Register of the Ethiopia and Eritrea Returned Peace Corps Volunteers collection
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Title: Ethiopia and Eritrea Returned Peace Corps Volunteers collection
Date (inclusive): 1947-2018
Collection Number: 2016C48
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English and Amharic
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes
(11.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, reports, pamphlets, newsletters, photographs, slides, artifacts, teaching materials,
and other printed matter relating to political, economic, cultural, educational and social affairs of 1960s Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Creator:
Ethiopia and Eritrea Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
Boxes 7 and 17 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research;
materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the
collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014 with increments in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ethiopia and Eritrea Returned Peace Corps Volunteers collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title],
Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Historical Note
Ethiopia and Eritrea Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (E&E RPCVs) was organized in 1991 at the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
(RPCVs) Conference to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Peace Corps.
According to the organization, E&E RPCVs became a non-member Not-for-Profit Corporation, incorporated in the state of New
York, and led by a Board of Directors. Its stated purpose is "exclusively for charitable and educational purposes that include,
to promote world peace and understanding, particularly among the peoples of the United States, Ethiopia and Eritrea; to inform
and educate the general public about other countries, particularly Ethiopia and Eritrea; to promote opportunities for achieving
sustainable economic development and the relief of poverty in Ethiopia and Eritrea, by providing volunteers, equipment, services
and financial resources which are needed to further this purpose."
E&E RPCVs is an affiliate of the umbrella organization of National Peace Corps Association (NPCA). Some of E&E RPCVs past
and ongoing activities include:
-Through the RPCV Legacy Program, launching an effort to pursue projects to address the great needs in Ethiopia and Eritrea
-Creating its own publication,
The Herald
-Through its enCORPS, they have offered short-term, expenses-paid, volunteer opportunities for RPCVs in Ethiopia and Eritrea
-Participating in a peace initiative during the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea from 1998-2000
-Maintaining a current database of all those who served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia and Eritrea since 1987
-Sending thousands of books to both Ethiopia and Eritrea
Peace Corps Volunteers teachers had great impact, directly (sponsoring and adopting students) and indirectly (through empowerment),
on the Ethiopian and Eritrean students of the 1960s and 1970s. The various reunions of the RPCVs are evidence that most of
the relationships that began then continue todate. The PCVs engagement with the students include activities such as: helping
to create student newsletters, drama clubs, and various other clubs.
Members of the 1960s and 1970s E&E RPCVs were in Ethiopia and Eritrea when the political wind was changing. Some examples
of those changes are:
1) The first cohort PCVs arrived in Ethiopia in September 1962 - two months before Eritrea was annexed and became Ethiopia's
fourteenth province. During their training, the PCVs took courses in Amharic (Note: Amharic is only one of many languages
spoken in Ethiopia, however, it is the official language of Ethiopia) and yet, the PCVs were sent to places where the students'
first language was not Amharic.
2) There was a coup d'état in Ethiopia in 1960. Its implication and impact was not directly felt, but it was simmering.
3) In 1961, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) was formed and had started its armed struggle for the independence of Eritrea,
against Ethiopia.
4) The students' adulation of PCVs in the early 1960s had changed by the late 1960s, partially due to various world movements
in 1968 (in Mexico, France, etc.), the Vietnam War, and other world events.
5) A military committee known as "The Derg" overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1974. Its slogan was "Ethiopia
Tikdem" or "Ethiopia First." In the E&E RPCVs collection, there are student essays on what "Ethiopia Tikdem" means to them.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, reports, pamphlets, newsletters, photographs, slides, artifacts, teaching materials,
and other printed matter relating to political, economic, cultural, educational and social affairs of 1960s Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The incremental materials include Debbie Bulger's self-published autobiography, correspondence between family members, a monkey
hair fly whisk, and baby beads.
Arrangement Statement
The collection is organized by the E&E RPCV member who donated the material, and then into the following subgroupings, if
applicable: Office File, Correspondence, Speeches and Writings or Writings, Subject File, Printed Matter, Micellaneous, Photographs,
and Oversize Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Peace Corps (U.S.)
