No Greater Service: A Peace Corps Photo Memoir (Philippines 1969-1974)

Alvin J. Hower and his wife, Prima, are 2019 Empowerment Awardee for Outstanding International Community Service to the Filipino-American Community. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines for five-and-a-half years. He and Prima created The Hower-Bates Library Network in 2004, a network that has sent more than 50,000 books to thirty libraries in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Hower has two children and three grandchildren. This is his debut book.