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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
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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
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