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' - I<VJO•· qoS'. AYO! .i-1..A1}i_f _ Vol. + No . 3 KAY, so it's the turn of the year and no one's dead yet, although Korea is trying its darnest to bring us close to it. 'J'he Land of t lie Morning C·-:.lm is quaking as it's never qu o.ked bef ore, helped along by PCV's all over the country who ' re rocking wj_th fevers of one kind or another·. Later on i.n this column we ' 11 list· the'wounded and the walking wounded:, but for now let's just note that V'rinter is hailed as the healthful season here •.• RAY GRANTHAM, who decided to exJlore his living ar:Fa on his ovm • one night ( Chungup), plunged waist ~ deep into a compost heap. We 're all suppose to 3sk him what he d{d with the jesns he was wearing at the time ..• And RICK and JAN'S second ceremony took place on schedule in Chonju with a·sizeable: representation of P~v• s and staff : on hand. Girls, Jan wore a street\ length white dress, straight- lined'. with a short veil, says KAHEN ' MIDDLETON, who was there •.. ROSEBUD KIRWIN, who obviously . never read Dale Carnegie's "Hovv To Win Friends and Influence People~" _drew a smile of beaming friendship from a Korean lady ;frhom she'd elbowed out of the way getting on the bus . It's just a prime example of how differently we look at things. Can you picture getting a smile in the States after an a ction like the.t? .•• RICH,,RD PAiUIT, refuses to le1we Chungju unless he's sick . He · likes it that much, says rlIIKE GREIN ... NEil SCdULTL. 1 s class in Pusan digs his sj_nging, so one day, rte2.tly lettered on the bl0.ck-: board, was a plea for Ned to sing · "Love Potion Number Nine, 11 only .( coIJ,tinu~d .o-n._ page ?. ) _ Januar THE PANGS OF BIRTH DesJ ite the presence of modern medicine, the birthpangs of Peace Corps Korea I have been far from painless . Nowhere have the convulsions been felt more strongly than in the ~eace Corps Office Oil Moogyo Tiong . Korea I, now four months old, is st :i 11: not exactly a lusty infant, but its cradle rocks more quietly now and :its maternal parent is on her feet -- a little tottering perha"[ls - - but nonetheless standing upright. When the vanguard arrived in the shoe of Loren and Keith Cox a,t the end of August 1966, the building that would ho~2e the first pe,.'.ce Corps Office in Korea was not yet completed, It would be several weeks before its w::1-lls would reverberate to the sounds of 99 Miguk voices all clamoring to be herci.rd. In the interim , Loren took over a suite of rooms in the Metro Botel in Myong Dong which served first ·as. offices and then as Terry and · Meg Mixte:c ' s home for many weeks t o follow . · September 2 was quite a day for the Metro Ho t el, for in noured the O' Donnell clan -- 10 strong '-- 2-nd the sta.irwell e choed to the lau&hter and . screams of -3 vigorous, excited youngsters. The dining -room was . rearr!'lllged for them • . , ,Kevin and Ellen, surrounded by their offspring , bec81Ile 2, fai-nilia.r sight in the long, low rrom. September 4, PCV M::irion Oakleaf joined the throng, and.the rooms · soon grew accustomed to the · :feverish tap-tap of ty-pewri ter ·keys, frorn dawn 'til da,rk. A (con' t or,,. R~ge ,;i} PAGE .1