Interview with Helen D'Amico Perry, April 3, 2024
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Helen D’Amico Perry served as a Health Volunteer in Morocco from 1965-1967. Originally from San Francisco, CA, she was finishing her last year at San Francisco State University before she was assigned. Training, which consisted of technical, French and area studies, was held at the University of Texas Austin and Galveston before she landed in Rabat. Her first site was in the town of Meknes, at a provincial hospital where she was a lab technician. After she married a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer, they transferred to Rabat, where she worked as a lab technician in a Tuberculosis Hospital. Upon returning to the US, she finished her time at SF State and obtained a minor in French. She and her husband lived in Hawaii, Zaire, India, and Nepal whilst working with the CDC and the WHO in Africa. Helen and her husband now reside in Atlanta Georgia.Interview Accession
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Helen D’Amico Perry Morocco 1965-1967 Health San Francisco State University BS Biology Venereal Disease Clinic Epidemiology San Francisco, CA Language aptitude test University of Texas, Ausin University of Texas Medical Center, Galveston Lab Technicians Scientific training Area studies French Rabat Meknes Provincial Hospital Hospital hostel Herara Married PCV in Morocco Microbiology Lab Transfer to Rabat Tuberculosis Hospital Gibraltar finished last year of college French minor Teaching Masters ESL CDC Hawaii India Zaire Nepal WHO in AfricaInterview Rights
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Perry, Helen DߐAmico Interview by Sonia Desai. 03 Apr. 2024. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Perry, H.D. (2024, April 03). Interview by S. Desai. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Perry, Helen DߐAmico, interview by Sonia Desai. April 03, 2024, Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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