GROUP 1 RPCVS HOLD REUNION AND
ESTABLISH NEW PCAFPD SCHOLARSHIP FUND

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The first group of Peace Corps Volunteers to serve in Asia arrived in the Philippines in October of 1961. This past October, close to 40 of those Volunteers, "Botch 1," along with spouses, partners, friends, and several former staff members, celebrated the 40^th anniversary of their completion of service in 1963.

Maureen Carroll and       Ron Peters

Group 1 members donated over $5000 to establish the Maureen Joan Carroll Scholarship Fund. Maureen is a member of Group 1 and the current President of PCAFPD.  The award acknowledges her leadership over the years to keep Group 1 folks in touch with each other and her long service as a Board Member of PCAFPD. Also noteworthy was a very generous contribution by Liz Watts, widow of Doug Watts, to sustain a memorial scholarship set up in his name last year when he died. Prior to the weekend, Hans Groot sent a similarly large contribution to the Foundation in honor of the deceased members of the group.

Ron Peters (PCAFPD Board member) and his wife Lilia (from Gubat, Sorsogon) planned a perfect weekend of activities. Highlights included a private tour of the Philippines Wild Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, visits from the Philippine Consulate, the Philippines Tourism Bureau, and the Peace Corps office, a luncheon cruise on Lake Michigan , a splendid fiesta dinner at a Filipino restaurant (including balut), and a very moving ceremony in remembrance of group members who have died.

The group decided to meet again in two years in one of several proposed locations—Toronto, Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, or on a cruise ship!

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