Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected
Materials, 1939-present
Collection: DG 056
Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: 610-328-8557 (curator)
Fax: 610-690-5728
Email: wchmiel@swarthmore.edu (curator)
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
Descriptive Summary
Repository
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Creator
Various
Title
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials
Inclusive Dates
Dates of papers/records 1939-present
Call Number
DG 056
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
15.83 linear feet
Abstract
Chiefly the
personal papers of conscientious objectors assigned to Civilian Public Service
(CPS) camps during World War II, such as correspondence, writings, memoirs, and
reference material about CPS. Also included are records of or about various CPS
camps and projects.
Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
None
Usage Restrictions
Yes, some interviews with conscientious objectors are restricted
Alternate Form of Material
Yes photographs, audio visual material, memorabilia
Acquisitions Information
Gift of various donors
Processing Information
Processed by Peace Collection staff
Preferred Citation
Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected
Materials, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
See tripod record
Related Collections
American Friends Service Committee
Center on Conscience and War
Civilian Public Service Union
Resources on Civilian Public Service
Historical Background
Civilian Public Service (CPS) was set up to provide alternative service for conscientious objectors during World War II. It was operated primarily by the historic peace churches and the U.S. Selective Service, coordinated through the National Service Board for Religious Objectors.
Collection Overview
In 1964, the Swarthmore College Peace Collection created a collection called Civilian Public Service, Personal Papers, in which it placed many smaller collections of papers acquired from individuals and organizations after 1946. This was reprocessed in 1991, and the title was changed to Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials.
Items removed: Photographs and slides were removed to the Photograph Collection
(includes slides of camps #46 and #94 taken by Mel Zuck [acc. 99A-004]; quilt
made by wives and widows of CPS unit #98 in 1990s [acc. 02A-005] removed to
Memorabilia Collection; audiocassettes, computer diskettes and a video were removed to the
Audiovisual Collection
Arrangement of Collection
This collection is organized into three series. Series I contains material that documents the experience of individuals connected with CPS, primarily authored during the years that CPS was in operation. The material appears in the boxes according to when it was given to the Peace Collection. Series II contains material about specific CPS camps and projects, collected from various sources. The items in this series may duplicate what is in other CO or CPS collections. Series III contains documents about CPS reunions, conferences about CPS held in later years, memoirs, and questionnaires from those who investigated CPS assignees etc. Certain restrictions, as noted, apply to the material in these series.
In December 2002, the records of the Big Flats CPS Camp #46 were added to Series II. This camp had been overseen by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which had kept the correspondence it received from the camp's directors, as well as its weekly and monthly reports, while the camp was in operation. The camp also sent many weekly and monthly forms and reports to the National Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NSBRO), which served as a clearinghouse for all CPS matters and a liaison between Selective Service and the Historic Peace Churches which ran many of the CPS camps. Thus, material on the Big Flats Camp can be found in the records at the Peace Collection of both the AFSC (DG 002) and NSBRO (DG 025: now called Center on Conscience and War).
However, upon examination of the boxes of records of the camp, received in 1963 (acc. 63-29) from Earlham College, it was found that there was unique material in these files that went beyond what had been collected by the AFSC and NSBRO. The records include notes from conferences and camp meetings attended, correspondence, and reports that should have been sent to NSBRO but were not (for some reason not known now), among other material. It seems obvious that a special effort was made to keep these files from being destroyed. One staff person, Tom Bassett, went so far as to make a list of all the office files and to note what the disposition of these files should be once the camp shut down. It is not known, however, why the collection was given to Earlham College before it was sent to the Peace Collection. At some point, Peace Collection staff assigned the collection to DG 002 (American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service records), but it was decided in Dec. 2002 to transfer it to DG 056 because of the inconvenience of trying to fit more boxes into the logical place in DG 002.
The directors of the Big Flats Camp were Paul Johnson, Winslow Osborne, Thomas Potts, Stephen Cary, Roderic Davison, John Hollister, and Clarence Angell.
The records of the Big Flats CPS Camp #46 are restricted until the year 2020, in that anyone making reference to personal information from this collection must disguise it so that the identity of the individual/s concerned will not be disclosed. Researchers wishing to use this material must sign a form agreeing to this stipulation.
Detailed Description of the Collection
SERIES
I: Personal Papers
Box 1
Reference/Subject file [includes correspondence]
Peace or war for America, ca. 1941
World War II, ca. 1935-1944
Propaganda: war and peace, 1939, 1944
Conscientious objection
CPS Fund campaign, 1942-1945
CPS camps
Periodical We, 1947-1948
Box 2
Correspondence from COs, 1942-1946
Writings by Cooper about conscientious objection, 1942-1960
Henry W. Dyer
Correspondence, 1942-1943
Correspondence with Rex M. Corfman and others, 1943-1944
Correspondence with Harold Guetzkow and others, 1942, 1943
Burow brothers trial, 1943
Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1942-1944
Sandstone (MN) prisoners: correspondence with Russel I. Smith, 1944
War Resisters League, 1942
Work without pay, etc. [file of Tom Leonard], 1945
Camp government, Walhalla (MI), 1942
[see also Chicago Conference for Social Action, Series II]
Harold Guetzkow
Correspondence (1942-1943)
[see also Chicago Conference for Social Action, Series II]
Curtis Zahn
Typescripts of articles about pacifism, 1940s?
Miscellaneous material, 1946-1963
Box 3
Richard Sterne
- Correspondence, 1942-1944<
Channing B. Richardson
- Correspondence, 1942-1945
- Reference/Subject file
-- Criticisms of CPS
-- China
-- Society of Friends and CPS
-- Chicago Conference on Social Action
-- Bulletins from CPS camps [most removed to DG 002]
-- Essays, reports, etc. by mi scellaneous authors
- Mi scellaneous CPS material
Box 4
Purnell Benson
- Correspondence, 1943-1950
- Correspondence about proposed Ph.D.
- Manuscript notes for lectures on conscription and CPS
- Published articles on conscription and CPS
- Typescripts of articles on CPS
- Donald Charles Devault case about work refusal, 1944
- Corbett Bishop case about hunger strike, 1945
- Miscellaneous
- Typescript Conscription of Conscience: American Conscientious Objection in World War II by Mulford Sibley and Philip Jacobs, 1949
- Correspondence
- Analysis and criticism by Benson
Box 5
Eugene S. and Louise Wilson
Correspondence, 1941
- Mi scellaneous correspondence, 1941-1949
- Newspaper clippings, ca. 1941
Howard and Mary Alice Alexander
- Autobiographical statement of MAA, 1990
- Photos; Mi scellaneous CPS material [photos removed to Photograph Collection]
- Correspondence of MAA to HA at Coshocton CPS Camp (MD), March 1942 - June 1943
Box 6
Howard and Mary Alice Alexander (cont.)
- Correspondence of MAA to HA at Coshocton CPS Camp (MD), July 1943 - April 1944
- Correspondence of HA at Coshocton CPS Camp (MD) to MA, 1941-1943
Box 7
Howard and Mary Alice Alexander (cont.)
- Correspondence of HA at Coshocton CPS Camp (MD) to MA, 1944
- Correspondence from HA and MAA from Cherokee State Hospital (IA) Jan.-Oct. 1944
Franklin H. Briggs
- Correspondence, 1943-1945
- Contents of untitled binder
- Notes from Administrative Training School, Selective Service System: Directives to CPS camps, etc., 1943
William M. Fuson
- Correspondence while at CPS Camp #131 ( Cherokee State Hospital, IA), 1943-1945
Box 8
Temporarily empty
Box 9
William Cleveland
- Miscellaneous correspondence, mostly to Cleveland, 1943-1950
- Manuscripts and correspondence pertaining to Society of Friends periodicals (Inward Light and The Notebook), 1944-1947
- Correspondence and literature about various retreats, 1946-1952
Box 10
Peter S. Olmsted
- Starvation project and others, 1944-1945
Darnell Family Papers
- Emerson L. Darnell
-- Biographical information
-- Correspondence, 1941-1945, 1949, n.d.
- Barbara Russell Darnell
-- Correspondence, 1942-1945, 1963
- Mrs. Alfred Darnell
-- Correspondence, 1941-1942
Box 11 Darnell Family Papers (cont.)
- Mrs. Alfred Darnell (cont.)
-- Correspondence, 1943-1945, n.d.
