PAS Program Calendar
Events in September 2006
You can register to these events by email (irchanoi@gmail.com), phone (844-8314580, ext. 207, 149) or fax (844-8314601).
Our office is located at the Rose Garden Tower (RG), 170 Ngoc Khanh Street. You can leave your vehicle at VKO Supermarket's vehicle keeping area. Remember to take your ID with you.
Film Showing: Spellbound
Time: 2:00-4:00pm, September 8, 2006
Venue: 3rd Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Spellbound follows the lives of eight young American who share one goal: to win the National Spelling Bee. Think that sound boring? Prepare to be blown away. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, and for the spellers and their families, the stakes are just as high. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary as it is felt by ordinary teenagers. Watch as the Bee becomes a dramatic backdrop for the bigger story about kids and their families today as we discover that within the roller coaster ride of the National Spelling Bee can be found the heart of America.
Speaker Program: Space Exploration and Aeronautical Achievements
Time: 2:00-4:00pm, September 13, 2006
Venue: 3rd Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
Speaker: Dr. Jay Chung
Dr. Jay Chung will speak on "Space Exploration and Aeronautical Achievements" at the IRC. As President and CEO of Tayco Engineering, based in Southern California, Dr. Chung has been a leading force in the area of aerospace technology in the U.S. Following the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion, Dr. Chung invented a heating system to prevent such accidents. Since 1987, NASA has made it mandatory to install Dr. Chung’s system in every space shuttle launch. He is currently working on engineering systems for the International Space Station and the Mars Rover. Dr. Chung immigrated to the U.S. with his family from Korea in 1977. He studied metallurgical engineering at Seoul National University and received his phD in thermal science from the University of California, Irvine.
Film Showing: Avalon
Time: 2:00-4:00pm, September 15, 2006
Venue: 3rd Floor, Rose Garden Tower, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street, Hanoi
From the Oscar® - winning director of Good Morning, Vietnam (1988) and Rain Man (1988) comes AVALON, Barry Levinson’s critically- acclaimed, semi-autobiographical masterpiece. Intensely personal and yet universally appealing, AVALON follows immigrant Sam Krichinsky and his extended family as they seek a dream called America in a place a changing world with enduring humor and abiding love. Whether squabbling over Thanksgiving turkey or commiserating over a failed business, Levinson never fails to find the comedy and immediacy of their immigrant experience. A superb cast led by Armin Mueller – Stahl, Aidan Quinn and Elizabeth Perkins perfectly captures the vibrant love and laughter of this quintessentially American family. The coming-of-age story of an entire nation, AVALON is a “tapestry of American life so rich and perfect it could hang in a museum.”
New books and DVD in IRC
New Books and DVD in IRC
BOOKS |
Title | Author’Editor | Dewey Class # |
Arthur Ashe – Tennis Great | Ted Weissberg | 796.342’092 |
Colin Powell – Military Leader | Warren Brown; Nathan Irvin Huggins | 355’.0092 |
| Dizzy Gillespie – Musician | Tony Gentry ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins | 788.9’2165’092 |
| Duke Ellington – Bandleader and Composer | Ron Frankl | 785.42’092’4 |
| Ella Fitzgerald – Singer | Bud Kliment; Nathan Irvin Huggins | 784.5 |
| Frederick Douglas – Abotionist Editor | Sharan Apt Russell; Coretta Scott King | 973.8’092 |
| George Washington Carver – Botanist | Gene Adair | 630’.92’4 |
| Harriet Tubman – Antislavery Activist | M.W. Taylor ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins | 305.5’67’092 |
| Jackie Robinson – Baseball Great | Richard Scott | 796.357’092 |
| Jesse Owens – Champion Athlete | Tony Gentry | 796.42’092 |
| Malcolm X – Militant Black Leader | Jack Rummel | 320.54’6’092 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights Leader | Robert Jakoubek | 323’.092 |
| Maya Angelou – Author | Miles Shapiro | 818’.5409 |
| Michael Jordan – Basketball Great | Sean Dolan ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins | 796.323’092 |
| Muhammad Ali – Heavy Weight Champion | Jack Rummel; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins | 796.8’3’0924 |
| Oprah Winfrey – Entertainer | Lois P. Nicholson | 791.43’028’092 |
| Rosa Parks – Civil Rights Leader | Mary Hull | 323’.092 |
| Sojourner Truth – Antislavery Activist | Peter Krass | 306.3’62’092 |
| Thurgood Marshall – Supreme Court Justice | Lisa Aldred | 347.73’2634 |
| W.E.B DuBois – Scholar and Activist | Mark Stafford ; senior consulting editor, Nathan Irvin Huggins | 303.48’4’092 |
| Harriet Tubman – Antislavery Activitist | M.W. Taylor | 305.5’67’092 |
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DVD |
Title | | Note |
| A League of Their Own | | (1992) DVD |
| Antwone Fisher | | (Widescreen Edition) (2003) DVD |
| Avalon | | (1990) DVD |
| Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy | | (Widescreen Edition) (1985) DVD |
| City Slickers | | DVD |
| Dave | | (1993) DVD |
| Dead Poets Society | | (1989) DVD |
| Father of the Bride | | (15th Anniversary Edition) (1991) DVD |
| Field of Dreams | | (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition) (1989) DVD |
| Ghostbusters I & II | | (Double Feature Giftset) (1989) DVD |
| Harvey | | (1950) DVD |
| Holes | | (Full Screen Edition) (2003) DVD |
| Hoop Dreams - | | Criterion Collection (1994) DVD |
| Little Women | | (Collector's Edition) (1994) DVD |
| October Sky | | (Special Edition) (1999) DVD |
| Parenthood | | (1989) DVD |
| Silverado | | (2 Disc Superbit Gift Set) (1985) DVD |
| Some Like It Hot | | (Special Edition) (1959) DVD |
| Spellbound | | (2002) DVD |
| Stand and Deliver | | (1988) DVD |
| Stand By Me | | (Special Edition) (1986) DVD |
| The Sting | | (Legacy Series Edition) (1973) DVD |
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