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Bethany Marsh is the AmeriCorps VISTA member for local service. She works
for Dartmouth Community Services advising projects and coordinating volunteer
activities. Bethany attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado
(the most redundantly named place on earth) and graduated in 2003 with a BA in
Physics and a minor in French studies. She spent a semester in Avignon, France,
and a participated in a SEA semester, half in Woods Hole Massachusetts and half
on a sailboat in the Carribean.
Bethany came to Dartmouth fresh out of the Peace Corps, where she spent two
years teaching physics to middle school children in Cameroon, West Africa. If
she looks a bit familiar, that is because before joining the Peace Corps, she
worked at the Dartmouth Bookstore for a year. She has also worked as a
lifeguard and swim instructor at the North Attleboro YMCA in MA, and as a
database manager and program assistant for the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace
Commission in CO.
Bethany has been committed to service through out her life, and has
volunteered in a variety of capacities from mowing lawns for the elderly,
building roofs in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, to working with
teenagers, young children, and adults with special needs at a summer camp in
Maine. Right now she is looking for ways to integrate her commitment to service
with her professional life. Working at Tucker is a great start, and she hopes
it will lead to a lifelong career in service work.
Bethany loves living in the Upper Valley and being able to take the free bus
to work, and she is excited to work linking the vibrant community organizations
of the region with Dartmouth student volunteers.
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