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Fellows Winter Newsletter Volume X Number 1 Winter 2002 NEWS ABOUT PEACE CORPS FELLOWS/USA Four Blocks From Ground Zero: Columbia Fellow FellowsShares Personal Accounts of September 11 Reprinted from the October 2001 Peace Corps Fellows Times Newsletter of Teachers College, Columbia University. By Amy Steffes Tuesday morning started off We immediately went to the how horrible that this hap- (Jamaica 1997-99) as any other normal day. I window and saw people run- pened. I returned to my Fellow, Teachers College, changed my outfit three ning through the streets. We classroom to close the Columbia University times and then decided the looked up at the WTC north shades, because my room red pants made me look too tower and saw a hole and a faced the north and I was fat, and even though I just lot of smoke coming out of concerned the smoke would had them taken in, I would the top. A parent came into distract my students. Then, take them back to the seam- the office and said it was a the second blast was heard. stress. I got to school at 7:45 plane that hit the WTC, and We could not see the south- a.m. My school, as many of we were told it was an acci- facing building, so we saw you may not know, was lo- dent. All teachers without a only debris. We assured the cated four blocks north of class were told to go to the students that it was from the the World Trade Center. I got classrooms with students and plane that hit the north-fac- to school and put my lunch calm everyone down—it was ing building. in the fridge and greeted the just an accident. I went to a students. I then went down classroom with students, and Shortly after the second to the second floor to make we discussed calmly the trag- blast, we evacuated the photocopies of the homework edy just outside our door. I students into the cafeteria. assignment that I was giving was saying how sad it was Parents were running into to my students when I heard that the pilot obviously must the school and taking their the first blast. have had a heart attack and children out of the school Dear Readers: “Goodbye, 1980 (or whatever given rise to unprecedented nership will seek both to teach As this issue of Fellows the year)!” they would ex- opportunities for Peace Corps and to learn more—in more goes to press, we are off and claim after me. Fellows to open conversations depth—about those who live running into year “2K2,” but Of course, no day or month that can begin to help Ameri- oceans and miles apart from when we started conceptualiz- comes back either, just the cans understand other peoples us in other countries. It is so ing Volume X, Number 1, we names. And the first year of and cultures of the world. clear that those distant lives were approaching the end of the 21st century was one This is of course the third are inextricably bound up the old year. I was recalling many in our country would goal of the Peace Corps’ mis- with ours by “family ties” — telling my children on many a not want to see again even if sion to promote world peace those of the human family. New Year’s Eve, “The days we could; the terrors of Sep- and friendship. The need for May we recognize and honor come back, the months come tember are still etched so such understanding has never this reality. back, but not the years — the deeply in our individual been more urgent. Peace, old year never comes back memories and in the national I hope that in 2002 each of again! Goodbye, 1980!” psyche. Yet these events have us in the Fellows/USA part- Michele Cisco Titi, Ph.D. Greetings from Peace Corps Fellows/USA Director, Peace Corps Fellows/USA PRO GRAM U P D A T E S continued from page 1 building. The teachers were what I would see. There was that it will fall down, not to asking them to remain calm ash everywhere and as we the side. Remember when it and told them to quietly sign headed up the Westside fell? No one was there. It fell out their children. Everyone Highway, we heard an into itself so no one was hurt.” was quiet. Some students were incredible CRACK. We turned asking us, “How can you keep around and saw the north Eventually, I called home and us here? The building is going tower fall. It was unbeliev- found out the Pentagon was Peace Corps to fall on us.” “My mom/dad/ able. My coworker looked at hit, too. By then, most of the cousin/friend/neighbor works me and we just turned around students were gone. Finally, Fellows/USA in the WTC.” We replied in and told the students to keep my co-workers and I dis- calm voices that everyone moving…no one was speak- cussed the magnitude of the Fellows newsletter is mailed to was taken out of the building ing, we were all stunned…the event only in terms of how it Peace Corps Fellows and alumni, after the first crash, and images I remember were all would change the United Fellows/USA program coordinators and community partners, and do- everyone was fine. the people looking in disbelief States. We said war. If you mestic and overseas Peace Corps and walking solemnly away. were watching the news, my staff. Fellows is always looking for Slowly (maybe quickly), The kids were asking us if we school was the one beside the story ideas! parents started becoming more thought anyone had escaped. white archway they kept Michele Titi, Ph.D. frantic, and we noticed people We kept saying, “Yes, they are showing. It was to the right Director running past the building. I trained to save everyone, and side of the highway, next to ext. 1442, [email protected] decided to go back to my they were evacuated immedi- the Hudson River. They were room to get my purse. My co- ately.” All the while, I was using the building as a rest Cary Ballou, Ph.D. Associate Director worker came with me, and we praying “Hail Marys” like a stop for the emergency ext. 1432, [email protected] never said a word. I noticed I mantra. workers. could see nothing out of my Natalie Richardson windows. My radio was on We walked two miles to Because we didn’t have Program Assistant and it seemed so loud that I another grade school. The school until the following ext. 1438, turned it off. We went back emergency vehicles were Monday, I left town to be [email protected] downstairs, and the bomb zooming by and we had to with my aunt in Maryland. I squad and police department cross the road. We did it in was and still am very dis- Gina Wynn Marketing Coordinator; were in the cafeteria yelling shifts. Then we got to the tressed along with the whole Newsletter Editor that we had to move out school. We waited for the United States. ext. 1434, [email protected] quickly. The teachers were parents to come get their trying to organize the students children. While we waited, Manuel Sanchez in class order. We walked we talked, and some students Student Assistant quickly out the north side of were asking me, “Isn’t the ext. 1435, [email protected] the building. WTC on wheels? They probably moved the building Visit, call, or write Peace Corps People were all over, run- to let the people out.” Then Fellows/USA at: ning—but it was incredibly they said, “Do you think that quiet. I only remember anything fell on our apart- 1111 20th St., NW images as we exited. I must ment buildings?” I said, “Oh Washington, D.C., 20526 say that I did not want to no, engineers are so smart 1-800-424-8580 ext. 1440 Fax: 202-692-1422 leave because I was afraid of they built that building so AMY STEFFES E-mail: [email protected] www.peacecorps.gov/fellows PRO GRAM U P D A T E S Hopi High Hailed as RPCV Magnet Located in the middle of the been wisely used and in- ducing teachers, (Fellows/ By Saundra Schimmelpfennig Hopi Reservation in Northern vested. Because of this USA) is as good as I’ve ever (Thailand 1997-99) Arizona, Hopi Junior/Senior change in funding, materials seen,” he said. “The Peace Fellow, Northern Arizona High School, a decade ago, and technology are now Corps experience of teaching University suffered from many of the available for the teachers as in a different culture plays same problems as other reser- needed. hand in hand with living in vation schools. It had a high an isolated area.” turnover of both teachers and Second, the administration administrators, low test stabilized. Previously, the One last but very important scores, little technology, and school had 15 principals in thing I discovered in writing few supplies. Today that has nine years and a 90 percent this article is that RPCVs and all changed. In fact, Hopi turnover rate for teachers. PCFs improve the school High attracts and keeps so Our current superintendent, Paul Reynolds, Ph.D., and many Peace Corps Fellows During the past eight years, (PCFs) and RPCVs who are principal, Dave Herbert, 18 RPCVs and PCFs have not Fellows that the term Ph.D., both began working at “Mecca Effect” was coined by Hopi High at about the same worked at Hopi High, and Gary Robson in his doctoral time the school changed most have stayed more dissertation on the Northern from a BIA to a grant school.
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