Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007 - (Page 8)

Consider a gift that lasts… NPCA has been the grateful beneficiary of a number of planned gifts. If you wish to discuss how you can make a lasting gift that will help us connect, inform and engage the Peace Corps community, please contact Kevin Quigley at kevin@ rpcv.org or 202-293-7728, ext.19. $45,637 - $72,592 helped, as she loved to say, “the African farmer and her husband.” Leach’s lecture was slightly overshadowed by its guests of honor. Sitting on the front row was lean and handsome Phil Ruppe. A grandson, William, sat on and under and in front of the chair next to Ruppe and occasionally climbed into his grandfather’s lap. Seated next to William’s unoccupied chair were his mother, Mary, and an aunt, Adele. Around the corner were other members of the family, including the husbands of the ﬁve Ruppe daughters. ree of those daughters spoke eloquently from the pulpit when their mother died at the age of 60 with a grace and conviction that demonstrated much about their mother and this Washington family. However, one of the daughters, Loret, Jr., did not attend the Leach lecture. Tschetter said that Loret, 45, was ﬁghting cancer and unable to attend. Several days later, she died of breast cancer. Loret, Jr., joined the Peace Corps and served in Nepal when her mother was the agency’s popular director. She met and married another Nepal volunteer, completed a doctorate in environmental engineering, raised three sons, championed the careers of women and minorities in her ﬁeld and for the last four years worked on the climate change team at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Adele, who works at the State Department in public diplomacy, spoke for the family that day. “One of Loret’s last wishes was to do an NPR Story Corps interview with our father. And though in the end I had to conduct the interview on her behalf, she was able to say a few words. And what she said was, ‘I am so proud to have been a Peace Corps volunteer.’ And those are her words, which will be preserved. A powerful testimony to the role of the Peace Corps.” David Arnold CORRECTION A photograph on Page 15 of our last issue is of angels painted on the ceiling of Debra Berhan Selassie, an 18thcentury Ethiopian Orthodox church in Gondar, Ethiopia. 8 Fall 2007 http://www.teachinla.com http://www.teachinla.com

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Worldview - Fall 2007 Contents Presiden'ts Note Lafayette Park Introduction Interview Commentary Editor's Note Letter from Rumbek, Sudan Listings Letter from Yekaterinburg, Russia Letter from Codaesti, Romania Letter from Catia La Mar, Venezuela Letter from Gumare, Botswana Letter from Ridder, Kazakhstan Letter from Rincon, Cape Verde Letter from Port Au Prince Another Country Community News Giving Back Opinion

Worldview Magazine - Fall 2007

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