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    Meet Our Newest Board Member Bob

    Cricenti 1968-70 Fisheries I graduated fromWilliams College in 1968 with a BA in math in which Ihad picked up a smattering of computer science. I come

    from a rural town in New

    Hampshire where mygrandfather had started afarm and a grocery store.My Dad ran the grocerystore, but I had learnedmy way around cows andcorn. From early on Iwanted to join the PeaceCorps and when the timecame, I asked for anagricultural project in

    Thailand. Agriculturebecause I knew a littleabout it and Thailandbecause of the mysticalallure of the East and thatwas the only country thatI knew the name of otherthan Viet Nam. When aposting came for afisheries project inMalaysia, I figured that I

    actually knew as muchabout fish as I did realfarming and as muchabout Malaysia asThailand.

    Our project was two-fold. We surveyedfishermen concerningvarious inputs to income

    (size of boat, time spent, gallons of diesel, gallons olubricating oil, etc.) and income. By not too longrealized that I was in a village of independent boatunlike some villages where a towkay or aassociation owned the boat and did marketing. I hato walk a line in my survey between what I was toland what I could see when and if I was at the dock aunloading time. We were to see if there was aoptimum boat to use and also to establisfishermens cooperatives to aid in purchasinmarketing, and storage. (Cont. p. 5)

    Bi-Annual Election of Board o

    Directors Officers October 31, 2012The time has come to elect our various officers for two year term. Are you tired of the same o

    leadership of Friends of Malaysia? Want a nedirection? Do you have new ideas and want to takthe helm of this vibrant, award winninorganization. Now's the time to seize the leadershirole. There are plenty of places to serve and brecognized by your adoring members.

    President Runs the meetings, keeps us goingVice President of Programs Finds projectsTreasurer Pays the bills keeps, the accountsMembership Director keeps the records of membe

    Secretary Takes minutes of meetingsWeb Master Updates our web siteNewsletter Editor Coordinates and distributesBlogger Keeps us up to date with membershipSocial Media Coordinator Gives us a web presencIt is time for a change and new leadershiNominate your self or a friend to become a leader ithis dynamic award winning organization. Senyour nominations and the office you to (Cont. p. 2

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    Di-dalam

    New Board Member......1

    Election of Officers.......1

    RPCV Gathering

    Minneapolis.................2

    Latest Service Project..2

    Searching for RPCVs..2

    Malaysia CelebratesFifty Years of PeaceCorps............................3

    Our Image....................3

    Volunteer Stories..........4

    Malaysia and WesternEducation Hub.............4

    New Board Member.....6

    Board Members..........12

    Application.................12

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    Continued from page 1, election: want run for to BarryMorris, President [email protected] we'll get youon the ballot. These officers are the face of Friends ofMalaysia, join the few brave souls that make us anaward winning RPCV group.

    Friends of Malaysia Shows the Flag

    at RPCV Event in Minnesota by Mike

    Anderson and Karen Flolid

    Minnesota hosted the June 29-July 1 Peace CorpsConnect 2012 conference which brought severalhundred former volunteers from the Midwest andelsewhere together in the Minneapolis ConventionCenter to remember and rethink their service as a life-defining experience. The attendees reminisced,networked, participated in various career-trainingworkshops, and -- most importantly -- discussed whatthey could do to support the third goal of the Peace

    Corps and bring the world back home.

