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 REPRESEHTATIVE PEACE CORPS VOL 
 
 This Is a random selection of Volunteers who areVio»<braining 
 in the United states for specific Peace Corps projects abrt 
 people appearing "below are generally representative of those who have, 
 to this time, been chosen for the initial Peace Corps programs. Put\ire 
 projects will probably not require teLLents differing from those 
 illTOStrated here. 
 
 WILLIAM R. AUSTIN, 26, of Bennington, Kansas, has spent the past 
 two academic years teaching world history smd coaching football and 
 basketbeill at Trego Comraunity High School in Wakeeney, Kansas. He 
 received his A.B. degree in history in 1959 from Kansas Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, where he was co-captain of the football team and vice-president 
 of the student council. He has worked summers sis a laborer in a grain 
 elevator and as an agricultursQ. field hand. For two years he served as 
 a group captain at summer conferences of the Fellowship of Christian 
 Athletes in Estes Park, Colorado. At present he is training for the 
 Ghana project at Berkeley. 
 
 JAMES LANCASTER, JR., 22, of 1+421 15th Street, N.W., Washington, 
 D. C, received his B. A. degree in economics this June from Howard 
 University. He was active in a number of student activities there, 
 serving as president of the Economics Club and secretary of the Business 
 Club. He has had extensive experience in working with youth groups at the 
 Fellowship House in Washington ajid with an American Friends Service 
 
 Committee grotrp in Turkey. He is now stxjdying at Harvard in preparation 
 for the Nigeria projects. 
 
 HARLAN DAVIS HIBBARD, 2U, of 56 Francisco Avenue, West Caldwell, 
 New Jersey, just finished his first year at the Western Reserve University 
 Medical School in Cleveland. He Is teuklng a leave of absence from his 
 medical studies to begin Peace Corps training. He received his B.A. 
 degree in 1959 from Oberlln College, where he was president of the Ski 
 Club and a member of the veirslty footbeuLl and lacrosse teams. He spent 
 last summer in Nigeria. He is preparing at Harvard for the Nigeria project. 
 
 ARTHUR G. HUNTER, 23, of 2l6 Hillcrest Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 
 is presently in training at Iowa State for the St. Lucia project. He is 
 a graduate student in forestry at North Carolina State College, in Raleigh. 
 A graduate of Loiiisiana Polytechnic Institute, In Ruston, Louisiana, he 
 also studied at the Itaiversity of New Mexico, in Alburquerque . His major 
 interests have been forestry, genetics, pathology, botany and bacteriology. 
 He has worked as a forester in Louisiana, Washington, New Mexico, and 
 Alabama. 
 
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 BYRON T. HOPEWELL, 821 7th Street, Havre, Montana, is 22 years 
 old and vas graduated this June from the Itaiversity of Washington, 
 vhere he specisLLized in the sciences. In high school he played on 
 the foothall team and in 1956 was an All-State selection for guard. 
 He speaks Spanish fluently and knows Mexico well. He is skilled in 
 carpentry, masonry, and automotive engineering. He is now training 
 at Rutgers in the CARE-Peace Corps project headed for Colombia. 
 
 PETER S. DeSIMONS of 195 Goldenrod Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 
 is 2k years old, single and is employed by the New York-New Haven and 
 Heirtford Railroad as a structural draftsman on bridge construction prob- 
 lems. He has also worked sis an apprentice carpenter on frame building 
 construction in Bridgeport. He received his Bachelor's degree in engi- 
 neering in June i960, at the University of Connecticut, and he also 
 worked for the National Park Service as a student engineer in Organ 
 Pipe CEictus National Monument in Ajo, Arizona in survey work in construc- 
 tion and topography. He is now getting instruction at Texas Western 
 in preparation for the Tanganyika project. 
 
 PAULA WEBB, 3I, of 351 Gray Road, West Falmouth, Maine, has been 
 living and studying this last year in Mexico. An elementary school 
 teacher in the years 1952-1957, she has tavight in the Mary C. Wheeler 
 School, in Providence, Rhode Island, and in the public schools of Seekonk, 
 Massachusetts. She also has taught demonstration classes for student 
 teachers at Lesley College, in Cambridge, Massachixsetts . More recently. 
 Miss Webb was an. editor with the Boston educational publishing firm, 
 D. C. Heath and Company. She is stvidying at Iowa State for the St. Lucia 
 project. 
 
