Interview with Jan Doyle, June 24, 2021

Interview Summary

Jan Doyle served as an Education volunteer in Jamaica (1969-1971), Dominican Republic (1972-1974) and Samoa (2016-2018). In Falmouth, Jamaica she taught math to male trade school students and cleaning methods/machines to female hotel industry trade school students. Accomplishments in Jamaica included organizing a girls’ soccer team and teaching young children to swim in the ocean. In Dominican Republic, Jan’s job was to help mothers use Food for Peace supplies, an effort to use US agricultural surpluses to fight world hunger. Her site was El Peñon where she helped start a pre-school. She trained pre-school teachers, while learning Spanish, and helped form a school board comprised of villagers. Jan and her husband, as retirees, served in Samoa, operating out of the capital Apia. Jan worked teaching teachers how to teach English. She also worked at the university library culling non-circulating books. Among lessons learned: it is the small things that matter.

Interview Keyword

Peace Corps (U.S.) Jamaica (Country of service) 1969-1971 (Date of service) Dominican Republic (Country of service) 1972-1974 (Date of service) Samoa (Country of service) 2016-2018 (Date of service) Peace Corps Volunteer Job: Education Jamaica Dominican Republic Samoa Peace Corps (U.S.)--1960-1970 Peace Corps (U.S.)- -1970-1980 Peace Corps (U.S.)--1990-2000 Vietnam War English Spanish Patois Samoan Language training Training Cultural training Peace Corps-related medical issues Diversity in the Peace Corps American Indian or Native Americans Older Americans

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