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CPS Worker 005684 - Kreider, Robert S.

Birth year: 1919

Denomination: Mennonite

Original occupation: None

Occupation after CPS: Euro relief work 40 months/Prof., dean, & president at Bluffton College/Bethel College Prof.

Drafted from: North Newton , Kansas, United States

Entered CPS: 8 15, 1941

Left CPS: 12 12, 1945

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Civilian Public Service (CPS) Directors' Conference with CPS Camp #18, Denison,

(Persons, clockwise, inner row, left-right): 1. Arthur Wiebe, 2. Jesse Harder, 3. Robert S. Kreider, 4. Ralph Hernley, 5. Art Balzer, 6. (unidentified), 7. Henry Guhr, 8. Ed Belan, 9. (unidentified), 10. (unidentified), 11. (unidentified), 12. Ralph Beechy, 13. Rufus Franz, 14. Albert Gaeddert, 15. Erwin W.Goering, 16. (unidentified), 17. Roy Umble, 18. Henry Reimer, 19. Harold Martin. 20. Leland Brenneman, 21. Orin Beechy, 22. Lester Gerig (or Russell Massanari), 23. Dwight Yoder, 24. Alfred G. Zook, Atlee Beechy. (Outer row, left side, left-right) 26. Grant Stoltzfus, 27. Harold Mishler, 28. Donald Gundy. (Outer row, right side, left-right): 29. David H. Suderman, 30. Jacob D. Goering, 31. Elmer M. Ediger, 32. Russell Massanari (or Lester Gerig). [Identification by Robert S. Kreider and H. King, 1990].

Mennonite Central Committee Archival Photo