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Looking For:

Name: Abrahão Lincoln P. Oliveira
Email: abrahao.lincoln (at) globo (dot) com
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007

Comments:

I need address or information about Thomas Lynch and Carol, members of Peace Corps. They stayed in Delmiro Gouveia - Alagoas - 1965(?)

 

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GR/Training

Served in

Present Location

Aileen Lee

 

I'm trying to find the people in my group and hope this site can help.

U of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
July 67

Palmeira dos Indios
&
Paulo Jacinto
CD
Oct 67
- Jan 69

Phoenix, AZ

 

Excited to see so many familiar names.

 

Milwaukee
Feb 65

São Luís do Quitundé

Health
65-67

Clayton, MO

 

Brazil 8
Milwaukee
March 1964

 

Maceio
Public health
June 64 - March 66

Shaker Heights, OH

 

Comments:
Check out a new book about Northeast Brazil.  It is The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles, Harper, 2008.  A novel based on history and folklore we all knew.

 

Brazil 8
Milwaukee
March 1964

 

 

União dos Palmares
&
Palmeira dos Indios
Mar 64-66

 

Bob Chase

Milwaukee, WI
March 68

 

Santana do Ipanema
68-69

Madison, WI

Bruce Scott

BR2
Norman, OK

 

Penedo
and PE

Newark, MD

David Thomas

 

Maceió
APAE
June 72-76

 

Columbia, MO

Earle Hotta

 

I remember Ken and Dianne Buhr well. I stayed with them at Tanque D'arca the first week that I spent in Alagoas. It was my first experience with a Brasilian family, sleeping on a straw mattress with a chamber pot under the bed. Bob Cook was along with me and I remember him dropping his last clean pair of underwear on the floor of some dark, dingy room where we took our cold showers.

 

 Brattleboro, Vermont
Aug 66

Uniao dos Palmares
CD
66-68

Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii

 

Unforgettable! A lot of good friends well-remembered! Does anyone remember our group's director in Brattleboro? George...? He passed out a paper called "Learning How to Learn" - still fascinated by that. And ah, Camp Arden!


The Peace Corps set the direction for the rest of my life, a good direction often in spite of myself. Not a successful PCV - too immature for that. But the Peace Corps was good for me, and I am grateful to the trainers in Vermont, like Beth, and to Peace Corps state
directors Joe da Rosa (Alagoas) and Herb Soll (Rio). Good, humane people. Also, I admire those volunteers who were able to accomplish good things. Greetings, old friends, and a moment of silence for Sargent Shriver, who has just been laid to rest....

 

 Brattleboro, Vermont
Aug 66

Mata Grande
Education & CD
&
Rio de Janeiro
1966-68

     Seattle, WA

 

Professional Site

 

 

 

Milwaukee, WI
Feb 66

Recife, PE
CD & Public Health
&
João Pessoa, AL
Feb 66 - Jun 67

Los Angeles, CA

Tempe, AZ
and
Norman, OK
July 1962

Pindorama
&
Itacaruba, PE
July 62 - Jul 64

 

Colorado

 

 

COMMENT:

I became aware of this through a Brazilian author in Maceió who contacted me. He was a young boy in a town where I did a vaccination campaign. He has researched volunteers who served in Alagoas and has written a book about it.

 

Brattleboro, VT
April 1966

Batalha
Education / Development
July 66-68

Glendive, MT
 

 

I have a photography website that includes photographs from the Northeast and Pele's years with the New York Cosmos.

 

Milwaukee, WI
July 67

Palmeira
Education
1967-69
 

Philmont, NY

John Brady  

 

Comments:
After PC, earned Bachelors in Int'l Mgmt from Thunderbird, returned to Brasil in Feb'71 and stayed until Feb'87, Working in Sao Paulo, Recife, Salvador, Itirussu-BA, Formosa-GO, and Brasilia.

 

I visit Brasil about every other year on vacation, and 2004 went to Sao Luis & Lencois Maranhenses, Fortaleza & Canoa Quebrada, Brasilia, Maceio, and Rio Quente - GO.

 

Milwaukee, WI
Feb 66

Maceio (bairro de Ouricuri)
CD/Basic Sanitation
Jun 66
- Jul 68

Phoenix, AZ

Jean Wightman

 

Comments:
I am organizing a 40 year reunion for April 2004 which will be held in Mesquite, Nevada. Would like to hear from anyone from Brazil 8.

 

BR 8
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Santana Du Mundau
CD & Health
Mar 64 - 66

Fort Collins, CO

 

Now retired after 36 years in Travel Industry. Lived and worked in Brasil, Peru, Portugal, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and India.

 

Brattleboro, Vermont
April 66


 

Quebrangulo
Pilar
Maceió
Rural Education & Community Dev.

 Brighton, MA
 

Judith Peck

 

 Brattleboro, Vermont
Aug 66

Quebrangulo
CD
66-68

 

Mill Valley, CA

Kathleen Johnson

 

Married PC staff/trainer Delano Carvalho

Fortaleza-72

Maceió

Goiânia, PE
Health
Dec 72 - 76

 

Saint Petersburg, FL

Ken & Diane Buhr

more

BR17
Tempe, AZ

Tanque D'Arca & Delmiro Gouveia
Rural Ed, Com. Dev.
May 65 - 67

 

  Gainesville, FL

Linda Wilson

Univ. of New Mexico
June 64

Maceio
Health Education
Sept 64 - Jun 66

 

San Antonio,TX

Milwaukee, WI
March 64

Mal Deodoro
Health
 Jun 64 - Mar 66
Health

 

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Margaret Leshin McGuan

Milwaukee
Feb 66

Palmeira dos Indios
&
Rio de Janeiro
CD
June 66 - 69

Los Gatos, CA

Mary Margaret Dragoun

 

I was there until 1973 with Peace Corps in Sao Miguel dos Campos and then thru 1975 with Project HOPE in Maceio. There was also a nurse in Sao Miguel during part of the time I was there and I can’t remember her name.

 

Cal State LA
Aug 68

São Miguel dos Campos
68-73

Greenville, SC

 

Comments:

I returned to Brazil in 1969, taught 5th grade in the American School in Recife until 1971. I'm sorry to say I never got a chance to return after that. I greatly enjoyed my time in that beautiful country.

 

Nancy Hall Peace Corps Brazil

 

Albuquerque, New Mexico
June 1964

São Miguel dos Campos
&
Agua Branca
Health
Sept 64 - Jun 66
 

Salina, KS


 

Patricia Waak

 

professional page

Milwaukee, WI
Feb 66

Maceio
Health/Community Development
Feb 66 - Jul 68

 

Erie, CO

Milwaukee, WI
Feb 66

Capela
CD/Health
June 66 - 68

 

Santa Barbara, CA

Richard Gross

Milwaukee/Maceió, WI
March 68

Pao de Acucar & Cuiaba, MT
ED/CD Special Indian Project
May 68 - Dec 70

 

San Francisco, CA

Troy Bains

 

Comments:
Deixei meu coração no Brasil! I plan to live in Olinda, PE after I retire this year. I would like to be able to attend a Brasil 8 reunion.

 

Troy's photos

 

 

BR 8
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Maceio
Community Development
Jun 64 - Mar 66

Pharr, TX

Milwaukee, WI
Feb 65

Dois Riachos
June 65-68
Also Bahia

 

Port St. Lucie, FL

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