Interview with Thomas Carter, April 28, 2021
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Tom Carter served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India, from 1965 to 1967, in the Agriculture Program. He remained in India as a staff member through 1974. While in college, Tom was awarded a Rotary Foundation Fellowship to study for one year in India at the University of Nagpur’s Post Graduate Teaching Department. That experience led him to apply to Peace Corps in order to return to India. Tom’s training group, India 13, received language (Malayalam), cross-cultural, and technical training at the University of California, Davis. The training was well done and highly motivating. Tom was assigned to work with the Department of Animal Husbandry at the Central Hatchery in Chengannur, Kerela. After completing his volunteer service, Tom worked as Peace Corps staff in India, and directed volunteer and staff training programs, as well as doing program consulting with Peace Corps programs in Micronesia, Nepal, Iran, India, Malaysia. Tom’s post-Peace Corps career brought him back to India, where he worked for several years with the Cooperative League of the USA and with India’s National Dairy Development Board under a Unilateral Trust Agreement between the Dairy Board and the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations Organization. The interview discusses training; experiences as a volunteer and staff; and the effect of Peace Corps service on his life.Interview Accession
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Peace Corps (U.S.) India (country of service) 1965-1967 (date of service) India 13 Peace Corps Volunteer Job: Agriculture Peace Corps Staff Micronesia Nepal Iran Malaysia Rotary Foundation Fellowship University of Nagpur Malayalam (language) Chengannur, Kerela Agriculture Organization of United NationsInterview Rights
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Carter, Thomas Interview by Julius Sztuk. 28 Apr. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Carter, T. (2021, April 28). Interview by J. Sztuk. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Carter, Thomas, interview by Julius Sztuk. April 28, 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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