IVORY COAST: 72-YEAR OLD AMERICAN WOMAN WORKS AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PEACE CORPS IN IVORY COAST

Record ID: 1079747

  • Title: IVORY COAST: 72-YEAR OLD AMERICAN WOMAN WORKS AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF PEACE CORPS IN IVORY COAST
  • Date: 17th August 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV Abidjan street scene 0.05 2. LV Peace Corps building 0.08 3. CU Peace Corps sign 0.11 4. CU Mrs. Nora Hodges on phone 0.18 5. CU Peace Corps poster 0.21 6. SV Mrs. Hodges seated with interviewer 0.27 7. CU Hodges 1.41 TRANSCRIPT (SEQ 7): Mrs Hodges: "That's a long story, After retiring from 30 years of teaching after my husband's death, I entered the Peace Corps as a volunteer and I went to Tunisia where I taught English as a foreign language for two years. I had such a marvellous experience there that I went to Washington and enlisted my services in order to get more old people into the peace Corps because I realised what old people could do in the third world, and what on the other hand, and that's very important to me, what the third world could do for the self respect for old people. I really built a whole new life there. What I didn't realise at the time was that I built a whole new career, because after two years in Tunisia and a year and a half in Washington I was then invited to the Ivory Coast to my job as associate director which, granted, is quite unusual at my age, I think I'm the only one in existence so I feel very proud to have been chosen for this job and I intend to prove that old people can do a decent job." Initials SAW/AW/BJ Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st August 1970 13:00
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA5VN1JFDZZ1UA38DYCH2879CEL
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