Zo ti Soussou - Cohort I on Tournée, 1974

- Carnot, 1974 -

Back:  Ken Barber, language teacher M. Sandua, Fish in-country Stage Leader Jim Steeby, John Lemon, Jon White, Embassy driver Moussa   
Front: Marlyn Miller, Peter Galbreath, TEFL Scott Stephens, ____

"After language training, Jim Steeby took the first Fish group on a whirlwind tour of our potential work locations. On the western leg of our tour, we spent a day in Carnot.  In the afternoon, we inspected the diamond mining pits along the streams near town, and in the evening, like most evenings, we went drinking.  After a few beers, some brochettes, hard-boiled eggs and kola nuts, we got our pictures taken.  I cannot remember much of what happened after the picture was taken.  I think we went to Berberati the next day."   Marlyn Miller

Zo ti Soussou - Cohorts II & III

- Bangui - January, 1978 -

Back: Walter Schacht, APCD Jim Seyler, Ben Way, Phil Coyne, Jim Schoeberl;  
Middle: Boyd Haight, Rob Leutheuser, Bruce Mathias, Paul Gregor;

Front: Phil Hunsicker, Justin Salloway, Mark Schroeder, Peter Perrine

“That M’Baiki (Bangui) photo, especially, brings back wonderful memories of a bunch of completely unprepared, naïve, idealistic kids on a mission.”  Peter Perrine

Joyeux Noel I

- Sahr, Tchad - December 1977 - 
Chris Walter and Tim Crow with festive Christmas Tree

"Our counterparts had gone home to Bangui for the holiday.  Tim and I took a couple of days off work from doing wells work in the Kabo area and drove to Sahr.  I believe the photo was taken on Christmas Eve. Otherwise, it was Christmas evening. It was the only Christmassey thing we did, and it fun to acknowledge it that way.  Sahr was so pleasant.  Sandy dusty streets.  A big open market. A bar with cold Gala.  We drove back through Moissala Chad, crossing back into the CAR where there was no type of government presence.  In fact, there was no bridge over the stream and gully that seems to have marked the border.  We tried driving through the gully but got stuck in a mass of brush on the climb up the bank.  It took a lot of work by a group of boys and men from a small village on the Chadian side to dig and cut and push us up and out.  Without their help we might have been there a very long time. Tim compensated them with cigarettes and everyone was happy."  Chris Walter

Bill and Dinny

- Bangui, 1978 -

Bill and Dinny Rasmussen with "Mama Denise" and her family

“Man, I look like a Protestant missionary who is taking her work and herself way too seriously.”  Dinny Rasmussen