Friends of Morocco



Friends of Morocco Quarterly Newsletter April 2020??News from Morocco (compiled almost weekly by?Mhamed El Kadi?in Morocco)????4/11?Weekly News in Review????4/04?Weekly News in Review????3/28?Weekly News in Review????3/14?Weekly News in Review?????3/07?Weekly News in Review??On March 15, 2020 Peace Corps announced it would?temporarily suspend Volunteer operations and begin evacuating Volunteers?from all posts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 continues to spread and international travel becomes more and more challenging by the day, we are acting now to protect the health of Volunteers and prevent a situation where Volunteers are unable to leave their host countries and return to the United States. About 7,300 volunteers were evacuated and their service terminated. That included 173 volunteers from Morocco, who were air-lifted by private charter. The Close of Service was March 20, 2020.Staj 100 2018 to 2020Staj 101 2019 to 2020??A Final Letter to My Peace Corps Site in Morocco by Adriana Curto (+ four other videos)(Editor note: 6:50 minute Youtube video in (IMHO) excellent Darjia with English subtitles. 1,471 views)After working for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a village in the Southwest region of Morocco, a student came up to me and asked me to write a letter to the place I had lived & worked in. This video is a reflection of my experiences, feelings, and gratitude for the Moroccans I interacted with and who treated me like family. Words cannot thank them enough for all they've done for me so here's a little something for both parties, Moroccan & American, to understand. ??Evacuated RPCVs are returning under extenuating circumstances following traumatic interruption of service. National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is here to help returned Volunteers transition to life after service, providing resources to overcome challenges and take the next steps toward healthy lives and successful careers.This unprecedented moment calls for an extraordinary response, so NPCA has created the?Global Reentry?program designed especially to help meet your needs for support. In the coming days, you can expect:A?collaborative effort?forged among the Peace Corps agency,?NPCA, and the greater Peace Corps community?to support evacuated?RPCVs.Rollout of an array of?academic and career resources?to assist evacuated?RPCVs?in taking the next step in your professional pathway.Connections to an emerging?RPCV?peer support?network?and your local?RPCV?groups to provide emotional, moral, and logistical?support.??Updates on how, through?NPCA,?we will collectively advocate?for the?benefits and entitlements?evacuated?RPCVs deserve, as well as Peace Corps' future.Please visit?Peace Corps' website. As this situation is still developing, the information on their website is updated every day at?coronavirus. Peace Corps no longer offers career services, however, NPCA hosts a list of?career resources, in addition to regularly occurring career webinars. All past webinars are archived and can be accessed through NPCA’s website.An excerpt from Department [of State] Notices: Attention All Hiring Managers: NCE Status Has Been Granted to All Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers. Due to COVID-19, the Peace Corps recently evacuated over 7,000 Volunteers and granted them noncompetitive eligibility (NCE) status, which allows Volunteers to be hired outside of the regular, competitive process. ?? Jacqueline & Dylan Thompson Morocco (2018-2020) wrote this blog post last year about career development resources for Peace Corps Volunteers, but updated it recently given the recent evacuation (we were evacuated from Morocco). We think it’s relevant now more than ever. If you would like to add our blog, we would appreciate that as well ()! ??0000Can you imagine working as a copper craftsman since the age of eight for over 50 years? The winning photo of Goal 3 by?Peace Corps Morocco?Volunteer Dylan, beautifully captured the true essence of being an artisan and also inquiries about the future of craftsmanship in Fez, Morocco.??Peaceworks Morocco The Spring 2020 issue is live! A huge thanks to every one who submitted content. We hope this issue can bring you some comfort. The Peaceworks team is here for?you!? PeaceWorks is a digital magazine that showcases the creative endeavors of PCVs, PC staff, and the Moroccan counterparts we work with. ??A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF GADGAD is so happy to announce and share our new PCV friendly, PCV developed resource: Year in the Life of GAD! Based off of the youth development project framework, we have constructed a two year