At the Veterans Breakfast Club,
Stories Unite Us.
Check out our online & in-person veterans storytelling programs and see our full event schedule below. All are welcome to join us!
Join us for our in-person VBC breakfast at Pitt-Greensburg campus (Hempfield Room, Chambers Hall, Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601) on Saturday, May 4, 8:30am-10:30am. The buffet breakfast is $10 suggested donation, and everyone is welcome, including non-veterans.
Breakfast will be served at 8:30am, and the stories will begin at 9:00am. We’ll continue with the program until 10:30am.
At our last breakfast on UPG campus in May, we heard stories from four generations of veterans, from World War II to the present.
We expect a large crowd on May 4, and please join us. You never know what you’re going to hear, and there’s always new people with new memories to offer.
RSVP to Betty Karleski at 412-623-9029 or email betty@veteransbreakfastclub.org
Please consider sponsoring this event!
Dr. Maki is also the lead author of the award-winning book, Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress, a detailed case study of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act. Nearly fifty years after being incarcerated by their own government, Japanese American concentration camp survivors succeeded in obtaining redress for the personal humiliation, family dislocation, and economic ruin caused by their ordeal. An inspiring story of wrongs made right as well as a practical guide to getting legislation through Congress, Achieving the Impossible Dream documents the redress movement from its earliest roots during World War II, the formal introduction of the idea in the 1970s, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, the judicial battles during the 1980s, and the lobbying of the legislative and executive branches in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2000, the book received the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award which is given to books addressing bigotry and human rights in North America.
Dr. Maki has held the positions of acting Provost and Vice president of Academic Affairs, Vice Provost of Student Academic Success, dean of the Colleges of Professional Studies and Health and Human Services (CSUDH), acting dean of the College of Health and Human Services at CSU Los Angeles and assistant professor in the Department of Social Welfare at UCLA. As acting Provost, Dr. Maki provided academic and strategic leadership for CSUDH’s five academic colleges which served over fifteen thousand students.
Go For Broke – https://goforbroke.org/
Achieving the Impossible Dream – https://bit.ly/3H36KIm