The California-born Stevens joined the Peace Corps and attended law school before joining the Foreign Service, the career diplomatic corps, in 1991, according to his State Department biography.
Career highlights include his role as commander of the Basic School, the Marine Corps' main training institute at Camp Baret where he himself was once a student.
Now he is in his second year teaching third-graders at Deerwood Academy in Atlanta, and he coaches football at Coan Middle School with two other corps members.
Over time, my father's lessons empowered me to do better in school, to join the Peace Corps, to become a schoolteacher and to serve my community.
And Mr D'Alema will find it equally hard to tackle the countless lobbies that make any reform in Italy so difficult: from rail workers to postal workers, from school-teachers to the officer corps, from politically motivated magistrates to the Christian pressure-groups that make sure the immigration laws are not implemented (this week, once again, hundreds of people landed illegally on Italy's shores).
He credits graduating high school to the U.S. Marine Corps, saying his teachers felt sorry for him because he was heading to Vietnam.
As she told me in a July 20 interview, when she graduated from high school, Falik wanted to join the Peace Corps but she was deemed too young.
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"It's been a long night as we have begun to deal with the tremendous loss that happened last night, and on behalf of Marine Corps Base Quantico and the Officer Candidate School, I want to express my sincere condolences to the families, the friends...of the three Marines that we lost last night, " Col.
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The suspect was a staff member at the Officer Candidate School, according to Capt Eric Flanagan, a Marine Corps spokesman.
Martin began planning his next career move in the Marine Corps, applying to teach again at the School of Infantry.
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The good news is that we actually have organizational models like the Marine Corps, Alcoholics Anonymous, the IBM Executive School, Teach for America and monasteries the world over where companies like Google can learn the incredible motivational power of transcendent purpose.
Once accepted, corps members attend a summer training institute before the school year starts to get them ready for the classroom.
The Corps is a unique internship program that connects business school students with companies who want to initiate a discussion of sustainability, with an emphasis on energy efficiency.
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Principal Terry Pearsall-Hargett, with 22 years in the Army under her belt, brought in veteran teachers from her old school and hired several from Teach for America, a Peace Corps-like nonprofit that recruits college students to work in troubled schools.
It was there that another volunteer told Zaremba about Experience Corps, a nonprofit that recruits tutors to mentor elementary school students struggling to learn to read.
On November 14, 2012, Fordham Graduate School of Business hosted a lecture by General Peter Pace, retired Marine Corps General and 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the G.
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He had the entire traditional political press corps and mainstream media focused on him like a laser beam by utilizing one of the most old school tools available to a senator -- the filibuster.
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