integration guide into gender work. YITLOG uses real examples and experiences from PCVs, helping to visualize, plan and implement both implicit and explicit gender work in site. ?? Parents and anyone who enjoys coloring books, here’s a free gender-focused one created by the Gender And Development committee of PC Morocco. It was created to be used with our Moroccan students but it’s still relatable in America and can be a tool for discussing gender and cultural diversity.Chapter 1, Moroccan Women, is meant to empower communities by seeing relatable images portrayed and utilized within the classroom. The goal of Chapter 2 (Men as Partners) is to normalize the idea of men and women working together, both in the workplace and the household. We also hope to break gender role stereotypes by portraying men completing household tasks. Chapter 3 (Notable Moroccan Women) was intended to remind our students of the powerful women who come from familiar starting points - copied from?Gad Maroc …/15jbYx8QYZVSM5mRoEkl9UBan2A3qG-T5?? Friends of Morocco in web site migrationCreation of and migration to the new Friends of Morocco website has started. The beta site is now in draft and under construction. For the moment, the existing Friends of Morocco web site at will be the most current. After pertinent content is migrated, the URL will be re-directed. The existing site will become an archive site. Consultant for the project is Johnny Graces, a RPCV (Jordan 2009-2012) and web designer and developer based in NYC and who has worked for startups and non-profits across various platforms (Wordpress, Shopify, and SilkStart). His work was underwritten by a donation from a FOM member. Bad links and expired content remain to be updated prior to migration. Volunteers are needed to speed the work on sections such as restaurants, recipes, links, souq, and yellow pages. ?? Friends of Morocco ReunionsThree Memorial Day weekend FOM reunions were canceled or postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 50th Anniversary Reunion for volunteers starting service 1969 to 1971 has been postponed to September 25 to 27, 2020 still in Washington, DC. Details at the Facebook group 1970 Peace Corps Morocco. 1988 volunteers reunion was canceled to a possible later date TBD but had a very successful Zoom happy hour subsequent to the decision. Summer of '86 Staj and friends was similarily canceled. The NPCA Peace Corps Connect 2020 Conference with support from the NPCA group SEAPAX scheduled for July 16-18 was canceled. Planning for the September 2021 conference in Washington, D.C. is already underway as part of the broarder celebration of Peace Corps’ 60th anniversary. Friends of Morocco has an almost complete database of volunteers who have served in Morocco since 1962 based on 1) Freedom of Information requests to Peace Corps, which is bound to provide name (first, MI and last) and SOS and COS dates by country of service 2) data sharing with the NPA and 3) more than 30 years of correspondence from FOM functioning. This information can facilitate Year of Service (YOS) reunions. For many, however, we do not have current contact information (email, mailing address, or phone numbers) but this could be rectified by YOS contact volunteers with a little effort with Facebook, LinkedIn, USPhonebook, internet searching and networking . Contact timresch@ if you would like to accept this challenge. ?? Tiffany Glass named to the NPCA 40 Under 40 Honor RollTo celebrate?National Peace Corps Association's?40th?anniversary, NPCA recognized the extraordinary achievements of 40 individuals NPCA believes exemplify a new generation of leadership within the Peace Corps community and beyond.0127000Originally from Seattle, Tiffany has lived and worked in France, Switzerland, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, and now Washington, D.C. After completing her Peace Corps service in Morocco from 2010-2012, she attended Tel Aviv University for her graduate studies, where she earned an MA in International Security and Diplomacy. Tiffany is the Student Community Manager at AWS Educate. In this role, she works with Amazon’s global community to provide students with the resources needed to accelerate IT and cloud-related learning in and outside the classroom. The program also works with educators to integrate cloud technology course work into curricula, while supporting student learning. The ultimate goal of the program is to unlock opportunity for students around the world and prepare them to enter high-demand technology fields.Prior to joining Amazon, Tiffany served as Peace Corps Headquarters’ Public Affairs Specialist. She was a member of Shalom Corps (Peace Corps’ Jewish Employee Resource Group), one of the founding members of Peace Corps’ Diversity Board, and she sat on the Chief of Staff’s Diversity Governance Council. Tiffany also served as a Volunteer Placement Specialist and a Desk Officer at the agency. Tiffany currently sits on the board of Directors for the Jim Joseph Foundation. ??On the June 30 ballot for Ward 5 Stillwater (OK) Board of Education for a five-year term is Steve Hallgren (Morocco 1972-74). Steve is a retired research scientist and professor who enlisted in the Peace Corps for two years (Tanzania) following his retirement from OSU. He says his years doing research taught him to apply analytical thinking to problems and his experience serving as a teacher in Morocco and Tanzania taught him empathy and appreciation for different ideas. He believes the school board’s primary purpose is to gather public input and represent the community as they set policy. ??Peace “Corps-ner” Display at the Legation by?JOHN DAVISONIn anticipation of our 2021 Bicentennial year, we added to our Museum a?“Peace Corps-ner”?display honoring the different contributions made by a previous occupant of the Legation, the United States Peace Corps, whose volunteers and Moroccan staff, under the leadership of then Morocco Peace Corps Director?Richard Holbrooke?(diplomat and Negotiator of the Bosnia?Accords), literally helped restore much of the Legation compound in 1971 in order to prepare it as a language training school for volunteers who were going to serve in Morocco and other countries where Arabic or French were spoken. As we begin preparations in 2020 to plan our 2021 bicentennial programs, we welcome visits, ideas and support from former and current Morocco Peace Corps volunteers. ?Images and souvenirs from that era welcomed. ??History - The Kingdom of Morocco and the American Civil WarFlashback.?In the winter of 1862, American Unionist troops and the Confederates fought a battle off the north of the Kingdom of Morocco, 40 elements of the American army landed in Tangier, to take possession of two Confederates who had been arrested by the consul of the United States. This curious episode of the American civil war, recalls that in January 1862, the boat CSS Sumter, which sowed terror in the North Atlantic, docked in Gibraltar before the American consul did managed to corner him by putting pressure on the town's merchants to refuse the Confederates all the necessary supplies, including coal. ??Media Tingis YouTube video showcasing the Tangier American Legation 32:23 minutes in Arabic??Music of Morocco: The Paul Bowles RecordingsIn 1959 the American writer and composer?Paul Bowles, who by then had already taken up residence in?Tangier, Morocco, received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to document the musical heritage or Morocco for the?Archive of Folk Culture?of the Library of Congress. ?Bowles traversed the country in a VW Beetle, with an Ampex reel to reel recorder and an assistant, to record "approximately 60 hours of traditional folk, art, and popular music. Bowles collected in 23 villages, towns, and cities along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, from? HYPERLINK "" Goulimine?in the Sahara to? HYPERLINK "" Segangan?in the Rif country, and inland through the Middle and Grand Atlas ranges to?Zagora?in the Anti-Atlas."1?Additional recordings were made between 1960-1962. ?Only the southeastern part of Morocco was left out of the project due to the ongoing war in Algeria. A selection of the recordings was released commercially on vinyl in 1972.2?An expanded edition of that set, remastered and more extensively documented, was released in 2016.3In 2010 the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM)?commissioned the digitization of the recordings, with the support of funds from the?Public Affairs Office?of the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, the Wilaya?of?Tangier, and the Moroccan?Ministry of Culture. ?The?Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT?has agreed to make the recordings and the corresponding documentation available in this?collection. Unless otherwise noted, all information presented in the descriptions and in the texts of the videos comes from the information provided by Paul Bowles, or from supplementary materials from the?Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection?of the American Folklife Center. The collection uses the names and spellings used by Bowles for people, places, and styles, but associates them with site records including contemporary and standardized names. ?The cataloging of each recording? and its supplementary materials takes?full advantage of the capabilities of Archnet to situate the music within the context from which it originates or was?recorded. Videos and notes are grouped into sub-collections based on the place where they were recorded. Links associated with each video connect each recording to?the relevant notes, images and other material from the archive,? as well as additional related material provided courtesy of the?American Folklife Center, the?Harvard Fine Arts Library,?TALIM, and?AKDC@MIT. ???Morocco Library Project (MLP) 2019 ReportMLP completed our largest project yet: a network of school libraries in the region of Zagora in SE Morocco, in partnership with teachers and funded by the US Embassy. We also launched an environmental education pilot, began working in the Rif, brought solar lights to nomad families, and set up a management team of teachers in Morocco. This was a transformational year.Our projects in Morocco are intended for girls and boys alike, but we find that they're having a profound impact on girls, especially in rural areas where girls often drop out of school. Read Ilham Haddadi's new blog post on the need to educate girls in Morocco?and to inspire them through a love of reading.?Our goals for Q1/Q2 2020: ????English club libraries in the Rif Mountains, the most under-resourced and ignored part of Morocco. These students will then be part of the MLP network, connecting with other students across Morocco and in the US.????Writing competition for students in the MLP network. (We're looking for a sponsor to fund prizes for this. Please contact us if you're interested!)????Strengthening our relationship with the Peace Corps, as we once again work?with a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English.????Expanding our focus on STEM, digital literacy, and environmental learning??The Museum of Peace Corps Experience (MPCE) is a current and ongoing project on a national scale to provide an opportunity for RPCVs to share stories and artifacts from their service. HoTPCA will partner with the Museum to provide support through our newest Partnership Chair Board Member, Dr. Mark Standley, and to provide HoTPCA members a chance to contribute support, stories, and artifacts. We intend to make this partnership an active relationship in helping grow the Museum efforts for awareness, fundraising, and education as a whole with the nation about the Peace Corps goals and experiences through the eyes and artifacts of Volunteers. ??RPCV / HCN Relationship Support is a new FaceBook group for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers that are in relationships with Host Country Nationals from their country of service. Let’s share our stories, help each other through the visa process, and support each other in general. ??The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) Next Step Travel trip for April 11-24, 2020 was deferred to October?due to the COVID-19 pandemic is now scheduled for October 10-23, 2020. Trip will be operated by Cross Cultural Adventures - a RPCV Morocco run tour company (Piotr Kostrzewski Khenifra 77-79). Friends of Morocco has supported the NPCA NST program with tours to Morocco each year since 2017. As soon as travel restrictions have been cleared and it is safe to travel internationally, NPCA will release more information around the Next Step Travel opportunities available for 2020 and beyond. See the NPCA NST website (linked here) for the most up to date information and to view the Morocco itinerary.? As of this publishing date, the trip is not yet advertised on the NPCA web site, but interest can be expressed to NPCA. Next Step Travel, Friends of Morocco and our tour Operator Cross Cultural Adventure, are committed?to providing continued opportunity?to travel to Morocco once the COVID-19 pandemic has resolved.?? In Memoriam:? ????Jeffrey Alan Dodge, 3/12/20.? Jeff was born in Boson on May 7, 1958 a son of the late David and Margaret (Davidson) Dodge. He graduated from Lunenburg High School in 1976 Cum Laude. He also graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1980. He spent his junior year at the University of Glasgow. He worked in the Peace Corps in Morocco, teaching English and working for Senator Mary Padula in Boston as an aide. His last job was at Zimmer Advertising Company in Fort Lauderdale, FL.? He was a world traveler spending time in the Untied States as well as Europe.????Morocco Omnibus 1970 Staj trainee in Morrison, Colorado Joseph (Joe) Suriano died February 4, 2020. Joe was a tenured Professor of Physical Education and Diving Coach at the United States Naval Academy for 35 years. He was long recognized as one of the top diving coaches in the country of age group National Champions, National Finalists and