To print the entire November 2001 issue, click on this icon

The Case against the nomination of Gaddi Vasquez

The statement made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, November 14, 2001, by Jack Hood Vaughn, second Director of the Peace Corps, representing The Committee for the Future of the Peace Corps

Several RPCVs submitted statements for the record to be added to the testamony given before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the nomination —

A letter from John Coyne (Ethiopia 1962–64)

A statement by Barbara Ferris (Morocco 1980–82

A statement by Hugh Pickens (Peru 1970–73), Publisher, Peace Corps Online

A letter from The Committee for the Future of the Peace Corps to Senator Christopher Dodd follows-up on the hearing.

OpEd by John Coyne published in The Hill 12/5/01

A Writer Writes

Finally, an award-winning poem by Thor Hanson (Uganda 1993–95)

Talking with . . .

Editor John Coyne interviewed Afghanistan authority Tom Gouttierre (Afghanistan 1965–67)

Literary Type

Of writers and books

Recent books by Peace Corps writers

Thirteen new books by Peace Corps writers deal with travel — in Texas and time, and other topics.

Reviews

A Stained Dawn: Poems About Africa by Christopher Conlon (Botswana 1988–90) reviewed by Ann Neelon (Senegal 1978–79)

Families As We Are: Conversations from Around the World by Perdita Huston (Staff: PC/W 1978–81, CD/Mali 1997–99, CD/Bulgaria 1999–2000) reviewed by Sharon Dirlam (Russian Far East 1996–98)

To Preserve and to Learn

Mark Covert writes about Moritz Thomsen’s (Ecuador 1965–67) Living Poor

Opportunities for writers

Tanya Elders (Malawi 1997–99) is creating a website that features stories about women in every country in which Peace Corps serves or has served. For more information . . .

Mindprints (a literary journal for writers with disabilities that is also open to any writers with an interest in the field or with something to say about it) is seeking submissions for its next issue. For more information . . .