Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 06:49PM 
Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 08:21PM 
We are saddened by the loss of our co-founder and treasurer George Nepert. Read more about his life here.
Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 01:45PM With a heavy heart, I must mention the passing of FOI President John (Jack) Slattery on June 21, 2020. A month before he celebrated his 80th birthday, but a failing heart and illness took him away from our presence. For many years he was our Friends of India president. Many of the PCV's in south India knew him personally, especially Poultry Development groups India-16,26,33,42,99.
Jack was loved by numerous people abroad and state side. He left an awesome legacy serving humanity his entire career and into retirement years. Jack was India-3 PCV group in 1962. While he was in Gangalvati Karnataka, he published a booklet on "Modern Poultry Farming for Profit". He then helped to develop a project for PCV's to assist in a poultry hatchery and breeding program with the government of Kerala and Karnataka states government poultry farms. Hens received by farmers by this effort had increased egg production, making poultry raising a profitable business. He also was involved in intensive village-level food production and introduced a variety of high yielding crops thus improving farmers level of living and welfare of their families. The success of these projects made the volunteers and Jack very pleased with their PCV contribution. This in itself, is a proud legacy of Jack and the many PCV's that made it happen.
The Peace Corps, being young and fresh out of college, provided Jack direction (and needless to say many of us). While in India 8 years he worked on his post graduate education, doing Peace Corps programming and training, as well as field work for his dissertation in India on how two sub-ethnic groups of farmers in south India made their decisions in adopting new crops. At age 40, Jack worked in USAID, with two tours each in Kenya and Niger. Later he was a consultant with USAID and private volunteer organizations. Jack said, “without Peace Corps, this would never have happened! I loved every bit of it".
Good bye to Jack, our friend, mentor, service to the world in many capacities, especially his love and service in the Peace Corps. Jack's first wife, Alice, died in 2008. Jack remarried Cynthia Rogers, who has been a very loving wife for 10 years. Sympathy cards can be mailed to Cynthia Rogers, 7816-2 BIue Heron Drive West, Wilmington, NC 28411.
The impact of Peace Corps on his life in Jack's own words.
More on his legacy may be found here.
Prepared by George Nepert, treasurer of FOI
Jack and Cynthia in India, 2012
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 08:15AM
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/Edward-Willett-obituary?pid=187144983&view=guestbook
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 10:07PM 
David H. Elliott of Carmel and San Francisco died at home on April 16, his wife and family members by his side. He was a businessman who in the 1960s directed two of the largest Peace Corps programs overseas, first in Nigeria and then in India. He was 87.
Born in Hempstead, New York, David moved with his family to San Mateo, California in 1938. He was the youngest of four sons of David and Esther Elliott. He earned his BA in Journalism in 1951 from Stanford University and his MBA from Harvard University in 1954.
David met and married his first wife, Ellen, in 1958 and they raised three children together.
After he and a partner turned a bankrupt steel company in Vallejo, California into a small but profitable business, David took a sabbatical in 1964 to manage programs with the U.S. Peace Corps. He relocated to Sierra Leone with his wife and two young children. In 1965 he moved to Nigeria where he directed a program with over 600 volunteers. In 1966 he moved to India, where his third child was born, to manage what became the Peace Corps' largest program with more than 1200 volunteers.
After returning to California in 1968, David became the Vice President of Administration for Memorex Corporation. In 1972, David joined Heidrick and Struggles, an international executive search firm and worked with them until his retirement in 1996. He became Managing Partner of the firm's San Francisco office in 1974 and later was a member of the firm's Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
David took another sabbatical in 1991 to re-join the Peace Corps, this time as a volunteer in Poland along with his wife, Ellen. They worked for two years with government and NGO's to help the country transition from communism to capitalism. Along with his formal responsibilities in Poland, he made it his aim to make his Polish colleagues smile each day, making himself the object of humor if necessary. After his retirement in 1996, David continued to serve Heidrick and Struggles as an emeritus consultant and a member of its Cornerstone Society.
David and Ellen were happily married for 46 years until Ellen's death in 2007. In late 2007, David had the good fortune to re-connect with Roberta (Bertie) Buffett Bialek. The two of them had dated in Chicago in 1954 but their lives then went in different directions when David was drafted into the Army. They fell in love and married in 2008, enjoying nine loving years together.
David enjoyed tennis, hiking, and kayaking into his 80's. After his retirement he became an increasingly enthusiastic bridge player and in more recent years a student of dominoes, even dubbed "Rookie of the Year" in 2013 by his Old Capital Club mentors. In addition to the Old Capital Club, he was a member of The Monterey Peninsula Country Club and the Beach Club. He was a dedicated fan of theater, especially the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and an earnest student and lover of classical music and opera. He served on the boards of Environmental Traveling Companions, the American International School, Solano Steel Corporation, Elliott Control Company, Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford Associates and California Executive Search Association. He also enjoyed being a volunteer English teacher for the Marin Literacy Program and the International Institute of San Francisco.
David will be remembered for his generous spirit, his love of learning, and his good humor. He had a gift for making people feel like the most important person in the room. He maintained lifelong friendships from grade school, high school and college through poker groups, annual getaways and other regular gatherings. He delighted his children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren by eating fire after dinner, "removing" his thumb, and leading them on elaborate quests for buried treasure on the banks of Tomales Bay. His commitment to the Peace Corps as a staff member, volunteer and supporter inspired family members and others toward lives of service and a global perspective.
David is survived by his wife, Bertie; his children, Andy Elliott (Sunjong), Karen Elliott and Fred Elliott-Hart (Teri); seven grandchildren, Sarah, Johnny, Cole, Henry, Dylan, Paul and Sadie; his brother, Don Elliott (Janice); twelve nephews and nieces; three step-daughters, Susan Lansbury (Jim), Cynthia Livermore (Dick) and Carolyn Akcan (Zek); and eleven step-grandchildren, Charles, Robert, Galen, William, Thomas, Cadillac, Berkshire, Everest, Cascade, Rose and Peter.
A memorial service for family will take place in May. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the National Peace Corps Association, 1900 L Street, Washington DC 20036.
Condolences may be written to the family at
www.bermudezfamilyfunerals.com - See more here.
