Theresa (Terry) Gruber

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Template:Volunteerinfobox Theresa (Terry) Marie (Gruber) Gruber-Tapsoba
Country	Guatemala
Years:	1980-1984
Site(s)	La Union
Region(s)	Zacapa
Program(s)	Agriculture
Assignment(s)	Fisheries Fresh
Theresa (Terry) (Gruber) Gruber-Tapsoba started in Guatemala 1980
Theresa (Terry) Gruber
Region: Zacapa
Theresa (Terry) Gruber, and Joseph Marll
Agriculture in Guatemala:
Michael Gardella, Theresa (Terry) Gruber, Anneliese Harper, Peter Hudy, Olivia Koran, and Joseph Marll
Other Volunteers who served in Guatemala
Carol Bellamy, Nick Bosustow, Michael Gardella, Juan Sebastian Gonzalez, Theresa (Terry) Gruber, Carla Hamilton Briceno, Anneliese Harper, Peter Hudy, Paul Johnson, Olivia Koran, Amy Kunz, Erik W. Lang, Joseph Marll, Ericka Monger, and Amy Olen … further results
Projects in Guatemala
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Mapped Volunteers around Guatemala (1). You located yourself at based on your site: La Union 15.2542254, -90.1272749Latitude: 15°15′15.211″N Longitude: 90°7′38.19″W

Template:Volunteerinfobox Theresa Marie Gruber-Tapsoba
Country	Central_African_Republic
Years:	1987-1990
Group Code	APCD Ag/RD
Site(s)	Bangui
Program(s)	Agriculture
Theresa Gruber-Tapsoba started in Central_African_Republic 1987
Theresa (Terry) Gruber
Agriculture in Central_African_Republic:
Theresa (Terry) Gruber, Scott McBride, and Dan Wagner
Other Volunteers who served in Central_African_Republic
Theresa (Terry) Gruber, Elisabeth Hinshaw-Osgood, Scott McBride, Lynnette Simon, and Dan Wagner
Projects in Central_African_Republic
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Mapped Volunteers around Central_African_Republic (1). You located yourself at based on your site: Bangui 4.3616980, 18.5559750Latitude: 4°21′42.113″N Longitude: 18°33′21.51″E

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I entered Guatemala in late 1980 with the first team of fisheries volonteers trained in Norman, Oklahoma (Evelyn Hawk and Jim Morris). There were no fish in my mountain site, La Union, Zacapa, when I started...and I left plenty of Tilapia behind, as well as some breeding stock of Carp. But the best part was the social life, with the jovenes -- young women and young men. I played on the women's basketball team and consequently, we made the rounds of ferias.

It was also a scary time. There were three coups d'etats and plenty of massacres in the highlands during our period of service..although out in La Union it seemed to be a distant problem.

After business school at Thunderbird, I returned to Peace Corps as a Fellow for the Africa Region, taking assignments in Burkina Faso and Mali, and finally ending up in the Central African Republic as APCD for Agriculture and Rural Development under PCDs Paul Olson and Michael Blake.