BRAZIL 4-S PEACE CORPS PROJECT STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS

STAFF	These short biographical information and images were taken from Brazil I, printed by Associação Brasileira de Crédito e Assistência Rural (ABCAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 1964
	GEORGE COLEMAN, director Peace Corps Brazil, was chief of Information Department at Pan American Union before he began his job with Peace Corps. George has worked with the Navy Department, World Health Organization, and Health, Education and Welfare. He is from Virginia and attended the University of Virginia and George Washington earning a BA degree from the latter in foreign affairs.
	FRANCIS PRESSLY, director of Brazil I, was a County 4-H Club agent in Lexington, North Carolina, for four years preceding his work in Brazil. Francis graduated from North Carolina State University with a B.S. degree in dairy husbandry and holds a M. S. degree from the University of Maryland. He was a 1951 IFYE to Italy and through an IFYE Fellowship with the National 4-H Foundation, he worked with the IFYE program in Europe. He has served two years in the U. S. Army.
	WARREN E. SCHMIDT, coordinator, 4-H Peace Corps Projects, National 4-H Club Foundation, has been with the 4-H Foundation for 10 years. From 1954 to 1961 he was coordinator of the International Farm Youth Exchange Program. Warren, who is originally from Wisconsin, has also worked for the Federal Extension Service (1950-53), the University of Connecticut (1946-50) and Ohio State Extension as Sociologist and Youth Program Leader (1939-42). He holds a B.S. degree in rural sociology and education from Ohio State University.
	DR. KENNETH CAIRNS, medical officer for Peace Corps -in Brazil, left in his first year of residency at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York to work for Peace Corps. He studied at Western Reserve Medical School, specializing in internal medicine. Dr. Ken met his wife, Gail, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil and was married in September, 1963 at the Union Church, Rio de Janeiro. He has returned to residency work at Rochester, New York.
	Secretaries Lilian Sharp, left, and Carmen Abad pause amid their work in the Brazil I office.
VOLUNTEERS	Photo Credits: Hans Mann, Nancy Flowers, Francis Presley and Peace Corps Volunteers.
	Gordon Anderegg, born June 17, 1939, worked with eight 4-S Clubs through the regional office in Para de Minas, Minas Gerais, Andy worked on his father's farm in Edgewood, Iowa, before entering Peace Corps and plans to continue farming after completing his extended term in Brazil.
	Robert Anderson, Peace Corps Volunteer Leader in the Central I region, lived in Belo Horizonte. Bob, who is from Massachusetts, worked there and in Connecticut as a 4-H Club agent for six years. He holds a bachelor of vocational agriculture from the University of Massachusetts and an M. S. from University of Michigan. Bob was married to Myra McBride in December, 1962, in the Union Church, Rio de Janeiro.
	Myra (McBride) Anderson, was an elementary school teacher in Corvallis, Oregon, her home state. She worked in Lavras, Minas Gerais. After her marriage to Bob Anderson she assisted him in his leadership responsibilities. Myra was an IFYE to Japan. She holds a BS degree in education from Oregon State University.
	Carolyn Bandzak, born April 10, 1943, was a student in home economics at Ohio State University. She trained with the MOB group and worked in Santo Estevao, Bahia. Carolyn was a 4-H member for 11 years in her hometown, Hubbard, Ohio. After January 1964 she was transferred to Ubá, Minas Gerais.
	Ruth Ann Becht, born August 16, 1940, of Floyd Knobs, Indiana, was studying home economics at Purdue University before joining the Peace Corps. She was a 4-H member for 11 years. In Brazil she worked in Inhumas, Goias.
	D. Douglas Bernard, born April 3, 1943, was the only boy to train with the MOB group. He worked in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, where the rural university for agriculture and home economics is located. Doug is from New Vienna, Ohio where he was studying agriculture education at Ohio State University.
	Dawne J. Butler, born June 2, 1943, transferred to Brazil I from Brazil III (S. F. add-ons). She worked in Lavras, Minas Gerais at regional level. Dawne was a student at Kent State University in Ohio, her home state. She had worked for two years for Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in Akron.
	Sandra Carter, born October 3, 1942, worked in Ibirama, a town of 3,000 nestled in the hills of Santa Catarina. From Mountain Home, Arkansas, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Arkansas with a B.A. in history and a B.S.E. After the Peace Corps she plans to study for an M.A. Degree.
