There are not many surviving CCC Alumni that are around today and they all are living treasures. We need to video them for future
generations. PLEASE interview them for 3-10 minutes and tranfer
the recording YOUTUBE and title your interview as (Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview
with (Mr. their name)). Begin with thanking them for thier
service and ask their name, how old they were when thay enrolled in the CCC, and their situation then, their induction place,
their dates of service, camps and their locations and what kinds of work they did and what did they got the most out
of their experience. End with the question, "Would our youth today work as hard as you did and should the President
and the Congress bring back the CCC?"
Civilian
Conservation Corps Alumni Interview
with
Mr Sidney Mander
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(To Mr. Roosevelt)
By Raymond Kraus
Co. 1232, Olympia, WA
A pauper’s life we may have
led.
And we died revolting for our bread;
We might have shed each other’s blood.
And we died face done in the mud.
But all because we have this man,
Whose only words are there: “I
can!”
Our nation shall evolve on high,
And we shall have a brighter sky.
He gave to us the chance to say,
I’ve earned my bread and keep
today,
The chance to smile, to toil, to sweat,
This damn depression this forget.
Happy Days, November 3, 1934 (National
newspaper of the CCC, Washington, D.C.)
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
Interview with Phil Williams
Worth
It
By Doc Towne
Co. 615, Estacada,OR
My hands are sore an’ blistered,boys,
My
bones are full of aches;
My elbow joints, they make a noise
Like an ungreased windmill makes.
How come? I been a choppin’ trees
A-hewin logs and such;
The kind of work that pleases
A
C.C.C.very much.
I’ve got as bunk and windows, too,
With one that’s set just
right;
For us to watch the moon rise
When work is through the night.
That ax
has sure wore out my hand,
But, boys, my heart ain’t sore;
I’ll stand her there to meet me
Just
out the bunkhouse door.
But I’ve been just the same,
An’
up Clackamas Valley Draw;
Now stands Company 615
Best of them all.
Happy Days
September
22, 1934
KETC | Living St. Louis | Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC crew member loading a hole under a stump with dynamite, Lolo National Forest (Montana)
STUMPS
I hope that I shall never
see,
A
Stump outside the CCC;
A
Stump whose wiry roots are found,
Deep
in the earth's tenacious ground.
A
stump at which I slave away,
All
during a torride summer day,
Stumps
are dug by guys like me
And
others in the CCC.
D.E.M., Arcardia, RI
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr. Walter Atwood
Civilian Conservation Corps boys putting up a fence, Greene County, Georgia, Ma
November 3, 2007, Video Interviews
of five Alumni at the Annual Florida CCC Alumni Reunion in Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring,Florida. Interviewed by
Jay Alexander and Videographer - Mark Skogman
CCC enrollees using picks and shovels, Maryland, 1933
Civilian Conservation
Corps Alumni Inteview - Mr Clark M Pitt
S H O V E L
S – is for the spuds we got for breakfast. H – is for the home we seldom see. O – is for
the onions that they feed us. V - is for this verse composed by me. E - is for the end of my enlistment. L – is for the last they’ll see of me. Put them all together the spell SHOVEL The emblem of the CCC.
Fort Lewis CCC songbook, 1934
CCC enrollees using picks and shovels, Maryland, 1933
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Pervis H. Hamm
ROUND AND ROUND
6:00 AM Rising Bugle
6:15-7:00 Breakfast, followed by sick
call
7:15 Police camp and draw tools
7:30 Go to work
11:15 Return from work
12:00 Dinner
1:00 Sick call
1:15 Police camp
1:30 Draw tools
1:45 Go to work
4:45 Return from work
6: 00 Supper followed by the study program
10:00 Bed and lights out.
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Ted Mazur
CCC telephone repairman Davis, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Civilian Conservation
Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Rusty Swarmer
CCC building wall at Grand Canyon National Park
Civilian Conservation
Corps Alumni Interview with Mr John Donovan
Literacy was taught and tested by writing a letter home!
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview - Mr James C. King
Compressor and jackhammer for drilling rock preparatory to shooting explosives, Lassen National Fore
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Mel Dunsmore
Group photograph of the Veteran CCC Camp at Wolfcreek, Oregon
Civilian
Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Noel Dye
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview with Mr Ortiz
Enrollees singing while waiting at train station in Missoula, MT
CCC Alumni Interview - Mr Jacob Shad
IMPORTANT NOTE:
PLEASE interview any living CCC member and
submit the interview to YOUTUBE under the title above with their name for the record...their stories must be saved future generations.
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