THE VOLUNTEER, December 2001 19
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ver two decades ago four vet-
erans of the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade-- Bill Susman,
Leonard Lamb, Oscar Hunter and
Morris Brier -- created a new organi-
zation: ALBA, the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade Archives, bringing in a group
of scholars interested in the Spanish
Civil War and the International
Brigades.
From the outset, one of ALBA's
main tasks was to help manage and
expand the Spanish Civil War archive
housed at Brandeis University in
Waltham, Massachusetts. Explicit in
this undertaking were the educational
goals of preserving, disseminating and
transmitting to future generations the
history and lessons of the Spanish
Civil War and of the International
Brigades.
To carry out these goals ALBA, in
collaboration with VALB, publishes
The Volunteer. ALBA also collaborates
on the production of books, films and
videos, maintains a website at
www.alba-valb.org, helps send exhibi-
tions of photographs, documents and
artwork throughout the United States
and Canada, and organizes confer-
ences and seminars on the Spanish
Civil War and on the role of the
International Brigades in that conflict
and afterward. ALBA has established
the George Watt Memorial prizes for
the best college and graduate school
essays on these subjects and has
designed a widely-used Spanish
Civil War high school and college
curriculum.
In the coming months and years
ALBA will greatly expand its activity.
To do so effectively ALBA must have
your support. Please fill out the
coupon below, enclose a $25 (or larg-
er) check made out to ALBA, and send
it to us. It will insure that those of you
who are not veterans of the Abraham
Lincoln Brigade, or family members of
a veteran, will continue to receive The
Volunteer and will enjoy other benefits
of associate status.
Fill out this coupon and send it to
the address indicated below.
Join us in a cause that will never die
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To order contact:
John Theissen
4160 Gershwin Ave. N. Apt. 116
Oakdale, MN 55128
phone ( 651) 748-1843
e-mail jtheis@usjet.net
Yes, I wish to become an ALBA Associate, and I enclose a check for $25
made out to ALBA. Please send me The Volunteer.
I would also like to receive a list of books, pamphlets and videos available
at discount.
I would like to have ALBA's photo exhibit, The Aura of the Cause, in my
locality. Please send information.
Name _______________________________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________________________
City___________________________ State _____________ Zip________________
I enclose an additional donation of ____________. I wish
do not wish
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have this donation acknowledged in The Volunteer.
Please mail to: ALBA, 799 Broadway, Room 227, New York, NY 10003
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