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Show Peace Corps Visit Slated and provided him with orientation orienta-tion in his position as administrator. adminis-trator. "Tanzania Inviting" Once in Tanzania, Connerley said, "I found the country very inviting, and the people cooperative. cooper-ative. Such things as Mount Kili- Three recently returned Peace Corps volunteers, Ed Connerly, Signe Wood, and Michael Gale are on campus this week doing advance Peace Corps promotion. The Peace Corps recruitment program will begin Monday, Oct. 3. manjaro and a big-game hunt made my assignment an unforgettable unfor-gettable experience." Adjusting to the cultural and language differences were the least of his problems. "The biggest big-gest adjustment," Mr. Connerley said, "was realizing my own position. Life was no longer scheduled for me; I was the authority, au-thority, and my actions affected not only me but the ten million people of Tanzania." ! I a i , ' ? Michael L. Gale went to what he described as the "historical" island of Margarita in 1964 off the coast of Venezuela, as a physical education teacher. American Training He organized and established a P.E. system largely along the lines of his American training, but Mr. Gale said, "The Latin American people would rather play a sport all-year around instead in-stead of adjusting to a seasonal time-table." During summers, he helped to re-open a park on the island and to establish it as a focal point for activities. Mr.Gale graduated from the University of Southern California where he played varsity football. He took his training as a volunteer volun-teer in Springfield, Mass. Agriculture College Signe Wood is the third member mem-ber of the advanced Peace Corps group. She served from 1964-1966 as librarian at the Ahwaz Agriculture Agri-culture College, Ahwaz, Iran, setting up, running, and cataloging catalog-ing the library and training a counterpart. During the summer she worked with junior high school girls in a day camp program pro-gram involving sports, arts and crafts. Miss Wood said the culture was completely different in Iran. "A young married girl on her own is very unusual." She described de-scribed the people as being quite tradition bound. Mr. Gale and Miss Wood said one of the most effective ways to communicate in different culture cul-ture was to learn their local gestures. Ed Connerly Four other Corps members aid the three in the annual program. Connerley was assigned to Mbeya, Tanzania, a country on Africa's east coast, as an administrator ad-ministrator for a culverting and bridging program on the feeder roads of Tanzania. At Syracuse University an intensive training program initiated him into Swa-hili, Swa-hili, the language of Tanzania, Signe Wood ... - i . i ilBllIlililllll ' , " ; v : I l - , i ' , i1 L ' " j Mike Gale |