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Published August 28, 2020 by Jim

Donut Dollies documentary coming to FL, NY, CA and NM in September

September will be one of the busiest for film festival screenings of The Donut Dollies Documentary we’ve had so far.  Each screening will be announced over the coming days and weeks, which we hope will provide you an opportunity for you to see our film either in a theater setting or virtually online.

The September list of film festival screenings include the Orlando International Film Festival in FL (theater setting), Twin Tiers International Film Festival in NY (theater setting), Catalina Film Festival in CA (virtual/online screening) and the Albuquerque Film & Music Experience in NM (virtual/online screening). 

Starting next week, we’ll release the screening and ticketing information for these four events.  For the virtual events, each screening will be “geo-blocked” (restricted) to a specific region or state, which is put in place to avoid scheduling conflicts with other film festivals.  The screenings in a theater setting will have limited seating to provide social distancing for the health and safety of all attendees.  We realize that these limitations may be frustrating to some, but please know that The Donut Dollies has been chosen as an Official Selection at 9 upcoming film festivals scheduled around the country and we hope you’ll have the opportunity to see it soon. 

Please be sure to look for the announcements of our film festival screenings on www.donutdollies.com or www.facebook.com/thedonutdollies  Please spread the word on The Donut Dollies to you family, friends and veterans you may know living in the areas/states of these and other upcoming virtual and theater screenings.  

As always, we thank you for your support!

Norm, Jess & Jim

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Published August 23, 2020 by Jim

In memory of Donut Dollie Virginia “Ginny” Kirsch

Last Sunday marked a very dark day for the Red Cross Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas (SRAO) program. Aug. 16, 2020 was the 50th anniversary of the murder of Donut Dollie Virginia (Ginny) Kirsch in her room of the Red Cross billet on the Cu Chi base in Vietnam. 21-year old Ginny was in her first week of service in Vietnam and while her one year tour was cut short, her decision to become a Donut Dollie spoke to her dedication and caring for the men who served and for our country.

Please read the story by Marly Kosinski of the Tribune Chronicle (Ginny’s hometown paper) that provides further insight into this tragic story and the memorial ceremony that took place in 2017 at www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2020/08/remembering-ginny-kirsch

Below you’ll see what is known as the last photo of Ginny on a layover at the Honolulu Airport on her way to Saigon. This photo was taken by her Donut Dollie sister Susan Bradshaw McLean who explained that Ginny met a lady with a baby in the waiting area and asked to hold the infant, as she said the thing that she would miss most during her year in Vietnam was not being able to hold her brothers and sisters.

Donut Dollie Virginia “Ginny” Kirsch holding a baby in the Honolulu Airport on her way to Saigon (credit: Susan Bradshaw McLean)

Also below you’ll find a poem titled Ginny & Susan by Donut Dollie Emily Strange (provided by her sister Peggy Michel). The poem is based on the moment captured in Susan’s photo. (Click to enlarge image)

Poem titled “Ginny & Susan” by Emily Strange

Lastly is the plaque located on the grounds of the American Red Cross Headquarters in Washington, DC honoring the five Red Cross worker lives lost during the Vietnam War.

Plaque located on the grounds of the American Red Cross Headquarters in Washington, DC honoring the five Red Cross worker lives lost during the Vietnam War

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See the Donut Dollies at its first drive-in screening in Western Mass
Published August 19, 2020 by Jim

See the Donut Dollies at its first drive-in screening in Western Mass

We are happy to announce that “The Donut Dollies” will have it’s first ever drive-in screening in Lenox, Massachusetts on Thursday, August 27th at 8:15 PM.  This pop-up screening is part of the Berkshire Drive-in series hosted by the Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare & Company (held on their campus).  Thanks go out to both organizations for providing us this opportunity, as well as to Mary Mott & Gordon Simmering for sponsoring the group of screenings in which our film will appear.

As this event is coming up next week, we suggest that you purchase your tickets soon through this link (attendance is limited) – https://bit.ly/DDDrive-inTickets

This event is very special for us, as this is the home area for Dorset Anderson (one of the Donut Dollies featured in our film – on the left in our logo below), Norm Anderson (our director and Dorset’s son), Jess Hill (our producer) and Jim Gardner (our co-producer and music supervisor).  We’re also honored to feature over 40 pieces of music performed by eleven musicians and bands with ties to the Berkshires and Western Mass, they include: Adam Michael Rothberg, Amy Fairchild, Celia Miller, Ed Kohn, Eric Underwood and the Eric Underwood Band, Jim Gardner, Jim Kaminski (aka Jim K & Co), Melodrome, Norm Anderson, Sibylle Baier and Will Hill.  

