Spring 2011 On the Pulse Past Issues Defining Moments 03/18/2011 at 1:01 PM May 21, 1991: Paul Coverdell (left), director of the Peace Corps; M. Gordon Wolman, Johns Hopkins University Interim Provost; and Carol Gray, Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, signed an agreement creating the Peace Corps Fellows Program at Johns Hopkins. It was the first such program at a U.S. nursing school, and has since graduated 387 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers.