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Pamphlet announcing the Journals of Peace Instructions for vigil participants Schedule of vigil participants and links to their readings Vigil participants (alphabetically) |
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Making it happen by Tim Carroll (Nigeria 196366) |
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Do you have photos or other memorabilia from the Journals of Peace? We would like to add them to this archive. Please contact John Coyne |
In 1988, as the first Director of the National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (NCRPCV), now the National Peace Corps Association, I felt a considerable part of my mandate was to bring our disparate numbers together, to gather us up to celebrate those feelings we had in common. A number of special events given under my tenure accomplished this in varying degrees of success, but none held the hearts of Peace Corps family as did the Journals of Peace.
As the 25th anniversary of the death of President John Kennedy the founder and much loved hero of early Volunteers approached, I made a call to St. Matthews Cathedral, the church that had been the site of JFKs funeral service, and asked if we might have a memorial Mass that would include not only the traditional Showing of the Colors, but a procession of flags, carried by returned Volunteers, representing all their countries of service. The priests quickly agreed. Then in a conversation with John Coyne (Ethiopia 196264), he mentioned how many PCVs had kept journals while overseas and suggested we might have RPCVs read from their journals for twenty-four hours before the memorial Mass at the Cathedral. When this proved to be impossible at St. Matthews, I called Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd (Dominican Republic 196668)) and asked if it might be possible to stage such a vigil in the Capital Rotrunda. Holding a 24-hour vigil in the Rotunda of the U.S Capitol had never happened before,(at that time the Capitol Rotunda was open to the public from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm) but the good Senator made it happened. RPCVs respond to the invitation The Journals of Peace A service of remembrance John Coyne, present at the creation, has carefully archived the readings of those Volunteers, now nearly as distant from the event, as were the Journals of Peace from the death of President Kennedy. For those who wish to relive that remarkable day under the marble done of the U.S. Capitol, he has assembled them here for your enjoyment and for the lifting of your spirit. Reading them could lead to no other conclusion. March 2003 |
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After founding the Office of Protocol for the Department of Justice, (1997-01), Tim Carroll retired to his family farm in Michigan. In addition to being a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria from 1963-65, he was also the Peace Corps Country Director in Pakistan, Poland and Russia between 1990 and 1995. For a decade of work with Eye Care, Inc. in Haiti, Tim received the first Shriver Award for Humanitarian Service in 1986. He continues his interest in international affairs and travels widely. He recently returned from several months of traveling in the Horn of Africa.
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