Is the Peace Corps still around? Is it as relevant now as when it was created by President John F. Kennedy in 1960? What impact do Peace Corps volunteers play
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Dee McClurg, right, and Nancy Bonardi, who met while serving in the Peace Corps, lost touch and then reconnected. Now they split time together between Huntington County and Virginia.
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Former Peace Corps volunteer Sam Ladowski is pictured outside his Fort Wayne home with his family last month.
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Sam Ladowski is shown with fellow health education Peace Corps volunteer Maggie Flanagan at a presentation to a group of people on family planning. Both volunteers were stationed about 18 miles apart in the Sava region of Madagascar.
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Sam Ladowski regularly worked with a group of grade school students and their teachers in Madagascar, where he did health-related activities and conducted English classes.