Stories About Malaysia PCVS

“Malaya” An overview of the Malaya Peace Corps Program in 1963 in  by and/or about Lewis Butler, Benita Jorkasky, John Hurley, Sadie Stout, Mike O’Rourke, Nancy Dalzell, Bob Bojanski, Kent Keeth, Will Weiss, Mark Francis, Liz Kunst, John Thayer, John Muth, Jay Carow, Peter Kramer, Karen Pedersen, Kirk Bunnell, Garry Combs, A.J. Porter, Mary McEnerney, Anne Hennessey, Margaret Balfe, Murray DeArmond, Donna Boyce, Ruth Clark, Joyce Miller, Hugh Zimmers, Rita Franzone, Cynthia Erskine, George Craciun, Philip Noyce, Bill Null, Bob Sherman, Don Yancey, Anne Brooke Holt, Joanne Prescott, Dave Libby, Bill Null, Will Weiss, Bob Burns, and Robert Rourke in the Peace Corps Volunteer April 1963. Scroll to pages 10-23.

“North Borneo/Sarawak” A Day in the life of PCV Nurse Barbara Lorimer in the Peace Corps Volunteer July 1963. Scroll to page 8.

“School for Aborigine Children” Brief account of Peace Corps work by Susan Mapes, also mentions Elizabeth Cole, Marilyn Haasnoot, and Oscar Quisberg in the Peace Corps Volunteer June 1964. Scroll to page 4.

“Volunteer Wins First Prize in Malay Contest” PCV Barbara Guss won first prize in national elocution contest for non-Malay women in the Peace CorpsVolunteer August 1964. Scroll to page 24 (last page).

 “I Found am American Easting with His Hands” Translation of a story originally published in Utusan Zaman 66 in the Peace Corps Volunteer September 1964: 12-5. Scroll to pages 23-24.

“A Top Story from Kelantan” A story about the Kelantanese competition of Top Spinning (main gasing) by PCV Esther Pierce in the Peace Corps Volunteer January 1965. Scroll to pages 6-7.

“Some Days I Just Talk” Story about Bill and Carol Cull (CD volunteers in Kampong Sungei Selung, Kedah), Malaya 6, 1964-66 in the Peace Corps Volunteer February 1965: 12-5. Scroll to pages 6-7.

"Charlie and Kay White with Baby Michael" Charlie and Kay White (Malaysia IX) holding 16-day old baby Michael at baptism in summer 1966 in Peace Corps Volunteer September 1967, page 9,

“Two Volunteers in Sabah” Photo essay about Rohn Kuhl (teacher) and Beth Halkola (Public Health Nurse) in the Peace Corps Volunteer 4(2) December 1965: 12-5. Scroll to pages 12-14.

The official account of why the Peace Corps left Malaysia in 1983. Also see "The "Bitter-Sweet" Story Behind Peace Corps Leaving Malaysia" by Mike Anderson (Apa Khabar, Spring 2015).

The Peace Corps in Malaysia (a 1980 6-page booklet published by ACTION (Peace Corps was administered by ACTION from 1971-81) 

Story of the Peace Corps in Malaysia, An article in the New Straits Times, July 3, 2022. (The arrival of the first Peace Corps volunteer group exactly six decades ago paved the way for a lasting and mutually beneficial relationship between Malaysia and the United States, writes ALAN TEH LEAM SENG)

Dr. John Landgraf, First Peace Corps Director in North Borneo & Sarawak, 1962-64

Lois Estock Antal (PCV Malaya II) describes her Peace Corps experience (courtesy of NPCA)

James Wolter (PCV Malaya I) on his experience in teaching Islamic Studies ("Peace Corps Accomplishment" (courtesy of Peace Corps Worldwide) and also on his memorable meeting with Sargent Shriver (courtesy of NPCA)

Marianne Lauman Smith (PCV North Borneo/Sarawak II)1963 and 1965 interviews in hometown newspaper (Hamburg, IA)

Charles Hirschman (PCV Malaysia IX) 1967 Interview with hometown newspaper (Lisbon, OH Morning Journal) after returning home from Peace Corps.

Thaine Allison (PCV North Borneo/Sarawak I) 1991 interview in Washington Post at 30th Peace Corps Reunion.

Charles Donahue (PCV, 1966-68, Terengganu, TB Control) reflects on life in the Peace Corps in a 2019 interview with Westwood, MA Hometown Weekly.

"Former Corpsmen Travel Around the World, Serve as Peace Corps Volunteers in the Far East." Account of five former Job Corpsmen who are PCVs in Malaysia: Fred Jackson, Raul Nazario, Frank Boyd, Lewis McDavid, and Morris King. "The Corpsman" Published for the Men and Women of the Job Corps, Washington, DC. 3(16, August 1, 1967), page 1 and 3.

Story of the Peace Corps in Malaysia by Alan Teh Leam Seng. Original publication in New Staits Times

Anthony Scotti, "Ex-Peace Corps recalls ‘unforgettable’ Sabah" in Daily Express, March 26, 2023.

Diane Larsen Freeman "A teacher who left her heart in Tawau" The Star (22 Oct 2023) 

Charles Long "Peace Corps Volunteer Makes Good in Malaysia" The Sun Reporter (Aug 4, 1977)