Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2006-063-002
John Rex served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1962 to 1964 as an English teacher (Ethiopia I). He applied during his senior year of college and joined in 1961. Rex trained with about 300 others in Washington, D.C. Most of the 200 Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia I taught and lived together in groups throughout the country. Rex's assignment was teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to secondary school students in Debre Birhan. His school became known for a student strike that was aimed, in part, at the Peace Corps volunteers stationed there. Later in life, Rex also served from 2003 to 2004 with the Namibia 22 group. Interviewed and recorded by Frieda Fairburn, May 23, 2006. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).