When The World Calls: The Inside Story Of The And Its First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler

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PEACE CORPS - NOTED ALUMNI AFRICA REGION COUNTRY ALUMNI DESCRIPTION Benin Dan Carney Business Week reporter Harry Birnholz Niger anti-corruption chief Botswana Burkina Faso Richard Roth ambassador to Senegal Donald Clark AID mission director Burundi Cameroon Christopher Hill ambassador to Iraq Susana Herrera writer Mary-Ann Tirone Smith writer Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo, Republic of Cote d'Ivoire Richard Greene AID official Robert Haas Levi Strauss board Chairman Lillian Baer African Consultants International founder Tony D’Souza novelist DR Congo (formerly Zaire) Mike Tidwell environmentalist and writer Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Paul Tsongas U.S. Senator from Massachusetts John Garamendi U.S. Representative from California Mildred Taylor writer Richard Lipez detective novel writer (writing as Richard Stevenson) John Coyne novelist Michael McCaskey Chicago Bears chairman Henry Muller Time editorial director Dane Smith ambassador to Senegal and Guinea Karen De Witt ABC News producer Gabon Ghana Ken Hackett Catholic Relief Services president Arnold Zeitlin writer and journalist Matthew Patrick Massachusetts legislator Guinea Guinea‑Bissau Jonathan Weisman Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Kenya Samuel Gillespie III Exxon Mobil executive Wilber James co-founder of RockPort Capital Partners Rob Ryan board chairman of Ten Thousand Villages Tony Silard Global Education Partnership founder Leon Dash professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lesotho George Drake Grinnell College president Liberia Philip Margolin writer Priscilla & Thomas Wrubel Nature Company founders Larry Palmer Inter-American Foundation president Madagascar Malawi Paul Theroux novelist and travel writer Gordon Radley Lucasfilms president Michelle Press Scientific American managing editor Leo Higdon Jr. Connecticut College president Robert Blackwill ambassador to Mali Mauritania Mauritius last updated: 8/25/2010 1 of 4 Mozambique Namibia Jeremy Waldron travel writer Lisa Wasilewski cellulose nutritional supplement inventor Niger Catherine Bowman writer Meg Garlinghouse humanitarian organization official Arlene Mitchell UN World Food Program executive Nigeria Don McConnell ambassador to Eritrea Gerald Durley missionary church pastor Jeswald Salacuse Tufts law professor Rwanda R. Niels Marquardt ambassador to Madagascar Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Steve Driehaus U.S. Representative from Ohio Richard Boucher Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Ingley Arizona Republic reporter Howard Seftel Arizona Republic restaurant critic Gary Engelberg Africa Consultants International co-founder Joyce Neu Kroc Institute of Peace executive director Seychelles Sierra Leone Thomas Hull III ambassador to Sierra Leone Loren Jenkins Foreign Editor of National Public Radio (NPR) Martin Puryear sculptor David S. Gelman CattleSale Co. CEO Somalia Thomas Petri U.S. Representative from Wisconsin R. Barrie Walkley ambassador to Gabon Robert Laird New York Daily News editor Charles Baquet international programs director, Xavier of Louisiana South Africa Sudan Swaziland Chris Mathews television commentator Reed Hastings Netflix founder Fred O’Regan executive director, International Fund for Animal Welfare Tanzania Robert Taft Governor of Ohio Johnnie Carson Assistant Secretary of State Edmund Blair Bolles writer Leonard Levitt writer Stephen Beaver associate dean, Thunderbird school of international studies The Gambia Michael Ward U.S. Representative from Kentucky Heather Buckmaster Oklahoma Beef Council executive director Togo Peggy Anderson author George Packard New Yorker writer Peter Lefcourt television writer Ann & Michael Moore Snugli & Airlift company CEOs Jim Morrill Charlotte Observer reporter Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

EUROPE, MEDITERRANEAN, & ASIA REGION COUNTRY ALUMNI DESCRIPTION Thomas Gouttierre Univ. of Nebraska (Omaha) dean of international studies John Greisberger University of Michigan international center director Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bosnia & Herzegovina Bulgaria Cambodia China Peter Hessler writer Cyprus Czech Republic East Timor Estonia (Baltics) Georgia Hungary India Peace Corps Director Joel Shapiro sculptor Edward Dolby Family Dollar Stores director Frank Guzzetta Ralph Lauren Home president Michael Maidenberg publisher Carl Pope Sierra Club executive director Gordon Smith museum chairman