	Joyce Colin, born August 6, 1943, was an active 4-H member for six years and a leader for five years. She worked in the northern most site of the Brazil I project, in Maranguape, Ceará.
	Manuel Cruz, born March 20, 1942, of Florida, Puerto Rico, was a 4-H Club member for eight years. He represented Puerto Rico at a 4-H camp in Jamaica and at the National 4-H Congress in Chicago. In Brazil he worked in Araranguá. Santa Catarina. Ms first assignment was to Florianopolis.
	Curtiland Deville, born February 4, 1938, of Ville Platte, Louisiana, worked first in Juiz de Fora on a regional level. In January, 1964, he renewed his contract for one year, taking the position of Peace Corps Volunteer Leader for Central I region. He graduated in 1961 from Grambling College, In Louisiana, earning a B.S. degree in animal husbandry.
	David Dodge, had as his Peace Corps assignment the region of Machado with seven 4-S Clubs and three local extension offices. Two nights a week he taught English in his town. At home in Rock River, Wyoming, Dave was a rancher. He plans to return to ranching.
	John Dolan, born December 31, 1936, of Havertown, Pennsylvania, was the Peace Corps Volunteer Leader for the Central 11 region. He lived in Victoria, Espirito Santo. His first assignment was at the local level in Boa Parada, Santa Catarina. John holds a B.S. degree in animal husbandry from Delaware Valley College, Pennsylvania, and has worked on a cattle ranch in Nebraska.
	Esther Díaz, born November 28, 1942, worked in Teófilo Otoni, in Northern Minas Gerais on the local level with seven 4-S Clubs including 132 members. She comes from Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, where she was in her first year at Puerto Rico Junior College. For eight years she was a 4-H Club member.
	Minerva Diaz, of Barrio Carraizo Alto Parcelas, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, was a secretary in the University of Puerto Rico before entering Peace Corps. She worked in Serraria, Paraiba. Her future plans include marriage to a Brazilian extension agent and returning to live in Brazil.
	Lorraine Farinha, born January 24, 1941, was studying international relations at San Francisco State College, San Francisco, California before entering the Peace Corps. She worked in four sites in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina. In her last site, Rio do Sul, where she worked for eight months, she worked with five 4-S Clubs.
	David Fleischer, born March 30, 1941, of Valatie, New York, majored in chemistry for three years at Antioch College. His Peace Corps responsibility was working with eight4-S Clubs in southern Minas Gerais, with headquarters in Lavras. He plans to finish college at Antioch and do graduate study in Latin America relations.
	Conrad Fritsch, began his Peace Corps experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader for the Northeast region, living in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. His last six months he also worked on the local level in Sao Tomé, Rio Grande do Norte. He was studying agriculture in California before entering Peace Corps and will return to his studies.
	Charles Furrow, worked in both the far north and far south of Brazil in Sao Tormé, Rio Grande do Norte and Piratuba, Santa Catarina. In the north he helped organize the first 4-S Club in the state. Charlie, of Waitecille, West Virginia, was studying agriculture at the University of West Virginia.
	Steven Minor Gowin, made his second visit to Brazil when he came down as a Peace Corpsman in 1962. For his first trip he worked his way down from his home state, North Dakota, as a tourist guide and truck driver. As a Peace Corps Volunteer he worked in Alagoa Grande, Paraiba.
	Robert Hadley, worked in Colatina, Espirito Santo, a town renowned for the volume of coffee it sells each year. Bob who is from Thomasville, Georgia, has a B.A. degree in history from Talladega College in Georgia. He was a 4-H member for nine years.
	Corinne Ann Hay, worked on a regional level in Curvelo and Machado, Minas Gerais, Her second work site has a population of 10,000 people and is located in a mountainous coffee and dairy area. Corinne, from New Jersey, was an IFYE to France and has worked as a secretary and bank teller.
	Nelson Loyd Jacob, born September 7, 1941, worked in Serraria, Paraiba, and in Rio Verde, Goias. (during his extended Peace Corps term). He comes from a cattle ranch in Goliad, Texas, and had studied sociology for two and half years at Texas A & M University. See bio available in Peace Corps Wiki.
	Ina Rae Kyler, born September 19, 1939, lived in one of the largest Peace Corps Brazil I sites, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais which has a population of 200,000. She worked on a regional level with six 4-S Clubs. Ina has taught general science at Highlands Junior High School, White Plains, New York and holds a B.S. degree in home economics and general science from Juniata College.