    B.R. Dori Wozniak, Gaila Hagg Olson, John Wozniakand Karen Flolid, F.R. Mike Anderson and Laura Kingat the recent gathering of RPCVs in Minneapolis

    The Friends of Malaysia, one of more than 150 PCValumni groups affiliated with the National Peace CorpsAssn. (NPCA), was represented at the regionalgathering by two of its Board members -- Michael H.Anderson (West Malaysia, 1968-71) and Karen McClay

    Flolid (Sarawak, 1965-68). Both Mike and Karenjoined Peace Corps Malaysia while living in Minnesota,and they are proud of the many contributions the nearly4,067 Peace Corps Volunteers made to Malaysia from1962-1983 and their home state has made to the PeaceCorps. For example, the late former Vice President andMinnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey was an earlyadvocate of the Peace Corps, Minnesota has long beenone of the top Volunteer-providing states, and the

    University of Minnesota is one of the top fivschools contributing Volunteers. (Cont. p. 7)

    Service Projects Reviewed an

    FundedAs a group we try to identify projects in Malaysthat contribute to the development process and heto sustain activities that are similar to the projecthat PCVs supported during our years of servic

    Over the last few months we have identified threprojects that we as a board felt were worthy oinvesting in. The most recent was a US$25donation to the Borneo proje(www.borneoproject.org) to assit with thdistribution of books written in the Penan languagand focusing on traditional stories, sukit, of thPenan people. We supported the haemodialysAssociation of Klang

    New Haemodialysis Association Building of Klang

    with a $500.00 donation. Part one of a two paarticle can be read at their blog spot: http://bbraklang.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html Whave also donated US$250 to Cheshire Home to heprovide improved transportation for parents developmentally disabled children that attenCheshire boarding School in Kuching Sarawak.

    Looking for Lost Malaysian Peace

    Corps Volunteer ByThaine H. Allison, Jr.

    From time to time, as web master, I receive an emalike the following: Hello, I am looking for M

    Ernest from New York who served as a peac

    corp in Perak, Malaysia in 1976. We met

    Penang the same year and lost touch afte

    that. Could you please help by forwarding m

    his email address or my email address t

    him? Thank You, Farah (Cont. p. 5)

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    Continued from page 1, Searching: After a fewquestions I usually get a response like:Hello, I have been informed that the lost peace

    friend Mr Ernest I am looking for currently

    resides in New York. He served in Malaysia in

    1976. I would most appreciate if you could

    provide his full name (last name) and his

    current contact info in New York. I am looking

    forward to locating him to establish contactagain. Thank You, FarahAfter a few more questions I get clarifications like this:Hello, peacecorpsconnect indicates that Mr

    Ernest I am looking for is actually Mr Ernest D'

    Ambrosio who matches the info given. They have

    provided his Linkedin profile and upon checking

    with Google, he is now the managing director of

    The Innovation Group based in the Greater

    Philadelphia Area. If you know him, could you

    please furnish his email address as I have triedemailing a couple of times to his company's info

    department but there is no response. Thank

    You, Farah

    Unfortunately there is no complete record of allvolunteers that served in Malaysia, or the Peace Corps.The National Association of Returned Peace CorpsVolunteers is trying to locate the 250,000 RPCVs:http://www.peacecorpsconnect.org/findthe250k/

    In the mean time one can see that the name has changedfrom Mr Ernst to Earnest D'Ambrosio. Sometimes I amable to locate the RPCV, I never send the info to theperson inquiring , I send the info to the RPCV and ask ifthey want to reconnect. If so then I provide the email ofthe searcher. If you know Mr. Earnest Please sendme a note: [email protected] and I'll make theconnection.

    Malaysia Celebrates Fifty Years of

    Peace Corps 1962-2012Starting with the grand celebration at the MalaysianEmbassy in Washington DC, the Malaysiangovernment, the American Embassy and the NewStraights Times have coordinated a variety of events inMalaysia. The American Embassy facilitated a PeaceCorps photo exhibit that is now traveling the country.http://malaysia.usembassy.gov/pcv_photoexhibit.ht

    ml Other links take you to a variety of Peace Corps

    connections including a Facebook group paghttps://www.facebook.com/groups/201309356552