- Alfred Darnell
-- Correspondence, 1939, 1941-1945, 1949
- Achsah Darnell
-- Correspondence, 1941-1943
- Ocneva Darnell
-- Correspondence, 1942-1943
- Emerson Darnell
-- Correspondence (non-family), 1940s
- Miscellaneous CPS materials
- Miscellaneous materials
- Photographs [removed to Photograph Collection]
- Three nineteenth century banknotes [removed to Memorabilia Collection]
Round Robin of Letters from men in CPS Camp #32 [acc. 69A-155], 1944
Dan Frysinger
- Mi scellaneous Correspondence
William L. Jones
Box 12
Miscellaneous materials
William M. Stanton Jr. (Acc. 96A-001)
- Biographical information, 1942-1946, 1992
- Correspondence, 1923, 1944-1945
- Reflections on semi-starvation experiment, 1955
- Material on semi-starvation experiment
- AFSC CPS information
- [see also Series III, Box 5]
William Macy Stanton, Jr.(Acc. 08A-018)
-Biographical material (includes photographs glued to pages)
-Human guinea pig experiments (photographs removed to Photograph Collection) Acc. 08A-018
Warren D. Sawyer (Acc. 08A-004)
-CPS Service Camp #19, Camp Unit #49, Unit #140.2)
-Book 1 of transcribed letters, September 1940-September 1942, other letters and miscellaneous material
-Book 2 of transcribed letters, September1942 (continued)-September1944, other letters and miscellaneous material
-Book 3 of transcribed letters, September 1944-April 1947, other letters and miscellaneous material
-Philadelphia State Mental Hospital [Byberry]
Box 13
Gordon Coffin
Harry Holstrom
Benjamin Candee
Werner Janney
- “The Dog Valley Fire Crew Fights a Big One”
- “Casey Volunteers for Four Years”
James Walter Abrecht and Marian Gage Abrecht
Box 14
Carl F. Kelley to John Musgrave
Herman Will
Toshiyuki Fukushima
Ralph Corlies Rudd
Robert L. Wixom
Cornelius Steelink
David C. Walden
- Mss. re: early history of CPS, July 1944
George Hay
Gregg Phifer
Nancy Neumann
William Rostron
Box 15
A. Wilson and Dorothy Whitman [acc. 03A-101 and 03A-016]
A. Wilson Whitman was born in 1906, and was a Christian Scientist. He was drafted in Newport (RI), and entered CPS on Oct. 27, 1942. He served in CPS camp #53 in Gorham (NC) and then moved to CPS camp #76 in Glendora (CA) in May 1943. He left CPS on Oct. 22, 1945. He and Dorothy Liljewall married on March 1[?], 1943; she moved to California to be near him in May 1943. These letters mention very little about CPS or about conscientious objection, but are almost entirely personal about their relationship and plans for their wedding,etc.
- Biographical information; acquisition of letters [photographs removed to Photograph Collection]
- Letters to Dorothy (as fiancee), Oct. 1942 - March 1943
Box 16 Wilson [continued]; Satterthwaite; Leavey
- Letters to Dorothy (as wife), - April 12-May 20, 1943; June 4, 1943; Aug. 8, 1943; Dec. 9, 1943
- Reference material
Henry Satterthwaite
Stanley A. Leavey
- Biographical Information
- "Another Wartime" by Stanley A. Leavey
- Correspondence with agencies concerning CPS assignments
- Letters to wife, Margaret Leavey, March - August 1943
- Letters from wife, Margaret Leavey July 1943, and no date
- Correspondence, miscellaneous
- Reference material
Box 17
Vincent Beck [Acc. 07A-003]: reminiscences, etc. re: service in CPS
Bryn Hammarstrom [Acc. 07A-003]
-
Service at Patapsco CPS camp, 1940-1941
- Service at Buck Creek CPS camp, 1941-1943
- Service as CPS smokejumper, 1943-1944
- Service with Brumbaugh CPS construction unit, 1945-1946
- Correspondence sent to family while in CPS 1940-1946
- Correspondence from family, 1943 (Oct.)
