Interview with Chuck Amorosino, April 25, 2024
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Chuck Amorosino served as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in the Philippines from 1965-1967 in an Elementary School Science Education program, and as a Peace Corps Community Affairs and Recruitment staff person for New England from 1967-1971. He discusses his motivation to join the Peace Corps, his group’s training at San Jose State in inductive science curriculum development and teaching, his problems learning Tagalog, and the dreaded deselection process. He discusses his concerns about being a too liberal Catholic for serving in a conservative Catholic country, being stationed by himself in a mountain village, meeting his widowed host “mother” and her children, the lifelong friendship that developed including bringing the family to the US, and the continuing strong family ties between his natural and Pilipino families. He talks about some of his projects teaching, the self-confidence he gained in Peace Corps and the impact that has had on his career.Interview Accession
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Peace Corps (US) The Philippines (Country of Service) Elementary Education Science Education (Peace Corps program) 1965-67 (years of service as Peace Corps Volunteer) Peace Corps staff (1967-71) San Jose State (site of US-based training) Manila (in-country Peace Corps orientation site) Cavinti (town in the mountains in which he served) Stone Hill College (college he attended in North Easton, Massachusetts) trainee deselection process during training Catholicism.Interview Rights
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Amorosino, Chuck Interview by Evelyn Ganzglass. 25 Apr. 2024. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Amorosino, C. (2024, April 25). 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.
Amorosino, Chuck, interview by Evelyn Ganzglass. April 25, 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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