	Nancy Lee (Larkin) Sobrinho, worked in Serrinha, Bahia, with three 4-S Clubs, two of which she and her partner helped organize. She was a liberal arts student at Kellogg Jr. College before entering Peace Corps. In Brazil she met her husband and was married, January 1, 1964 in Serrinha. She plans to remain in Brazil.
	Robert Paul Lazarchie, born September 2, 1939, was a laboratory worker with the Industrial Rayon Corp., Ohio, before coming to Brazil. His Peace Corps work site was Formiga, Minas Gerais, a town of 25,000 people. Besides applying his eight years of 4-H experience to his job in working with 4-Sers, he helped with the local orphanage.
	Richard Loos, born August 6, 1927, was Peace Corps Volunteer Leader for the southern region. He lived in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. Dick comes from Fleming, Colorado, where he farmed with his father on a family farm. He served two years in the U.S. Army and has a B.A. from Colorado State College in foreign languages. He has taught English and German in Montana.
	Joseph McDomick Jr., was located in the northern-most Brazil I Peace Corps site, Maranguape, Ceará. Joe holds a B.S. degree in agriculture from Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his hometown. Joe comes from a farm and plans to work in agricultural extension service.
	Jerry Allen Mark, born January 12, 1943, was one of four Peace Corps Volunteers to work out in the frontier of Brazil. His site was Inhumas, Goias. He lived in a house with his counterpart. The two of them adopted two young boys, giving them a home and paying for their schooling. Jerry is from Cedar Falls, Iowa.
	Rosario Martinez Bruno, born October 2, 1938, worked in the town of Serrinha, located on the edge of the Sertao of Bahia. He comes from Almirante Sur Branch, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, where he was 4-H member for five years.
	Alice K. Mouser, born June 23, 1938, worked in Sao Tome, Rio Grande do Norte with 4-S Clubs and helped a rural community to build a primary school. Her second Peace Corps assignment was to Belo Horizonte to assist the Peace Corps Volunteer Leader. She has a B.S. in home economics from Southeast Missouri State College and has worked as a home economist for two years.
	Joyce Ann Miller, was located in Ubá, Minas Gerais, where she worked with eight 4-S Clubs. She also taught English at the Institute Brazil-Estados Unidos. Joyce was a 4-H Club member for ten years. She was in her first semester at Poughkeepsie Community College in her home state, New York.
	Ken Mohr, born February 4, 1939, helped organize four new 4-S Clubs in his municipio of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espirito Santo. The town has a population of 50,000 people and is located near a mountainous region of the state. He comes from a farm in Pinckneyville, Illinois, and plans to return to farming.
	Thelma 0. Neumann, born September 2, 1912, was a practical nurse prior to entering Peace Corps. She received an AAA degree in nursing from Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, Washington, in 1961. She was a 4-H leader for 11 years. In Brazil she worked in Lavras, Minas Gerais.
	Modesto Ortiz Rosario, born January 24, 1940, worked in Ubá, Minas Gerais with eight 4-S Clubs. Modesto, who is from Orocovis, Puerto Rico, was a 4-H Club member for 10 years and has worked on farms.
	Gloria Pinto, of Manati, Puerto Rico, was a home demonstration agent for three years for the Puerto Rican Agriculture Extension Service. She is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico in home economics. In Brazil Gloria worked in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espirito Santo with five clubs.
	Esther Reinhold, born June 16, 1932, taught elementary school for eight years in Williamsville, New York. Esther, who is from North Collins, N.Y., holds a B.S. degree in education from the State University of New York, She worked in the smallest work site in the Brazil I project, Luiz Alves, Santa Catarina.
	Juan E. Rosario Rivera, born December 27, 1941, completed one year at the University of Puerto Rico, majoring in agriculture. He was a 4-H member in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, and his home town. Juan worked in Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais at the local level.
	Gerald Rutland, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, was better known as "Alabama" to his fellow volunteers. He was assigned to Santo Estevao, Bahia, where he worked on the local level. He was studying Agricultural science at Auburn University before entering Peace Corps.