- Correspondence of wife (Beppy) sent to family, 1945-1946
- Resignation from West Side Presbyterian Church (Ridgewood, NJ), 1941 (May)
- Correspondence and lists, etc. re: Wesleyan University C.O'.s, 1946-1947
- Correspondence after CPS
- Correspondence re: smokejumping (& reunions), 1973-1996
Edmund Dunlop
A. A. Hall
George Hay
Graham Hodges
George Yamada
Robert M. Cox
- List of materials
- Correspondence, 1943-1946, 1993, 1997
- Writings and testimony on conditions at Cleveland [OH] State Hospital, 1944-1945
-
Documents on Ohio Grand Jury investigation on conditions at Cleveland [OH] State Hospital, 1944-1945
-
Newspaper clippings about conditions at Cleveland [OH] State Hospital, 1943-1946
- Miscellaneous reports
about conditions at Cleveland [OH] State Hospital, 1943-1946
Quentin C. Stodola [images also available as digital files] Acc. 07A-062
Charles Lord
-Philadelphia State Mental Hospital [Byberry] (PA) Acc. 07A-040
SERIES II: CPS Camps and Projects
Box 1
Chicago Conference on Social Action, April 1943
- Correspondence of Harold Guetzkow, Rex M. Corfman, Henry Dyer and others
- Conference literature
- Post-conference material
- Miscellaneous
“Greater opportunity in CPS,” 1942-1943
CPS conferences, 1942-1943
Castaner project ( Puerto Rico), 1942-[1944, 1945]-1951
Work in mental hospitals
Forest fire training
Recipes from CPS camps
Pocket Songster for CPS camps
Box 2
Food for Europe Fund (CPS Camp #76, Glendora CA)
- Records, 1946
- Alphabetical file of letters of gratitude
- Some translations of letters of gratitude
Starvation Project (Unit #115)
- Reference material from Charles David Smith, 1945
Box 3
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Absences due to accident or illness, 1942-1945; report re: condition of sick men, May 1944
- Accident insurance / compensation
- AFSC administration of CPS
- Announcements made
- Arrivals: reports of arrivals, Aug. 1942 - July 1943
- Arrivals: reports of arrivals [see DG 025, Series C, boxes 76-78 for other years], Aug. 1943 - Aug. 1944
- Assignees: rosters
- Assignees: biographical information; directories
- Assignees: personnel reference sheets
- Assignees:
-- A-E [collective file]
-- Ackley, Sheldon Carmer
-- Aggertt, Otis J.
-- Archer Jr., Leonard Benjamin
-- Arnett, Edward [Ned] McCollin
-- Atherton, John Robert
-- Atkins, Bernard
-- Bacon, Howard
-- Barker, Robert T.
-- Bartel, Paul
-- Bartels, Amos O.
-- Bartlett, Robert Sherrott
-- Bertholf, William A.
-- Bennett, Peter Goldthwait
-- Bennett, Rev. Richard K.
-- Blumberg, Len
-- Bolles, Berthold
-- Brand, Robert Murray
-- Brinton, Edward
-- Brinton, William
-- Brown, Dr. George Henry
-- Burke, Harry
-- Butterworth, Harrison
-- Camburn, Robert S.
-- Cardone, Nicholas B.
-- Carpenter, Charles Everlyn
-- Cary Jr., G. Lucius
-- Cary, Robert J.
-- Cary, Stephen G.
Box 4
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Assignees:
-- Cates, George F.
-- Chambers, Clarence Dillard
-- Childs, Harano
-- Chittum, Ray [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Collier, Eugene [Gene] Emerson
-- Collier, Francis Gilman
-- Comstock, Cedric W.
-- Cooper, William Bowker
-- Cope, Alfred Lewis
-- Corney, [James] Robert
-- Crouch, Joseph Daniel
-- Crysler, Charles H.
-- Culver Jr., Andrew J.
-- Daigneault, Henry William
-- Dalbeck, Gordon E.
-- Darr, William
-- Davis Jr., Joseph A.
-- De Armand, James K.
-- Donnarumma, Thomas
-- Dunbar, Wilbur
-- Deibler Jr., Mark T.
-- Eckman, Robert
-- Elkington, Peter West
-- Emig, Lawrence Wilson C.
-- Escofil, Noel T. [pencil drawing of Escofil removed to Subject File: Art in War & Peace -- graphics from DG collections]
-- F [collective file]
-- Fahrenkopf, Charles N.
-- Fifield, William LeRoy
-- Fincke, Benjamin Graeme Cecil
-- Fischer, Jacob
-- Fisher, Elsworth
-- Foote, Richard Jay
-- Franklin, Paul S.
-- Fukushima, Toshiyuki
-- Fletcher, John H.
-- G [collective file]
-- Gallina, David
-- Garner, Ray
-- Gbur, John
-- Gbur Jr., Michael
-- Gemberling, Charles A.
-- Granger, George S.
-- Grant, Joseph W.
-- Gray, Robert W.
-- Griffin, Raymond Schuyler Parsons
-- Griffith, Charles Kellogg
-- Gundlach, David
-- H-J [collective file]
-- Hagner Jr., George
-- Hampton, Bud [Lloyd L.] [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Harvey, Robert
-- Hollingsworth, Marion
-- Iannaccone, Lawrence
-- Ives, Kenneth H.
-- Johnson, Clyde Linn
-- Jones, Forrest Clyde
-- K [collective file]
-- Kadet, Harry [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Kafka, Joseph Raphael
-- Kane, Albert Morris
-- Karnes, Paul
-- Kathe, Richard Leo
-- Kazmierski, Franksley Stephen
-- Kenner Jr., William Charles
-- Kent, Joel C.
