Don Gray, India 1965-1967
Don Gray served in India from 1965 to 1967 as an agriculture extension volunteer.
Why did you want to join the Peace Corps?
In high school I was inspired by President Kennedy's speech.."Ask not what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country" as well as the founding of the Peace Corps. After majoring in Anthropology I was curious about different peoples of the world. Going to India was an opportunity to learn first hand about one of the world's richest cultures.
What did you do while you were a Peace Corps volunteer?
I worked with a district agricultural extension office advising individual farmers who were learning to grow IR8 rice using a package of practices in Panskura, West Bengal. Later I helped drill water wells in a famine area in Gaya District in Bihar State. It produced water used with Oxfam powdered milk and bulgar wheat from CARE.
What are you doing now?
After teaching high school social studies for 23 years, I've spent 8 years assisting middle class people who want to invest for their retirement.