    02/ and the New Straights Times web site http://www.nst.com.my/streets/northern/peace-

    corps-pass-50-years-in-a-flash-1.106636 search fothers on Google. There is also a Peace CorpMalaysia blog featuring various volunteers thoughat http://peacecorpsmalaysia.wordpress.com/ Thfirst volunteers to arrive in the British colonies wer

    also the first group to train in Hilo Hawaii during thsummer of 1962. North Borneo/Sarawak I September of 1962. Dee Bear at Oregon StaUniversity has written a detailed history of the PeacCorps in Sarawak and you can read it and otheissues of Apa khabar at http://issuu.com/friends-omalaysia/docs/people _to_people__the_peace_

    corps_in_sarawak

    Group I Sarawak Arrives Kuching September 1962

    Our Image: Friends of Malaysia an

    CatchaFire Team Up to Update FoM

    About five years ago our original web master passeaway and we were left with an aging site, littexpertise and calls for a new and updated site. Afttrying in vein to find a volunteer amongst (cont. p. 4

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    Hilo, Hawaii Summer 1962 Language Instructors LucasChan and Eldred Chin, a day at the beach

    Continued from page 3, Image:our membership, local

    college students and begging and pleading wediscovered CatchAfire.org in the Wall Street journal.They link skilled technicians with non-profitorganizations to help them develop their organizations.Technically at the time they were only serving localNew York organizations but we pointed out we had acouple of volunteers in the NYC/NJ area and ithappened that the founder of the organization was thedaughter of a Malaysian immigrant to Australia.

    With some creative negotiating we established a fourphase project for technical assistance from CatchaFire.

    The first was social media (completed a year ago);Second,branding of the FoM, who we are and what westand for (nearing completion); Third and Fourth Logoand Web Site Design. We have a great technician tohelp us with these two final phases of the project andhope to have a new web site up by fall. We have somepromised donations to help with the actual programingand are looking for a volunteer to help with the designphase. This is the look, feel, content not the actualprogramming. We need some one with an eye for color

    and design to help with facilitating the web pagredesign.

    Volunteer Stories

    As they say we're not getting any younger, it's timto write your memories, either in short form and senthem to FoM or Peace Corps Experience: Write anPublish Your Memoirby Lawrence F. Lihos

    (Honduras, 1975-1977) explains how to writpublish and promote a memoir. Available ohttp://Amazon.com. Mean while we have our own.

    Married Life As a Peace Corp

    Volunteer by Thaine H. Allison, Jr. NorBorneo/Sarawak I

    I have identical twin grandsons and a commoquestion they get asked is What's it like to have

    brother that looks just like you around all the time?They always seem a little confused by the questioand generally respond that they have no othexperience than a brother since early in thpregnancy.Most Peace Corps Volunteers are single and stasingle through their Peace Corps experience. Ocourse American values and mores about marriaghave changed a great deal in the fifty years sincegot married, and twenty four since I got divorced fothat matter. But I was half of one of six marrie

    couples that went to north Borneo and Sarawak September of 1962. I can't speak for the other hal(maybe that is a lesson I should have learned lonago and I might still be married!) but thought might be fun exploring some of my married guexperiences or observations.

    All of the couples that entered training that June Hilo, Hawaii were married one to three yeargenerally fresh out of college and each person waeager to be a PCV. Just for the record all but one the couples are divorced and most are remarrie(Cont. p. 6)

    Malaysia's Ambition to Become A

    Asian Hub for Western Education

    May 5th 2011 |NUSAJAYA, JOHOR STATE, ThEconomist May 7th2011ONE corner of a foreign field is becoming for evEngland. It is in Johor on the southern (cont. p.

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    Continued from p. 4, Educity, most tip of peninsularMalaysia, opposite Singapore. At a site called Nusajaya,workmen are finishing a new campus of NewcastleUniversity. Nearby foundations are being dug forSouthampton University. And down the road MarlboroughCollege, one of Englands most famous public (that is,private) schools, is building a Malaysian campus fromscratch. If all goes well, the 900-odd pupils will hardlynotice that they are looking out over palm-oil

    plantations rather than the Wiltshire Downs. Within afew years thousands of students will be enjoying anEnglish education in this steamy bit of Asia.

