Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-007-002
Rowland Bennett served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nyasaland (Malawi) from 1962 to 1964 as an English teacher. He was in the first Peace Corps group sent that country. Bennett trained at Syracuse University. He was assigned to Robert Blake School in Kongwe, which was a boys' secondary school run by Protestant Afrikaner missionaries. There Bennett taught English, supervised night study, managed the choir, and introduced basketball. He was also able to attend Malawi's independence ceremony in 1964. Bennett feels that his Peace Corps experience has allowed him to effectively serve diverse populations in his career as a librarian. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, October 5, 2004. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).