Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-013-008
Billie Jean Chambers (nee Ellsworth) was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador from 1962 to 1964 on an agricultural extension project. She served along with her husband Dave. Chambers had a farm background and joined the Peace Corps before completing the degree program at Western Illinois University. She trained at Montana State University at Bozeman in intensive language, tropical agriculture, and home economics. In the second stage of her training she worked in Puerto Rico in a small village with a local counterpart. In her first year in Ecuador, Chambers was assigned to Guayaquil to work with an extension agent affiliated with the Heifer Project. In her second year, the couple moved to a more remote area where she worked more on her own. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, July 27, 2004. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).