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BADGERS in t 
PEACE CORI 
Wisconsin alumni are servin 
volunteers around the n 
by Jim Van 
Nigeria 
The Philippines 
WHILE RECENT University of 
ie        1w  Wisconsin graduates have 
scattered all over the world, few 
have taken as unusual posts as 
:I       Thomas H. Peterson, '60, Marjorie 
Pfankuch, '58, Scott R. Pearson, '61, 
and Michael J. Woldenberg, '56. 
These four alumni volunteered for 
the Peace Corps and are currently 
.g as    "sweating it out" in the Tropics 
teaching school. Tom is in Ghana, 
'orld    Marjorie in the Philippines, Scott in 
Nigeria, and Mike in Sierra Leone. 
All are helping new, underdeveloped 
Horn  nations raise their level of education. 
Tom, 23, a native of Wilmette, Ill., 
was a teaching assistant in Greek 
CHAt   and Roman culture at the University 
before joining the Corps. While at 
the University he earned scholastic 
honors and was named to MACE, 
 junior men's honorary society. He is 
proficient in several foreign lan- 
guages and has traveled in Europe, 
Africa and the Middle East. 
N         After joining the Corps, Tom went 
to the University of California at 
>-     Berkeley for secondary school teach- 
ers' training and then to Navrongo, 
AF~iC  Ghana, where he teaches French. He 
IRPUSL teaches from 7:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., 
when the heat becomes too intense 
to work. After 4:30 the students do 
manual work or participate in sports. 
Working as a teacher's aide in a 
rural community school in the is- 
lands south of Manila, Marjorie, 25, 
Ghana   helps out in nearly every way and 
still finds time to travel around the 
/   country. She writes enthusiastically 
,7-'    of the country and its ways-one of 
DAH6#, her newest discoveries is riding, or 
at least trying to stay on, the cara- 
bao, a Philippine water buffalo. 
Marjorie, who bails from Menasha, 
'     Wisconsin, graduated from   the 
OGO      School of Education and taught 
English and American history be- 
fore volunteering for the Corps. She 
S    spent seven weeks at Pennsylvania 
State University and additional time 
/'   at the University of the Philippines, 
learning the culture, history, eco- 
\        nomics, education and government 
L.  of the Philipines, as well as teaching 
methods, American civilization and 
international affairs. She had also 
worked vith the Girl Scouts, and 
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