Corps Values: In the Peace Corps, Architects Learn to Think Globally and Design Locally (Practice‪)‬

architect Jack Tucker owes his life's direction to the call of adventure and the hand of fate. As a student at the University of Arkansas in the early 1960s, he was on a date with a girl who mentioned that the Peace Corps exams were being held the next day. Interested in the prospect of travel, he agreed to meet her at the student union in the morning. "We partied heavily that night," recalls Tucker, FAIA, Jack R. Tucker & Associates Architects, Memphis, Tenn. "I wasn't feeling good the next day, and she didn't show up." He took the exams anyway, one thing led to another, and soon he was on a plane to Tunisia. "You stumble onto things," Tucker says. "But the experience with another culture and another language just expanded my horizons as to what the history of architecture was about."