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Show Sunday. February 24 1980. "HE HERALD. Provo, Utah -- Page 11A o ncDiniaa nrr PEACE CORPS director, Richard Celeste, ia hit Washington office, tayi that "energy, water wpply and food, along with raw materials will be the stuff about which we straggle and contend, and that's where the volunteers will be working." (UPI Telephoto) IFoir Peace Corps Work Involves Struggles - WASHINGTON In the (UPI) tropics of Africa, the energy crisis comes down to being able to afford enough firewood to cook dinner. "It costs more to heat the pot than to fill it," say the women of Mali. "It is such a problem in countries like Mali and Senegal that 20 to 25 percent of a person's income is spent on firewood," said Peace Corps Director Richard Celeste. There are estimates the tropical forests will be exhausted in 60 years. The shortage and high cost of firewood are a problem the Peace Corps is help-in- g overcome by organizing village wood lots and introducing fast growing trees. "We have volunteers both in Mali and Upper Volta who have designed stoves that are very cheap, easily replacable, and reduce by 50 percent the firewood needed to cook," Celeste said. "I don't know how to explain what a dramatic breakthrough that represents." Celeste, a vigorous, shirtsleeved administrator, said energy is one of "the global survival skills" he expects Peace Corps volunteers to be involved in over the next 10 to 20 years. "Energy, water supply and food, those three along with raw materials will be the stuff about which we struggle and contend, and that's where the volunteers are (and will be) working," he said. Founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, the Peace Corps has sent some 72,000 volunteers abroad to more as than 65 countries to do such th'-i- help teach health education in Micronesia and work on modernizing roads in Morocco. Volunteers are trained in local languages and customs, and sent off to live among villagers and city dwellers for at least two years and at modest pay. For all the brave dreams of the 1960s, by the mid 1970s the Peace Corps had little visibility at home. "I think it was frankly intentional," Celeste said. "I think in the Nixon years, particularly during the latter days of the Vietnam War when volunteers tended to be outspokenly critical, there was a decision to make the Peace Corps anonymous. When the Carter administration came in, they didn't even have Peace Corps letterheads." Celeste believes the Peace Corps is regaining some of its lost recognition through $23 million in television spot advertisements and enthusiastic tq Coofltractoir cssid recruiting on college campuses and in community centers. "For the Peaces Corps to be vital, it has to be visible," Celeste said. "People have to know there is a real opportunity for Peace Corps service, to be able to think about it as a real option." Another adverse trend that Celeste said is being turned around is the reduction of countries taking volunteers. "We now have volunteers back in Tanzania for the first time since the early 1970s," he said. Celeste predicted "two or three new countries would ask for volunteers in the course of 1980, joining the 60 other nations and territories where the Peace Corps currently operates. Celeste sees the Peace Corps becoming more international with Americans working along with volunteers from other other countries "because that is the way we will all do business in the Third World in the 1980s." In the mid 1960s, about 60 percent of the volunteers were teachers, many teaching English. Today, teachers make up about 25 percent and they are involved in a much broader range of activities. Celeste, former lieutenant governor of Ohio, ran for the top spot in 1978 but narrowly lost to incumbent John Rhodes. In March, 1979, he accepted the Peace Corps job. The Celeste, 42, graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1959, and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, pursuing African studies at both schools. In 1963, he worked for the Peace Corps as a staff liaison officer before joining Ambassador Chester Bowles as his staff assistant in India, a job he held for four years. Celeste returned to Cleveland in 1967 and joined the National Housing Corp., a small firm specializing in housing for senior citizens. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1974 after serving two terms in the legislature. wife He and his Austrian-bor- n Dagmar have six children. The family still lives in Cleveland and Celeste does a lot of commuting. "For the Peace Corps, I will do that," Celeste said. "I love it. It is an irrestible challenge." 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