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exPCV & Staff News
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updated:
16-Jun-10
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1 June
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Passing of Walkiria Nunes de Sena
I am very sad to send this news but figure someone should. Walkiria passed away
in Bahia on April 6, 2009. She had a stoke in February and people were hopeful of
a recovery so her passing surprised a number of people. Walkiria was a trainer and
mentor to many, many newly arrived volunteers in the '70's and was always kind, generous,
and completely open when it came to speaking her mind. I am certain she will be missed
sorely by all who knew her.
Forte abraço,
Karl Schnell
CE & BA 70-72
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4 April 08
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Passing of Bento Lobo
Bento Machado Lobo, 78, former PC/Brazil
Regional Director for RS, SC & PR (1971/1973) passed away on Feb. 5,
2008 from a respiratory arrest.
His death was reported in many websites:
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http://www.rdnews.com.br/noticia.php?cod=5535
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http://www.diarionews.com.br/exibenoticia.php?id=33843
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23 Feb 08
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Passing of Jonas
Pinheiro
Jonas died earlier this week in Cuiabá as the result of a heart attack.
Although he rose from the humblest of rural beginnings to become State
Secretary of Agriculture, Federal Deputy, and then Senator, he is best
remembered by members of our training group as the delightful, funny,
energetic young rural extension agent who came to Longmont, CO in 1970 to
train us in Portuguese and the realities of Brazilian agriculture. One of
my fond memories of Jonas is seeing him practically in tears of laughter as
he recounted visiting Boulder, and seeing the initials of Colorado
University painted on a mountainside. Jonas had an enormous and infectious
capacity for enjoying life. His obituary can be found at the following
link.
http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2008/02/20/jonas_pinheiro_enterrado_em_mato_grosso-425740298.asp
Art Muirhead
MT 70-73
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05 Jan 08
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Steven Alexander Publishes Book - Santarem Riverboat
Town
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3 Oct 07
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Ken "Paulo" Raeder (MT 68-72) Training Group WI July 68
Dear Friends,
This is Jackie Raeder-Hydock, Ken's daughter. I wanted to inform all of
you who kept in touch with my father over the years that he passed away
last night. It is a very difficult time for my family and I as he will
be missed. We have arranged his funeral and we hope that you can spread
the word and attend. As I went through his email address book he had
made many comments about who was good to him and who he felt was a good
friend and how you connected with him. It meant so much to me to read
what he had written about each and every one of you.
We are holding a wake on Sunday, October 7th at the Fairfax Memorial
Funeral Home from 5-9 PM. A Catholic mass will be held at the Church of
the Nativity in Burke, Virginia at 10:00 AM Monday, October 8th with a
burial to follow at 11:30 AM at the Fairfax Memorial Park.
Please feel free to write back to this email address if you would like additional details. I will be checking his email often.
God Bless,
Jackie
KPRAEDER@aol.com
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15 Dec 06
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Jack Tuttlebee (PB 64-66) Training Group WI Sept 64
Very sorry to announce that my husband, Jack, passed away in Brooklyn
on Dec. 20, 2006. We had just moved there in August from Venezuela and
previously from St. Petersburg, FL. Jack always reminisced about
his stay in Brazil and still spoke fluent Portuguese, always like a
native Brazilian, as he would proudly say. I only had 6 short years
with him. He was my soul mate and I miss him terribly.
Gilda Tuttlebee
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10 July 05
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John Milton Taber
Sadly
I report the death of John Milton Taber on July 10, 2005. John served
as a PCV in the State of Goias. He died in Curitiba PR and is survived
by his wife Josil of Curitiba and Jon of Des Moines. The family can be
contacted in the US at 515-280-1615
Tom Pollard
MT 72-75
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Jan 07, 05
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Steve Grossman passed away 7 Jan, 2005.
Remembering Steve
As many of you know, Steve Grossman, who was a regular contributor to
this list, passed away on January 7. Some of you knew Steve in person
and know that he was a unique human being. And though there are many
who knew him better than I did, he was my friend for 40 years. It would
seem fitting at this moment to share a few memories of Steve.
