{"value"=>"<p>Country agreements and contracts, correspondence, reports, shipping information, and other items from CARE's Overseas Operations assistant executive directors and assistant directors. This is a relatively small subseries; many other files were apparently discarded over the years.</p> <p>Boxes 527-528, departmental files, and Box 529, country and regional files, are chiefly from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, and are mostly those of the A. E. D., his administrative assistant, and the regional directors. Of note in Box 529 are the lengthy letters and reports from mission chiefs describing conditions overseas in such countries as Hungary, Laos, and Vietnam.</p> <p>Boxes 530-531 are the subject files of A. E. D. Bertran Smucker, 1955-1979. Box 530 consists mostly of Smucker's files on CARE World Conferences, 1955-1961: country directors' reports, agendas, and other planning materials. There are also several folders on the selection and training of the first contingent of Peace Corps volunteers in 1961.</p> <p>Boxes 532-537 are the files of Fred Davis, Director of Training for CARE's overseas personnel. Davis created his own numbering system for his files; a guide to it is in Box 532. Many of these materials, particularly those in Boxes 532 and 533, are useful in understanding CARE's structure and the functions of its various departments.</p>"}