Photographs, periodicals, correspondence, audio recordings, video and VHS recordings of Manchester College students who, as conscientious objects, served in Civilian Public Service projects during WWII.

1.  Folder with a list of Manchester College CPS workers, their place of birth, years at Manchester College, major study, primary occupation, interview date, release form, type of media, CPS years, CPS assignment.

2.  One DVD at 41 minutes that is an overview of interviews.  This DVD was sent by Virginia Keller along with letter in January 2012.

3.  Video recordings of interviews:

Wilson Lutz, 2 tapes and  transfer to 1 DVD.

Carl Kime, 2 tapes and  transfer to 1 DVD.

Francis Barr, 2 tapes and  transfer to 1 DVD.

Merle Hoover, 2 tapes and  transfer to 1 DVD.

Delbert Blickenstaff, 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Al Hollenberg, 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Paul Kindy 2 tapes and transfer to 1 DVD.  One tape of Castaner, Puerto Rico, with footage of the town of Castaner, the hospital, and Elsa Groff's pictures).

Loren Metzger,1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Lee Smith, 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Phil Orpurt, 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Ernie Barr, 2 tapes and transfer to 1 DVD.

Elsa Groff (Castaner, Puerto Rico), 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Jim Garber, 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Willard Fasick, 1 tape and transfer to 1 DVD.

Arlie Waggy, 2 tapes and transfer to 1 DVD.

Carlyle Frederick, 2 tapes and transfer to 1 DVD.

Gilbert Weldy, 2 tapes and transfer to 1 DVD.

Hugh Fisher, 3 tapes and transfer to 2 DVDs.

Wilbur Stump, 2 tapes and transfer to 1 DVD.

Wilbur Stump, 1 VHS tape and one DVD.

4a.  VHS tape of CPS Conference 20 April 1997 Wm. Yolton Keynote, NSBICO and Lary Gara - MC2012/33,4a#1 and DVD MC2012/33,4a #2.

4b.  VHS tape of CPS Conference - afternoon session - MC2012/33,4b#1 and DVD - MC2012/33,4b#2.

4c.  VHS tape of CPS Conference - afternoon session - MC2012/33,4c#1 and DVD - MC2012/33,4c#2.

4d. VHS tape of CPS Conference April 1997, Wm. Yolton, Lary Gara and Monday CONVO - MC2012/33,4d#2.

4e. VHS tape of CPS Conference April 1997, William Yolton speech and Panel of 4 speakers MC2012/33,4e#1 and DVD - MC2012/33,4e#2.

4f.  VHS tape of CPS Convocation 21 April 1997 - MC2011/33,4f#1 and DVD - MC2011/33,4f#2.

5.  VHS tape of Act and Conscience, Julie Garber - MC2012/33,5a and DVD MC2012/33,5b.

6.  Office of Instructional Services, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO "Minnesota Semi-Starvation Experiment."  Not to be used without permission. Not to be reproduced.

7.  Audio recordings - audio cassette tapes made from the videos:  Wilson Lutz 7b (1) one cassette tape MC2012/33,7b and one CD MC2012/33,7c.    

Hugh Fisher (1) one cassette tape MC2012/33,7a and one CD MC2012/33,7d.

8a.  Harold Blickenstaff (1) one cassette tape of telephone interview MC2012/33,8a and two CDs - #1 MC2012/33,8b and MC2012/33,8c.

9a.  Mini disc of phone interview with Caleb Frantz 4 May 2003.

9b,c:  Mini disc of phone interview wtih Jay Garner, 16 April and 20 April 2004.

9d,e: Dale Barnard, mini disc of phone interview 16 September 2004.

9f.  Harold Blickenstaff, mini disc of phone interview 30 June, 2004.

9g.  Harry Graybill, mini disc of phone interview 3 June 2004.

9h. Art Butter, mini disc of phone interview 22 May 2004.

9i.  Herb Kimball, NY, mini disc of phone interview 7 May 2004.

10a,b: Folder with Release Forms and notebook with personal information about eh CO's and the place stationed.

11: Memorabilia sent to Virginia Keller by the Conscientious Objectors.

Notebook - 11a  (Book 1) - Notebook with photographs assembled by Herbert Kimball. (removed from binder by J. Wine 28 March 2012).

Notebook -  11b  (Book 2) - Letters and Reminiscences of Members of Civilian Public Service, WWII, [C.P.S. Camp 42 at Wellston, Michigan, 101 Unit at Manchester College, Hookworm Control Unit at Crestview, Wukulla, Gainsville in Florida, Cattle Boating Brethren Office at Newport News, Virginia, Manchester College and Life After], collected by Herbert Kimball.

11c - Forward by Mark Hatfield, "Memoirs of a CO, Obeying the Commandment, You Shall Not Kill, Trusting the Beatitude, Blessed are the Peacemakers," by Charles F. Cooley.

12 - Memorabilia sent to Virginia Keller by the Conscientious Objectors.

"The Prince of Peace," by Albert C. Wiend.

"The Relevance of an Impossible Ideal, An Answer to the Views of Reinhold Niebuhr," by Macgregor.

"America's Pacifist Minority." Chicago C.O. Conference.

"The Fine Arts at Waldport."

"The Tide," CPS Unit #56 - Waldport, Oregon, November 1942, January 1943, and No. 4, Vol. 2. with article by Kermit Eby.

"The Compass, Spring 1943."

13 - Wilbur Stump: Peace Tax Fund Bill.

14 - Loren Metzger - Scan of newspaper article - Mansfield State Training School -  Receipt for car used 2 years dairy testing - scriptures regarding pacifism -  a talk given by Loren Metzger at Mansfield Service Unit in January 1944.

15 - Photograph from Harold Bock of the Relief and Reconstruction Unit 101 at Manchester College. Men shown are Elden Yohe, Dan Suits (?), Thurl Metzger, Earl Weygandt, Andrew Cordier, Garth Heisler, Tom Polk Miller, Harold Bock, Louis Swanson, Robert Warren Stevens, Henry Dasenbrock, Julius Richert, Louis Neumann, Waldo Kinsell ?). spellings?

16 - "The London Tribunal Questions the C.O." revised 1940.

17 - "School of Cooperative Living," CPS Unit #30, Walhalla, Michigan, 1943.

18 - Camp Walhalla, "Report on the Pacifist Study Group on Ely Culbertson's Plan for Lasting Peace."

19 - Pacifism - Bibliography, "Suggestions for a Pacifist 'Five-Foot Shelf.'"

20 - Newsletters from CPS #30, Camp Walhalla, Walhalla, Michigan. Many issues are in this collection and only some are  highlighted below:

Vol. 1, No. 1 September 1942, Dale Barnard, Editor.

Director, Omer B. Maphis, MC Studies 1912 - 14 and the Ohio State C.P.S. Camp Packets - comforters - bedding - needles - shaving cream - new testament.  Food truck contents.  Floor Plan of Camp.  Description of Work.

Vol. 1. No. 2, October 1942.

"F.O.R. Deplores Race Prejudice In C.P.S."

Mrs. Roosevelt on C.O.'s.

Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1942.

Camp government.

Locations where these interviews were filmed and some small notes:*

Phil Orpurt, interviewed in North Manchester, Indiana, 18 February 2004.

Hugh Fisher, interviewed in Grant Park, Illinois on 26 January 2004 and on 9 February 2004.  As a hitchhiker, his Manchester suitcase (with the big M) got him a lot of rides.  During his service as a firefighter they worked so hard in hot and smokey conditions that their clothes rotted off their bodies.  They chopped "seats" in a ravine in order to create a place to sit and sleep when they had the chance.

Willard Fasick, interviewed in Greenville, Ohio, 11 March 2004.

Lee Smith, M.D., was interviewed in North Manchester on 14 June 2004.  He received excellent preparation for medical school during his CPS work and became a medical doctor.  His home church was Eel River Church of the Brethren.

Carlyle Frederick was interviewed in Nappanee, Indiana on 12 May 2004.  He talks about the semi-starvation experiment and about the Malaria experiments with inmates in Joliet, Illinois.

Wilbur Stump was interviewed in North Manchester, Indiana on 7 January 2004.  He was born in St. Joseph County, Indiana.

Al Hollenberg, M.D., was interviewed in Richmond, Indiana on 10 March 2004.  He grew up in Florida and went to Manchester College.  During the Korean War he was drafted again...Medical Doctors who didn't serve in the first war (WWI) were required to serve in the Korean War.  He was assigned to work on an Apache Reservation.

Gilbert Weldy was interviewed in North Manchester, Indiana on 16 February 2004.  He was drafted when 18 and had a Church of the Brethren background (Elkhart COB). He was 17 when Pearl Harbor was bombed and was able to finish his first year of college.  He was involved in tree planting then became a smoke jumper.  He attended a traninig camp in Montana [9 Mile Camp] and learned how to parachute and fight fires.  He also was assigned to a mental hospital and describes treatment.  He makes the point that the CPA program helped to bring about changes in the mental hosptals.  He had been offered a deferment but had turned it down.

Dr. Paul Kindy, was interviewed in his office at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on 27 April 2004.  Also the inteview probably took place in Castaner as well.  He was born and brought up in Brethren church and was a cousin of Dan West (Elkhart County?). Dr. Kindy's wife name was Carman - and had been Elsa Groff's roommate at the school of nursing in San Juan.  Elsa Groff is included in this interview as well and talks about the developoment of the hospital. 

Elsa Groff was interviewed in Castaner, Puerto Rico.  She married Edward Groff.  Doctors and nurses who were set to go to China came to Puerto Rico instead.  Dr. Brumbaugh (of Pennsylvania and a member of the Church of the Brethren) helped to get the program started.

In 1928 there was a storm and flood (Hurricane Phillipe?) in Puerto Rico  and crops were destroyed.  With the war going on in Italy, Italy could not produce Vanilla.  Puerto Rico started to grow and ship Vanilla as a major export.

Arlie Waggy was interviewed in Goshen, Indiana on 10 July 2004.  A profound experience when 16 yrs. old affected his entire life.

Ernie Barr was interviewed in Carmel, Indiana on 10 March 2004. 

Jim Garber was interviewed in North Manchester, Indiana on 16 February 2004.  He had grown up in Elkhart, Indiana.  His pastor, George Phillips, had strong convictions for peace.

Loren Metzger was interviewed in South Whitley, Indiana on 28 February 2004.  He had 3 other brothers and a son-in-law in CPS.  Hegraduated from Manchester College in 1942 and was drafted in August of 1942.  At Hopewell Farms, Maryland, he learned how to crush rock with a sledge hammer. Paul Keller was camp clerk, but Paul went elsewhere, and Loren became clerk.  He also worked at the Mansfield State Training School and Hospital (for children)....and also as a dairy tester.

*This information should be substantiated before re-telling or before publication.  It was taken from a rough draft of notes.

The interviews of Wilson Lutz, Carl Kime, Francis Barr, Merle Hoover and Delbert Blickenstaff were digitized in January 2012.  All other digitizations took plce in the Spring of 2012.

Videotape transferred to digital media by the department of Instructional Technologies under the direction of Stan Pittman.

A release form was not returned for Jaspar Garner, however, permission might be granted through his brother, Warren Garner.   Check out release forms before use.

Description prepared 2 March 2012 by Jeanine M. Wine.

The audiotapes associated with these interviews were accessioned into the collection in 2008 [MC2008/06], prior to the addition of MC2012/33 in the year 2012. It makes sense to combine these collections, since they are associated with the same project.  Therefore, MC2008/06 was placed with MC2012/33 on Unit #8 of the Inner Sanctum [IS].  Due to space restrictions, both collections will be combined within the two large boxes identified as MC2012/33. 13 March 2013 Jeanine M. Wine.