Khodahafez (Good Bye) from the Peace Corps Iran Association!
PCIA officially unincorporated as an active organization as of June 30th. We will engage in “wrapping up” through July 31st.
Genna Wangsness, PCIA Historian, died June 18, 2026. She will be long remembered for her 600-page history of Peace Corps Volunteer activities entitled, LAND BETWEEN TWO WATERS: THE PEACE CORPS FOURTEEN YEARS IN IRAN 1962-1976 available from Amazon at this LINK.
Doug Schermer, PCIA Webmaster, drafted a history of the Peace Corps Iran Association, a brief version of which was published in the last issue of the KhabarNameh. The complete version, A (NOT SO) BRIEF HISTORY OF PEACE CORPS IRAN ASSOCIATION, can be downloaded HERE.
Bill Brandon, PCIA Board member, wrote about how NPCA helped organize a tour to Iran in 1999 and a follow-up tour in 2002. The article, There and Back Again, can be downloaded HERE,
As part of the October 2025 conference, Brad Hanson led a group in the development of a “Yadegari” or memory booklet about the Iran that volunteers experienced and remember. I also contained a record of PCIA activities. You can download it as a PDF by clicking HERE.
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