-- Kidd, Michael
-- Kiefer, Alexander Felix
-- Knutsen, Frank Andrew
-- Kruel, Virgil
-- L [collective file]
-- Labuhn, Richard
-- Lang, Fred
-- Lange, Paul G.
-- Lanning, Theodore R.
Box 5
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Assignees:
-- Lauber, Richard
-- Lee, Harold Earl
-- Livermore, Stuart
-- Lohbeck, Don
-- Ludlow, William Hartwell
-- M [collective file]
-- Mack, Henry [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Madigan, Thomas E.
-- Mallery Jr., Lawrence Russell
-- Malloy, James
-- Mannion, Roy Staincliffe
-- Marsteller, Louis John
-- Mathews, Thomas George
-- Maurer, Eric Wirkler
-- McKelvie, James Hamilton
-- Metcalf, David
-- Midgette, Ross
-- Meier, George Henry
-- Miller, Laurence L.
-- Milnes, Arthur T.
-- Moscowitz, David Reuben
-- Moses, Richard Phillips [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Mraz, [Dusan] George
-- Muska, John
-- Myers, Joseph Wilson
-- N [collective file]
-- Neila, Steve Frank
-- Nevitsky, Max [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- O [collective file]
-- Offerman, Chester Monroe
-- Ortloff, C. Frank
-- Osborn, Charles R.
-- Outland, Edward Burrough
-- P [collective file]
-- Palmer, Milton T.
-- Pemberton, Earl O.
-- Pettit Jr., Earle Milton
-- Pfeifer, Theodore
-- Pfitzinger, George A.
-- Polifroni, Vincent
-- Prescod, Horace
-- Prescod, Joffre
-- R [collective file]
-- Randall, Darrell Donald
-- Riedel, Elwyn D. [see also Robert J. Trautwein]
-- Rineer, James Snyder
-- Riner, Richard E.
-- Riner, Warren Francis
-- Robinson, Ralph Oscar
-- Robinson, Ryland
-- Roehrs, Edward Herman
-- Rosenbaum, Crane
-- Rudd, Ralph
-- Rumer, Kenneth
-- Rumer, Paul [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Rungee, Frederick William
-- S [collective file]
-- Sanderson, Donald L.
Box 6
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Assignees:
-- Schon, Charles Russell
-- Seeman, William
-- Sharpless, Palmer
-- Sheen, Milton Roy
-- Shiga, Andrew Ichiro
-- Shirley, William Shakespeare
-- Singsen, Anton G.
-- Slauter, Richard Earl
-- Smith, Wesley Graham
-- Snider, Elmer
-- Solenberger, Donald
-- Somers, Donald Benton [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Soto, Jay
-- Staples, Lionel Wentworth
-- Steinhilber, Norman
-- Sterne, Richard Stephen
-- Stevenson, John Peter
-- Stoddard, Herbert
-- Strait, Edward N.
-- Strang, Jack
-- Stutts Jr., Warren Seaman
-- Sutton, Andrew
-- Swain, Hank
-- Swift, Floyd Balderston
-- T [collective file]
-- Thomson, Matt H.
-- Todd, Edwin
-- Tolles, Frederick B.
-- Toth, Philip
-- Trautwein, Robert J. [see also Elwyn D. Riedel]
-- Tuck, Jay Nelson
-- Tucker, Robert
-- Tucker, Willis Ralph
-- Tuttle, George Kenneth
-- Underwood, Raymond P.
-- V-Z [collective file]
-- Van Wormer, Marvin
-- Vickery, William S.
-- Votaw, Albert Nicholson
-- Ward, Victor A.
-- Watson, George Henry [photo removed to Photograph Collection]
-- Weaver, Francis [Fritz] William
-- Weber, William Harrison
-- Wildermuth, Floyd L.
-- Wlson, Eugene Francis
-- Winslow, [William] Allen
-- Wright, Duane Chester
-- Wright, Francis Ernest
-- Zavackas, Vito
-- Zimmerman, Giles L.
-- Zuck, Melvin
Brethren in Christ church / Brethren-run CPS camps
- Camp: general information
- Camp: general information -- handbooks (2)
- Camp Co-op
- Camp Council
- Camp meetings: meeting minutes [incomplete set], 1943-1945
- Camp meetings: notes, 1943
- Camp meetings: notes, 1944
- Camp meetings: notes, 1945-1946
Box 7
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Chicago Conference on Social Action
- Closed CPS base camps
- "Community Notes"
- Cooperative Training Institute, 1943
- Correspondence: general, 1942-1944
- Correspondence: general, 1945-1946, n.d.
