Learn more. On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served ...
Tawnya Panizzi Saturday, March 1, 2025 1:39 p.m. | Saturday, March 1, 2025 1:39 p.m. Dennis Mialki enrolled in the Peace Corps in 1978 and found himself — at 22 — as the city engineer of ...