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Mission
Upcoming Events
Newsletter
Links
Clusters
Executive Committee
Multi-Cultural Teaching Resource
The mission of the Philadelphia Area Peace
Corps Association is to fulfill the third goal of the Peace Corps:
to bring the world back home. It also serves as a focus for Peace
Corps volunteers in the Philadelphia region who feel that their
Peace Corps experience lasts a lifetime.
February | |
| 6 6:30 pm | First Friday Feast Rangoon (Burmese) 145 North 9th Street - Chinatown Philadelphia, 215-829-8939 |
| 27 6:30 pm | Business Meeting |
March | |
| 3 | Peace Corps Day '98 |
| 6
6:30 pm | First Friday Feast Dahlak (Ethiopian) 4708 Baltimore Avenue West Philly, 215-726-6464 |
April | |
| 3 6:30 pm | First Friday Feast Tierra Colombiana (Latino) 4535 North 5th Street Philadelphia 215-324-6086 |
| 10 6:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| 24-26 | Regional Conference Rutgers University (New Brunswick campus) |
May | |
| 1 6:30 pm | First Friday Feast TBA(Eastern European) |
| 17 | Annual Picnic |
| 22 6:30 pm | Business Meeting |
June | |
| 5 6:30 pm | First Friday Feast Persian Grill (Iranian) 637 Germantown Pike Lafayette Hill, PA 610-825-2705 |
| 19 6:30 | Business Meeting |
Kimolwet Hotel
Essay by Chris Johansen, Volunteer in Kenya, '89-'91.
Inside Bosnia
(Note: PAPCA President Susanne Cooper was one of 60 RPCVs selected to serve as election supervisors in Bosnia last fall, after referral from the NPCA Emergency Data Bank. She expects to return for the future municipal elections. Other area RPCVs participating included Frank Orban of Lancaster, and Al Kueppers of Bryn Mawr.) The RPCVs were part of an international group under contract with the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Looking with New Eyes
Essay by Marie Skertic, Volunteer in Ecuador, 93-95.
Habitat Needs Volunteers
Peace Monument in Washington
Calling All Teachers - Join Global TeachNet
Does Anyone Have PageMaker 4.0?
Send Us Your E-Mail Address
In an effort to more efficiently convey information to our members,
PAPCA is in the process of collecting the e-mail addresses of
its members. The addresses collected will not be shared with anyone.
Send your e-mail address to Membership Director Chris Johansen.
Clusters
| Berks County Doug Stone 610-670-1049 dstone@aol.com | Bucks County
Leon & Regina Poeske 215-230-0471 | Chester County Sandy Voge 610-869-7525 svoge@ccil.locke.org | ||||
| Delaware County Sue Lipton 610-328-9048 llipton@linc.cis.upenn.edu |
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| Lancaster County
Sean Mollohan 717-354-6649 | Main Line Area Matt Erulkar 610-642-7760 | Montgomery County Mitch Harbison harbison@juno.com | ||||
| Pocono/Lehigh Valley Mimi Stanford 610-691-1239 maso@lehigh.edu | State College
Jim & Elizabeth Diamond 814-238-7057 | |||||
| Center City
? | Germantown/Mt. Airy
Rich Catanzaro 215-482-5525 rcantanza @thunder.ocis.temple.edu | Northeast Philadelphia ? | ||||
| South Philadelphia
Neiva Rodrigues 215-440-7748 | ||||||
| Atlantic, Ocean &
Cape May Counties Anne Robson-Dice 609-399-4261 Ocean805@aol.com | Burlington County
| Camden County Charles Weiler 609-428-1353 CtheT@aol.com | ||||
| Gloucester, Salem & Cumberland Counties Jane Behnke 609-464-1876 | Mercer County Jef Buehler 609-989-1541 BRIVIBAIjb@aol.com | |||||
- Executive Committee
- President: Susanne Cooper (Thailand, 69-71)
sbcooper@uscom.com
Vice President: Larry Lipton (Nigeria, 65-67) llipton@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Treasurer: Bob Shamble (Benin 86-89)rhshamble@aol.com
Secretary: Linda Higgins (Russia 92-94)lhiggin1@cscmail.com
Membership: Chris Johansen (Kenya 89-91)
Newsletter: Kate Trayte (Morocco 80-82) trayteks@post.drexel.edu
Speakers Bureau: Sue Wood (Jamaica 89-91) darbid@erols.com
At Large: John Herbst (Morocco/Malawi 85-88)