Submit Article For Our 50 Anniversary History of the PC in the DR

• Have you already written articles about your DR service? If so, send them to us.
• 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.

Donate Original Documents and Photos to John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

• What are you doing with all your original records and photos from Peace Corps 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 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 all the 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? 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.)

Digitize your 35mm slides

• For the first 40 years of the Peace Corps, most volunteers took 35mm 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 less useful 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.