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Printer Isidro Garcia (plaid shirt) discusses the publication of the next issue of CHINS Notes, a magazine reflecting the experiences of young people in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with VISTA members (left to right) Annette Alvarez, Norma Scott, and Derek Rubio in 1986. (© 1986 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

VISTA member Jonelle Jones (left) and community volunteer Lida O’Neill tutor neighborhood youngsters in 1986 at the South Baton Rouge Community Development Association in Louisiana. (© 1986 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

VISTA members Teresa Cordero and Rosendo Montes (plaid shirt) demonstrate conflict resolution techniques to teenagers at the Salazar Housing Project in El Paso, Texas, in 1986. (© 1986 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

VISTA member Catherine Agrimson and mentor Martha Smith of the Teen Parent Program in Portland, Oregon, counsel a teenage mother and her boyfriend in 1986. (© 1986 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

In 1986, VISTA members Alejandro Cruz and James Campbell plan activities for the Vietnam Veterans Leadership Program in New York City. (© 1986 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

At the Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri, VISTA member Anna Leola Mortensen, 69, worked as a community organizer in 1981. She is a former music teacher and a member of the National Piano Teachers Guild. (© 1981 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

In the late 1960s, VISTA created a Professional Corps to enlist lawyers, doctors, and architects. VISTA volunteers (mostly lawyers and paralegals) were active in legal assistance programs throughout the country. Among the programs were: juvenile justice and civil rights of prisoners; legal services for the elderly poor, mentally handicapped, and Native American groups; community legal education; assistance to cooperatives and credit union; and research regarding utilities, welfare rights, housing and consumer legislation, and land use. (© 1980 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

VISTA member Do Hiew (right) teaches Vietnamese refugees forklift maintenance in San Francisco. He began his VISTA assignment with Project Achieve in May 1980 as a recruiter and outreach worker. Hiew, 30, came to the United States in October 1979. He has a degree in economics. (© 1980 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

“Working with kids keeps me young,” claims VISTA member Charles Jackson, 60, who worked on a home repair and construction project near Island Pond, Vermont, in 1983. Jackson and this group of New York City trainees are building a house to replace the shack in the background. Jackson, a native of Vermont and a former field executive for the Boy Scouts, has been a VISTA volunteer for three years. (© 1983 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

Printer Isidro Garcia (plaid shirt) discusses the publication of the next issue of CHINS Notes, a magazine reflecting the experiences of young people in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with VISTA members (left to right) Annette Alvarez, Norma Scott, and Derek Rubio in 1986. (© 1986 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

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