Dorset and Norm will be in attendance to see the drive-in audience’s response.  Keep in mind claps may not be heard, but horns will.

We will be announcing upcoming film festival screenings a few weeks before each event, so please be sure to look for these announcements on www.donutdollies.com or www.facebook.com/thedonutdollies  Please spread the word on The Donut Dollies to you family, friends and veterans you may know living in the areas/states of this and our other upcoming virtual screenings.  As always, we thank you for your support!

#TheDonutDollies #BiffMa #ShakeAndCo 

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Donut Dollies Documentary is an Official Selection of the 2020 NHdocs Film Fest
Published August 14, 2020 by Jim

Donut Dollies Documentary is an Official Selection of the 2020 NHdocs Film Fest

We are pleased to announce that “The Donut Dollies” is an Official Selection of the 2020 NHdocs Film Festival and will screen on Sunday, August 23rd!  The New Haven Documentary Film Festival has a dedicated staff who decided not to cancel or postpone this year’s event and will hold their screenings virtually online.  On behalf of our team, we thank them for the opportunity to show our award-winning film for the first time since January.  As a viewer of our film at this and upcoming film festivals, you can take part in voting for the Audience Award.  After seeing The Donut Dollies, we hope you’ll make your voice heard and vote.  

Purchase your tickets here – https://watch.eventive.org/nhdocs2020/play/5f2311a21b4af70029edafeb

In light of the requirements of many film festivals across the country, when our film is shown online, it has to be “geo-blocked” (restricted) to a region or state.  In the case of the NHdocs Film Festival, our film will only be available to people in Connecticut, which will be determined during the ticketing process.  If you are outside of Connecticut, you will receive a message saying you can not view the film.  

While this may be frustrating to many people around the country, please know that The Donut Dollies has also been chosen as an Official Selection at 7 upcoming film festivals scheduled for New England, the New York Metro area, Southern California, Northern New York, the Southeast and the Southwest.  So your opportunity to see our film is coming!  

We will be announcing upcoming film festival screenings a few weeks before each event, so please be sure to look for these announcements on www.donutdollies.com or www.facebook.com/thedonutdollies  Please spread the word on The Donut Dollies to you family, friends and veterans you may know living in the areas/states of this and our other upcoming virtual screenings.  As always, we thank you for your support!

#TheDonutDollies #NHdocs2020 #GetReelNewHaven 

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Experience the moment we open a large photo archive from Vietnam War era Red Cross Donut Dollies
Published August 7, 2020 by Jim

Experience the moment we open a large photo archive from Vietnam War era Red Cross Donut Dollies

We will be taking a short vacation from posting editions of the Donut Dollie Detail, but will be back soon. If you are a Donut Dollie, we hope you’ll take part in our ongoing feature. Please enjoy this video…

We are honored to share with you the moment that we looked through the photo archives of three Red Cross Donut Dollies who served during the Vietnam War.  We recently put out the call for photos from Donut Dollies who served in the Korean and/or Vietnam War, along with responses to our 10-questions list, so we could create the in-their-own-words feature that is the Donut Dollies Detail (www.donutdollies.com/category/donut-dollie-detail) and this is just some of what we received.

We have reached the 60th edition of this feature and have been honored to share the experiences and photos of 60 women who chose to volunteer through the Red Cross to serve in Korea and/or Vietnam to provide a morale boost to the men who served.  We look forward to sharing more stories of the Donut Dollies, so if you served in Korea and/or Vietnam, please reach out to us and we’ll start the process of creating your own feature to share with your family and friends, as well as for posterity  (jim@donutdollies.com).

We wish to thank Lt. Col. Paula Haley (Donut Dollie Vietnam 1968-69), Diane Diggs Byrd (Donut Dollie Vietnam 1968), Emily Strange (Donut Dollie Vietnam 1969-70 – shared by her sister Peggy Michel) and the nearly five dozen women who have shared their experiences and photos with us.  

Our mission is to share this little known part of our country’s and women’s history, and with your help, we can achieve that goal, so that the Donut Dollie’s caring, compassion and dedication becomes well known.  We thank you for your interest in the Donut Dollies and for your support.