Debbie Bulger
1963-1968, 2016
Correspondence
1963-1967, 2016
box 1, folder 1
Letters from Ethiopia
1966-1967, 2016
box 1, folder 2
Selig, Freda and Barbara
1963-1967
box 1, folder 3
Ethiopia's Problem of Illiteracy
1960s
box 13, folder 14
The Debre Zeit Drama Society presents
Dick Whittington
1967
box 1, folder 4
Brochures and pamphlets, Ethiopia
1960s
Photographic Slides
1966-1968
box 1, folder 5
I: Asmara and Massawa
1966-1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes a list of slides.
box 1, folder 6
II: Harar, Dire Dawa, and Alemaya
1966-1968
box 1, folder 7
III: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the air, map of Ethiopia, and Koka Dam
1966-1968
box 1, folder 8
IV: Lalibela, Gonder, and Axum
1966-1968
box 1, folder 9
V: People, the countryside, and Awash
1966-1968
box 1, folder 10
VI: Birds, flora/fauna, animals, and flowers
1966-1968
box 1, folder 11
VII: Transportation, work, Booray, Garaberu, and Lake Hora
1966-1968
box 1, folder 12
VIII: Debre Zeit, friends, school, residence, Mt. Yerer, and Lake Langano
1966-1968
box 1, folder 13
IX: Peace Corps training
1966
box 13, folder 15
Debre Birhan, Debre Zeit, Harar, Gonder, Asmara, and Massawa
1966-1967
box 7, folder 1
Ge'ez codex
undated
Conditions Governing Access
Box 7 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 16
Material not yet described
box 17
Monkey hair fly whisk and 2 shell bracelets
Access
Box 17 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 2, folder 1
Ethiopian Folk Tales
1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes handwritten notes.
box 2, folder 2
"Introduction to Addis Ababa for Peace Corps Volunteers"
1974-1975
box 2, folder 3
New Oxford English Course: Ethiopia, Books 1 & 2
1965, 1967
box 2, folder 4
New Oxford English Course: Ethiopia, Teacher's Notes Book 5
1967
box 2, folder 5
Peace Corps training manual and weekly handouts
1970s
box 2, folder 6
Pictorial alphabet in Amharic
undated
box 2, folder 7
"Social Studies Resource Book for Teachers in Ethiopian Junior High School"
undated
box 2, folder 8
Ethiopia: The Hidden Empire
1972
box 3, folder 1
Expenses and bank checkbook
1966-1967
box 3, folder 2
Peace Corps Training at UCLA [University of California, Los Angeles]
1965-1966
box 3, folder 8
Notes and lessons
1966-1968
box 3, folder 9
Ethiopian Folktales
1960s
box 3, folder 10
In Country Training: Ethiopia
1966
box 3, folder 11
"Syllabus for the Peace Corps," UCLA
1966
box 3, folder 13
Ethiopian Observer
1965
Scope and Contents
Contains Vol. VIII, No. 1 and Vol. IX, No. 1.
box 3, folder 16
News Bulletin: United States Information Service (USIS)
1965
box 3, folder 17
Ethiopian Herald
1965-1968
box 3, folder 18
Voice of Ethiopia
1968
Scope and Contents
Includes Nos. 177 and 178.
box 3, folder 20
Brochures, calendars, and pamphlets re Ethiopia
1960s
box 3, folder 21
Ethiopian driver's license
1966
box 3, folder 24
Ethiopia
1966-1968
Scope and Contents note
Contains a CD and a list of the images on the disc.
box 3, folder 25
Gore, Illubabur
1966-1968
box 8
Ethiopia album
1966-1968
Scope and Contents note
Contains photographs of Ethiopia and Ethiopian stamps.
Oversize Materials
1967-1968
box 9
Ethiopian Airlines calendar
1967-1968
box 9
Indian calendar
1967-1968
box 4, folder 1
Ethiopian Observer: The Peace Corps in Ethiopia
1965
box 4, folder 3
The Peace Corps Volunteer
1971
Mary Lou and Lynn Linman
1955-2015
box 4, folder 4
Certificate: Peace Corps
1962-1964
box 4, folder 12
Linman, Clifford
1962-1964
box 4, folder 14
Shriver, Sargent
1962-1963
box 4, folder 16
Tesfamariam, Issayas
2015
box 4, folder 17
Vold, Robert R.
