Kit Porter Van Meter Marianas Collection & NMI PCV Memories
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  • KPV Collection
    • View the Collection
    • Highlights and Stories
    • Information for the User
    • NMI & Micronesia Transition
    • Chamorro
    • Carolinian
    • Higher Education and Northern Marianas College
    • Recent Trips to NMI
  • NMI PC Memories
    • Featured Stories
    • Peace Corps ​Volunteers, Staff, & General Info​
    • After PC: Volunteers Reconnect
    • PC Memories Page Index
  • > Photos, Videos, & Audio
  • 2019 Updates
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  Kit Porter Van Meter Marianas Collection & NMI PCV Memories

KPV (Kit Porter Van Meter) Collection

This website was started as a way to share digitized photos, audio tapes and memorabilia with the people of NMI. Some photos, tapes, printed materials, art, music and items were collected from Kit's time as a Peace Corps Volunteer living on Rota (1967 - 1969).  Others when Kit was hired by the NMI/CNMI to establish Chamorro & Carolinian multilingual/multicultural programs, then to coordinate training and higher education and subsequently to establish Northern Marianas College becoming its first president (1976 - 1983). After 1983, Kit continued to collect mainly books and documents about the Pacific. Below you will find the collection of these materials organized in various sections, and if you need some help navigating the site or want more information about it, visit 'Tools for the Reader' -- and if that doesn't help, contact us. 
Update February, 2020
We're trying some new things to make more engaging content with images and audio.
See our newest Youtube slideshow about Valentines Day Dances (1968/69)

View the Collection

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view the collection
The KPV Collection inventories available here. There is almost 2500 documents that have been digitized and can be viewed here!

Information for the User

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Info for the user
Tools for the Reader provides historical information, timeline, information about contributors and supporters, the listing of site updates, and Kit's "finds" during the process.

Highlights and Stories

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Highlights and Stories
Highlights from the collection & stories by Kit. More stories are always being developed.

NMI and Micronesia Transition

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NMI & Micronesia Transition
​​UNDER DEVELOPMENT
​Stories, pictures, & documents pertaining to the transition

Chamorro
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Chamorro
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
​Sample materials from the collection pertaining to Chamorro culture and language

Carolinian
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Carolinian
​UNDER DEVELOPMENT
​Sample materials from the collection pertaining to Carolinian culture and language

Higher Education and
Northern Marianas College

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Higher Education and NMC
Stories, pictures, audio, and more about higher education and Northern Marianas College.

Relationships with
Universities and Title VII

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Relationships with universities
UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Information and stories about relationships with various Universities, organizations, and Title VII programs 

Recent Trips
to NMI

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Recent Trips to NMI
Kit visiting the NMI in 2019

KPV Collection
​Navigation


View the Collection
Highlights and Stories
Tools for the Reader
Chamorro and Carolinian
Higher Ed. & NMC
​NMI & Micronesia Transition
University Relationships

NMI PC Memories
​Navigation


Photos, Videos, & Audio
​Featured Stories
Peace Corps Volunteers, Staff, & Genral Info
After PC: Volunteers Reconnect
2019 Updates
Page Index

Contact us