Peace Corps head honors University for its volunteers

Ron Tschetter, the Washington, D.C.-based director of the Peace Corps, will speak at on campus Thursday, May 29, to honor UM for being a top producer of Peace Corps volunteers.

His appearance will be at 2 p.m. in the Turner Hall Dell Brown Room. The event is free and open to the public. Tschetter will present a plaque that will hang in UM’s Office of Career Services.

Since the Peace Corps was established by President Kennedy in 1961, more than 700 UM graduates have served as volunteers. UM now ranks 17th for producing volunteers among medium-sized universities and colleges with enrollments between 5,001 and 15,000. The University currently has 23 alumni serving in the corps.

Before becoming Peace Corps director, Tschetter was president of the largest full-service investment firm in the Northwest, Montana-based D.A. Davidson.