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Page 2B/The BattaliorVThursday, March 31, 1983 Peace Corps volunteers work to create good will v jfF / f V 4 ,< 'V, * United Press International SINGBURI, Thailand —Buf feted by more than 20 years of turmoil and change, a tiny spark of the 1960s American idealism that launched the Peace Corps lives on in rural Thailand. Quietly and without fanfare, young and old Americans con tinue to volunteer two years of their lives for the old-fashioned notion of helping others. “I sometimes think if I can just create good will, I’m doing okay,” said Reed J. Aeschliman, one of 178 Peace Corps volun teers serving in Thailand. He is the only volunteer in Singburi Province, a rice-growing area 75 miles north of Bangkok. Aeschliman, 25, grew up on a farm near Wauseon, Ohio, and is putting his agriculture back ground to use as an adviser to 4-H clubs scattered throughout the province. “I try to convince the people I work with that Americans and foreigners in general are not al ways right and they have to de velop their own solutions to their own problems,” he said. “I’m not sure I’m always suc cessful, but I try,” he said. The Peace Corps currently has about 5,200 volunteers working in 64 countries and is hoping to increase public aware ness of its work after years of near obscurity in the United States, Peace Corps Director Loret Ruppe said recently. “The Peace Corps really had problems during the 1970s be cause it was coming out of a lot of misperceptions of the ’60s,” Ruppe said. “It was growing, improving and learning from its mistakes Quietly and without fanfare, young and old Americans continue to volunteer two years of their lives for the old- fashioned notion of helping others. done in America, where too many Americans do not realize the Peace Corps is alive and doing tremendous work all around the world.” Overseas, she said, people do not need to be reminded of the Peace Corps, which has more re quests for volunteers than it can fill, especially for engineers and science and mathematics teachers. There also is a constant de mand for English language teachers that is much easier to fill than requests for technical skills, Ruppe said. William Landis, of San Diego, Calif., teaches English at the Bunnak Phittayakhom in Chainat Province. Ruppe, appointed Peace Corps director by President Reagan in 1981, said the econo mic recession and the shortage of jobs for recent college gradu ates was a boon to recruitment of volunteers, especially those with technical skills, “We do think economic con ditions in some ways are helping us,” she said. “It certainly is generating more interest. It helps us in the scarce skills. En gineers, for example, are not being snapped up by employers now due to the economic situa tion. i but it had to overcome during the ’70s the lack of public aware ness due to the ramifications of Vietnam and misperceptions of everyone (in the Peace Corps) being a hippie. “I feel our work has to be A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Landis teaches English to all grades at the high school as well as main taining a wide range of extracur ricular programs in education and vocational studies. “What I’m trying to do now is to make the community realize the school is not just for the stu- tlents,” he said. “I want them to realize t he library and other faci lities are for the community as a whole,” he said. “We also get a lot of calls and applications from people who are unemployed but, unfortun ately, do not have the skills that are needed by a volunteer.” The volunteers who come to Thailand will not be faced with unemployment for two years, but are unlikely to become weal thy on their monthly stipend of about $200. ■ v - V fe ' *.«’ United Press In SWEDESBORC lorge Tiliakos b lol folks these d Ithe urban rat r; |e nothing bette on the far : enough foot To pay for Iwever, they’ll ise high-salari Tiliakos, th : New Jersey k Home Cor] Ime up with a w i both. 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