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First Peace Corps volunteers Ghana I recall 25 years later
Gloucester Massachusetts AP reports on Ghana I volunteers, the Peace Corps’ first group sent abroad in 1961. The piece recalls training at Berkeley, early praise and critics, and a 25th anniversary reunion in Gloucester with 85 year old hosts. It notes Reagan hosting a White House ceremony and details where members came from and what they did afterwards.
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Associated Press
Arnold Zeitlin
Gloucester
Mass
U.S. Peace Corps
Ghana
John F. Kennedy
White House
Peace Corps
University of California At Berkeley
Africa
Washington
Reagan
White House Rose Garden
Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S. Postal Service
Kwame Nkrumah
Nkrumah
Paul Tsongas
Massachusetts
Christopher Dodd
John Demos
Brandeis University
New England
United States
Barnett Chessin
Bob Klein
Montclair
Carol
Sarah
Benjamin
New Jersey
Newell Flather
Harvard
John Krisko
Thermopolis
Wyo
Ann Port
Honolulu
Marion Morrison
San Francisco