Janet Hanneman McNulty

Janet Fern Hanneman McNulty (January 17, 1936 – June 9, 2019) was an American nurse who was a Peace Corps volunteer in Lahore, Pakistan, from 1962 to 1964.

Early life and education Hanneman was born on a farm in Lincoln County, Kansas, and raised in Junction City, the daughter of Frank William Hanneman and Lydia Ellen Vonada Hanneman. Career In 1961, Hanneman was one of the first nurses to volunteer for the Peace Corps. She trained in Puerto Rico, studied Urdu, and was assigned to a state-run mental hospital in Lahore, where she worked from 1962 to 1964. One of the patients she worked with at the hospital was American writer Maryam Jameelah. "When I arrived in Pakistan in January 1962, a new hospital administration was taking charge," Hanneman recalled in 1964. "Now each person has a bed and bedding. Food and clothing also have improved. Sections of the hospital once locked are now unlocked." During her service in Lahore she survived three bicycle accidents and a concussion, and contracted malaria and hepatitis. She was mentioned in a Sargent Shriver speech about the Peace Corps, appeared in a Peace Corps publicity film, She was a recruiter for the Peace Corps after her field service ended, and gave interviews and lectures on the Corps' work,