- Correspondence with Nevitsky Bros.
- CPS Camp #10, Royalston (MA)
- CPS Camp #12, Cooperstown (NY)
- CPS Camp #30, Walhalla (MI)
- CPS Camp #37, Coleville (CA)
- CPS Camp #52, Powellsville (MD)
- CPS Camp #52, Powellsville (MD): auto mechanics course -- grades
- CPS Camp #56, Waldport (OR)
- CPS Camp #59, Elkton (OR)
- CPS Camp #76, Glendora (CA)
- CPS Camp #94, Trenton (ND)
- CPS Camp #104, Ames (IA)
- CPS Camp #108, Gatlinburg (TN)
- CPS Camp #111, Mancos (CA)
- CPS Camp #114, Mount Weather (Bluemont, VA)
- CPS Camp #135, Germfask (MI)
- CPS Camp #140.01, Pinehurst (NC)
- CPS Camp #148, Minersville (CA)
- CPS camps run by Religious Society of Friends
- CPS camps run by U.S. government
- CPS camps run by U.S. government: questionnaires and results about transferring men to these camps
- CPS Union
- Craft Shop Committee
- Daily bulletins
Box 8 (1/2 box)
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Daily record of treatment, ill or injured assignees (DSS 51-A), Aug .-Dec. 1942
- Daily record of treatment, ill or injured assignees (DSS 51-A), Jan.-March 1943
Box 9
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Demobilization and post-war reconstruction
- Demobilization: questionnaire and results re: post-war plans
- Dependents of CPS men
- Detached service attempts
- Discharge procedures and questions, etc.
- Discharges: medical; final physical examination
- Discharges for physical disabilities (form 119)
- Discipline: procedures; reports
- Disposition of office files after closing of camp
- Dormitory lists, May 1944 - Dec. 1945
- Education
- Education: events / classes sponsored
- Education: notes on speakers (and talks given)
- Education Committee: meeting minutes, Aug.-Nov. 1943
- Education Committee: correspondence; notes; Mi scellaneous
- Education Committee: reference material
- Elmira (NY) churches
- Executive Committee: meetings minutes, etc. [incomplete set], 1943-1945
- FBI investigation of AFSC, 1944
Box 10
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Financial records: Mi scellaneous
- Financial records: General Service Fund -- meeting minutes; reports, 1944-1945
- Financial records: General Service Fund -- correspondence; financial reports; Mi scellaneous, 1943-1946
- Forestry in Big Flats region
- Furloughs: general
- Furloughs granted, Sept.-Dec. 1943
- Furloughs granted, 1944
- Furloughs granted, Jan.-May 1945
- Furloughs granted, June 1945 - Jan. 1946
- Governing principles of the camp
- "Grass Roots" [for newsletter itself see DG 002, Section 3]
- Grin and Bear It cartoons [with captions typed in]
- "Guinea pig" experiments
- Hospital (Arnot-Ogden Memorial): orderly work for CPS men [includes racial justice efforts], 1944
- Housekeeping / Sanitation of camp, 1943-1944
- Institute of International Relations: program announcements; reservations; etc.
- Institute of International Relations: conference sponsored "Germany and Tomorrow's Europe" (speakers: Norman Thomas, William Sollman, etc.), March 10-11, 1945
- Insurance: memos
- Insurance: applications to National Casualty Co. for CPS men, Sept.-Dec. 1943
- Insurance: applications to National Casualty Co. for CPS men, Jan.-July 1944 (1943?)
