Interview with Sherry Fine, April 6, 2022

Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Abstract Sherry Fine Jamaica 1973-1975 Fine joined Peace Corps to understand the world, and seize the opportunity to share what life had offered her. In Port Maria, a coastal village in Jamaica, she served as an English teacher trainer working with teachers in Basic Schools. This entailed visiting schools, developing materials, demonstrating classroom techniques, observing teachers and debriefing with them. Two secondary projects were teaching adult literacy classes, and conducting story hour under a tree for young children. As a white woman in a mostly Black society, she became aware of her white privilege. Fine learned, among other things, to be patient, to appreciate a low-key life, to listen to others and to live in the moment more than she had otherwise done. As a PCV, she touched vulnerable children, a thread throughout her life, particularly as the manager of Living Water Children’s Fund, an NGO assisting marginalized children around the world.

Interview Accession

2022oh0304_pcrv0561

Interviewee Name

Sherry Fine

Interviewer Name

Peggy Walton

Interview Date

2022-04-06

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Fine, Sherry Interview by Peggy Walton. 06 Apr. 2022. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Fine, S. (2022, April 06). Interview by P. Walton. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Fine, Sherry, interview by Peggy Walton. April 06, 2022, Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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