	Mark Ruwet, born November 4, 1943, worked in both Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, the last site being Rio do Sul, South Carolina. Mark is from Torrington, Connecticut. and was a student in dairy husbandry at Ratcliff Kicks School of Agriculture, University of Connecticut
	John Prentice Schely, of Whitehouse, New Jersey, was one of the outstanding "futebol" players of the Brazil I group. He broke his leg while playing with the team of his town, Luiz Alves , Santa Catarina. John holds a B.A. degree in history from Yale University.
	Norma Shade, born August 13, 1942, came into the Brazil I project from her job as a librarian at the Lepper Library, Lisbon, Ohio. A 4-H member for eight years, she was a camp counselor and board member of 4-H fairs and conferences. In Formiga, her Peace Corps work site, she worked on the local level.
	Eunice Siebert, born November 12, 1940, comes from a farm near Hudson, Illinois. She was an active 4-H Club member for 11 years and studied a business course in high school. Eunice worked on the local level in Alagoa Grande, Paraíba.
	Angelica Simmons, left her job as home demonstration agent in Virginia to join the Peace Corps. In Brazil she worked on Regional level with headquarters in Pará de Minas, Minas Gerais. Angie came from Petersburg, Virginia, and holds a B.A. degree in home economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
	James Sperling, was a student at Pierce College in California, majoring in dairy husbandry before entering Peace Corps. Jim worked first in Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul and then transferred to Brazil II to work in Banneiras, Bahia. He is from woodland Hills, California.
	Dale Stickel, born Juanuary 4, 1943, transferred from Brazil II where he worked in Petrolandia. In Brazil I he worked with two clubs in Ibirama, Santa Catarina, and taught English during his spare time. Dale comes from a farm in Elkhart, Indiana.
	Priscilla Thorsrud, born September 16, 1938, worked first in Boa Parada, Santa Catarina on the local level. Later she worked in Florianopolis on a regional level and with the state 4-S leader. Priscilla, from Fontana, California, holds a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and has worked as a newspaper reporter.
	Mel Tolbert, of Elmira, New York, was a florist. He holds an AA degree from the State University of New York, majoring in floriculture. In his work site of Teresopolis he was known as Jack because the Portuguese translation of Mel is honey.
	Dale Edward Swenson, was a 4-H agent in Wisconsin when he joined Peace Corps. Dale came from a farm in Amery, Wisconsin, and had a B.S. degree in agriculture from the State University of Wisconsin. He worked in Ponte Novo, Minas Gerais and was a Peace Corps Volunteer Leader when he died in an auto accident on December 6, 1962.
	Bonnie J. (Miller) Walton, born December 13, 1942, came to Brazil in the MOB group and was married to Harold Walton in the Union Church, Rio de Janeiro in December, 1962. She and her husband worked in Ceres, Goiás. She was studying elementary education and is from Citrus Heights, California.
	James Allen Williams, of Cave City, Kentucky, was a student at Western Kentucky State College in Bowling Green, Kentucky, before entering Peace Corps. He worked in Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul and in Piratuba, Santa Catarina.
	Nancy Williams, born May 30, 1934, worked first in Piratuba, Santa Catarina. Later she worked on regional level in Florianopolis and with the state 4-S leader. Nancy holds a B.S. degree in child and family development from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, her home town. She also completed one year of graduate study.
	Frances Waddell, born July 8, 1939, in conjunction with; a special Brazilian 4-S team worked with 11 4-S Clubs in Viçosa, Minas Gerais. She comes from Versailles, Missouri, and holds a B.S. degree in home economics from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
	Loring Waggoner, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, worked in Curvelo, Minas Gerais. He transferred to Brazil 11 and was assigned to Bom Jesus da Lapa in Bahia. Loring was a junior at New Mexico State University when he joined the Peace Corps.
	Harold E. Walton Jr., of Denair, California, was studying business agriculture for three years at Fresno State College before entering Peace Corps. He worked in Ceres, Goiás, one of the frontier towns of Brazil. Hal was a 4- H member for five years and has worked on his father's farm.
	Sandra Wood, born August 25, 1938, was a 4-H Club member for nine years in her home town, Anaheim, California. In Colatina, Espirito Santo she worked with two 4-S Clubs and taught English classes at night. She was studying home economics at Fullerton Junior College.
	Karen York, worked in Teresópolis with four 4-S Clubs. Before entering Peace Corps she completed one year at the University of Nevada, majoring in business. Karen has worked as a secretary in the First National Bank of Nevada, Fallon, Nevada, her home town.