MONROE - UW Madison is planning a 50th anniversary of events for the Peace Corps, March 24 to 26, with details forthcoming at www.peacecorps.wisc.edu. Peace Corps recruiter Kim Johnson is available to meet with students, faculty, staff and community members who are interested in learning more about the Peace Corps in her office at 329 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706, or by e-mail link through this web site. Milwaukee area RPCV members have set a nomination party and 50th anniversary celebration, for Wednesday, March 6 to 8 p.m. at the Urban Ecology Center, Riverside Park, 1500 E. Park Place. http://www.milwaukeepeacecorps.org/mpca/
Peace Corps is now filling programs departing into 2012, according to Christine Torres of the Chicago regional office, www.peacecorps.gov/application It usually takes about 9 months to a year for the still small agency to process an application and place a volunteer in the field for 3 months of intensive training and 24 months of service.
Volunteers from age 18 to 88, with 7 percent presently over 50 years of age, have served in the Peace Corps during the past 50 years
Volunteers are cared for during service and receive a readjustment allowance on completing 2 years.
Some combine service with graduate school for credit and or financial assistance.
All contribute to and become a part of U.S. history.
-Tony Ends, who farms near Brodhead, Wis., served in the Peace Corps from 1975 to 1977 after 8 weeks of training in the Lycee John F. Kennedy, a public high school in Dakar, Senegal.
Peace Corps is now filling programs departing into 2012, according to Christine Torres of the Chicago regional office, www.peacecorps.gov/application It usually takes about 9 months to a year for the still small agency to process an application and place a volunteer in the field for 3 months of intensive training and 24 months of service.
Volunteers from age 18 to 88, with 7 percent presently over 50 years of age, have served in the Peace Corps during the past 50 years
Volunteers are cared for during service and receive a readjustment allowance on completing 2 years.
Some combine service with graduate school for credit and or financial assistance.
All contribute to and become a part of U.S. history.
-Tony Ends, who farms near Brodhead, Wis., served in the Peace Corps from 1975 to 1977 after 8 weeks of training in the Lycee John F. Kennedy, a public high school in Dakar, Senegal.