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Dr. Leo H. Madden served as a teacher of Economics and English at Wesley Secondary School, Segbwema, from 1977 to 1980 as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is currently Associate Professor of Theology at Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. In the past five years he has survived three different kinds of cancer (prostate, kidney, and leukemia). [Mar. 2010]

Gerard V. "Gerry" Magbity hails from Serabu and Bandasahn in the Bumpe Chiefdom. He attended Catholic Model School and Christ the King College, Bo. He's a Water and Waste Engineer from Kharkov Institute of Civil Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine and Institute of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Delft, Netherlands. He recently finished his mission in the DRC where he was working as a Country Logistics Coordinator with Oxfam GB. Prior to that he had worked in Mozambique, Malawi, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC with Doctors without Borders (MSF) and International Rescue Committee (IRC). Since 23 October 2007 he has been working as a Logistics Specialist for UNICEF. He is currently based at the UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen, Denmark. [Mar. 2010]

Jim and Kathy Malcolm served under the Kingsley Plan as teachers at the Taiama Secondary School, UMC, in Taiama from 1969 to 1971, and 1973 to 1974. They are living in Mankato, Minnesota, U.S.A., where Jim is retired from mathematics teaching. He is an assistant track and field coach at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Kathy is employed as a teacher of toddlers in a childcare center and as a parent facilitator in the Early Childhood Family Education Program. [Mar. 2010]

Ibrahima Sory Mansaray is a Sierra leonean living in the Republic of Guinea. He was born in Koidu town, Kono district, and resided at Bona Street in Gbense Chiefdom. He did his primary education at the Islamic Primary School of Koidu from 1988 to 1992, and got his Selective Entrance Examination to the Islamic Secondary School Koidu (I.S.S.K). He lived and furthered his secondary education in Kamabai township, Biriwa hiefdom, in the Bombali District, and later moved over to Kabala where he attended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Agricultural Secondary School (A.M.A.S.S) from 1994 to 1997. He finally ended up in Guinea and lived in Farana, Kissidougou, Gueckedou, and Banankoro from 1998 to 2006, before he came to his present location. He curently works as an assistant camp administrator for  Guinea Alumina Project (a joint venture owned by Global Alumuna Corporation Ltd., BHP Billiton, Dubal and Mubadala Development Co.), operating in the prefecture of Boké, about 85 km northeast of the Port of Kamsar, and some 280 km (160 miles) from the city of Conakry. [Jul. 2009]

Mohamed Lamin Mansaray is an old Princewalean who has lived in the Diaspora throughout his working career. He was born in June, 1947 in Freetown, where he did his entire schooling before proceeding to the U.K. for further studies in late 1968. His expertise is in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and he holds a Masters degree in Management Information Systems. Since 1973, he has worked in the U.K., France, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, and has finally retired from active service in the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) in Accra, Ghana, where he was the ICT Director. WAMI is the body charged with the development of the West African Central Bank t which is expected to introduce the ECOWAS common currency, Eco by 2015. He enjoys writing poetry, and has published some of them in the Sierra Leone Web's Poetry page. [Mar. 2010]

Esther Megill went to Sierra Leone for the Evangelical United Brethren Church in January of 1951. She worked as a medical technologist at Rotifunk Hospital in Rotifunk until June of 1962. During this time she was also involved in Christian education programs in the Conference. From 1968 to 1972 she was Area Secretary for North and West Africa for the General Board of Missions of The United Methodist Church (formed by union of the Evangelical United Brethren Church with the Methodist Church). One of the five countries for which she had responsibility was Sierra Leone, and she made yearly trips there during the four years. There was a trip to Sierra Leone to celebrate P.C. Madam Honoria Bailor Caulker’s 25th Anniversary in 1986, and in 1989 she was a volunteer tutor at the Theological Hall and Church Training Center for three months. She has written two books about her experiences in Africa: Sierra Leone Remembered (1951-1962) and Return to Africa–A Journal, which contains sections on her time in Sierra Leone 1968-1972 and 1989. [Jul. 2009]

Cornell Menking Ph.D. was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Agriculture) in Sierra Leone from 1988 to 1991 (first in the eastern Kailahun district and later in Shenge). Since leaving Sierra Leone he has lived in Guatemala, Boston, Yakutia (northeastern Siberia, Russia ) and Ecuador. In 2003 he completed his Ph.D. in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In January of 2010 he became the interim Assistant Vice President for Internationalization at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky. [Mar. 2010]

Edward L. Monaghan Ed.D. was a Peace Corps lecturer at Makeni Teachers College from 1979 to 1982. He currently lives in the Washington, DC area, and serves as a Program Manager/Analyst in the US Department of Education, Office of Migrant Education. Major areas of research include the strategies for closing the achievement gap and the use of continuous improvement principles in public education. He also serves as a board member of Sierra Leone Village Partnerships (http://slvp.org) and Friends of Sierra Leone (FOSL). He is married to Jennifer (Tsosie) Monaghan, and they have three children: Adrian, Krista, and Tierra. [Mar. 2010]

