Friends of Malaysia
 

 Are You Looking for an Old Friend From Your Peace Corps Service
 or For a  Former Peace Corps Volunteer?

If you are looking for an old friend from your Peace Corps service or for someone who has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia, please contact the webmaster of this site.   We will be happy to post all such queries on this page to help you locate old friends.

In addition to adding a posting to this website, here are a few other websites and tips on finding old friends.

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Peace Corps Online is an on-line community of returned Peace Corps Volunteers.   This website is a wonderful resource for finding old friends and posting public messages.   Returned volunteers are encouraged to register and add their names to their public directories so that friends can find them.   Here are their links
2. US Search is a web service for locating people in the United States.  While this is a commercial service, you can use their free service to get a listing of all individuals with a certain name, showing their current city, state, and age.  Use this information along with  Yahoo People Search described below, to help get an email or mailing address.
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3. Yahoo People Search is a free people search service.  Enter a first name and last name, and it will return the address, and phone number of every person with that name.  This is a fairly intelligent search in that it will automatically include variations of the first name.  For example, searching for "Tony" will return individuals named "Anthony" as well as "Tony".   Most names entered will probably return far more people than what would be useful.  With 250 million people in America, truly unique names are few.  However, if you use this service along with the free US Search which lists the age, there is a good likelihood you will find the person you are looking for.
 
4. Colleges and universities will not disclose addresses of their alumni, but many of them will forward inquiries and mail to their alumni.
 
5. Directory of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Staff is a fairly comprehensive directory of RPCV's.  It is published by Harris Publishing.

 

Jimmy Tan is searching for Michael Wood, a Peace Corps volunteer teacher, originally from Boston, who taught English at St. Anthony's School, Labuan, Sabah, Malaysia in 1965-1966.  Jimmy was one of his students and he and many other former students would like to re-establish contact with him, after almost 40 years.

 

If you know how to contact or locate Michael Wood, please contact Jimmy Tan at:

 

Jimmy Tan (Posted Jan. 23, 2005)


Teresa, born on May 20 in the early 70's, who was adopted as a child, is trying to locate her birth mother. She knows that her birth mother was a Peace Corps volunteer who became pregnant during her service, returned to the US, and put her daughter up for adoption. Teresa would like to contact her birth mother.  If you are that mother, or if you think you can help Teresa identify or find her birth mother, please contact Teresa.

Teresa                                                           (Posted April 30, 2004)
Joe & Queenie Yeoh are looking for Jim and Visaka Lehman, with whom they were friends during the Lehman's stay in Sabah between 1975 to 1979.  Jim Lehman was the Peace Corp Director in Sabah at the time.  The Yeoh's know that the Lehmans returned to Washington DC, where they visited them in December 1979.  They continued to keep in touch with the Lehmans until they left for Sri Lanka sometime in the mid-80's.  Two of the Yeoh's three children are now American citizens living in Oregon and California with their families. The Yeoh's visit the US annually and they would be grateful for any help in locating Jim and Visaka.

If you know how to contact Jim or Visaka Lehman, or if you can help them locate them, please contact Joseph Yeoh at the link below. Thank you.

Joseph Yeoh                                                           (Posted Jan. 16, 2004)
Unni Krishnan is looking for a fellow teacher and Peace Corps volunteer, William Dion, who taught biology at Melaka High School in Melaka in the late 70's and early 80's .

Recently, another former fellow teacher, David Omand, a Canadian volunteer, now a doctor living in Cold Lake, Canada, visited Unni Krishnan, with his wife and three children.  They were delighted to meet again, and had a wonderful re-union dinner.

Unni Krishnan, along with many old friends and students in Melaka, would love to meet up with William  again.  William was an excellent biology teacher and many of his students have become successful medical specialists.  They would appreciate any help in locating William, whom they remember so fondly.