1962-1964
box 4, folder 20
"Africa: Focus on Ethiopia - The Work of the Peace Corps"
1966
box 4, folder 21
Hailemariam Mamo Secondary School Grade Nine newsletter
1964
box 4, folder 24
"Seventh Grade Girls"
1963
box 4, folder 25
Ethiopian Inter-School Athletic Association
1962-1963
box 4, folder 26
"My Green Friend"
1955
Scope and Contents note
In Amharic
box 4, folder 27
Pictorial alphabet, 1st and 2nd
1961
Scope and Contents note
In Amharic
box 4, folder 29
Ethiopia Mirror
1963-1964
Scope and Contents note
Includes issues from January-June 1963 and December 1963 - February 1964.
box 5, folder 1
Ethiopian Observer, Vol. VI, No. 2
1962
box 5, folder 2
Exercise Book: Their Imperial Highnesses of Ethiopia
1960s
box 5, folder 3
Menen magazine
1964
Scope and Contents note
In Amharic
box 5, folder 4
Addis Zemen/New Era newspaper
1964
Scope and Contents note
In Amharic
box 5, folder 5
San Francisco Examiner clippings
1962
box 5, folder 7
"The Lion Still Uses His Teeth," "Grey Dawn in Ethiopia," and "Long Life to the Lion"
1961
box 5, folder 8
Ethiopian and California driver's licenses
1963
box 5, folder 9
Menu from Genet Hotel's New Stanley Hotel Restaurant
1962-1964
box 5, folder 10
Stamps
undated
Scope and Contents
Includes stamps from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
box 5, folder 11
Debre Birhan, Ethiopia
1963-1966
box 5, folder 12
81 slides
1960s
Scope and Contents note
Includes description.
Randolph Marcus
1965-2015
box 5, folder 13
Adler, Kurt, Mr. and Mrs.
1967
Marcus, Ralph, Mr. and Mrs.
Photographs
1966-1968
Scope and Contents
Consists of photographic slides.
box 5, folder 25
I: UCLA training, ATP party, Catalina trip, Madrid, and Frankfurt
1966
box 5, folder 26
II: Dire Dawa, Assela, and Coronation Day
1966
box 5, folder 27
III: Frankfurt, Asmara, Addis Abeba, Alamaya College, and Dire Dawa
1966
box 5, folder 28
IV: Christmas Vacation, Feast of the Cross, and Harar
1968
box 5, folder 29
V: Coronation Day, Teshome Hailu, Iaay, Hike-Chilato, and Swedish Mission
1966-1968
box 5, folder 30
VI: Parents Day, Trip to Bekoji, and farewell party
1967
box 6, folder 1
VII: Haile Selassie Hospital and Haile Selassie visit
1967
box 6, folder 2
VIII: Ethiopian wedding, Christmas vactation, and Harar
1967-1968
box 6, folder 3
IX: Igay, Dinky, library, classroom, Christmas vacation, Addis Abeba, and Asmara
1967
box 6, folder 4
X: Market Day, Assela, trip, and Teshome's home
1967
box 6, folder 5
XI: Operation/tumor removal, Haile Selassie I Hospital, Assela, Ras Darge students and faculty
1968
box 6, folder 6
XII: Lake Zwai, Assela, and Parents' Day
1967
box 6, folder 7
XIII: Christmas vacation, Axum, Gonder, Tisisat Falls, IGGY, and trip to Lake Zwai
1967
box 6, folder 8
XIV: Assela, Sodore, and Ethiopian wedding
1967
box 6, folder 9
XV: Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania, Dinka Assela characters, and Meskel celebration
1967
box 6, folder 10
XVI: Farewell, Assela, Egypt, Israel, and Vienna
1968
box 6, folder 11
7th grade student essays: "Ethiopia Tikdem/Ethiopia First"
1975
box 6, folder 12
English teaching handbook
1974
box 6, folder 13
Health Education Kit for Teachers
1970s
box 6, folder 14
"Visual Aids" by Larry Ladd (Peace Corps Volunteers)
1974
box 6, folder 15
"Visual Aids for Children and Nutrition Education"
1974
Scope and Contents note
In Amharic and English
box 6, folder 16
Printed Matter
1975-1976
Scope and Contents note
Includes a map, brochures, and pamphlets from Ethiopian Airlines.
