Interview with Helen Kott, June 6, 2021

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

Interview Summary

Helen Kott served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India from 1970 to 1972. Helen was finishing graduate school when she applied for the Peace Corps. She left her small Texas town and started training in San Diego and was in one of the first groups to train in country. Helen taught English as a Second Language to future primary school teachers at Saint Theresa’s Basic Training School. She also taught English to boys in the fifth grade throughout her service and held demonstration classes for volunteers in smaller towns. The school followed Ghandhian principles. Peace Corps found her apartment and gave her a bicycle and a fan. Her apartment was small, but had a large veranda from which she could see holiday gatherings at a nearby temple. A family with five children lived downstairs and they were frequent visitors.

Interview Accession

2021oh0483_pcrv0266

Interviewee Name

Helen Kott

Interviewer Name

Wendy Schumacher

Interview Date

2021-06-06

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Kott, Helen Interview by Wendy Schumacher. 06 Jun. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Kott, H. (2021, June 06). Interview by W. Schumacher. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Kott, Helen, interview by Wendy Schumacher. June 06, 2021, 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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