Steve and I, along with some others on this list as well as those I’ve
copied, first met for Peace Corps training at Sandanona (Experiment in
International Living) in Brattleboro, Vermont in the fall of 1964. This
was Brazil XVI.
Although people do seem to change through time, I don’t recall Steve
changing very much since those enthusiastic days of 40-plus years ago.
His friendly nature, kindness, interest in politics, sports and
literature, Brooklynite pride, and fondness for imbibing with friends
lasted a lifetime.
By some stroke of luck, today back here in Brazil, I came across a
Brazil XVI ten-year reunion bio write-up. It includes the mini-bios
from 1964 and updates from everyone in 1974. Here are some revealing
excerpts.
From 1964: “23 [age] – 1938 68th Street, Brooklyn, New York. He was
born in Stamford, Connecticut on November 17, 1940, and graduated from
New Utrecht High School in 1960. [Aside: Steve always insisted that he
was younger than me and I always denied it. But indeed he was by nine
months.] With a major in geology and a minor in education, he received
his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1964.
From 1974: [As a PCV Steve taught geology at the university in
Curitiba.] “After leaving first Curitiba and later Rio in December of
’66 I returned to the Ghetto from whence I came. There I stayed for six
months doing essentially nothing but eating corned beef sandwiches, and
explaining saudades to people who didn’t know what the hell I was
saying.
That summer (’67) I went off to graduate school at Bull [sic] State
University in Muncie, Indiana where I took an M.A. in geography and
received a post graduate fellowship in intensive beer drinking as an
urban CA activity. I received good grades in all of these study areas.”
[Covering 1968 to 1973, Steve goes on to describe a variety of
geographer and cartographer jobs, a brief return to Brazil, a marriage
that was to last about four years, and three months spent in Europe.]
“In February ’73, my checks were running out, so I managed to arrange a
temporary job with Peace Corps. [I believe I assisted with this in my
role as Chief of the PC generalist placement desk at the time.] My
intention was to return to graduate school in the fall---I had just
been accepted---but I was reinvigorated with the Peace Corps spirit
just being around Peace Corps Washington. By July, I was offered a
position as Desk Officer for Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.
This job was not boring. ………….”
“The most amazing thing about the last eight years for me is living [in
1974] with Olsen [John], Joslin [Jan], and Mastrangelo [Vito]. You’d
think three months at Sandanona would be enough. Paz y libertade.”
[Without a doubt the bantering that would go on between Steve and these
three friends is something I will always fondly remember.]
Steve loved those years as Peace Corps staff, some parts of which were
in-country. I overlapped with him for about a year and I believe we
spent a fair amount of time after work at the Farragut Lounge and Chez
Francois near the Peace Corps building at 808 Connecticut Avenue.
Ah-h-h-h, those were the days!
For the next ten years I saw Steve off and on at parties and for dinner
at a Cuban restaurant called Omega and later at a Brazilian restaurant
called at the time, I believe, Dona Flor. My wife Henriqueta and I
moved back to Brazil in 1981, and upon my return, semi-destitute, in
1984, Steve---who had bought a house in Alexandria, Virginia---offered
a room to me. I believe I was there for about one year (!) and Steve
never asked me to pay him one cent. And from that year I not only
remember Steve’s generosity, but also just how pleasant it was to be
around him. He had a wonderful sense of humor. Once we were making
black beans, and I can still hear him saying in mock horror, making fun
of the American reaction to some things Brazilian, “Oh, they’re So
BLACK!!!”
Steve later spent some years working as a cartographer for Department
of Defense (for which his friends gave him a hard time), but I believe
he returned to Peace Corps again at the end of his career. He retired
at age 50 and later bought a home near Bethany Beach, Delaware. I did
not see Steve as often after that, but I did spend a weekend with him
at his place in the summer of 2003. He was still the same old Steve,
and he seemed very content living there and with, as usual, many new
friends. Of course he still had his rituals, one of which was a nap at
about 5 p.m. which then allowed him to go full strength into the night
whereas many 60+ people such as myself conk out at about 9:00 or 10:00
p.m.---on our good days.