    Educity, as the Johor complex is called, reflectsMalaysias grand strategy to become a centre forWestern education. The country wants to meet strongdemand among Asias new middle classes for English-language schooling. It also worries about its brain drain

    (over 300,000 university-educated Malays workabroad). Having watched Asian children flock west tospend a lot of money on British and American schools,the government decided a few years ago to try toreverse the trend. It has campaigned to persuadeWestern schools and colleges to come and set up branchcampuses. The Malaysian proposition to Asian parentsis simple and beguiling: come to these famous schoolsand universities in our country and get the same degreesand qualifications as in Britain or America for half theprice.Australias Monash University was the first to set upshop, followed by Britains Nottingham University, in2005. Other Australian universities followed Monash,and in March the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyteamed up with a Malaysian body to create Asias firstInstitute for Supply-Chain Innovation. Johns HopkinsUniversity is expected to set up a medical school. TheNetherlands Maritime Institute of Technology is alreadyin Educity.

    For these Western institutions, the prize is a toeholin the worlds biggest education market. Many havalready gone into partnership with or lent thenames to schools and universities in Hong KonSingapore and Shanghai. But this is the first time smany have been persuaded to build replicas othemselves in another country, a more permaneand riskier proposition. They are doing so largebecause the Malaysian government is bearing th

    start-up costs. Educity is spending about $100m othe infrastructure and buildingYet other factors count as well. Malaysia is a formBritish colony and English is widely spoken. Thcountry has a superficially Western feel to itidefor Westerners studying or teaching in Asia, and fAsians who want to acclimatise to Western culturMeanwhile, Malaysia cleverly markets itself to thMiddle East as a relatively relaxed Islamic countrwhere young Muslims can mix together freely an

    for a few years, slip the surly watch of the moralipolice back home.

    In return for putting up a lot of money, thMalaysian government wants universities to set ufaculties in subjects that will be most useful Malaysia. The University of Southampton, finstance, will only offer degrees in engineering. Buthe influx of foreign colleges might have mointeresting consequences, too. In order to attraforeign universities, the government has had

    waive the restrictive and sometimes raciregulations that govern Malaysias own universitieIn these places, informal quota systems givpreference to ethnic Malays in the faculties sought-after subjects such as law, medicine anengineering. Students are not allowed to jopolitical parties or protest. Now, local students ardemanding to know why they should be subject tthese archaic rules when the new students are noGood question.

    Continued from page 1, newest board membeBob Cricenti: My posting was Pulau Ketam in thstate of Selangor off Port Swettenham, now PoKelang. After a year of gathering data my joshifted to the computer lab at the U of Malaytrying to figure out which inputs carried the moweight for revenue. We were also trying to come uwith a blueprint for persatuan nelayan.

    Meanwhile I met the person who would become m

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    wife, Rabitah Hanoem bte. Zainudin. We got married inKL after my Peace Corps service had ended and cameback to New Hampshire where we worked in our familybusiness, the grocery store. Over the years we traveledback to KL to visit family. As our two girls graduatedfrom high school and college Ritas parents and at timessome of the sisters would come to the US. As we agedand were more able we made the trip to KL more andmore often. Were going there each year now. On one

    of our visits where we have a fair bit of time on ourhands we started attending Rotary Club meetings indifferent places. When we decided to visit Klang, myold stomping ground we met a group of folks who hadstarted a dialysis clinic. Both Rita and I were soimpressed with this endeavor that we tried to help inmany ways. We would donate while we were inMalaysia and tried to fund raise through variouscommunity groups here in the US.Were happy to have our family (children and

    grandchildren alike) be able to have an interest in twocountries. Malaysia has some issues and somehowmanages to deal with them pretty much non-violently.Some things get out of hand but technology has broughttransparency and all throughout the country the peoplehave a great knowledge of events. Since our family willalways have a presence in Malaysia, there are so manysiblings and now nephews and grandnephews that I willalways have an interest in Malaysia. Bob can bereached at http://FriendsofMalaysia.org our web siteor email to [email protected] .

