Peace Corps meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 1963

Abstract

Correspondence, travel forms, airline ticket stubs, and transcribed telephone conversation to or from Maurice Albertson related to a Peace Corps Training conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Colorado State University became involved with the early development of the Peace Corps through the work of Maurice L. Albertson and the successful 1960 proposal on behalf of CSURF (Colorado State University Research Foundation) to the ICA (International Cooperation Agency) to investigate the possibility of establishing a "youth corps" that would become the Peace Corps. Colorado State University soon began training Peace Corps volunteers for work in Pakistan and other parts of the world. Albertson remained interested in the Peace Corps, and in 1986 he organized a seminar focusing on the future of the Peace Corps.