Olympians. Joseph Suriano was born in 1947 and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan and was the youngest of three children. He met his wife, Patricia Lane in 1966 and married 8 years later in 1974. He graduated with a Bachelors' Degree from the?University of Michigan, where he was coached by Dick Kimball. A Master's Degree from Eastern Michigan University followed. He was the head diving coach at?Vanderbilt University?from 1972 until 1978 before starting his 35 year career at Naval Academy where he became the first full-time civilian coach in Navy Diving history. Joe was known for his humor, honest heartfelt opinions, his warmth and decency to all who knew him. He was generous in all things and always the spark at any gathering because of his wit and philosophical opinions. Joe didn't end up going to Morocco because he did not pass the language test. Many marched in protest down to the Dairy Treat because we had the experience of being coached by him in his limited French and knew that he could get the job done better than anyone else. He was funny and smart and so talented. This web site reports on his accomplishments. ????Paul J. McPeck?(Vanuatu 1994-97; Morocco 2001-02), Unexpectedly on December 29, 2019. Paul was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on April 16, 1951 to Donald and Pauline (Guinta) McPeck. Paul attended Poughkeepsie public schools where his talent for the game of baseball developed. During these years, both on and off the field, Paul formed many lifelong friendships. After two years at Dutchess Community College Paul went on to Erskine College where he earned his Bachelor's Degree while playing varsity baseball. Following college graduation, Paul entered VISTA, volunteering in South Carolina. It was during his year in VISTA that he met another volunteer, his future wife, Judy. Together, they have spent the past 44 years in the happiest of marriages. As a couple, Paul and Judy joined the Peace Corps serving on two separate occasions, the first to the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, and the second to Morocco. For the past 14 years, Paul had been employed as a sales agent at Falmouth Lumber Company on Cape Cod. Prior to moving to the Cape, Paul was a sales agent at Winnipesaukee Lumber in New Hampshire. His positive attitude, his eagerness to tackle any job, and his selfless concern for others, brought great joy to his fellow workers and customers. In 2015 Paul was inducted into the Dutchess County Baseball Hall of Fame. This recognition brought him much joy primarily because it gave him an opportunity to reconnect with former teammates and old friends. Paul never forgot his roots and his dear Poughkeepsie friends.????Leslie Claire Johnson McDonald?(1963-65), 12/26/19 of Falmouth died December 26, 2019 after a period of declining health. She was 78. She was the wife of James B. McDonald, who died in June 2019. For many years, she and her husband had owned and operated McDonald’s Paint & Wallpaper in downtown Falmouth, MA a business that had been started by her father-in-law in 1948. Born and raised in Attleboro, she was the daughter of Claire M. (Barrett) and John J. Johnson Jr. She graduated from Attleboro High School in the Class of 1959. She furthered her education at the College of New Rochelle in New York, and after graduating in 1963 joined the Peace Corps and served in Morocco. Upon her return to Massachusetts she taught school, including in Braintree. On February 10, 1968, she and Mr. McDonald were married and, in 1975, they settled in Falmouth. Ms. McDonald was active in the Falmouth community and was a member of the Friends of Falmouth Library, Falmouth Historical Society and Falmouth Conservation Group. She enjoyed traveling with her husband and visited Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico many times. In more recent years, she practiced tai chi with the Cape Cod Guang Ping Tai Ji Quan Club.????Joseph Anthony Moriarty?(1990-93), October 6, 1942 - December 4, 2019 passed away peacefully at home in the arms of his wife, Kristen and son, Michael, in the early morning hours of December 4th, after a brief but fierce battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Always the entrepreneur and adventurer, Joe had several successful careers throughout his life, spanning the United States, Africa, and Asia, including three years as a rural water engineer in Peace Corps Morocco (90-93). In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Northern California Peace Corps Association Grants Program in support of community projects in Peace Corps countries. Checks can be mailed to: NorCal Peace Corps Association, PO Box 2547, San Francisco, CA 