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Submitted by: Bruce Sandie
Date: 2 March 2002
Title:
“Biographical Sketches: PEACE CORPS
TRAINING PROGRAM BRASIL VII, RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION ESPÍRITO SANTO LUNCH
PROGRAM,
The University of New Mexico, November 6,1963 to February 24, 1964.
BRASIL VII
RURAL COMMUNITY ACTION
ESPÍRITO SANTO SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM
The Peace Corps Training Center for Latin
America, at the University of New Mexico will train members of Brasil
VII to participate in the Campaha National do Maenda Esolar (the
national School Lunch Program) in the state of Espírito Santo and
implement community development projects. Brasil VII is composed of fifty-two men an women from who are
residents of twenty-two state. Phase I of the Training Program (November
6 to December 21) will be accomplished in Albuquerque under the
direction of a staff of fifty.
Home leave will be taken between December 22 and January 5, 1964. Phase
II ( will be accomplished in Taos, New Mexico and the
surrounding area by a staff of twenty.
The contingent will depart for Brasil immediately upon completion of
Phase II training.
Brasil VII Volunteers will be stationed
in forty of forty-three municipios
(counties) of the State of Espírito Santo and will reside in rural
communities and commercial centers.
They will be assigned
the specific duty of assisting the operations of the Campanha National
do Marenda Escolar (CNME).
CNME is a new program through which the Brasilian Government seeks to
improve the diet of primary scool children.
CNME is directed by a semi-autonomous agency with in the the National
Ministerio de Educacao which cooperates with state agencies in an
arrangement similar to that used in state-federal programs in the United
States. The CNME project in the state of Espiito Santo is the most
ambitious yet undertaken, and its progress will be closely followed by
other Brasilian states. The project is being operated by CNME and the government of
the sate of Espírito Santo; the United States Food for Peace
organization supplies basic food stuffs.
The growth of the program has been curtailed, however, by insufficiently
trained personnel. The Government of Espirito Santo has requested the
Peace Corps to train a contingent to help fill the personnel shortage;
Brasil VII is being Trained to that end.
Brasil VII Volunteers
will also be trained to promote the process of self-help by stimulating
community awareness of appropriate problems and by encouraging the
community action necessary to their solution.
When the Volunteers are not assisting in the School Lunch Program, the
will imitate community development protests in the fields of health,
sanitation, construction, agriculture, and homemaking. The male
Volunteers will concentrate on on construction, public health, and
agriculture extension work’ the women will concentrate on teaching
maternal and child health and on establishing day nurseries,
Sine there is no one organization in Brasil which coordinates community
development projects, the Volunteers will cooperate with various
governmental agencies.
That was the official description of the
training program. For some
reason the Peace Corps also decide to makes ours a high stress training
to make sure we all could cope. In addition to university training staff
the was a psychologist and a psychiatrist on site, we took a lot of
paper and pencil psychotically tests as well as completing “Outward
bound training and drown proofing.
This took a toll on the group, of the original 52 Volunteers 18 either
resigned or were “de-selected".
The Project was administered by the
Experiment in International Living. So that when the group arrived in
Vitoria, ES, we received additional orientation and lived with Brasilian
families.
The is a list of the names of the
thirty-four Brazil VII
Volunteers who completed training and their home town in 1963:
The project director from the Experiment
was Ottis Wickenhouser |
Rosina Beccera, San Diego,
CA |
Loren Reed, Winfield, Kansas |
Lindy Boyes , Piedmont , CA |
Norma Reyes, Fierro, New Mexico |
Christina Came, Brookline, Mass |
David Sampel, Des Moines, Iowa |
Antonio Cermeno, Austin,Texas |
Jean Sampel, Des Moines, Iowa |
Carlina Chicarilli, Castro Valley, CA |
Bruce Sandie, Whittier, CA |
Thomas Duncan, Boulder, Colorado |
Carolyn Sandie, Whittier, CA |
Barbara Edwards, Norfolk, Virginia |
George Seay, Buffalo, NY |
Sandra Finn, Baltimore, Maryland |
Patricia Shelton, Menlo Park, CA |
Walter (Sandy) Fraze, Fall River, Mass. |
William Sloane, Havertown, Penn. |
Paul Goldstein, New York, NY |
Stephanie Smith, South Portland, Maine |
Patricia Goodrich, Cadillac, Michigan |
William Twaddell, Providence, RI |
Katherine, Haskell, Richmond, Virginia |
Carol Ann Vest, Jackson, Miss. |
Stephen Keese, Chattanooga, Tenn. |
Michael Vilola, North Providence, RI |
Lynette Murdy, Newton, Iowa |
Colette Wardell, Monta Vista,CA |
Carolyn Poundstone,. La Mirada, CA |
Marcia Wilson, Chicago, Ill |
Donald Poundstone, La Mirada, CA |
James Zeno, Kalamazoo, Mich, |
Ann Ellen Reed, Winfield, Kansas |
Nancy Zeno, Kalamazoo, Mich. |
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