Be Part of Our 50 Anniversary History of the PC in the DR
Submit Articles & Photos

Have you already written articles about your DR service?
If so, send them to us at <neilross@cox.net>
What are your favorite stories to tell about the DR and being a PCV? Write them on your computer and email to FDR.
What do you remember your counterparts, friends, and neighbors? Tell us about them and life as a Volunteer in the DR.
Have you returned to your project sites and found Dominican friends still remembering you? Share what you learn from them.
This is our history, and you can help FDR make it real.

NEW Opportunity to Share Your PCDR Record Online

The PCDR History Project wants to hear about the most memorable moments during your service
Your experiences will be shared—along with stories, photos and videos from other volunteers—on the new History Project Web site.
Answer the simple online questions about when, where and how you spent your service in the DR.
Since there are many questions please print out the list and answer them on your word processor.
Then copy each answer and paste it into the appropriate questionnaire box.
You can answer just the questions of your choice.

Donate Original Documents & Photos to JFK Presidential Library

What are you doing with all your original records and photos from Peace Corps early years in the Dominican Republic?
Did you know that the JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY in Boston, Massachusetts wants them?
They have a Peace Corps collection of the Kennedy Administration years of 1961-1963 and invite suitable donations from us.
Now you have an opportunity to build an archive of our best DR records for future generations of researchers, historians, our kids, and descendants.
Many of us have a box of letters written home that mom saved, hundreds of slides/photos, copies of Volunteer newsletters, and a daily journal. Honestly, will your kids want these after your gone? Will they even know what the photos show of your DR days? Probably they’ll eventually throw them out.
However, for those few items and photos your family want to keep, digitize them for easy storage and use. Then donate the originals to the Kennedy Library.
The JFK Library invites donations of your documents, records, letters home, photographs, copies of Volunteer newsletters, PC memos, etc. from your DR days. These must be original documents and photographs (including movie, 35mm, negatives, prints).
(Print out the guidelines HERE for donating to the Kennedy Library & Museum.)

For the first 35+ years of the Peace Corps, most volunteers took 35mm color slides of Dominican and Peace Corps events, people and places.
However now we are in the digital age and are often sending photos over the Internet.
Slides require projectors to see and are little used today.
RPCV Ronald Billings (DR 1965-66) contributed this pdf file (Click here) that shows a simple, low cost, fast method to digitize slides into .jpg files.
The other method is to have your slides professionally scanned at a photography store or at many pharmacies with photo service.