Box 11
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Insurance: applications to National Casualty Co. for CPS men, Aug.-Dec. 1944
- Insurance: applications to National Casualty Co. for CPS men [includes one from March 1945], Sept.-Nov. 1945
- Interview with Winslow Osborne, Oct. 31, 1943: report
- Kitchen
- Labor: Mi scellaneous
- Labor: farm labor [includes emergency farm work]
- Labor: free-time work
- Labor: free-time work at Consolidated Brick, 1944-1945
- Labor: free-time work at Empire Foods, 1944-1945
- Labor: free-time work in hospitals, Sept.-Dec. 1944
- Labor: work problems
- Labor: work projects and crews
- Labor: work reports, Sept.-Dec. 1942
- Labor: work reports, Jan.-July 1943
- Labor: work reports, Aug.-Dec. 1943
- Labor: work reports, Jan.-July 1944
- Labor: work reports, Aug.-Dec. 1944
Box 12
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Labor: work reports, Jan.-July 1945
- Labor: work reports [see DG 025, Series C, boxes 76-78 for other years], Aug. 1945 - Jan. 1936
- Laundry
- Library
- Maintenance: Mi scellaneous
- Maintenance: assignments, 1943
- Maintenance: work assignments for Saturdays, 1943
- Maintenance: assignments, 1944
- Maintenance: work assignments for Saturdays, 1944
- Maintenance: assignments, 1945 - Jan. 1946
- Maintenance: work assignments for Saturdays, 1945
- Meals
- Medical
- Mennonite Church / Mennonite-run CPS camps
- Mental hospital work [includes reflections by worker Wilma Ludlow]
Box 13
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Mi scellaneous
- Mi scellaneous: personal telephone book of ____
- Monthly reports: procedures
- Monthly reports: correspondence re: reporting problems, etc.
- Music programs; glee club; New Friends of Music; etc.
- New arrivals: sample welcome letters
- New arrivals: certificates of arrival (NSB 119), Sept. 1944 - Jan. 1946
- New arrivals: correspondence re: reports of physical examination and induction, and of reports to work, 1943 - Jan. 1946
- Notes, ca. 1943-1945
- Notebook of Ray Underwood, .n.d.
- Office procedures
- Operating costs memo, Aug. 1944
- Pendle Hill conference re: COs, n.d.: notebook
- Permanent crew meetings
- Personnel: general
- Personnel, 1942-1945
- Personnel: Big Flats - Philadelphia Staff Conference, March 1945
- Personnel: camp dietician
- Personnel: camp nurse
- Personnel: camp representative to the AFSC
- Prison Committee [for camp]
Box 14
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Programs / recreation
- Property
- Public relations (with community, etc.); publicity; media coverage
- Race relations
- Rationing of fuel
- Reception center; orientation
- Reclassification of over-age men
- Reclassification to the armed services
- Relief and reconstruction work
- Religious activities
- Safety
- Service / giving opportunities
- Transfers: correspondence, etc., 1943-1945
- Transfers: reports of transfer [composite lists], 1943-1945
- Transfers: reports of transfer, 1942
- Transfers: reports of transfer (alpha order: A-M), 1943
- Transfers: reports of transfer (alpha order: N-Z), 1943
- Transfers: reports of transfer (alpha order: A-L), 1944
- Transfers: reports of transfer (alpha order: M-Z), 1944
- Transfers: reports of transfer (alpha order), 1945
- Transfers: reports of transfer, Jan. 1946
Box 15 (1/2 box)
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46 Restricted
- Transportation
- Visitors
- Visitors: reports of visits to camp by Franklin McClean, Field Representative [for Selective Service?] (Lt. Colonel, Infantry)
- Walk-outs / work strikes
Box 16
Big Flats (NY) CPS Camp #46
- Reference material:
-- AFSC & CPS
-- AFSC-CPS conferences
-- Cooperatives
-- Corning (NY) telephone directory, 1944
-- COs: general
-- COs in prison
-- COs: media coverage
-- COs used in human guinea pig experiments
-- CPS: general
-- CPS Union
-- CPS: work with mental hospitals
-- Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship
-- Experiences in CPS
-- Leaflet Series "Instructions in the Life of Prayer," #1-5, 10-18
-- "Mess Manual for Civilian Public Service Camps" [by Selective Service?]
-- Methodist Church: Commission on World Peace
-- Parole for COs
-- Puerto Rican health centers
-- Selective Service camp regulations; Civilian Conservation Corps safety regulations
-- Socialist COs
-- Walk-outs from CPS
-- Women's service; conscription of women
Box 17
- CPS Camps
- CPS Camp #___: Journal by ?? [acc. 87A-87], May-July 1941?
- CPS Camp #3, Patapsco (MD): Journal of Mrs. Wildman [Ernest Wildman was camp's 1st director], April 4 - May 25, 1941
- CPS Camp #14, Merom (IN)
- CPS Camp #19, Buck Creek (Marion, NC)
- CPS Camp #21, Cascade Locks (OR)
- CPS Camp #27, Tallahassee (FL)
- CPS Camp #27-F, Orlando (FL)
- CPS Camp #30, Walhalla (MI)
- CPS Camp #37, Coleville (CA)
- CPS Camp #42, Wellston (MI)
- CPS Camp #43, Adjuntas (PR) [includes La Plata Project]
- CPS Camp #52, Powellsville (MD)
- CPS Camp #56, Waldport (OR)
- CPS Camp #94, Trenton (ND)
- CPS Unit #99, China Relief Unit ( Chungking, China) [never actually active?]
