Interview with Rebecca Roach, November 28, 2005

Project: Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Rebecca Roach's (Liberia, 1987-1988; Education Program) interview includes extensive reflections on impact of Peace Corps on herself and her teaching and her children. She discusses being part of a teacher training program as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia and being principal of a Catholic primary school in her second year. She also talks about how after working in Pakistan, Cambodia, and Thailand, with World Bank and Save the Children, she returned to eastern Kentucky to teach elementary school and work on her doctorate.

Interview Accession

2005oh131_pc061

Interviewee Name

Rebecca Roach

Interviewer Name

Angene H. Wilson

Interview Date

2005-11-28

Interview Keyword

Education Education, Higher. Food habits. Lifestyles. Manners and customs Interpersonal relations Gender and society Gender and culture Teaching. First Liberian Civil War, 1989-1996

Interview LC Subject

Liberia Peace Corps (U.S.)--History Peace Corps (U.S.)--Liberia Roach, Rebecca Roach, Rebecca--Interviews Peace Corps (U.S.)--History--1980-1989. Education Cross cultural communication Peace Corps (U.S.). Africa Region

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Roach, Rebecca Interview by Angene H. Wilson. 28 Nov. 2005. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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