94126 or donate via the Northern California Peace Corps Association website to the Grants Program:?. Note In Memory of Joe Moriarty. ????Carey E. (Danyow) Bell, 39, of Canton, CT., beloved wife of Shad A. Bell, passed away peacefully on Monday September 30, 2019, after a tenacious battle with cancer. Carey was born on October 1, 1979 in Holyoke, Mass to the late George H. Danyow Sr. and Cecelia (Carey) Danyow. She was raised in Southwick and graduated as the Salutatorian of her 1998 class at Southwick/Tolland Regional High School. Carey went on to receive her bachelor’s degree as a graduate of Skidmore College in 2002 and her RN from UCONN School of Nursing in 2006. Prior to graduating from nursing school, she also joined the Peace corps, serving while in Morocco. She went on to enjoy a very successful career as an RN in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at CT Children’s Medical Center (CCMC). Carey’s greatest joy was her family, her husband, Shad and miracle daughters, Aubrey and Laila. She was “unstoppable”, you could not tell Carey no. She fought her illness head on and was tenacious. Carey was empathetic and creative, and she also loved art.??Pompeo Aims to Cut Funds for Program Honoring Envoy Killed in BenghaziThe secretary of state rose to prominence investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack. Now he’s on board with an administration plan to eliminate funding for a program honoring Chris Stevens (Ouaouizarht, Morocco 1983-85) . U.S. secretary of state, Pompeo is now pressing Congress to eliminate a $5 million contribution to a charity dedicated to Stevens’s memory. The proposal to zero out funding for the?Stevens Initiative, which promotes online exchanges among students in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa, is buried on page 33 of the State Department’s fiscal year 2021?budget proposal, along with proposed cuts for cultural exchange and study programs for Arab Israelis, Tibet, Taiwan, Timor Leste, and others. ??Morocco 1976 archive footage on YouTube shot by an Austrian filmmaker while visiting Morocco in 1976. It contains stock footage of different places, mostly in the Capital of the Country: Rabat (Mosque Al-Sounna, Old Medina, Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Mechouar Park, Sultan's Palace Mosque, and more). If you want to watch this video without the watermark and advertising, please visit: HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Ways For Old Morocco (1948)YouTube 19:00 minute film showing “The modernization of Morocco in the late1940s”. Skoura, located between Boulmane 30km and Sefrou 64 km, which is the name of the town in which the film was filmed. ??Marrakech - Desert Paradise (1948)YouTube 9:56 minute video by British Pathé??Le Riad au Bord de l’Oued: souvenirs et saveurs de Dar Zitoun par Kitty Morse (La Caravane, 2019. Downloadable) French translation by Kitty Morse of her book Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories0-127000 “Kitty Morse's story is deliciously human — witty, warm and suspenseful — as complex and flavor-laden as a Moroccan tagine.?The heart, soul and mouth of Morocco are all here, offered in full vibrant color by a native-born insider who takes us from kitchen to souk to courthouse in her Dickensian quest to save the heritage of her father's home. Even for the experienced traveler, this is a book that will drive you either to book a flight?to Morocco?right now — or at least run to the kitchen to cook a tagine. “ BETTY FUSSELL, author of My Kitchen Wars and Raising Steaks.Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca of a French mother and British father. She immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen and ?is the author of ten cookbooks, five of them on the cuisine of Morocco and North Africa. Mint Tea and Minarets: a banquet of Moroccan memories, was awarded Best Book, Arab Cuisine, by the Gourmand World Cookbook?awards. Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (Chronicle Books, 1999), is in its tenth printing. ?She introduced gastronomic tours to Morocco in 1983, and until 2005, led annual expeditions that included cooking demonstrations at her family riad, Dar Zitoun. Tunisian?Cuisine by Judith Dwan Hallet, Raoudha Guellali Ben Taarit and Hasna Trabelsi.??Overseen by Insight Editions in California and published by Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design in Washington DC ?the resulting books, off-set?printed in China,?have been worth the wait. ?