StoryCorps Alumni: Continuing the Conversation


Dear StoryCorps Alumni,

Our Alumni eNewsletter has a new look! With each issue we'll still bring you the same great features, Alumni experiences, and StoryCorps stories. Read below to learn more about how you can help the Alumni community thrive by voting for StoryCorps through Members Project!

Warmly,

christa

Christa Orth
StoryCorps Alumni Coordinator
646-723-7020 ext. 77
alumni@storycorps.org Hr

YOUR VOTE MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Vote Now

By now you may have heard that StoryCorps has been selected to participate in
Members Project, the pioneering corporate social responsibility effort from American Express and TakePart.

Your support through weekly voting will help us receive a $200,000 donation.

So far your response to Members Project has been incredible! Your votes have consistently ranked us number one. You're helping us spread the word in all kinds of creative ways. Thank you!

But the competition is gaining. We still need your help. Please vote now and continue to vote once each week through August 22.

If you haven't already registered, voting is simple:
1. Click here to vote.
2. Click the "Register to Vote" button, and fill out the required information.
3. After you've registered, check the box next to StoryCorps in the "Arts & Culture" section, and cast your vote, once each week.

$200,000 would help us provide thousands of Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of their lives.

Your votes really will make all the difference! Please vote now and pass the word along.

Thank you!

Hr

By Jeremy Helton, StoryCorps Facilitator

"You have the best job in the world!"

After two years on the road with StoryCorps, 20 cities visited, and more than 800 interviews recorded, I've heard that statement many times. I've heard it from all kinds of people in all kinds of places, and no matter how tired or cranky or overwhelmed I was by the events of the day, I always agreed with whoever made that declaration.

Being a Mobile Facilitator for StoryCorps means many things: lots of travel, lots of explaining, and LOTS of listening. I had an inkling of what I was in for when I started with StoryCorps in the summer of 2008. However, I decided early on to be open to what would be a very surprising journey...

Read more of Jeremy's story on the StoryCorps Blog.


HrAlumni Share

Enjoy insights and words of wisdom from the StoryCorps Alumni community:  


StoryCorps Alumni

 

My father, Joseph C. Ammarati, participated last May and he died June 1. He was 91 and had a long and full life; for this we are grateful.


Joseph with his grandson, David Herman. Comment submitted by Barbara Ammarati

New York, NY

 


StoryCorps Alumni

 

I was introduced to another side of my father--but more important, I was introduced to my family history redefined, and ultimately to a better understanding of myself.



Kimberly Manning with her father, William Tony Draper

Atlanta, GA

 

 

StoryCorps Alumni

 

It has opened up my mother in a way no amount of pleading and hoping has. Now, she sits down and listens to her daughters' lives and is learning more about us as adults and what shaped us as children.


Loana d.P Valencia with her mother, Elpidia d.P Hernandez de la Rosa

Los Angeles, CA


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listen to stories


 
"How did it hit you when you found out that you were going to get sole custody?"

Elton Colbert (R) asks his father, Jim (L), about life as a single parent.


 
"When did you and Dad decide to adopt?"

Scott Miller talks to his mother, Jackie, about her decision to adopt him.     
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"The lights went up, the music went off, and you could hear a pin drop."

Michael Levine (R), who witnessed the Stonewall Riots in 1969, speaks with his friend Matthew Merlin (L).
Listen



 
"I saw this guy with a head of black hair and white, white, teeth..."

Joan DeLevie (R) tells her daughter, Sharon (L), how she met her husband, Ari, at a party in 1959.
Listen
 

    Listen to more stories on StoryCorps' free podcast.