Anna Morford taught commercial courses at Harford School for Girls, Moyamba, beginning in 1965. Between that year and 1983 (with a four-year absence to Zimbabwe) she taught typing, shorthand, English, and commerce. For approximately 5 years, she worked at the United Methodist Church headquarters in Freetown on Lightfoot-Boston Street, helping to coordinate program personnel coming from the United States to be involved with United Methodist projects throughout Sierra Leone. After leaving Sierra Leone, she worked in the United Methodist personnel headquarters in New York as assistant treasurer working with missionary payroll and benefits. From 1994 to the present, she is the Treasurer of the Detroit Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, located in Flint, Michigan. Her adopted daughter, Virginia, also lives in Flint, where she works for Visiting Nurses in Michigan, human resources department. [Mar. 2010]

Peggy Murrah was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Primary Education Moyamba District) and lived in Taiama from 1978 to 1980. She currently lives in Social Circle, Georgia where she teaches school. She has two daughters, Laurie and Hadley. She has served on the Board of Directors for Friends of Sierra Leone since 2002 and president since 2004. [Mar. 2010]

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Judy Nelson worked at KRMS in Kabala from 1988 to 1992, and then moved to Freetown. Judy currently lives on the outskirts of Freetown with International D.O.V.E. (Development, Orphanages, Vocational Education), where she operate Dove's Village of Hope for Children, a permanent home for war-orphaned and abandoned children. [Mar. 2010]

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Lois Olsen lived in Sierra Leone from 1952 to 1963 as a missionary with the (then) United Brethren Church, now the United Methodist Church. She spent most of her time in Taiama, but also lived briefly in Rotifunk and Jaiama Nimikoro. She has been back several times, most recently in 2002 and 2005. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. [Mar. 2010]

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Father Rocco Puopolo is a Xaverian missionary priest, and was director of the National Pastoral Centre in Kenema from 1995 to 1999. In earlier assignments in Sierra Leone he lived in Kambia (1973 to 1974), Kabala (1978 1o 1980) and Freetown (1980 to 1984). He is currently living in Hyattsville, MD and is the executive director of the Africa Faith and Justice Network (www.afjn.org) in Washington DC. [Mar. 2010]

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John Rabideau The Rabideau family lived in Kenema as Peace Corps Volunteers from 1971 to 1974. Ro Rabideau worked in construction for the Ministry of Works. Ita Rabideau worked at the Nongowa Clinic for Dr. Sama Banya. John and Daniel Rabideau attended Holy Trinity Secondary School. The Rabideaus were in the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to go as a family. Ro and Ita retired and settled in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Ro passed away in January 2007. John, Daniel and Jacqueline have settled in South Florida and are raising families. [Mar. 2010]

Clifford Rotime Roberts attended CMS Grammar School and Boys Secondary School in Magburaka. He worked as a school teacher at Bishop Johnson Memorial School , Methodist Boys High School and Sierra Leone Grammar School. He retired in December 2000 from the Milton Margai College of Education, where he was Head of the Agricultural Sciences Department and Senior Lecturer, Warden of Students at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS). He now operates a small consultancy in Freetown called "ROBSCO." It is a grassroots consultancy designed to do training, projects (design unto evaluation), sexual and reproductive health and family planning issues, etc. Workedas a short term consultant, with Public Administration International (PAi)/DFID, in the Governance Reform Secretariat, for the Civil Service in Sierra Leone. He has done the Management and Functional Reviews of some government ministries. He also consulted with the Establishment Secretary's Office for the transformation into a Human Resource Management Office. He also served for six years as President of the Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone, served also in the Executive Committee for the Africa region of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and was the first Chairman for the National Accountability Group (NAG), which is a contact group for Transparency International based in Berlin , Germany. NAG is a civil society movement which complements the efforts of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone. He is a Commissioner for Oaths and Justice of the Peace (July 2008), in the Republic of Sierra Leone. He was recently appointed by H E The President or Sierra Leone to be a member of the Board of Directors, Rokel Commercial Bank, Sierra Leone, in April 2008. [Mar. 2010]

Judy Jainya (Lansana) Rogers attended St. Joseph's Secondary School in Freetown, and graduated from Njala University College in 1983. She left for the United States in 1985. She now lives in California. She graduated from law school in California in 1998. She currently works as Deputy District Attorney for Kern County. She is married and has two boys. [Jul. 2009]

Reijo Rouhe was administrator of Masanga Leprosy Hospital from 1977 to 1981. He currently lives in Redlands, California, U.S.A.  [Mar. 2010]