Appendix
Odds and Ends....
- Glossary
- Various and Sundry Pictures, some of which you have already seen
- Newsletters sent from St. Vincent
Glossary
I use a bunch of terms in the journal that meant something at the time, some of which I have forgotten. The Peace Corps had it's own set of acronyms and abbreviations. Here are some of them, in no particular order:
PT - Physical Therapist which became Physiotherapist and just "Physio" during our service.
non-matrixed spouse - Part of the "package" with no defined placement in country.
COI - Close of invitation - DRop dead date to apply and be accepted by the Peace Corps for service.
NAC -National Agency Check - Federal background check..very thorough,,,
CHP - A consulting firm that provided training for {eace Corps volunteers
UWI - University of the West Indies
E.C. - EC- Eastern Caribbean
PCV - Peace Coprs Volunteer
COS - Close of Service
B'Dos - Short for Barbados
A.T. - Appropriate Technology
EC-33 - Our Peace Corps group followed by EC-34's, 35's, 36's, 37's, and 38's (which we never met...)
CaDEC - Christian Action for Development in the Caribbean
SVG - St. Vincent and the Grenadines
HR - Human Resources
OECS - Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
SVGPS - St. Vincent Public Service
USAID - United States Agency for INternational Development (great organization...or was...)
CAID - Canadian Agency for International Development
CIDA - Canadian International Development Agency (might be the same org as above)
VSO - Volunterr Service Overseas - the British version of the Peace Corps
KGH - Kingstown General Hospital
ET - Early Termination
P.S. - Public Service
RC - Roman Catholic
MCW - Ministry of Communications and Works
DFS - Deputy Financial Secretary
CBI - Caribbean Basin Initiative - a Reagan-era program to foster business growth in the Caribbean
CITS - Caribbean International Travel Service (travel agent...remember those?)
LIAT - Leeward Island Air Transport (or Leave Island Any Time)
AG - Agriculture Department
Ministry of T&A - Ministry of Trade and Agriculture - also MTA
CPU - Central Planning Unit
ORD - Organization for Rural Development
PM - Prime Minister
MIU - Marketing Intelligence Unit
APCD - Associate Peace Corp Director
Various and Sundry Pictures, some of which you have already seen
We took a couple of hundred slides when we were in St. Vincent and I took a few prints as well. The slides have been tranferred to a digital image (not great, some of them) but they give you a flavour of what life in St. Vincent was like. (They are in no particular order)
The climb to Soufriere
At the whaleboat blessing in Bequia
Downtown Kingstown for the SVG Marathon
Runners in the Marathon
Kingstown harbour
Climbing Soufriere
Climbing Soufriere
There was a LST from WW II that was used for sea transport for "excursions" (trips). This one was to Mustique
A boy at his home in Fancy, a far north village of most Carib natives.
Typical Vincentian housing. This one in Sandy Bay.
Our one and only attempt at growing bananas.
The "beach" in front of our house was sometimes used for baptisms (Shakers, in this case)
Carnival was a big event and some PCV's got into the action directly ("Play Mass" - John and Tom)
Some of the Carnival costumes were pretty elaborate
Richmond was on the Leeward coast - a starting point for a hike to Soufriere
Arnos Vale Airport in St. Vincent - notice the road that cuts directly across the runway!
The Training Centre in Sligoville, Jamaica
Spanish Town, Jamaica - where our homestay was
Kingstown, St. Vincent - Our Peace Corps home
We cooked many a meal on this coal pot (bottom) and the Yabas pot (above). We still have the Yabas but the coal pot got shattered on the trip home.
We had many fruit trees on our lot and sometimes we could harvest the bounty before someone else did!
Some of the housing in lower Kingstown. That is the hospital in the background.
I could fill an entire page with the tropical flora we saw in St. Vincent
Newsletters sent from St. Vincent
Artwork on the newsletter provided by Debbie. We'd send the newsletter to my folks in SLC and then they sent out the newsletters to our mailing list. Unfortunately these are the only originals that my folks saved. Some were lost. This is LONG before email was a thing or the Internet was as ubiquitous as it is now.
November 1984.pdf - Our last update from St. Vincent
Also a bit of "bragging" about the MIU project as described in various local newspapers