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January 25, 2000

NAE Seeks Nominations for First Russ Prize

Jan. 29 Basketball Game Time Change

Ohio Univ. Named One of America's 100 Best College Buys

Today's Events:

  • Senior Yearbook photo sittings continue in Baker Center's Alumni Lounge. Free, but reservations are required; read more about it.

  • First-Year Academic Success Workshop from 7-9 p.m. at West Nest and MacKinnon Seminar Room. Tonight's topic is "In Search of the 'Unexplained': Preparing for and Learning from Exams." Read more about it.

  • Matthew James, saxophone, and Guy Remonko, percussion, perform a Faculty Recital at 8 p.m. in the Music Building Room 101.

  • For more, please visit the online Calendar of Events.

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Documentary Featuring Local Veteran to Air January 31

Ohio University Public Television presents the documentary, Wandering Souls: Tet '68 Remembered, premiering Monday January 31, at 9:00 p.m. It features Vietnam Veteran and Athens resident Dave Garrod, who, along with several men from the 25th Infantry Division, revisited the Ton Son Nhut battlefield in Vietnam as part of a healing mission.

In January of 1998, Garrod, along with OU Telecommunications filmmaker Blis Hanousek DeVault and videographer Helge Kirkhus, documented his return for the 30th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive. The resulting program is the first U.S. production in cooperation with Vietnam Television.

Also contributing to the documentary is Marjorie Nelson, associate professor at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, who was captured and imprisoned for two months while volunteering Vietnam in 1968. Athens resident Lady Borton, who was in Vietnam during the war, also assisted with the project.

Wandering Souls: Tet '68 Remembered is a one-hour documentary chronicling the experience of these Athens, Ohio, residents and how the Tet Offensive affected their lives. Tet '68 Remembered shares voices from Southeast Ohio and Southeast Asia, educating Americans about the American involvement in Vietnam, through personal closure and new collaborations for veterans. The documentary will share the story of Dave Garrod and his troop as they find the lost part of themselves and start the healing process that has evaded them for the past 30 years.

For more information, please read the full text of this news release.

 

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