"With your commitment to freedom, to the advancement of interest of people everywhere.
The influence may be far reaching"
"She immersed herself in our situation."
"I'm the only child in my family to have gone to the university.
To a large extent, thanks to the Peace Corps."
"Progress through peace is what will change the world."
My name is Bart Magunda Katureebe.
I am a Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda.
I was born in a village called Rugazi.
which is in a county called Bunyaruguru.
I was born to a peasant family.
My father and mother were just peasants.
My father had quite the number of goats.
And my job was to tend to the goats.
And I still like tending goats up to now.
In 1965, the Government of Uganda
spend up 25 new secondary schools.
Students were allocated to those schools.
It was not my choice to go there.
But I was allocated to go to a school called Kitunga High School.
We go to that school and there were only three teachers.
There was the headmaster and two Americans.
Peace Corps.
That was the staff we had. That was my introduction to the Peace Corps.
We had Mr. Gerald Rigler,
who was from Iowa,
and he was teaching the sciences.
And Mr. Dean McGuire was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
and he was teaching the arts, history and English.
They were keen to mix with us.
We were keen to learn from them.
So we bonded with them
because it was a small community
and the school didn't have all these amenities
that we associate with a school.
So we went to the well to fetch water.
We bathed in the stream.
They came along with us;
we had campfires and we used to go out hiking,
swimming in the lake.
So yes, we quite interacted a little bit.
Then in '66, they were joined by another Peace Corps,
Mr. Kenneth Kreinheder.
Whop has remained a friend to me up to now.
I am keeping in touch with him.
He as since visited Uganda twice,
including just three or four years ago when we came here with another group of tourists.
I invited him together with the visitors he came with,
to my home, and we gave him
one big dinner.
And we were all saying,
"Thank you."
And in his speech
he said, "When we were here,
as young people teaching, we didn't realize that we were training the future leaders of this country."
So he was very happy, and we were very happy to meet him.
And I would say the same thing to the others if I met them.
Now if they hadn't been there,
probably wouldn't have been taken to secondary school
if the government hadn't started those schools
or if they started schools and didn't find teachers
then maybe they would have postponed the opening of the school.
So my story, in a way, is part of the success of the American Peace Corps.
Kenneth Kreinheder has had a successful career as a high school history teacher. He has traveled back to Uganda several times.
"Looking back today at the incredible careers and success that a number of my former students have had, it is immensely satisfying to think the tI might have had a role in their achievements."