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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)
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Barbara Wallace, Peace Corps Korea 1975-1977 slideshow
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Wallace, Barbara
Description: Barbara Wallace served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea from 1975-1977. The video slideshow depicts her life in the Peace Corps.
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: South Korea
Local Identifier: PCCA_Wallace_0001
Type: streaming video
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2983
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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)
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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)
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Film for Action: Construyamos una escuela
Date: 1966/1968
Creator: Greven, John; Witt, Cliff
Publisher: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Description: "Construyamos una escuela" is part of the Film for Action documentary set in the village of Pesca. It shows the indigenous people living in the Andes mountains, building a school with PCV Gary Walker and PCV Architect Jim Carlisle. This film was also used to illustrate how inhabitants had to look for and be persistent with getting aid for projects from the government.
Subject: Rural development -- Colombia; Community development -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_film_for_action_4
Type: documentaries (motion picture genre)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1720
Rights statement: Copyright held by filmmakers. Film should be cited as follows: John Greven and Cliff Witt, Film for Action, Friends of Colombia Archive, American University

Title: Film for Action: Piedras como esta
Date: 1966/1968
Creator: Greven, John; Witt, Cliff
Publisher: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Description: "Piedras como esta" is part of the Film for Action documentary set in the village of Granadillo. It depicts the indigenous people building foot paths and bridges over a river in the southern Colombian mountains, led by PCV and civil engineer Gary Bryant. This project allowed the inhabitants to be able to take their produce to the nearby markets.
Subject: Rural development -- Colombia; Community development -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_film_for_action_3
Type: documentaries (motion picture genre)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1719
Rights statement: Copyright held by filmmakers. Film should be cited as follows: John Greven and Cliff Witt, Film for Action, Friends of Colombia Archive, American University

Title: Film for Action: Tendremos mas que puentes
Date: 1966/1968
Creator: Greven, John; Witt, Cliff
Publisher: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Description: "Tendremos mas que puentes" is part of the Film for Action documentary set in the village of Tumaco. It depicts a pacific coast culture working on their project to build foot bridges over the tidal flats.
Subject: Rural development -- Colombia; Community development -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_film_for_action_1
Type: documentaries (motion picture genre)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1717
Rights statement: Copyright held by filmmakers. Film should be cited as follows: John Greven and Cliff Witt, Film for Action, Friends of Colombia Archive, American University

Title: Film for Action: Un canto a mi tierra
Date: 1966/1968
Creator: Greven, John; Witt, Cliff
Publisher: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Description: "Un canto a mi tierra" is part of the Film for Action documentary set in the village of Arbeláez. It shows the mestizo people and PCVs Jim and Kathy Hardcastle with their school vegetable garden demonstration project, used to teach better practices of land use and nutrition.
Subject: Rural development -- Colombia; Community development -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_film_for_action_2
Type: documentaries (motion picture genre)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1718
Rights statement: Copyright held by filmmakers. Film should be cited as follows: John Greven and Cliff Witt, Film for Action, Friends of Colombia Archive, American University

Title: The Foreigners
Date: [date of publication unknown]
Creator: McGrew, Skeets; Harris, Mark
Publisher: King Screen Productions
Description: Follows a group of American Peace Corps volunteers in Colombia in their daily work, and in their reflections on their role.; Credits: Producer and writer, Mark Harris. Director, Skeets McGrew.
Subject: Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Economic history; Colombia -- Economic conditions; Colombia -- Social conditions
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: Media_Collection_16093
Type: documentary film
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3192
Rights statement: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For information about permissible uses as well as terms and conditions please refer to the American University Library—Archives and Special Collections.

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
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2984
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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)
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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)
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101415
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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)
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Peace Corps Group "India 20A" in Kerala, India, 1965-1967
Date: 1965/1967
Creator: Scholl, Phillip L.
Description: Phil Scholl was a member of the Peace Corps India 20A group, stationed in Balusseri, Kerala, India, from 1965 to 1967. India 20A was the name of the 20th group of volunteers that the Peace Corps sent to India in 1965. Members of India 20A were assigned to rural public health centers in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. While serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Phil Scholl shot this film entirely on silent 8mm color film. The film captures the Peace Corps India 20A group experience during their rural public health assignment between 1965 and 1967, and includes significant events such as the group’s arrival in New Delhi and everyday life in the state of Kerala.
Subject: India -- Rural conditions; Public health -- India; Rural health services -- India; Volunteer workers in community health services
Country: India
Local Identifier: PCCA_Scholl_0001
Type: silent films
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2250
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101416
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Rachel Teter gives a tour of her home in El Plátano, Panama
Date: 2013-03-15
Creator: Teter, Rachel
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Subject: Dwellings -- Panama; Rural conditions -- Panama
Country: Panama
Local Identifier: PCCA_Teter_1647
Type: video recordings
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:15
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.

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
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:14
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.

Title: Third World Home Movie, West Cascade Returned PCVs, 1986
Date: 1986
Creator: Arnold, Courtney; Arnold, David
Description: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) video slideshow prepared by David and Courtney Arnold for the 1986 West Cascade Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Conference. RPCVs featured include: 135 - Pat Wand - Colombia 391 - Jim Anderson - Iran 540 - Wayne and Rolly Thompson - Peru 630 - Alberta and Alan Winkler - Philippines 920 - Diane and Ed Sheridan - Philippines 1060 - Courtney and David Arnold - Ethiopia 1309 - Marsha and Ed Swartz - Uganda 1470 - Dorothy Soper - Ghana 1585 - Gwen and Chuch Bailey - Tanzania 1706 - Ron Larson - Ethiopia 1808 - Sara Klinghammer - Turkey 1900 - Janer Tuininga and Don Nordin - India 2060 - Janet and Bob Hollander - India 2290 - James Cloutier - Kenya 2436 - Stephanie Smock and Dean Bliss 2709 - Carl Hosticka - Nepal 2870 - Beryl Brinkman - Afghanistan 2965 - Tim Meinzen - Sierra Leone 3356 - Tom English - Nepal 3060 - Sharyn and Bruce Shaw 3200 - Brian James - Barbados 3285 - Mike Helm - Uganda, Kenya 3385 - Judith Fernandes - Chile, Afghanistan 3459 - Jerry Rust - India 3605 - Greg Rikhoff - Kenya 3690 - John Williams - Thailand
Subject: Reunions; Voluntarism
Local Identifier: PCCA_Arnold_0001
Type: VHS; video recordings (physical artifacts)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2912
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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