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Title: Video of the Strike (59)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_059
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101481
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Video of the Strike (60)
Date: 2022-08-23
Creator: Amanda Kleinman
Description: Video footage from the American University Staff Union strike on August 23, 2022.
Subject: video; strike
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_VideoRecording_Kleinman.August23.2022_060
Type: video
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101482
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still 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: Friends of Colombia celebrates 60th anniversary of Peace Corps Colombia
Date: 2021-06-25
Description: June 25, 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the first Peace Corps group to begin their pre-service training, our very own Colombia I. To celebrate this anniversary, FOC will hosted a panel discussion exploring the history of Peace Corps, Peace Corps Colombia's plans for the future, and how the pandemic and national protests have impacted nuestra querida Colombia. Featured speakers include: Tom Mullins - Member of the first Peace Corps Colombia Alana DeJoseph - Film Director, A Towering Task Matthew Carlson - Country Director, Peace Corps Colombia Daniel Avila-Camacho - Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Colombia in the US
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_0001
Type: streaming video
Collection: Friends of Colombia Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2984
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: President Neil Kerwin interview from Mary Kennard’s Higher Education Law course, 06 February 2017
Date: 2017-02-06
Creator: Kennard, Mary E.; Kerwin, C. M. (Cornelius M.)
Description: Mary Kennard, former vice president and general counsel of the American University, interviewed President Neil Kerwin during her course Higher Education Law at the Washington College of Law. The interview was conducted in the months leading up to President Kerwin’s retirement and covers his academic career, reflections on his tenure as President of American University, as well as touching on several legal topics relevant to the course. This video is an edited excerpt of the class recording.
Subject: College presidents -- Interviews; Education, Higher; Universities and colleges
Local Identifier: Kerwin_WCL_Higher_Education_Law_2017Feb06
Type: video recordings
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70686
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Ruby, a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching an agribusiness seminar on coffee pruning in El Plátano, Panama
Date: 2013-02-02
Creator: Teter, Rachel
Subject: Agriculture -- Economic aspects; Agricultural education -- Panama; Workshops (Adult education)
Country: Panama
Local Identifier: PCCA_Teter_1646
Type: video recordings
Collection: Rachel Teter collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:14
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving 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: 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