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Vol. 1 No.4-
SCUTTLEBUTT
BIGGEST NEWS of the month:
~OSEBUD KIRWIN and DAVE ALVORD are.
engaged! Although their little ru~
mor pursued them all over Korea,
Rosebud and Dave didn't make it of­ficial
until the close of the Kyun
ju workshop. Our best wishes to
~he happy pair, with repeated hope
~hat they'll keep ue informed of
their wedding plans ..• At the momen
it's February, and everyone knows
that Valentine's Day falls on the
14th. Perhaps this is the time to
t:,ally up Cupid's victims in the
Korea I project. The old boy has
been working overtime. First ther
were ELAINE DULING and JIM B,lXTER,
who had known. each other before
joining the Peace Corps. They wer
married during leave in Honolulu.
Then there were JlLJIJ MOLTENBER.11.Y an
RICK L.AYLIN who had also lmown eac
other before joining, and who were
married here in Korea . MIKE JACK!~
SON's engagement, to MISS SONG. fol­lowed
soon after; FLORENCE ii.LFF I s
to PAUL STARZYNSKI of USIS was clo
on their heels, and now, Rosebud
and Dave, Oh yes, and JIM SPR:1.Y
and your reporter, who kept theirs
secret until Christmastime, No
bets. are being taken on who I s next.
••• FRED BLAIR writes that his skin
grafting is going well, but that h
suffers a great deal of embarrass­njent
explaining how it happened •••
DR.YOON, the PC dentist in Seoul,
1s absolutely painless. What tech
nique! .•. BEVERLY NELSON was in
Seoul before New Ye3.r' s Day, moan:..
ing low with a bad cold and some
kind of infection later kayo'd by
penicillin, She's fine now, thoug.
•.•• BONNIE JO DOPP (we seem to writ
about her 1.1. lot) is experimenting
(can't. on :p.2)
February 11}67
ILLS, PILLS Ju~D STUFF
Subject:
Mountains and Molehills:
I was happy to see you all at
the recent conferences. Seeing
only the medical problems in Seoul,
I had begun to wonder if there
were really any any hea;t.thy vol­unteers
remaining in Korea. I was
pleased to see that the vast ma­jority
of PCV's in Korea are in
good health and a re .adjusting to
the environment very well. I have
also recently had the opportunity
· of go ing over PC/Korea's heal th
statistics with the former d1rec­tor
of tee Medical Division, Dr.
James Banta, who feels that otir
health record is in line •With most
other Peace Corps. countries.. Un­fortunately
this means that other
countries have many problems as
well. Therefore, my goal (with
your cooperation) will be to make
Korea have t he best health record.
I was a.lso pleased with the
response to the malaria program I
talked about at the conferences.
I will submit the list soon, so
anybody else who is interested
should drop me · a 1 ine. ·
il.. number of you are having ill­defined
problems which are begin­ning
to effect your teachtng, per­sonal
life and interpersonal· rel­ations.
Some of you have said
you are just pooped and somewhat
crabby. At times these minor is­sues
become magnified and out of
perspective; at other times,
whEt t may be a seemingly minor
problem may turn out to be more
signi ficant t han was expected.
These types of things can be eas­ily
put off until they become mag-
·nified to such an extent that
· (con't. on p.2)