Happy New Year, SPOHP’ers! We have some wonderful news to share: Gainesville’s chapter of Veterans For Peace recently honored SPOHP’s Digital Humanities Coordinator, Ms. Deborah Hendrix, with the coveted Peace Helmet Award at December’s Winter Solstice Concert.
2015 Peace Helmet Award for Ms. Deborah Hendrix:
Deborah Hendrix is known in Gainesville as the People’s Videographer. She has produced countless hours of documentary film programs on issues such as immigrants’ rights, environmental history, African American studies and many other topics. Working into the wee hours of the evening and during the weekends, Deborah has filmed numerous events for Gainesville Veterans for Peace including our Peace Poetry programs and public lectures on the anti-war movement by VFP members such as Scott Camil’s “Resistance & Liberation talk on the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement in 2014.
During Memorial Mile, 2015, Deborah directed a major effort to preserve the history of Memorial Mile through oral histories, video footage of the tombstones, and still photography of the event. Deborah works tirelessly to make the work of Veterans for Peace and other community organizations come alive on the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s You Tube channel, http://youtube.com/spohp111.
Please join us in congratulating Deborah, and saying thanks for the continuous effort and dedication she puts forth to produce such valuable documentary films!
Photo by Dr. Paul Ortíz, of Ms. Hendrix trains VFP member John Fullerton at the 2014 Peace Poetry awards ceremony.