 A. TBSDTHY PETERSON, 21, of I315 Op\aa Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, 
 received his B. A. in history at the University of Hawaii, in I96I. 
 He attended high school and one year of college in Sacramento, Cali- 
 fornia. Since 1958, he has been working as a salesman for a construction 
 and home repair con5>any in Honolulu. He is fairly fluent in Spanish and 
 has traveled in Mexico, summer of I96O, He is stvidying at Ohio State 
 for the Philippine project. 
 
 MICHAEL LANIGAN of 5608 Valley Road, Falls Church, Virginia, is 23 
 years old. He is presently training at Rutgers for the CARE-Peace Corps 
 project which will leave about the first of September for Colombia. He 
 was c\arrently working for the U.S. Steel Con5>any and has worked as a 
 pharmacist's clerk In a hospital. He is a handyman by inclination, equally 
 interested in reparing a motor, making things with carpentry tools and 
 building radios or doing plumbing. He is also a photographer. He played 
 football emd was on the swimming and rifle teams at school. He has 
 completed two years of college work at Georgetown amd American University. 
 He is the son of a Marine Corps GenereuL and has served in the Marine Corps 
 as an Infantry squad leader and as editor of the Battalion paper. 
 
STABLEY M. BEHMAN, 25, of 170? Dundee Way, Louisville, Kentucky- 
 is the husband of Clarice Heller Bennan. He received his Bachelor of 
 Laws degree this Jvine from the Harvard University School of Law. He 
 was graduated, cum laude, in 1958 from Amherst College, where he majored 
 in government. He has worked summers as a law clerk and bank teller. 
 He is training at Harvard for the Nigeria project as one of the first 
 hxisband and wife teams chosen by the Peace Corps. 
 
 MRS. CLARICE HELLER BERMAN, 22, of 1707 Dundee Way, Louisville, 
 Kentucky, is the wife of Stanley M. Bennan. She received her B. A. in 
 English this year frcm Smith College, although she spent her final two 
 semesters at Wellesley College. She was active in extra-ctirriculax 
 projects at Smith, serving sis hovise editor of the yearbook, as a member 
 of the Electoral Board, and 85 head of freshmen advisors at Sessions 
 House. She and her husband are both grsuiuates of Atherton High School 
 in Louisville. 
 
 JACOB FLEEMAIT of I3OI N. Harrison Street, Wilmington, Delaware, is 
 21 years old, single, and a graduate in civil engineering of the University 
 of Delaware. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He has 
 been an athletic counselor of Camp Arcady, New York and Camp Lindenmere, 
 of Tannersville, Pennsylvania. He was vice president of the American 
 Society of Civil Engineers, Student cbapter, when he graduated this June 
 at the University of Delaware. He has had on the Job experience in 
 handling surveyor's tools and other engineering equipnent. He is getting 
 field training and instruction at Texas Western in preparation for the 
 Tanganyika project. 
 
 LAURA P. DAMON, 23, of 11 Saybrook Place, Buffalo, N. Y., has been 
 a librarian at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library since last 
 September. She received her B.A. degree in English in I96O from Smith 
 College, where she was vice-president of her class and secretary of the 
 Ho\ise of Representatives . She speaks French fluently and traveled to 
 East Africa on a study tour for two months in 1959- She is stiidying at 
 Berkeley in preparation for the Ghana project. 
 
 ENRIQUE MDRALES of 2206 Federal Avenue, El Paso, Texas,, is 28 years 
 old. He is studying at Rutgers in prei)aration for going to Colombia on 
 the CARE-Peace Corps project. He grad\iated from Bowie High School in 
 El Paso in 1952 and attended Texas Western College. He is skilled with 
 electric and acetylene welding equipment and has worked in a copper 
 refinery. He is trained in photographic processes and is currently emp- 
 loyed by the Department of the Army as a physical science technician. 
 
 DOLORES D. HAWRANEY, 23, of 2738 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio, 
 received her B.A. in literature at omell University in I96O. Last yesu: 
 she taioght high school English at Long Island, New York, while taking night 
 classes in Arabic. She has done volunteer teaching with retarded children 
 during the s\mmiers of 1957 and 1958. Miss Hawraney has traveled to both 
 Prance and Lebanon on brief visits. She is stiidying at Ohio State for 
 the Philippine project. 
 
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