A Breakfast Briefing by Michael Salazar Peace Corps Regional Recruiter Dallas, Texas and Dr. Elaine Boston Associate Dean, School of Public  Health and Tropical Medicine Tulane University

Friday, March 4 8:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Presentations and Discussion Suite 2900, World Trade Center (Free validated parking in the WTC Garage)

With remarks by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers:

• Ambassador Charles Baquet, III, Director of International Programs, Xavier University (RPCV Somalia 1965-1967); retired career Foreign Service Officer, including service as U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti (1991-1994), and Deputy Director of the Peace Corps (1994-2000)
   
• Brian Luckett, President, Louisiana Peace Corps Association (RPCV Sierra Leone, 1986-1988)
   
• Eugene Schreiber, Managing Director, World Trade Center
  (RPCV Tanganyika, 1961-1963)
   
• Dave Wessel (RPCV Colombia, 1962-1964, and Peace Corps Crisis Corps in El Salvador, October 2003 - March 2004)

Michael Salazar is the Regional Recruiter for the Peace Corps based in Dallas. From 2001 to 2003 he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazahstan where he taught English conversation, culture and history at Pavlodar University in northeast Kazakhstan. He also helped re-open Pavlodar's English resource center. Prior to his Peace Corps service, Mr. Salazar taught American History at a middle school in Brentwood, Tennessee.

The Peace Corps traces its roots and mission to 1960, when then-Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries. From that inspiration grew an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship.

Since that time, more than 170,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 137 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education, information technology, and environmental preservation.

Today's Peace Corps is more vital than ever, stepping into new countries like East Timor, working in emerging and essential areas such as information technology and business development, and committing more than 1,000 new Volunteers as a part of President Bush's HIV/AIDS Act of 2003. Peace Corps Volunteers continue to help countless individuals who want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities.

Peace Corps Mission: Promoting Peace & Friendship

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps to promote world
peace and friendship.

Three simple goals continue to comprise the Peace Corps' mission:

1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their needs for trained men and women.
    
2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.
    
3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of all Americans.

Co-Hosted By

Louisiana Peace Corps Association
and
World Trade Center of New Orleans

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