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Title: Hike to the Falls
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Fretz, Phil
Description: In this video, Phil Fretz describes his time working as a Peace Corps Volunteer at a vocational school in Kenema, Sierra Leone, and the cultural lessons he learned from his students and fellow volunteers. He tells a story of a hike in the woods that he took in the Kono District of Sierra Leone while traveling one weekend.
Subject: Autobiography; Peace Corps -- Sierra Leone; Storytelling
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Fretz_0001
Type: motion pictures (visual works)
Collection: Phil Fretz collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Afghanistan Black & White: Slideshow
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide show of black and white photograhs taken in Afghanistan.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan; Humanitarian assistance -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0009
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 1
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participants start the parade and get familiar with the chants
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 3
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: volunteers carry casket while event coordinators and members of the public follow behind and chant
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 5
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: event organizer, Christina Cole, leads participants through chants
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 2
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: front of the march, chants continue
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 4
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: the crowd moves forward
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 6
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participant talks about recently deceased friend David Ashmore
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 7
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participant talks about the districts need to help solve the homelessness problem
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 8
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participants encourages crowd to join in in the fight for change
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homeless Memorial Vigil Parade Video 9
Date: December 20, 2023
Creator: Rivera,Inaya
Description: participants dance beside the humanities truck and tent
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Memorial Vigil 2023
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: AUnion Event Video
Date: May 1, 2023
Creator: Macrae, Lachlan
Description: One student dances and sings while another writes an answer to a question on the butcher paper hung on the side of the Humanities Truck.
Subject: AUnion: Let's Strike; public history; Humanities Truck; Anna Kaplan; Lachlan Macrae
Country: United States
Collection: AUnion: Let's Strike!
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Exhibition Photographs - Afghanistan 2012 slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 – Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 2012
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show displays personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers from the Either Or Otter Corps, which was sent to Afghanistan in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken after the volunteers completed their Peace Corps service in 1973. Many of the photographs show the volunteers spending time together at the 2012 Moment in Time Reunion in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0102
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Interview with Tony Longi, Returned Sierra Leone Peace Corps Volunteer
Date: 2023-04-07
Creator: Roman, Michael
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: In this video recording, returned Peace Corps Volunteer Tony Longi talks about his service in Sierra Leone III from 1962-1964. Mr. Longi worked in rural community development.
Subject: Oral histories; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Sierra Leone
Country: Sierra Leone
Local Identifier: PCCA_Longi_0001
Type: interviews; motion pictures (visual works); oral histories (literary genre)
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Either Or Otter Corps Convocation Photos, 1973-Present, Slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 - Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 2012
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show displays personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers taken after their service concluded in 1973, including photographs of post-service reunions at Yosemite National Park and in Las Vegas, Nevada, among others. It was presented during the volunteers' 2012 Moment in Time Reunion in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: United States
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0101
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan - Volunteers 1971-1973 slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 - Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show contains personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers in the Either Or Otter Corps, which they took during their service in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. These volunteers attended the Moment in Time Reunion, which took place from July 26th through July 29th, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0103
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Memorial service for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: This video shows the funeral service for former Peace Corps Volunteer W. Dennis Grubb, which took place at the Washington National Cathedral on November 16th, 2021. W. Dennis Grubb began serving in the Peace Corps at age 19 in 1961, shortly after the program was launched by then-President John F. Kennedy, Jr. Stills of the Cathedral's ceilings, stone carvings, and stained glass windows are shown throughout the first minutes of the service while an organ plays in the background. The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope, Provost of the National Cathedral, presided over the service. Journalist Maureen Orth, activist and philanthropist Timothy Shriver, Suleiman Vasti, and the Rev. Cope gave eulogies of Mr. Grubb in celebration and remembrance.
Subject: Funerals; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Cope, Jan Naylor; Orth, Maureen; Shriver, Timothy
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0001
Type: memorial services
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Kajapati
Date: 2004-01
Creator: Adler, Brian; Elliott, Cynthia
Description: Cal and Amanda Ruleman show Brian, Cynthia, and friends the local flora and fauna around Kajapati,. The group goes on a canoe trip. Also featured is the Peace Corps initiative to raise chickens in the community.
Subject: Kajapati; Suriname
Country: Suriname
Type: Video recordings
Collection: Brian Adler and Cynthia Elliott collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101415
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Powakka/Marchall Kreek
Date: 2003-09
Creator: Adler, Brian; Elliott, Cynthia
Description: Visit to fellow Peace Corps Volunteers in Powakka, an Amerindian Village, in Suriname for a birthday party with music, food, and dancing. The video includes the journey to and from Powakka. Also featured is the Adler’s community, Marchall Kreek. After a tour of their home, Brian Adler visits the local school and clinic which were the main Peace Corps projects in the village. He also takes a walk through the Maroon community down to the local soccer field.
Subject: Suriname; Marchall Kreek; Powakka
Country: Suriname
Type: Video recordings
Collection: Brian Adler and Cynthia Elliott collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101416
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Video of the Strike (1)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video taken from the August 23, 2022 strike.
Subject: Video
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_001
Type: video; strike
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101203
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

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