Tri-C Western Campus to Host Grand Opening of Crile Archives and Center for History Education

Tri-C Western Campus to Host Grand Opening of Crile Archives and Center for History Education

Event co-sponsored by Cuyahoga County Public Library will kick-off with short World War I documentary film

PARMA, Ohio, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Cuyahoga Community College's Western Campus, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road in Parma, will host the premiere of the documentary film The World War I Years: America Becomes a World Power in partnership with the Cuyahoga County Public Library System in a special program on Sunday, September 18 at 2 p.m. in the Western Campus Theatre.

A ribbon cutting for the grand opening of the Crile Archives and Center for History Education and an open house and reception will follow in the Western Campus Library. The activities are free and open to the public.

The World War I Years: America Becomes a World Power is a film and discussion project for libraries from National Video Resources in partnership with the American Library Association with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It includes a series of film and discussion programs to be held at seven different branches of the Cuyahoga County Public Library System beginning October 27, 2005, and continuing through May 17, 2006. For more information on the series of film and discussion programs, visit www.cuyahogalibrary.org/news/ww1/films.htm.

A highlight of the September 18 program will be videotaped interviews Dr. James Banks conducted recently with two World War I survivors, aged 103 and 107, respectively. The United States Veteran's Administration is currently unsure how many World War I survivors remain living across the country, but estimates place that number at perhaps 25, according to Banks, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Crile Archives and Center for History Education at Tri-C's Western Campus.

Tri-C's Western Campus is built on the site of the former Crile General Hospital and is the current home of the Crile Archives and Center for History Education. The Crile Archives began as a student project in 1994 as part of the 50th commemoration of World War II. Both the Archives and the College were designated as a "Commemorative Community" by the Department of Defense in 1995.

The Crile Archives is a repository of 20th century military history containing documents, artifacts, and oral histories of veterans of World Wars I and II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. It also features a prisoner-of-war archives as well as information about nurses and African American veterans.

For further information on the Crile Archives and Museum housed at Tri-C's Western Campus, visit www.crile-archives.org

Source: Cuyahoga Community College

CONTACT: Greg Krizman, Public Affairs & Information, +1-216-987-4820, or
Rick Haase, Western Campus Public Affairs, +1-216-987-5134, both of Cuyahoga
Community College

Web site: http://www.tri-c.edu/
http://www.crile-archives.org/
http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/news/ww1/films.htm

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