CPS Unit Number 027-05

CPS Unit Number 027-05

Camp: 27

Unit ID: 5

Operating agency: BSC

Opened: 11 1945

Closed: 12 1946

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 13

Full list >
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 27, Florida State Board of Health, Subunit 2, Mulberry, Florida
    William Yoder talks over sanitation problems with his friends on sanitation survey.
    Digital Image at Mennonite Church USA Archives, North Newton, Kansas
  • CPS Camp No. 27 subunit 1
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 1, Crestview Florida.
    Leaving Camp Crestview site Nov. 12, 1943.
    Digital Image © 2011 Brethren Historical Library and Archives. All Rights Reserved.
    Nov. 12, 1943
  • CPS Camp No. 27
    CPS Camp No. 27 Mulberry, Florida
    Camp 27, Mulberry, Florida. The oxen and cart that drag many a log to the sawmill.
    Photo #47. Box 1, Folder 17. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 27
    CPS Camp No. 27 Mulberry, Florida
    CPS Camp No. 27, Mulberry, Florida. Ed Zehr and Pete Bartel leveling group around completed unit [sanitary privies].
    Photo #152. Box 1, Folder 17. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 2, Box 96
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 2, Box 96
    Box 96 was a newsletter published by the men at Camp 27, subunit 2, from April 1944 to March 1945.
    Digital Image from American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #6.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #7.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #3. "The Campus".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #4. "Clear Lake".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #5. "Clear Lake".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #10. Edward Flaccus, Paul D. Olmstead, Kenneth S. Roberts.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #14. "Installation".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Loading latrines. Credit: Tony Garnet.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Agricultural work. Orlando, Florida.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #8. "Menagerie".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #9. "Personnel".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #13. "Project".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #11. Joseph Elbert Reish, Timothy P. Haworth, Lawrence L. Miller.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #1. "The Unit Opens, Sept. 18, 1943".
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
    Photo album of Orlando, Florida, project, page #12. Donald A. Dankert and Ralph P. Durgin.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • Conscientious Objectors at CPS Camp # 27
    Group of conscientious objectors at CPS Camp # 27
    Group of conscientious objectors at Civilian Public Service Camp No. 27, Mulberry, Florida, January 1944, during World War II, with visiting ministers Ernest E. Miller and M.C. Lehman. Front row, left-right: 1. Herman Ropp, 2. George Bohrer, 3. Arthur Thiessen, 4. Ethan Horst, 5. Jacob Guhr, 6. Edwin Weaver, 7. Dr. Ernest E. Miller Back row, left-right: 1. Ernest Pankratz, 2. Harold thiessen, 3. William Yoder., 4. Delman Stahly, 5. Dennis Lehman, 6. Lester Hiebert, 7. John Horst, 8. M.C. Lehman, 9. Wesley Prieb, 10. Paul Schmidt, 11. Galen Widmeer, 12. Menno Lohrenz, 13. Willard Baer, 14. Paul Milelr, 15. Roland Bartel, 16. Ernest Shank, 17. Franklin Wiebe, 18. Roland Kauffman, 19. Leo Goertz, 20. Mrs. Harold Martin, 21. Harold Martin, 22. C. Nelson Hostetler Not on picture, but part of group: Peter Bartel, George Falb, Hugh Hostetler, Mervin Hostetler, Dwight Jacobs, Dallas Voran, Harry Weirich, Edmund Zehr, Martin Schroeder, Albert Bohrer
    Mennonite Central Committee Historical Archives
    January 1944
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 2
  • CPS Camp No. 27 subunit 1
    Nov. 12, 1943
  • CPS Camp No. 27
  • CPS Camp No. 27
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 2, Box 96
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • CPS Camp No. 27, subunit 4
  • Conscientious Objectors at CPS Camp # 27
    January 1944
Summary:
CPS Camp No. 27, Subunit 5 at Gainesville, Florida, a Public Health Service unit operated by the American Friends Service Committee, opened in November 1945. In February 1946, as the Friends were preparing to withdraw from the administration of CPS, the Gainesville unit became a Brethren-sponsored unit until it closed in December 1946. Men in the unit worked to eliminate hookworm disease.
Location:
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Location Description:

CPS No. 27, Subunit No. 5 opened in November 1945 at Gainesville.  Beginning as an AFSC unit, the Brethren continued to sponsor it after AFSC withdrew from CPS in March 1946 until it closed in December 1946.  The unit worked with the Forest Service as well as with the State Board of Health to address not only health but also economic issues.

Camp staff:

Directors: James Godbey, Herbert Hogan, Ray Mahaffey

The people:

Many of the men moved from Orlando to Gainesville.

The work:

The men worked to eradicate hookworm disease by constructing and installing privies.  In addition, they engaged in a variety of related activities such as constructing septic systems, surveying sanitary conditions in homes, and conducting hookworm education activities.  In addition, the men fought fires, built culverts, and performed road maintenance.

Camp life:

At this stage in the CPS program, with the hostilities in the war concluded, men in camp anxiously awaited their discharge from the program.   Camp committees coordinating the educational, recreational, spiritual and other programs dealt with issues of anxiety and lower morale as the program wound down.

Resources:

For a full discussion of Brethren Service Committee work in hookworm control, leadership and cooperation among technical agencies and operating agencies, see Leslie Eisan, Pathways of Peace: A History of the Civilian Public Service Program Administered by the Brethren Service Committee. Elgin, IL:  Brethren Publishing House, 1948, Chapter 8 pp. 273-295.

 

For more information on women COs see Rachel Waltner Goossen, Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Home Front, 1941-47. Chapel Hill, NC:  The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

 

For more information on the work of CPS camps and units, see Albert N. Keim, The CPS Story: An Illustrated History of Civilian Public Service. Intercourse, PA: Good Books 1990.

 

See also Mulford Q. Sibley and Philip E. Jacob, Conscription of Conscience: The American State and the Conscientious Objector, 1940-1947. Ithaca, NY:  Cornell University Press, 1952.

 

Wakulla Newsletter (April 1945) in Swarthmore College Peace Collection DG002 Section 3, Box 7.

 

Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Camp periodicals database.