When did you decide to write this book and why? Liberians and other Africans saw Kennedy as the first president who cared about the continent and its people. In Monrovia the Liberian president presided over a memorial service and declared a month of mourning. On Monday there was no school Jack gave the eulogy at a memorial service. We listened to VOA all weekend in rapt disbelief.
The gas station attendant said, “ Our president has been shot and killed.” He meant Kennedy not Tubman, the president of Liberia. On Novemwe stopped at a gas station outside Monrovia to fill up the Peace Corps jeep to return to our site. What was your more ‘telling moment’ in the Peace Corps?
We joined because we wanted to serve as Kennedy asked, because of the adventure, the chance to travel. We applied in March 1961 when we, Jack and I, were seniors in college, engaged to get married. You joined the Peace Corps with your husband? I got my MA in History and African Studies at Michigan State after my Peace Corps service and my PhD in Humanities Education at Ohio State after our tours in Sierra Leone and Fiji where my husband Jack was Associate and then Peace Corps Director and where I taught in teacher training colleges. I grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and got my BA in History at the College of Wooster, also in Ohio. I was a PCV in Liberia I from 1962 to 1964, teaching junior high and high school social studies at Suehn Industrial Academy, a mission boarding school run by African American missionaries. Where were you a PCV and what were your years and assignment?
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