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We'll carpool to the celebration at the Kennedy Library in Boston.  
Currently, we have a group leaving approximately 7am, contact Diane.  To arrange a carpool from elsewhere, send email to our mailing list at rpcv-neny@yahoogroups.com.  If you're not a member of our email list, join here... 

The press release & the day's schedule are below...

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Friday, January 28, 2011

 Peace Corps 50th Anniversary

Greetings to our Peace Corps Campus Partners:

 As a friend and supporter of Peace Corps, we cordially invite you along with your students, staff and faculty to help us commemorate 50 Years of Peace Corps Volunteer service overseas.

On Saturday, March 5th, Peace Corps will commemorate our 50th Anniversary with a national event at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, MA.  This event is free of charge and will feature a full schedule of cultural demonstrations, live world music, film screenings, and educational presentations celebrating our 50 years of promoting World Peace and Friendship.

Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Commemoration

Saturday, March 5, 2011

10am-3pm

JFK Library and Museum

200 William T. Morrissey Blvd.

Boston, MA

Additionally, anyone with a valid Student ID will receive a reduced admission rate of $10 per person to the JFK Museum .  There is no charge to attend the Anniversary Commemoration.

If you have any questions or need more information, don’t hesitate to contact us at 617-565-6849.  We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, March 5th !

Warm regards,

The Staff of the Peace Corps New England Regional Office

www.peacecorps.gov
Peace Corps
New England Regional Peace Corps Office
10 Causeway St. #559
Boston, MA 02222


John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

March 5, 2011

50 Years of Peace Corps

Open Press/Open to the Public

The Pavilion

10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

10:00-3:00       Recruitment event with tables with RPCVS from around the world, Meet your Fellows and MI schools, World Wise Schools and our partners AmeriCorps and City Year

 

10:45 a.m.       Customs From Around the World: Coffee*

11:45 a.m.       Customs From Around the World: Tea*

12:45 p.m.       Customs From Around the World: Cocoa*

*Demonstrations by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers on the importance

of coffee, tea and cocoa traditions as observed in their countries of service.

 

Smith Hall   

10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

 

10:30 a.m.       Opening remarks

10:45 a.m.       Documentary Premiere: “The Toughest Job We Ever Loved:50 Years of Peace Corps”

11:10 a.m.       Storyteller Len Cabral

11:45 a.m.       Panel Discussion featuring Peace Corps host country nationals whose lives were

positively impacted by Volunteers:

                                                Moderator Allyson Snell (Guatemala, 2006-2008)

                                                Mustapha Fofana-Sierra Leone 

                                                Basile Komla Koumi-Togo

                                                Indalecio “Indy” Vallejos-Belize

1:05 p.m.           Tony Vacca’s World Rhythms

1:55 p.m.           Special acknowledgments by Aaron S. Williams,

                                    Peace Corps Director (Dominican Republic, 1967-1970)

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