    Another New Board

    Member Dr. Michael H.Anderson recently retiredfrom the US ForeignService with nearly 30 yearsof diplomatic experience asa public diplomacy andAsian affairs specialistworking for the Department

    of State and the USInformationAgency (USIA). His embassy postings included thePhilippines (twice), Papua New Guinea, India (twice),Pakistan, Singapore and Indonesia. He also has been ajournalist, a teacher and an information officer withUNICEF.

    Mike, who now lives in Arlington, VA, is originallyfrom Minnesota, and credits the Peace Corps with being

    a life-shaping experience. It got him interested boin Asia and in a career in international affairs. Fresout of the University of Minnesota with a BA journalism, he joined the Peace Corps in 1968 anjoined Group XX for training in both Hilo, Hawaand in Kuala Trengganu.

    For two years, Mike taught English at predominantly-Malay primary school, Sekola

    Kebangsaan Pusat, in Sungei Patani, Kedah, a smaWest Malaysian town between Penang and Alor StaHe then extended a third year and transferred Kuala Lumpur, where he was attached to thSoutheast Asia Press Center, which was establishein 1968 by local and regional media organizationfoundations and the Ministry of Information provide in-service training to journalists. While the Center, which later became the Malaysian PreInstitute (Instituit Akhbar Malaysia), Mike used hjournalism skills to help foster greater med

    professionalism and also was part of a team whichelped the new University Science Malaysia Penang introduce the first university-level macommunication courses into Malaysia.

    Mike went on to earn a University of Hawaii PhD iPolitical Science while on a scholarship from thEast-West Center in Honolulu. His field researcwas conducted in 1977 in Indonesia and Singaporas well as in Malaysia. In 1981, he joined thForeign Service, and spent nearly all of his care

    abroad managing media relations and culture aneducational exchange work through US embassies South and Southeast Asia.

    Mike says whether serving as a PCV or a diplomhe has felt privileged to be able to help promotmutual understanding, work with host-countrinstitutions and explain US society and policy. Honly regret was that he was never assigned as diplomat in Malaysia. Working in nearby AsiPacific nations, however, gave him opportunities

    holiday in or transit Malaysia so he has been able observe the countrys many remarkabdevelopments over four decades.

    Continued from Page 2, Minneapolis gatherin

    As with any gathering of enthusiastic former PCVconference participants instantly clicked andemonstrated that they generally shared sompersonality traits and still had a sense of adventure anwant to help other people and support (cont. p. 7)

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    Continued from Page 7, Married Volunteer: thePeace Corps to get applications and start finding outhow we might fit in to something that no one reallyknew what it would turn out to be. By late spring wehad an invitation to training.

    My degree was in agriculture with 15 years ofexperience growing up and working on a farm, technicalskills in farm equipment repair and operation, welding,

    carpentry and electricity as well as animal husbandryand crop raising experience. My wife was anelementary education major with class room training.In our minds we thought we had a lot to offer and wouldmake a good bet for the PC.

    After hours of testing, essays and interviews we wereinvited first to the Congo (there was a coup), thenThailand (Peace Corps decided they would not sendwomen to Thailand) and finally North Borneo. I mustsay the only thing I knew about Borneo was my dad's

    yelling at my brother and me you guys are runningaround the house like wild men from Borneo which Ithink came from a Barnum and Bailey Circusadvertisement regarding an Orang Utan.

    The first extra ordinary experience as a PCV Traineewas our housing arrangement. Two of the coupleswere placed in the girls dorm as kind of HouseParents for the 40 or so single women in the group.The remaining four couples were assigned to a fourbedroom, one bath house half way between the

    classroom area at Hilo College and the Vocationalschool where we had most of our meals.