SERIES III CPS Remembered
Box 1
CPS Survey “Study of the Effects of Civilian Public Service on World War II Conscientious Objectors” by Paul Wilhelm, 1987-1989
- Preparatory material Restricted
Box 2
CPS Survey “Study of the Effects of Civilian Public Service on World War II Conscientious Objectors” by Paul Wilhelm (cont.), 1987-1989
- Responses to Wilhelm questionnaire A-R Restricted
Box 3
CPS Survey “Study of the Effects of Civilian Public Service on World War II Conscientious Objectors” by Paul Wilhelm, 1987-1989
- Responses to Wilhelm questionnaire S-Z Restricted
Description of interviews with World War II conscientious objectors by Cynthia Eller, 1990 Partially Restricted [audiocassette tapes (with transcriptions on Mac Write diskettes) removed to Audiovisual Collection]
Video of 50th year reunion of Buck Creek CPS Camp #19, 1991 [removed to Audiovisual Collection]
Miscellaneous
Questionnaires from CPS people sent out by Washington, D.C. Meeting, 1946
“Recollections of a World War II Conscientious Objector,” by Larry Miller
Box 4
Questionnaires re: women and CPS sent out by Rachel Goossen Partially Restricted [acc. 93A-108]
Box 5
Reflections on semi-starvation experiment [acc.96A-001]
Reunion of Semi-Starvation Experiment Unit 45, March 1991, Aug. 1995 [acc.96A-001] [oversize photo removed to Photograph Collection; audiocassettes removed to Audiovisual Collection]
Materials from Ray Firestone
Materials from James Clark [see also Sugar Hill Burn Diary in Book Collection]
CPS reminiscences of Bolton Morris, Richard Leonard, George B. Mathews and Gordon Zahn
Conference “An Extraordinary Paradox,” Pendle Hill (PA), Nov. 1996
Materials from "The Laurelites" Partially Restricted
CPS Unit #98
- Mi scellaneous material
- Recollections by the wives and widows of men in Unit #98; description of quilt made by women in 1990s
- "CPS 98 Partners"
Letter and reminiscence from Roland Smith. ( Buck Creek), December 1991
CPS reunions / retrospective conferences [collective file]
"Another Wartime," Memoir by Stanley A. Leavey 2005 (Copyright to this material retained by the author)
CPS #103 Smoke jumpers reunion letter, 2007, and mailing list of members
Interview with Harold Bush, October 12, 2007 [acc. 08A-034]
Box 6
Transcriptions of oral interviews with CPS men, by Cynthia Eller, 1980s, and material from Daniel Dingman, Richard Underwood, and the Topeka I-W Program
- Anonymous
- Ashby, Paul
- Baker, Charles
- Baker, Don
- Barnes, Fred
- Beachler, Donald
- Bertochini, Gilbert
- Blocher, Henry
- Bogen, Howard
- Boone, Aretas
- Brink, Howard Ten
- Bristol, James
- Brown, George
- Brown, Richard
- Brubaker, Herbert
- Bryant, Arthur
- Carper, Eugene
- Cary, Robert
- Cohn, Sigmund
- Colburn, William
- Convers, Fred
- Dell, Joe
- Delmar, Stanley
- Delp, Paul
- Edinger, Cal
- Fischer, George
- Foote, Caleb
- Gifford, Seth
- Grover, Gilbert
- Hanawalt, Dwight
- Herbst, Albert
- Hogan, Herbert
- Jarboe, Russell
- Jones, J. Edwin
- Kaufman, Gordon
- Kidder, Eugene Jr.
- Klaffke, Charles
- Krug, Lyle
- Liskey, Samuel
- Lowerre, James
- Mast, Roy
- Mizutani, Saburo
- Nutson, Gale
- Nutson, Gordon
- Parker, Malcolm
- Paulson, Carl
- Phillips, R. Paul
- Potochnik, Rudy
- Prochaska, Harry
- Reed, Hayes
- Rubin, Gerald
- Sateren, Leland
- Stocksdale, Bob
- Vogel, Robert
- Wilkinson, Harmon
- Windemiller, Duane
- Zahn, Gordon
- Zytkoskee, Tate
Daniel Dingman
Richard Underwood: "Civilian Public Service and After"
50th Anniversary of the Topeka (Kansas) I-W Program, 1952-2002
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File last update June 2, 2008.