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Peace Corps Selectees Ready to Aid Colombia and Tanganyika
Fifteen volunteers from across the United States join President Kennedy's Peace Corps with a two year assignment in Colombia and Tanganyika. They will earn 150 dollars a month for expenses and 75 dollars in wages held for them, and will live as locals. The group includes Matthew M. Deforest 31 Albany N Y and Jeremiah Parson 24 Albany N Y among others from Connecticut Texas and Virginia. They will train at Rutgers University for eight weeks starting in June.
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Kennedy
Peace Corps
Matthew M. Deforest
Colombia
Deforest
Chicago
Ill
United States
Jeremiah Parson
Albany
N.Y
Tanganyika
Parson
Connecticut Highway Department
Peter DeSimone
Bridgeport
DeSimone
University of Connecticut
New Haven Railroad
Connecticut
Thur F. Olah
Fairfield
Charles G. Perry III
University of Chattanooga
Perry
Miami Beach
Fla
Richard Fiedler
Harrison P. Bresee Jr
Orange
The
University of the South
Bresee
Ors P. McMahon
Marines
San Francisco State College
Nicky Jo Huestis
Taft
Tex
Southwestern University
Georgetown
Jacob Feldman
Wilmington
Del
Feldman