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Box 2

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

AFSC Report and Newsletters, 1964 and undated

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

"A Report from an (unidentified) VISA Volunteer in Tanganyika" not on AFSC letterhead, most certainly written in 1962 or 1963 by someone in VISA Tanganyika I or II.

Dates: 1964 and undated

Nakumbuka Singida Yangu, 2014

 Item — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

A Swahili memoir, "I Remember My Singida," of Garry's time working with the Community development Division of the gevernment of Tanganyika in Singida District, March 1962 to May 1963. There is a brief summary in English at the back of the booklet.

Dates: 2014

Letter written to friends, 1962

 Item — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

"Dear Friends" letter (July 26, 1962), on roughly the first anniversary of arrival in Tanganyika.

Dates: 1962

VISA Volunteer Report Form, 1963

 Item — Box: 2
Scope and Contents

"Visa Volunteer Report Form" (maybe March 1963), written in response to a questionnaire (but without the questions). Note that neither Werner Muller nor Ollie Wilgress remember being asked to respond to such a form/questionnaire.

Dates: 1963

Newspaper Coverage and Articles, 1961-1963 and undated

 File — Box: 2
Scope and Contents Includes: Kazi za Maendeleo kwa Hiari" (August or September 1961), an article written about VISA volunteers in a regional (northern Tanganyika) newspaper at the end of their in-country orientation and Swahili training - loosely translated as the work of community development volunteers - which, in the first paragraph explains that VISA was not associated with the Peace Corps ("jeshi la amani"); "Conditions hopeful on independence eve" (November 28, 1961), an article Garry wrote for the...
Dates: 1961-1963 and undated