Here is the 10-questions list:

What prompted you to join the SRAO (Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas) program and want to go to Korea/Vietnam?

When and where were you stationed in Korea/Vietnam?  Did you go by a nickname?

What was a routine day like in Korea/Vietnam?

Did you ever have any “close calls” either on base or in any vehicles?

Were you ever injured while in Korea/Vietnam?

What was it like to visit the soldiers in the hospitals?

How was the transition returning home to the United States?

What would you like people to remember and understand most about the women who served?

How do you feel Veterans think of your time having served with them?  Have any Veterans expressed their feelings to you directly?

What are your fondest or most interesting memories of your time serving in Korea/Vietnam?

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Exciting film festival news for “The Donut Dollies”
Published August 6, 2020 by Jim

Exciting film festival news for “The Donut Dollies”

The Donut Dollies Documentary has been chosen as an Official Selection at 15 film festivals around the country!  At this moment, 6 film festival events are scheduled from August 23rd – October 22nd, while the other 9 events are currently on hold until a scheduled date can be safely set.  During this time of social distancing, the upcoming events will be taking place mostly online, with one Drive-in theater screening to be announced shortly.

In the coming weeks, we will be posting information on upcoming film festival screenings, including dates and times, and ticketing links that will provide you with online access.  What may occur with some of these screenings, is that they will only be available online to people in the state or region the film festival is located.  If we learn that a screening will be restricted to a certain area, we’ll make every attempt to inform you through our posts on www.donutdollies.com and www.facebook.com/thedonutdollies

One thing we would like you to know about these upcoming film festival screenings are that most of these events are put on by not-for-profit groups and run by small dedicated staffs and film-loving volunteers.  Each festival was counting on in-person audience attendance to help them generate the funds to put on the following year’s events, but that has since changed.  Some of these festivals will have set ticket pricing, while others will have “pay what you can” options.  If you come across the latter and are able to help them through this tough time, everyone involved will definitely appreciate your support.     

We look forward for you to see the Donut Dollies Documentary in-person in a darkened theater soon, and possibly with some Donut Dollies to take part in a Q&A session.  Until then, we thank you all for your continued support!  

Sincerely,

Norm, Jess and Jim

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SEEKING PHOTOS FROM DONUT DOLLIES WHO SERVED IN KOREA AND/OR VIETNAM
Published June 30, 2020 by Jim

SEEKING PHOTOS FROM DONUT DOLLIES WHO SERVED IN KOREA AND/OR VIETNAM

We are planning to create a visual montage featuring photos of Donut Dollies who served in Korea and/or Vietnam. What we are seeking are posed training class photos taken in Washington, DC, plus group photos and solo close-up photos of Donut Dollies taken in-country. You can share these photos with us at memories@donutdollies.com In the email, we would appreciate it if you could provide any information of in-country location or people shown in the photo (no pressure if you’re unsure of the details). To provide the best visual quality for each photo, it would be best to scan the photo(s) at 300dpi (dots per inch) or higher. If you have any questions on how to achieve this, please email us.

To clarify a point that recently came to us from a Donut Dollie, we do not claim copyright to any of the Donut Dollie photos that are shared with us and the ownership remains with the person providing the photo. Our goal has always been to share the experiences of the Donut Dollies in an effort to preserve them for posterity and the benefit of women, veterans, educators, historians and the public. We look forward to receiving your photos and please feel free to share this request with your Donut Dollie sisters.

P.S. – We would appreciate hearing from any Donut Dollie who might still have training materials from their DC or Saigon training classes.

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CALLING ALL RED CROSS DONUT DOLLIES WHO SERVED IN KOREA AND VIETNAM
Published June 10, 2020 by Jim

CALLING ALL RED CROSS DONUT DOLLIES WHO SERVED IN KOREA AND VIETNAM

This Friday we will post the 53rd edition of the Donut Dollie Detail. This feature provides a platform for Donut Dollies to share their memories of serving in the Korean and/or Vietnam Wars. Each feature includes answers to 10-questions and 4 in-country photos provided by a Donut Dollie.  The Donut Dollie Detail has been well received by veterans, Donut Dollies and the public, as well as becoming a great educational tool for those interested in military and women’s history, including many from around the world, some who are Donut Dollie historical reenactors.

