His bio: "Graduate from Wooster College and completed a Masters in Communication Arts at Michigan St.  From 1962-64 he taught in Liberia.  A stint as associate director in Sierra Leone before moving to Fiji.  Wife, Agene and two daughters."

From a website: "Jack Wilson is a Midwest native, having lived in Michigan and Ohio before moving to Kentucky in the mid-1970s...but he certainly took "the long way round," settling in the Bluegrass by way of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Fiji. This world traveling reader is no stranger to volunteering. Besides eight years in the Peace Corps, where he taught English and was later an administrator, he presently volunteers with The Lexington Volunteer Recording Unit, reading college textbooks for blind or visually impaired students. He also volunteers at his church, Second Presbyterian, and is a former board member of The Nature Conservancy - all in addition to volunteering here at CKRE since April of 2002. In January of 2002, Jack retired as director of the Water Division at the State Cabinet for Natural Resources & Environmental Protection. However, he still keeps his hand in the environmentÉ literally. He is an avid gardener (he grows anything he can eat!), and he also likes to pretend that he's a farmer with his wife, Angene, when they visit the farm in central Ohio that has been in her family for over 100 years. Truly a Jack of all trades, Jack Wilson can be heard reading most everything here at CKRE, from Health News to the daily papers to Sports. Soon you can hear him as the featured reader in "The Lewis & Clark Expedition," a locally produced series coming this spring to your CKRE radio. We hope that you will enjoy listening to it as much as Jack enjoyed reading it!"

And his wife: "Guest speaker will be Angene Hopkins Wilson, Lexington, Ky., who will speak on "The Impact of the Peace Corps after 40 Years." A professor of education since 1975 at University of Kentucky, where she directed secondary social studies programs for 25 years, Mrs. Wilson is author of a book noting the impact of international experience on teachers, students and schools. Mrs. Wilson's international experience began as a Peace Corps volunteer with her husband, Jack Wilson, whom she married in August 1961. They served in Liberia from 1962-64, participating in an effort with the first group of volunteers to the West African country. The couple also taught high school in Liberia, her husband coaching the high school basketball team to the first national championship in the country. The 1997 Fulbright Scholar in Ghana has lived in Sierra Leone and Fiji, where her husband, Jack, was a former associate, later director of the Peace Corps. Mrs. Wilson is a member of the Board of National Peace Corps Association and chairs their Global Education Committee. She has toured, taught and studied in many countries including Mexico, Ecuador, Columbia, England, Scotland, Australia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Denmark. Mrs. Wilson is also a mentor and educator for many student teachers, graduate and doctoral students. Committed to promoting international connections, Mrs. Wilson organized two interactive video links between Lexington and Accra, the capital of Ghana, one with elementary students, the other with professors. In June, she will be in Washington D.C. for the 40th Anniversary Peace Corps Conference, originally scheduled for the weekend following Sept. 11. She will also lead a teacher academy for Kentucky teachers, "Connecting to the World after Sept. 11."

And: "Because of her Peace Corps and other experiences overseas, she began to research the impact of international experience on students, teachers, and schools. In her book, The Meaning of International Experience for Schools (Praeger, 1993), she identifies five dimensions of the impact of international experience: substantive knowledge, perceptual understanding, personal growth, interpersonal connections, and cultural mediation, or bridging cultures."