Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2016-058
Gale Gibson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia from 1962 to 1964. He and a Colombian colleague organized community track and field teams and high school basketball teams. Gibson was stationed in Manizales, a city of 150,000 people that had a university and many cultural events. He reflects on how the Peace Corps experience positively influenced his life. It is how he met his wife, Elonia, to whom he has been married for 52 years; it also opened him up to working on low-income economic and social issues. Gibson talks about his life-long connection to Colombia through his wife, the people he has met there over the years, and finally the Friends of Colombia group of PCVs of which he is a member. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, August 31, 2016. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).