CPS Camp Number 034

CPS Camp Number 034

Technical Agency: Fish & Wildlife

Summary:

CPS Camp No. 34, a Fish and Wildlife base camp located in Bowie, Maryland operated as a special project with both the Departments of Agriculture and Interior on the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. Jointly administered by the Brethren Service Committee, the American Friends Service Committee and the Mennonite Central Committee, the camp opened in June 1942. The Brethren assumed leadership of the camp in 1945. Men performed wildlife experiments and studies as well as maintained the refuge and forest.

 

CPS Camp No. 34, Detached Service, also carried on its roster those men who engaged in detached service with the National Service Board of Religious Objectors, the American Friends Service Committee, the Brethren Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee and a few other agencies, working on special CPS projects or tasks, or on relief efforts. This website has created subunits of CPS Camp No. 34 identified by the type of work done, with which agencies or projects, and in some cases where that work occurred.

CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Harmony was a newsletter published by the men at Camp 34 from August 1942 to October 1943.
Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Bob Lillibridge at Camp 34.
Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Dick Stow.
Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Snowden Hall on the Patuxent Research Refuge. Camp headquarters.
Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Watts & Klingensmith. Stomach tubing rats, Patuxent Refuge, 1945.
Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Bottom row: [Charles or Robert] Mitchell, [Jerome W.] Watts, [Leon] Greenwald, [Clarence W.] Klingensmith, [Arthur B.] Weaver; 2nd row: [W. Hartman] Rice, [Richard W.] Stowe [Stow], [John W.] Brainerd, [Francis W.] Marburg, [___] Showalter; 3rd row: [___] Faltz[sp?], [___] Bengal[sp?], [Chandler S.] Robbins, [Luke L.] Weaver., ]David E.] Metzler; 4th row: [Carl E.] Stump, [Roger D.] Way, [Emery] Stoltzfus, ___, [Calvin] Bumbaugh, [Osborn] Finch; 5th row: [James L.] Whitehead, [Hubert R.] Marshall, [___] Stump,[Clarence] Stoltzfus, [Harry] Richard, [Reuben J.] Goodling [or Jay Good?]; 6th row: [LeRoy E.] Plum, [Walter E.] Forster, [Mark W.] Wolfe.
Digital Image from American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
CPS Camp No. 34, subunit 1
Group Photo 2. Bottom row: [Herbert S.] Zim, [Werner C.] Baum, [___] Yoder, [Jay M.] Good [or Reuben J. Goodling?], [Luke L.] Weaver; 2nd row: ___, [___] Faust [sp?], [Melvin] Willbach, [___] Glick, [Davie E.] Metzler; 3rd row: [Clyde] Vance, [James L.] Whitehead, [LeRoy E.] Plum, [Chandler S.] Robbins, [John W.] Brainerd; 4th row: [Roger D.] Way, [Jerome H.] Watts, [Clarence] Stoltzfus, [Harry D.] Richard; 4th row: [Charles or Richard Mitchell], [Walter E.] Forster, [Emery K.] Stoltzfus, [Clarence W.] Klingensmith, [___] Bruch.
Digital Image from American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Units:

* Map shows general location of units