Interview with Marian Rivman, September 8, 2023
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Marian Rivman served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines from 1966-68. She discusses enjoying living on a college campus and dorm life during training in Cambridge and the group being subjects for a PhD thesis on personality change during Peace Corps service. She discusses her first assignment teaching science in Tacurong, difficulties with her home placement and political violence in the community from which she was moved. She also discusses her second placement in Davao City where she worked with a nonprofit organization helping squatters displaced by logging interests get jobs and starting handicraft projects. She discusses multi-generational contacts with one family, returning numerous times to the Philippines and a serendipitous connection with her Peace Corps language instructor at the UN’s Conference on Women. She discusses the profound impact Peace Corps service had on her personal and professional life. She also discusses activities with the New York City Peace Corps Association.Interview Accession
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Peace Corps (US) Philippines (Country of Service) Education (Peace Corps program) Community Development (Peace Corps program) 1966-68 (years of service) Cambridge, Massachusetts (Peace Corps training site) Tacurong (town in Mindanao where she first served) Davao City (city in Mindanao to which she was moved) Cross-Cultural Encounter and Personality Change: Peace Corps Volunteers in the Philippines by Dr. Jerold Starr (study conducted on Peace Corps Volunteers) United Nations Earth Summit (1992) United Nations World Conference on Women (1995) New York City Peace Corps Association National Peace Corps Association consultative status with the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) .Interview Rights
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Rivman, Marian Interview by Evelyn Ganzglass. 08 Sep. 2023. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Rivman, M. (2023, September 08). Interview by E. Ganzglass. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Rivman, Marian, interview by Evelyn Ganzglass. September 08, 2023, 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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