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Puget Sound again in Peace Corps top ten

In 2013, yet again, the University of Puget Sound maintained its national ranking as one of the Top 10 schools in producing Peace Corps Volunteers. The Peace Corps, started in 1960 by Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. is a volunteer organization dedicated to promulgating peace and friendship worldwide. When JFK challenged the college students of the University of Massachusetts to “devote a part of their lives to living and working” in foreign countries, he set in motion an attitude about sharing American resources with the rest of the globe that...