Our group was small. We were all Harvard graduates from the class of 1968, plus one spouse Joyce Antonson. The other members of our group were Frank Antonson, Jim Shapiro, Bob Rosenbaum, Bart Rocca and John Redwood with his wife Claudia Vander Heuvel. Frank and Joyce Antonson went to Catolé do Rocha where they took over the management of a women's artisan co-op which had been very successful, and had been started actually by Joyce's sister. John Redwood and Claudia Vander Heuvel left us in Rio and went straight to Goiás for training and placement. Bart Rocca, Jim Shapiro and Bob Rosenbaum all ended up in Rio Grande do Norte. Shortly after our graduation in June, 1968 we travelled together from JFK to Rio, spending 3 days in Rio, and then up the coast via DC-6B to Recife. You remember those old Varig flights, they stopped in almost every capital on the way up the coast. We began in late June or early July of 1968 in Recife where we were trained in a small house not too far from the Peace Corps Office. The main language trainer was Socorro LaFleur, and I've been trying to remember if Jim LaFleur had anything to do with the training, too. Jim's name is probably in your data base, and you probably know him, as I believe he was a volunteer from the 64 or 65 era. Our training was relatively short as the group had been meeting for language training all Spring in Cambridge, maybe 6 months. In any case, by early August we were sent to the field to spend a few months under the wing of departing volunteers. My site was São Bento, Paraíba where I overlapped about a week with Hank (whose last name I've forgotten) and his wife. Terry Vogt | 
