Jerry W. Carroll:  

The above NOW photo was taken looking into a geyser field in Rotorua New Zealand in 2005 Life (Written Aug 07)-Following Graduation, I worked the summer in housing construction, Then Went to Washington University in St Louis on a Scholarship in Architecture. Worked most summers in Construction....One year, I won a Graham Foundation Grant to attend a Design Conference in Aspen and Travel in the USA to see modern Architecture first hand.....One summer, I worked for Skidmore , Owings and Merrill, Architects in Chicago,where I worked on the Brunswick Bldg (opposite the Picasso Sculpture in the main square in front of the City Hall), and the Chicago Circle Campus there. Finally I graduated with a B of Arch., in 1965....In my final year at Univ, I applied to the newly formed Peace Corp, and was invited to work in West Pakistan for two years. We trained at Colorado State Univ. in Boulder Colo for a month and then a further 2 months at an Agricultural research facility run by the Univ at Durango, Colorado, where we studied construction techniques in Pakistan, Cultural differences and a rigerous course in HIndi-Urdu...4 hours of language a day and our other classes and meals were carried out in Hindi-Urdu to the extent possible....... Following training, we flew via the now non existant Pan Am to Karachi and on to Lahore where we were based. Was then sent out to Dera Ghazi Khan ( west of Multan accross the Indus river at the foothills of the Mountains where the culture changes to Patan ( Afghani) for a months in Country training with some volunteers that had been in country for a while for a month to get the feel of the task. Following training, I was assigned to a governmental Public works office, in Gujranwala, about a 100 k up the road from Lahore to Peshawar, where I worked with an Oxford trained Govenor, designing and in some cases helping to build Clinics and schools and a major bus station for the town.....after a year there, I was transfered back to Dera Ghjazi Khan where the other volunteers hadfinished their 2 year term, so I was on my own there for the last year. Over 140 miles from the nearest Westerner. A group of Nuns outside Multan. At one stage I came down with malaria and was on a bus for a about 7 Hours, stoping at every small town, at one stop an oxen pulling a cart had broken down and they cut its throat and bled to in front of the bus which held up the trip for over an hour, Finally I got to the Nuns and was in bed for a week,before getting over it...Expand for more