    Bedrooms were assigned numbers, each couple drew anumber and then assigned a bedroom. My wife and Igot the nursery complete with two cribs and a dipperchanging table. It took the training staff a few days toget us a bed and full sized sheets. Bathroomarrangements were a bit more of a test. The down sidewas when we headed back to the house the rest of thegroup, about a eighty, would begin the nightly rounds of

    the three or four bars in Hilo. Somehow we were notreally invited to these more spontaneous happenings. Ithink we were seen by other volunteer trainees as oldmarried foggies or something.

    As you might have guessed most of us were split fromour spouses about half way through training as webegan to focus on our specialty training. The teacherswent off to Kona to work in the schools and theagriculture volunteers stayed in Hilo but traveled

    around the island by day. This was the first time whad lived a part since we were married. Learning be flexible was another aspect of our training. All othe married guys complained about the arrangemen, the wives seemed to take it in stride.

    As we lost more and more trainees via thdeselection process the anxiety levels increaseamong all of us and between husbands and wives.

    one of us failed the language, me, exams then wwould drag the other out too. This added to thtension between us. Our confidant, intimate partneand built in tutor was missing for most of the seconhalf of training.

    As trainees who didn't cut the mustard were leaway in the night never to be seen or heard froagain some one wrote new words to Oh My DarliClementine Operation deselection for thprotection of the Corps, if you are no good, you ar

    dead wood, we can always get some more. Thmarried guys were thrown in with the single guybut not quite, since we had a spouse on the other sidof the island. Somehow we survived training, weselected and sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers anoff we went to North Borneo and Sarawak. We ocourse had to face more in country traininagriculture volunteers were once again sent off to thcountryside while our wives stayed behind to learabout the local teaching program.

    Finally after another six weeks we were posted tour sites to start our assignments. The locals wequick to note that we did not have children. Whwas wrong. Didn't we want many children? Yohave two incomes, one house why do you not havchildren? For the first six months I explained thAmerican's were like elephants, their gestatioperiod is three years. Next I tried to explain thshe was very shy and in time it would happen. Eacpassing month brought more questions and no realsatisfying answers.

    Muslims in my little town reminded me that it wagood to have up to three wives and I could obviousafford them with my big American pay check andwife that also got a check. Might they arrangsomething so I could have children? I think this pa bigger stress on my wife than me because theseemed to be an assumption that it was the womanfault that she did not produce children. It led some interesting discussions at our little (Cont. p. 9

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    Continued from Page 9, Married Volunteer: It seemsthat our trusted helper had had a self inducedmiscarriage in our kitchen from taking herbs to abort herpregnancy. The local dresser nurse, had done a D-n-C onour kitchen floor. I guess we both learned to take thesethings in stride.

    One time I had the opportunity to travel during a schoolholiday period so off we went together. We visited a

    long house village about 12 to 15 miles off the road.

    Photo 4 Elementary students at Bandau GovernmentSchoolWe rode my motorcycle as close as possible, parked itand walked the trail in to the longhouse. The farmerswho lived in the local long house (Photo 5) werehaving trouble growing crops because they had no

    irrigation water during the dry season. They wanted meto help them design and build a way to get water totheir plots. This was a fairly arid region of thepeninsula and the streams were short and often ran dryin the dry season.

    Photo 5 Runguse Dusin Longhouse, Kudat District

    After introductions and some listening time it wasdecided that the farmers and I would walk to a stream

    about a half a mile away and explore how to makwater flow to the fields. I looked at the NativChief's wife and asked her to take care of mwife(bini sya). This was the first time that a whiwoman, and man, had ever come to their village anfor most of the inhabitants the first time they hadseen a white woman (orong puthe). We hiked the hdusty trail looking for ways to align an irrigatiocanal and determine a way to improve crops.

