakari Kano, Felix Obinani, Benji Ishyaku | ||
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| + | In the five years of Peace Corps existence, training seemed to have evolved from an early emphasis on survival skills (what the military nowadays might call "training the snake eaters"), to what was basically an academic program with some field experience in the Boston schools and a week doing community action in the then black ghetto of Roxbury. | ||
==Service== | ==Service== | ||
Revision as of 16:56, 31 December 2007
| Nigeria Group XXII | |
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| Group description: | Teachers |
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| Service years: | 1966 - 1968 |
| Number of volunteers : | 75 |
| Trained at : | Boston University |
| We were stationed in the North | |
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Training
Group 22 trained at Boston University beginning the third week in June, 1966, ending mid-August.
The Director of Training was Bill Southworth http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/467/2013757.html, and the staff included
The political scientist A A Castagno of BU, http://books.google.com/books?id=9fAjtruUXjEC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=aa+castagno&source=web&ots=RahwagV90e&sig=7AT3tXYl0Z9jWLatbVhLMl8m8TI, who provided an academic view of Africa.
The Hausa expert John N Paden, who had lived in Kano, gave lectures on Hausa culture, including the very useful advice that, to learn proper pronunciation, listen to the Hausa kids, since they speak more slowly and clearly. http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/9950/
Sam Adams, an RPCV who had served in the Western Region.
Language instructors Ralph Fotheringham, Monty and Fran Bessmer
Hausa "informants" Haroun al Rashid Adamu, Zakari Kano, Felix Obinani, Benji Ishyaku
In the five years of Peace Corps existence, training seemed to have evolved from an early emphasis on survival skills (what the military nowadays might call "training the snake eaters"), to what was basically an academic program with some field experience in the Boston schools and a week doing community action in the then black ghetto of Roxbury.
Service
We served.
Service Started
We arrived.
Service Events
What was going on.
Service Ended
Our service ended