If you are a Donut Dollie, we would be honored to create an edition of the Donut Dollie Detail just for you.  The first step is to answer the 10-questions listed below and send it to us at memories@donutdollies.com  Secondly, we ask that you scan and email at least 4 in-country photos (at 300dpi or higher, please ask if help is needed), which include photos such as one of yourself, programming to the men, DD group photos and any that you feel would tell a story. Once received, we’ll review everything, determine if any clarifications are needed and then schedule the posting of your feature here on www.facebook.com/thedonutdollies and at www.donutdollies.com/category/donut-dollie-detail Once posted, you’ll have the opportunity to share your feature with family and friends, and through reading and responding to the comments received, you could reconnect with a Donut Dollie sister who you served with or a veteran who remembers you from the recreation center or a firebase run.

We hope you will be interested in taking part in the Donut Dollie Detail, and we look forward to sharing your story.  We thank you for your service!

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE

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What prompted you to join the SRAO (Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas) program and want to go to Korea/Vietnam?

When and where were you stationed in Korea/Vietnam?  Did you go by a nickname?  How would you like your name listed in your feature?

What was a routine day like in Korea/Vietnam?

Did you ever have any “close calls” either on base or in any vehicles?

Were you ever injured while in Korea/Vietnam?

What was it like to visit the soldiers in the hospitals?

How was the transition returning home to the United States?

What would you like people to remember and understand most about the women who served?

How do you feel Veterans think of your time having served with them?  Have any Veterans expressed their feelings to you directly?

What are your fondest or most interesting memories of your time serving in Korea/Vietnam?

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Published March 9, 2020 by Jim

POSTPONED – Donut Dollies screenings at the Phoenix & Tiburon Film Fests

*****UPDATED INFORMATION — Unfortunately, we must announce that our screenings of the Donut Dollies Documentary scheduled on March 27th & 28th as part of the Phoenix Film Festival, as well as on April 18th as part of the Tiburon International Film Festival have been postponed.*****

Here are the details for the three screenings:

*****POSTPONED***** Phoenix Film Festival

*****POSTPONED***** Friday, March 27th @ 5:20 PM

*****POSTPONED***** Saturday, March 28th @ 9:10 AM

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*****POSTPONED***** Tiburon International Film Festival

*****POSTPONED*****Saturday, April 18th

We look forward to seeing you at a screening in the near future.  Please check www.facebook.com/TheDonutDollies, www.DonutDollies.com or your email for the announcement of additional screenings in the coming months.

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The Donut Dollies appear on Palm Springs radio, TV and in newspaper feature
Published January 20, 2020 by Jim

The Donut Dollies appear on Palm Springs radio, TV and in newspaper feature

The Donut Dollies Documentary Team worked hard on getting the word out on the story of the Red Cross Donut Dollies at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.  In fact, the Donut Dollies hit the media trifecta of appearances on radio, TV and in print.  The first appearance took place on Friday the 10th with Norm Anderson (our film’s director) sitting down for an interview with news anchor Jeff Stahl on KESQ Channel 3 News.  You’ll find our behind the scenes video below, including the moment when anchor Angela Chen suggests that Donut Dollie Dorset, Norm’s mom, join them at the end of the segment.  Click here to see video

The Donut Dollies appear on KESQ-TV (L-R) Jeff Stahl, Norm Anderson, Dorset Anderson and Angela Chen

Norms’s next appearance was on the Joey English Show on KGX radio on Saturday the 11th.  Norm was the second of three filmmakers who had films showing at the PSIFF, with Norm’s segment running from the 7:40 – 11:40 marks at http://joeyenglish.com/2020/01/palm-springs-international-film-festival-segment (to scroll to the specific time, click in the light gray upper area of the audio player box)

Norm Anderson and Dorset Anderson following an appearance on the Joey English Show on KGX

The Donut Dollies final media appearance in Palm Springs was a feature article with interviews with Donut Dollies Dorset Anderson, who’s featured in our film and Linda Pelegrino, who is a local Palm Springs area Donut Dollie.  As you’ll see in the second paragraph, we were honored with reporter Winston Gieseke’s comparison of “The Donut Dollies” to Penny Marchall’s classic, “A League of Their Own”. Click on the photos below to expand and read the newspaper page (if text is too small, click on the photo again to magnify).

We were honored to bring the Donut Dollies story to the big screens of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, showing to two sold out crowds and one near sell out, to an audience of nearly 800.  We hope you’ll enjoy sharing in our excitement.  We thank you all for your support!

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