Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-002-007
Ken Rustad served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1962 to 1964 on an irrigation project. He went into the Peace Corps right after graduating as a political science major. He was surprised to be assigned to an agricultural group because working on farms was his only related experience. He discusses the extended training of the Bolivia II group. He worked on irrigation projects under Claude Wolfe in an agricultural community development office in Cochabamba. He describes a number of experiences he had in Bolivia. He went into the military after the Peace Corps and also worked with the Office of Economic Opportunity. Note: Interview ends abruptly. Interviewed and recorded by Sharleen Hirschi Simpson, June 24, 2009. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).