“Although this informative and beautiful book is a delight to peruse, its biggest reward follows putting it into service in the kitchen. The recipies are clear, and the results are interesting, unusual, and delicious.” You can also order by going to?. ?If you are in Europe or Tunisia, just contact us at?judy.hallet@. ??? Sayonara Sacrifice by?Robert Cochrane (Errachidia, Morocco 1981–83) Xpat Fiction 320 pages November 2019 $15.00 (paperback). (Ed. Note: Not Peace Corps or Morocco related but an effort by one of the tribe.)“As a life-long baseball fan who worked in Japan for fifteen years, I found Cochrane's Sayonara Sacrifice to be a home run. I saw a lot of Japanese professional baseball teams play in Osaka and Kobe. But this spy thriller takes us back to pre-war Japan and opens a window onto the earlier days of baseball as it mixed with the stirrings of Japanese militarism in the 1930s.” AmazonReviewed by Richard Lipez (Ethiopia 1962-64)076700You have to wonder what gets into some writers’ heads when they decide to land on some remote time and place nobody currently is giving a scintilla of thought to and then go ahead and do everything it takes to bring that time and place magically to life. God knows why he chose to do it, but Robert Cochrane has pulled off just such a—I want to say “stunt,” but that’s too feeble a word for the weight and richness of this lovely novel.There are lots of World War II novels, but how many World War II baseball novels are there, especially World War II baseball novels set in Japan whose main character is American? I am guessing none, so Cochrane gets additional points for originality. MORE?? Friends of Morocco and the National Peace Corps Association are dues-free One can join NPCA and Friends of Morocco at the NPCA membership page. Membership in the NPCA is?complimentary for everyone in the Peace Corps community – serving Peace Corps Volunteers, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, current Peace Corps staff, former Peace Corps staff, host country nationals and anyone who shares Peace Corps ideals, so long as we have accurate service and contact information for you. Alternatively, one can fill out the Friends of Morocco Membership Application and email it to timresch@. Contributions welcome.The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is connecting and championing Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps community. It provides service and education opportunities that build on the Peace Corps experience, and is also the longest-standing advocate for an independent and robust Peace Corps.? The National Peace Corps Association is a nonprofit organization encompassing a network of over 50,000 individuals and more than 180 affiliate groups. The NPCA and its member groups produce global education programs and advocacy campaigns, and provide community, national and international services. Friends of Morocco and the High Atlas Foundation (Morocco) are affiliate groups of NPCA.? Become a Mission Partner?by contributing $50 or more and you’ll automatically receive a one-year subscription to WorldView.?Your contribution to NPCA’s?Community Fund?supports our core programs. You’ll be helping to increase our community’s development impact, provide transition assistance to recent RPCVs and advocate for a bigger and better Peace Corps. You can also get?WorldView on a subscription-only basis for $35 per year.? WorldView archival issues can be viewed free online.???Friends of Morocco (FOM), active since 1988, is an organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs), with experience in Morocco, Moroccan-Americans and Moroccans in America united with an interest in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange between Morocco and the United States of America. FOM seeks to:?????unite Americans with experience in Morocco, Moroccan-Americans and Moroccans in America;?????improve the awareness of Americans regarding the culture, needs and achievements of Moroccan peoples; ?????keep members and others current on events in Morocco; ?????organize and implement development education and outreach activities;?????support projects of the U.S. Peace Corps and private charitable organizations in Morocco; ?????support scholarship on Morocco and Moroccans.?? This message is sent BCC to Friends of Morocco members for whom we have email addresses.? BCC to prevent well-intentioned (or malicious) SPAM.? Feel free to forward onward to your friends who might appreciate knowing about these events and who may not be on our email list.? If they would also like these periodic updates, have them contact us at tim@.?? Advise the same address if you would NOT like to receive these infrequent email alerts.? Tim Resch, PresidentFriends of MoroccoPO BOX 2579 Washington, DC 20013-2579 tim@C 703 470 3166 ................
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