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 CENTER FOR WORLD WAR II STUDIES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION,
Brookdale  Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey


FY ‘11 CALENDAR OF  EVENTS
Open to all. Registration Required.
September 2010

September 21 CWW2SConRes Fall program “The Mushroom Cloud Followed Me to Nagasaki: Memories of One Who Survived Two Atomic Bombings,” featuring historian Chad Diehl, Columbia University, Warner Student Life Center (NAV II), 7:30pm to 9pm

October 2010
October 6-9   CWW2SConRes Program and exhibition, Monmouth County Archives and History Days, featuring several presentations by Paul Zigo, director, Brookdale’s Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution, Monmouth County Library, Manalapan, NJ
October 6, 7  Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution Voucher Days at Brookdale’s Scroll and Pen Bookstore, 8am to 6pm each day. Center to receive up to 10% of all sales proceeds purchased with an accompanying voucher
October 8-10 CWW2SConRes  International Education Conference on the History of WW II in Asia sponsored by the New Jersey alliance for Learning and Preserving the History of WW II in Asia (NJALPHA), the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, and co-sponsored by the , Oakcrest High School, Mays Landing, NJ. Confirmed speakers include James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys.
October 12 CWW2SConRes Fall program “General Albert Wedemeyer – Architect of Victory in WW II” featuring author, historian and president of the NJ WW II Book Club, Dr. John McLaughlin, Warner Student Life Center (NAV II), 7:30pm to 9pm.
October 19 CWW2SConRes Fall Video and Vets program “Sahara,” Warner Student Life Center (TL I), 7pm to 9:30pm. Program to feature a veteran of the war in Europe.   
October 26 CWW2SConRes Fall program “Irwin Rommel: The True Nature of the Famous General” featuring author and historian Dr. Werner Kofler, Warner Student Life Center (NAV I), 7:30pm to 9pm.

November 2010
November 9 CWW2SConRes Fall program “Living Through Hell – Memories of Wartime Europe” featuring Leslie Schwartz, author and one of the last survivors of Auschwitz, Warner Student Life Center (NAV I), 7:30pm to 9pm.
November 16 CWW2SConRes Fall Video and Vets program “The Pianist,” Warner Student Life Center (SLC 208),
7pm to 9:30pm. Program to feature a Holocaust Survivor .
November 19  CWW2SConRes Fall “Swing Era” dinner dance featuring the Brookdale Big Band conducted by Joe Accurso, Gibbs Hall, Fort Monmouth, 6pm to 10pm. Theme of the dinner dance “Honoring America’s Heroes.”
November 23 CWW2SConRes Fall program “The Air War Over Japan: A Fighter Pilot’s Memories,” featuring
former WW II fighter pilot and author Jerry Yellin, Warner Student Life Center (TL 1), 7:30pm to 9pm
November 30  CWW2SConRes Fall Video and Vets documentary “The Ship That Wouldn’t Die” Warner Student Life Center (TL 1), 7pm to 9:30pm.Commentary by film authority Neil O’Connor.

December 2010
December 7  CWW2SConRes Fall Video and Vets program “The Flying Leathernecks,” Warner Student Life Center
(TL I), 7pm to 9:30pm. Program to feature a naval veteran of the war in the Pacific.

January 2011

February 2011
February 15  CWW2SConRes Spring Video and Vets documentary “The Hot Snow – Russia’s Eastern Front,” Warner Student Life Center, 7pm to 9:30pm. Commentary by film authority Neil O’Connor.
February 16, 17 Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution Voucher Days at Brookdale’s Scroll and Pen Bookstore, 8am to 6pm each day. Center to receive up to 10% of all sales proceeds purchased with an accompanying voucher.
February 22  CWW2SConRes Spring program “The Combat Vet as Artist” featuring three actual accomplished combat artists and their works, Brookdale Community College, Warner Student Life Center 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

March 2011

March 15   CWW2SConRes Spring Video and Vets program “The Flying Tigers,” Warner Student Life Center, 7pm to 9:30pm. Program to feature a veteran of the China, Burma, India campaign, WW II.
March 29  CWW2SConRes Spring program “Himmler’s Doctor,” featuring biographer Steven Karger, Warner Student Life Center, 7:30pm to 9:30pm.

April 2011
April 5   CWW2SConRes Spring Video and Vets progeram “Battle Stations,” Warner Student Life Center, 7pm to 9:30pm. Program to feature a WW II veteran of the U.S. Navy.                       

April 12 CWW2SConRes Spring program “The USS Franklin and Chaplain O’Callahan,” featuring naval historian and author Jack Satterfield Warner Student Life Center, 7:30pm to 9:30pm.
April 26  CWW2SConRes Spring program “US Navy Photography in World War II,” featuring Monmouth County Archivist and noted photographer Gary D. Saretzky, Warner Student Life Center, 7:30pm to 9:39pm
April 28  CWW2SConRes Spring Conflict Resolution Forum co-sponsored by Brookdale’s Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center, the College’s International Center and the College’s Student Life and Activities Office. Theme of the forum: “Peace in our Communities, Peace in the World,” Warner Student Life Center 9am to 1pm.      

May 2011
May 10 CWW2SConRes Spring Video and Vets program “Prisoner of War (Korea),” Warner Student Life Center, 7pm to 9:30pm. Program to feature a veteran of the Korean Conflict.
May 17  CWW2SConRes Spring program “The French Resistance Movement in Occupied France” featuring historian Dr. Peter Sorrell, Rutgers University, Warner Student Life Center,7:30pm to 9:30pm.

REGISTER FOR ALL PROGRAMS BY CALLING: 732-224-2315.
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS AWARDED ALL TEACHERS IN ATTENDANCE.

For more information, contact:
Paul Zigo, Assistant Professor of History, Director, Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution,
Brookdale Community College,Lincroft, NJ  07738,732-224-2029.

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Virginia Community College System (VCCS)

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