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Training Groups

updated: 18-Feb-08


Miami
August 1977 (partial list)


Miami Aug 77

 

Director Salvador office:
Paulo Rocha ??, center, first row, blue shirt, black hair

"Some people who were part of my group have referred to their group as the "last group" to train and serve. Technically, this is not quite correct. My group of 88 volunteers arrived in Miami on August 1, 1977, for what was to be 3 days of staging before heading out to train in Pernambuco, Bahia, and Minas. This was the group that was held up in Miami for anywhere from 2 weeks (the first "subgroup" to get their visas and head for Brazil) to the last (third, I think) subgroup (which included myself) which didn't get a visa and leave for Brazil until September 14th (yes, I spent 6 lovely weeks in three different hotels in Miami, itself an interesting cultural experience for a then-25 year old). A small group (around 8-10) people never did get visas, and were eventually reassigned to other countries. All this was due to the funky American-Brazil political relations of the time which had been set off by some of Jimmy Carter's speeches about civil rights violations in Brazil.

 

As far as I remember, the "true" last group didn't arrive in Brazil until sometime in 1978. This was the group that was there (if they served their full 2 years) until December 1980 when PC/Brazil closed its doors. Since I signed on for a third year (moving down from Pernambuco to Salvador for my 3rd year assignment), I was there when this final group checked out."

 

submitted by: Tom Gula  July 2003

 

Clyde Asbury (deceased)

 

Elaine Hartman

PE

Ira Stein

CE

Ken Bates

Ken Bates was also in this group.

More about Ken at the PE site

Kenny Shane

 

Kristina Ecker

 

Janet Polovitch

 

Jessy Rummelsberg

 

Joy Robertson Maciel (aug 06)

SE - BA

John Reid

CE

Paul Stevens

 

Patty Lockett

 

Marilyn Orr

 

Mitch Tracy
(never got a visa--served in Costa Rica)

 

Nate Strickland

 

Ryland White

 

Rick Hansen

 

Roy Funch (married a Brazilian, still lives in Lençois, Bahia, where he helped found the national park there)

 

Thomas Orr

 

Timothy George

PE

Tom Gula

PE

Tom Norton

 

 

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