Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2016-005
Beverly J. (Bev) Hanlon served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from 1966 to 1968 on a community organization project. After training in St. Louis, Missouri, Bev and her new husband Joe began their volunteer service in the town of Goascoran, near the border with El Salvador. Bev began a preschool for local children and organized a sewing project in which women made baby clothes. The interview includes an account of a difficult time in which Bev was not granted permission to travel home to see her father before he died. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, October 17, 2015. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).