It was during these past few years that he became more active on the
Internet. He also tried to go back to New York whenever he could,
especially during the Brazilian Independence-Day celebration and at the
always-open invitation of Joan Boyle (who also trained with us at
Sandanona). From some of his messages to this expcv Brazil list, many
of you may have picked up on just how badly Steve wanted to go back to
Brazil and especially visit Salvador where he had spent some time in
1968. He always hesitated, probably fearful in part because of all the
reports of crime.
But Steve deeply loved Brazil and his memories of Brazil. And so last
month he went. He had wanted to meet up with me in Ipanema during the
first couple days of January but I could not make it. I don’t even know
if in fact he ever made it to Rio; he may have gotten ill before he
could get there. But the friend of his in Delaware who notified us of
his passing wrote: “Just know that he got to visit his beloved Brazil
one last time and was so very proud that he could still speak
Portuguese so well.”
Maybe Steve should not have returned to Brazil as he was not in the
best of health. And yet, and yet, he wanted so much to return again.
Life is finite after all, and for me it would have been worse if he had
died without fulfilling his dream of going back once more.
From the messages I have seen since Steve’s passing, including reports
from Joan Boyle who attended the Jewish burial service on January 9 in
Dover, Delaware, three things stand out. One, that Steve had SO many
friends, both new and old (including many cyber-friends I’m told). If
friends are riches, Steve was one of the richest persons I have ever
known. Two, that everyone knew him as being a good, gentle, and sweet
man. And lastly, that a piece of the lives of us who were Steve’s
friends is gone forever. If we cry, we cry for ourselves.
Keith Hewitt
ES - 1964-67
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Mar 04
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Ken Flies
(BA 62-64) brings group of Ag Investors to visit Bahia
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Oct 04 |
To all
members of the Peace Corps Brazil family
I am writing
to let you know that Dr. Quino E. Martinez passed away on Sept. 30,
2002. Dr. Martinez served in Recife from 1962 -1964 as Peace Corps
representative for north east Brazil. During his tenure in Recife, Dr
Martinez met with governors and officials from the Northeastern states
in order to set up programs. Among people that Dr. Martinez had contact
with during those times in official as well informal capacity were
people such as Dom Helder Camara, Miguel Arraes, Francisco Juliao and
others.
He was a man
who never lost the idealism that motivated his association with the
Peace Corps.
Abraços
tristes,
Louis Martinez
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Feb 02
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Aug
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July
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Tom Xerri and Gerald Simnacher (SC 64-66) will be visiting SC and Rio. They will be at the Hotel Florida June 29 and meeting two other exPCVs who live in Brazil. Drop by if you are in Rio.
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Bob Crites (MT/ES 64-66) and wife Dalva, visited Recife, Rio, Goiania, and SP.
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Jan 03
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Charles L. Wright Economist
Charles L. Wright, 57, a senior economist and transportation specialist
at the Inter-American Development Bank who directed projects to
streamline transportation services in Latin American cities, died of
cancer Jan. 9 at Georgetown University Hospital.
Dr.
Wright worked for the bank for the past 10 years and wrote or edited
many of the bank's series of books and technical papers on urban
transportation and traffic safety. Among his books is "Fast Wheels,
Slow Traffic: Urban Transport Choices."
Earlier,
he was a senior economist of the Brazilian Transportation Planning
Agency and an associate professor of economics at the University of
Brasilia, Brazil.
He came to Washington in 1992 to serve as a consultant to the National Ports and Waterways Institute in Washington.
Dr.
Wright, a Rockville resident, was a native of Marcellus, Mich., and a
history graduate of the University of Michigan. He received a master's
degree in economics from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a
doctorate in economics from Ohio State University.
In 1990, he was an economics fellow at the University of Michigan.
He was a member of St. Raphael's Catholic Church in Potomac.
Survivors
include his wife of 31 years, Maria da Gloria M. Wright of Potomac;
four children, Denison M. and Alan M., both of Rockville, and Marcelo
M. and Elisson M., both of New York; his mother, Genevieve Elizabeth
Wright of Marcellus; two brothers; and a sister.
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June 03
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