box 10, folder 1
Tesfamariam, Issayas
2016
box 10, folder 2
Worreck, Roberta (also known as Maria Thomas)
1989
box 10, folder 4
"A Visit to Marxist Ethiopia in 1988"
1988
box 10, folder 5
"Among the Besieged in War-Torn Eritrea"
1989
box 10, folder 6
"Rough Plan for 4,000 word Piece on Ethiopia and Eritrea for Mother Jones"
1988
box 12, folder 5
The Ethiopia Herald, Nos. 1-3
1991 February-May, July
box 12, folder 6-9
The Herald, Nos. 4-25
1991-2002
box 13, folder 1
The Herald, Nos. 26-27, 29, and 34-36
2002-2009
Michael Finnerty
1947-1975
Writings by Diriba Mamo
1974-1975
box 13, folder 4
"The Story of Bakura"
1974-1975
box 13, folder 5
"The Story of Homo and Hama"
1974-1975
box 13, folder 6
"Joe's Record of Radio News About Ethiopia"
1974-1975
box 13, folder 7
"Learning Amharic Alphabets in Pictures and Handwriting"
1960s
box 13, folder 8
Addis Zemen/New Era newspaper
1975 August 29
Scope and Contents note
In Amharic
box 13, folder 9
Finchaa Hydroelectric Power Project
1973
box 13, folder 10
Afrique Nord-Est map
1971
box 13, folder 12
"Negarit Gazeta" proclamation
1974
box 13, folder 12
The Ethiopian Herald
1974-1975
Scope and Contents note
Includes issues from June 30, 1974; May 1, 1975; May 3, 1975; and August 29, 1975.
box 18, folder 1-2
News articles from United Press International or the Associated Press
1976-1991
Scope and Contents
News articles from United Press International or the Associated Press, and clipped from The Indianapolis Star and The Denver
Post.
Edward G. Engelbart
1961-2018
box 14, folder 1
Banknotes and accounts
1961-1966
box 14, folder 2
Miscellaneous
1966-1967, 2008-2009, 2018
Scope and Contents note
Includes an identification card, invitations, addresses, invoices, and a deed of gift.
box 14, folder 5
Beil, Marion Haley
2003, 2009
box 14, folder 10-19
Engelbart, Chris C.
1962-1967
box 15, folder 3
Schaediger, Alvin H.
1965
box 15, folder 6
Shriver, Robert Sargent
1963
box 15, folder 9
Writings
1965-1967
Scope and Contents note
Contains notes and articles.
box 15, folder 10
Education - Teachers clearance sheet
1965
box 15, folder 11
Education - The Voice of Prince Mekonnen School
1965
box 15, folder 13
Peace Corps
1965-1967, 2010-2011
box 15, folder 14
Peace Corps - Anniversary reunion
1966, 2016
box 15, folder 16
Peace Corps -
The Image, Vol. III, No. 1
1965
Scope and Contents note
Issue of a periodical published by the Ethiopian Peace Corps.
box 15, folder 17
Peace Corps -
Ethiopia: Trainees for the Peace Corps
1965
Scope and Contents note
A roster of Peace Corps trainees from UCLA from June 17 - September 9, 1965. Includes images and a short biographical note
about each trainee.
box 15, folder 18
Refugees - The American Team for Displaced Eritreans newsletter
2000s
box 15, folder 20
Clippings
1966-1967, 1985
Miscellaneous
1960s-1970s
box 15, folder 21
Brochures and postcards
1960s
box 15, folder 22
Ethiopian coins used during Haile Selassie's rule
1960s-1970s
box 15, folder 23
"Summer Project and Ethiopia Tavels"
1965-1966
Scope and Contents note
Consists of 1 DVDs and 1 CD.
box 15, folder 25
Negatives
1965
Scope and Contents note
Contains images of Peace Corps training at UCLA; of Westward, California; and of Mexico.