Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2003-007-003
Vicki Merrill served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania from 1965 to 1967 as a teacher (Tanzania X). Between her sophomore and junior years of college, she had participated in Operation Crossroads Africa in Southern Rhodesia. She had five months of Peace Corps training at Syracuse University, where learning Swahili was not considered essential because the teaching was to be in English. Merrill was assigned to an all girls secondary school (a former Lutheran missionary school) that was outside of Moshi. She taught English and geography, traveled extensively, and participated in projects. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, September 26, 2002. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).