If you know how to contact William Dion, please contact Unni Krishnan either at the email link below or at his home at:
   
   Unni Krishnan
   697-K Jalan Perak 5
   Taman Megah, Bukit Beruang
   75450 Melaka, Malaysia

Unni_ Krishnan                                                           (Posted Jan. 16, 2004)
Ganie Ugay is looking for Frances Tucker, who taught at the Simanggang Government Secondary School in Sri Aman (formerly known as Simanggang), Sarawak, from 1969 - 1971.  If anyone knows how to contact Frances, please contact Ganie the link below.

Ganie Ugay                                                            (Posted Sept. 15, 2003)
RPCV, Don L. Fisher, is looking for Richard (Dick) Goldman, who taught with him at the Government Secondary School in Marudi, Sarawak in the late 60's.  If anyone knows how to contact him, please contact Don at the link below..

Don L. Fisher                                                              (Posted Sept. 8, 2003)

Mr. Jack Grantham is looking for Terry Story, Ben Chang, and Julie Chang Block, teachers in Borneo II 1963-1965.
If anyone knows how to contact them, please contact Thaine Allison at the link below..

Thaine Allison, Jr.                                                              (Posted July 31, 2003)

Friends of Malaysia has been contacted by the daughter of the late Karen Bowlsby, a Peace Corps volunteer who served in mainland Malaysia from 1964-1966.   Her daughter, Amy Perez, is looking for two of her mother's friends by the name of George and Suzy Cole.  Their last known address was in San Diego, but they may have moved to the Washington DC area.

If  you know the whereabouts of the Coles, please contact Amy Perez below.

Amy Perez                                                                     (Posted July 31, 2003)

My name is Sally and I'm from Johor Bahru, Malaysia. I'm looking for a lady by the name of Sally Hope who voluntereed in the Peace Corp. in Johor Bahru (JB), Malaysia during the 70's. She was a friend of my uncle by the name of Abdullah Kassim and a friend of my mother and father too, Abdul Rahman Kassim and Fadzilah Jaafar. We just want to know her whereabouts and see how she's doing. If you could help us, thank you.

Sally Rahman                                                               (Posted July 8, 2003)

I'm seeking to contact former peace corps members who were in Seremban, Malaysia from 69 - 72.   There were several who stayed at the Negri Sembilan Children's home - they brought great joy to the children there. One name I remember is Carmen Mele. There was also another peace corps member who was in Negri Sembilan, Malaysia in 1980. His name was Glenn Witte and he came from Minnesota. I hope you will be able to help me in the search. Thanks.

Jackie Baptist-Lang                                                           (Posted Jan 15, 2003)

I am trying to help a Chinese-Malay friend here in the New York area track down a Peace Corps teacher who left a big impression on him back in the late '60s. Here are the details he has given me:

His name was Mark Linn (or Lynne, Linh, sp?) and he taught at Kajang High School, Selangor, West Malaysia, from 1966 to 1968 and the student's name -- the friend of mine who is looking for him -- is named Yeoh Hwee Hong and was in Forms III through V during those years.

He is known around here as Yang now and is a famous shushi chef in the area with a large following of devotees. I am a writer and wrote an article about him for the New York Times (Oct. 14, 2001) entitled "The Don Rickles of Sushi" because his is a bit of a comedian on top of being a great chef.

He is afraid that Mark will not remember him but I encouraged him to let me try. I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer myself (Kenya, 75-77) and told him not to underestimate the vividness and long shelf life of volunteers' memories and impressions.

If you can be of any help in tracking Mark down I would be most grateful. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Chris Davis  Kenya 75-77                                                (Posted Jan 15, 2003)

I really need help locating a peace corps friend by the name of Kevin Kroll from Wisconsin.  He was a drainage and irrigation engineer in Besut, Trengganu, Malaysia from 1978-79.  I have tried many times with other means but somehow failed.

Alex Chong                                                                             (Posted Nov 17, 2002)

 
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