Interview with Linda Vorhis James, June 27, 2021

Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Linda Vorhis James served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea from 1979-1981, and worked as a staff member at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, DC from 1982-1986. As the child of a US diplomat, she grew up overseas, including a 1961-63 stay in still war-scarred South Korea, which she loved. Two years after college, she applied and was posted to Korea as a tuberculosis control volunteer. During her 10 week training in Chun Cheon (northern South Korea), she met another female volunteer who later served with Linda in the southern town of Goseong, and they became life-long friends. In addition to TB control, she also collaborated with other volunteers to develop a health promotion roadshow, and also organized a walkathon to fund surgery for a pediatric cardiac patient which drew national attention and resulted in increased government funding for pediatric cardiac care. After Peace Corps, she found a job in the Peace Corps office in Washington, and has found herself working with RPCVs ever since, including the past 25 years with her Peace Corps colleague from Chun Cheon. Her ties with Korea are still strong, in part because of the effort the Republic of Korea has made to engage RPCVs since the end of the program in 1981.

Interview Accession

2021oh0526_pcrv0296

Interviewee Name

Linda Vorhis James

Interviewer Name

Craig Tower

Interview Date

2021-06-27

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James, Linda Vorhis Interview by Craig Tower. 27 Jun. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

James, L.V. (2021, June 27). Interview by C. Tower. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

James, Linda Vorhis, interview by Craig Tower. June 27, 2021, 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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