    Photo 6 Some of the young Runguse girls andchildren

    We, the men, went off on our little expedition. Wcame back a couple of hours later and there was mwife in the middle of a circle of women and childreabout 20 deep, close to 150 women and childresurrounding her and taking care of her as I haasked. They were asking questions, touching hhairy arms, questioning about children and womanthings. Fascinated by a woman who came from place, jauuuuu, far away.

    I returned several times to the village to finish thirrigation project, always by myself but nevwithout questions. We were able to establish airrigation system that also brought water to thvillage for drinking and bathing. This reduced thwork load of the women, increased crop yields anestablished some cash crops to supplement famiincomes.

    Being married we had advantages of being seen asregular couple. We shopped at the tamu, the farmemarket, on Sunday morning. Many of the farmewere my clients. People would bring thechildren to our house to show them off and we werinvited to celebrations of life, weddings anchristenings, and death funerals and designateholidays. We had our choice, Muslim, ChristiaBuddhist and animist. (Cont. p. 11)

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    Continued from Page 10, Married Volunteer: At oursecond Christmas in country it was time to go onvacation, eighteen months since our arrival. On themorning that we were to depart there were about adozen women at our front door. I was kind of used tothis because they come for rat poison, seeds and othersupplies that I occasionally had available for them. Thismorning was different, they wanted tosee Mem Allison.

    I busied my self with packing while the womengathered around, each had a handful of cash. Theyexplained that they knew the reason that we did nothave any children was that my wife must have somekind of obat, medicine, that prevented her from gettingpregnant. What ever it was, what ever it cost theywere tired of having babies. They wanted some ofthe obat. Could she bring them some from the city?This is one of those moments when you realize there aresome things you can not do, no matter how much youwould like to.

    Being married had its advantages, and sometimes itsdrawbacks I suppose, but as the twins say I was neversingle while I was a Peace Corps Volunteer so I don'tknow how else it would be. Maybe if I re-enlist as avolunteer I'll learn what it's like to be a single guy in thedeveloping world. I'm sure that there are many storieslike this. Please send them along and we will includethem in our newsletters. [email protected]

    North Borneo/Sarawak I Volunteers June Jensby (Blair),Lynn Patterson (De Danaan), John English, Thaine Allison

    carry the Malaysian flag at the 50 th anniversary of the PeaceCorps September 2011

    Malaysian RPCVs gather at the Malaysian Embassin Washington DC September 2011

    Peace Corps Volunteers Educating Congress Septemb2011

    Peace Corps Memorial walk September 2011

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    FRIENDS OF MALAYSIA BOARD OFDIRECTORS

    Barry Morris, President

    Thaine Allison, Jr., V.P. of Programs

    Margie Hazelton, Secretary

    Lynn Juhl

    Paul Murphy, Treasurer/ Membership Director

    John Pearson

    Mary Quattro

    Rod Zwirmer

    Michael H. Anderson

    Marjorie Harrison

    Karen Flolid

    Bob Cricenti

    Eduardo Lachica

    Learn more about the Friends of Malaysia at our website: http://FriendsofMalaysia.org

    Want to contribute to Apa Khabar or join FoM?Contact us at [email protected] [email protected]

    Want to be part of theFriends of Malaysia?

    -heres how to joinName _____________________

    Maiden Name (if applicable _______________)

    Address____________________

    Address____________________

    City_______________________

    State & Zip _________________

    email address _______________

    Dates of PC Service _____________________

    Home Phone ___________________________

    Membership Category: _____ $50.00 Individual(Includes Friends of Malaysia and National PeaceCorps Association)

    _____ Friends of Malaysia only $15.00Print this application, fill in the blanks and Mail theapplication, with a check payable to Friends of

    Malaysia, to: Paul Murphy, Treasurer, FoM, 510Little John Hill, Sherwood Forest, MD 21405"

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