Veterans Oral History Project

Greetings ACCD Community:

I am very excited to tell you that San Antonio College and Service-Learning is working hard at a very important and innovative project. I alerted you about this over the last few semesters. We are interviewing veterans for the Veteran’s Oral History Project. We still need 11 or more veterans this semester. We have students from students in History classes working on this project this semester for service-learning. We would like to include all faculty, staff, students and community members (and their families) from ACCD that would like to be interviewed. This national project began to record histories of WW1 and WW2 veterans as they are dying at a rate of 1000 each month. We would like to get these first. We would also like to record as many other veterans as we can. It does not matter what you or they did or if they served during peace time or war time. You can actually even be an active military member. It is just important to records these histories. These interviews will be recorded on digital recorders or video and transcribed and sent to the US Library of Congress or can even be held here at the San Antonio College Library. We are still working out these details.

If you are interested or know anyone interested in being interviewed, please have them contact Dawn Schultz, Administrative Assistant at the San Antonio USO at 227-9373 ext 11 or email her at dschultz@uso.org. Please try her by email first. She will put you or your loved one on the interview list. Make sure you say you are from ACCD or want to be interviewed by one of our volunteers. The interview will only take 30-45 minutes. Interviews will take place at 420 E. Commerce St. (USO) unless one of our students needs to go to a residence due to the age of the veteran. The USO will supply the location, veterans, equipment and free parking. Please also email me at agrams@mail.accd.edu if you would like to be on the list.

In regards to students or volunteers at ACCD that want to interview veterans they know on their own, they should contact Sgt. Tracy English at 671-2211 or Audrey Grams, SAC Service-Learning Coordinator for all of the details about what you need to do to record these histories correctly so that they can be sent to the US Library of Congress or housed at the San Antonio Public Library.

All hours served can be collected for the President’s Volunteer Service Awards that we will be giving out in April 2009.

Thank you,

Audrey Grams
Service-Learning Coordinator
San Antonio College210-486-0763