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The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order (10924) of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the Peace Corps Act.
Aaron S. Williams, 18th Director of the Peace Corps, (Dominican Republic, 1967–70) [35] Ron Tschetter , 17th Director of The Peace Corps (India 1966–68) [ 36 ] Mark Schneider , 15th Director of the Peace Corps, senior vice president of International Crisis Group (El Salvador 1966–68) [ 37 ]
P. David Searles in his book The Peace Corps Experience: Challenge and Change, 1969-1976 says that the five-year rule required that all staff members leave the Peace Corps not later than the fifth anniversary on the date they were hired and even Shriver observed this rule when he stepped down as the first Peace Corps director on March 1, 1966 ...
From 1963 to 1964, Goodwin served as the secretary-general of the International Peace Corps Secretariat. [4] In 1964, he became special assistant to the president in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. [4] Goodwin has been credited with naming Johnson's legislative agenda "the Great Society", a term first used by Johnson in a May 1964 speech. [2]
Mark Daniel Gearan (born September 19, 1956) [1] is an American lawyer and the president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.He previously served as a director at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics from 1995 to 1999 and as the director of the Peace Corps.
She was the Peace Corps Chief of Staff from 1989 to 1992, the executive director of the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) from 1992 until 1997, the senior vice president of the Academy for Educational Development from 1997 until 2002, a development consultancy. Olsen served as the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps from 2002 to 2009. [4]
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Jack Hood Vaughn (August 18, 1920 – October 29, 2012) [2] was the second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver.Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson and was the first Republican to head the agency.