last updated: 8/25/2010 2 of 4 Donna Shalala Univ. of Miami President & Sec. of Health & Human Services Peter Sinton San Francisco Chronicle senior writer Peter Russel Academy for Education Development chairman Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyz Republic Latvia (Baltics) Libya Cameron Hume ambassador to Indonesia, South Africa and Algeria Lithuania (Baltics) Macedonia Malta Moldova Mongolia Morocco Gordon Gray ambassador to Tunisia Barbara Ferris founder of International Women’s Democracy Center Sarah Chayes writer and humanitarian aide official Nepal James Walsh U.S. Representative from New York Broughton Coburn writer Laurence Leamer writer Gene George AID mission director Oman Pakistan Philippines Parker Borg ambassador to Mali and Iceland Thomas Dine Radio Free Europe president, domestic Poland Romania Lisa Fisher Cazacu writer Annabelle Townson writer Russia Slovak Republic South Korea Gregory Engle ambassador to Togo Robert Mowry museum curator Richard Wiley writer Nancy Kelly Health Volunteers Overseas executive director Sri Lanka Thailand Tony Hall U.S. Representative from Ohio Darryl Johnson ambassador to Thailand Kevin Quigley National Peace Corps Assn. President Thomas Tighe Direct Relief International CEO Tex Boggs Western Wyoming Community College president Brady J. Deaton University of Missouri (Columbia) chancellor Tunisia Jim Doyle Governor of Wisconsin Julius Nimmons University of District of Columbia president Peace Corps Deputy Director Richard Erdman ambassador to Algeria Kent Haruf writer Ginny Kirkwood inn and resort owner James Kouzes writer Elaine Jones NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Marianne Leach CARE executive Jerry Leach World Affairs Councils president Sarah Parker North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Yemen

INTER-AMERICA & PACIFIC REGION COUNTRY ALUMNI DESCRIPTION Argentina Frank Almaguer ambassador to Robert Gelbard Assistant Secretary of State David Greenlee ambassador to Bolivia and Paraguay Taylor Hackford film producer Joseph Lown Mayor of San Angelo, Texas Brazil Patricia Cloherty US Russia Investment Fund chairman Tomas Belsky artist Richard Goughnour AID mission director William Reese International Youth Foundation CEO Terry Peterson Deputy Secretary of Education Chile Tom Scanlon Benchmarks founder Colombia Sam Farr U.S. Representative from California John Keane ambassador to Paraguay Robert McCormack Citicorp executive

last updated: 8/25/2010 3 of 4 Maureen Orth Vanity Fair writer Joann La Perla-Morales Middlesex County College president Raymond Burghardt American Institute of Taiwan chairman Cook Islands Costa Rica Josh Friedman Newsday correspondent and Columbia professor Dominican Republic Aaron Williams Peace Corps Director U.S. Senator from Connecticut Al Kamen Washington Post columnist Jonathan Lash World Resources Institute president Joe Acaba NASA specialist Eastern Caribbean* Bob Shacochis writer Tod Satterthwaite Mayor of Urbana, Illinois Ecuador Ann O’Hanlon Washington Post reporter James Lyons Sr. Maryland Secretary of Higher Education Moritz Thomsen writer El Salvador Mark Schneider Peace Corps director & International Crisis Group executive Mike Honda U.S. Representative from California Fiji Christopher Shays U.S. Representative from Connecticut Kathy Tierney Sur La Table executive Theodore Celeste Ohio legislator Peace Corps Director and UNICEF executive director Mark Brazaitis writer John Earhart Global Environment Fund Management Corp. CEO Patricia Buckles AID mission director Guyana Haiti Honduras James Mack exec. sec., Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission Jan Guifarro Colgate Palmolive executive Drew Days Yale Law professor Indonesia Jamaica Kiribati Malaysia Robert Fitts ambassador to Papua New Guinea Richard (Kinky) Friedman writer John Stackhouse New York Supreme Court Judge Robert Pastor National Security Council official Marshall Islands Elisa Long Pennsylvania public defender Mexico Micronesia (including Palau) Cathy Woolard CARE executive Dan McAllister San Diego treasurer Roland Merullo writer Nicaragua Niue Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Dan Chace fund manager Dwight A. Roberts CEO of US Rice Producers Assn. Ken Roberts Department of Agriculture official Thomas Murphy Jr. Mayor of Pittsburgh Peru Vicki Huddleston ambassador to Mali Hugh Pickens Peace Corps Online director Ron Arias writer Charlie Clifford Tumi luggage founder Frederic Poses Centex & Raytheon executive M. Peter McPherson Michigan State University president & Dow Jones chairman Robert Trumble Kent State dean Samoa Solomon Islands Suriname Tonga Tuvalu Uruguay Vanuatu Alberto Ibarguen Knight Foundation president

*including Anguilla, Antigua‑Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada and Cariaccou, Montserrat, St. Kitts‑Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent‑Grenadines, & Turks‑Caicos

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