Telling the CCC
Story
One of the main
purposes of the CCC Legacy is education.
What are we doing
to teach the heritage of the CCC?
How can you help?
If you have an idea please contact us.
Happy
Days Booklet - The Happy Days Booklet is an educational
activity supplement focusing on the 5th and 6th grade level.
Happy Days is an expression that is well connected with the Roosevelt
era. It was the title of the national newspaper of the
CCC. "Happy Days are Here Again" was the theme song
for President Roosevelt's election campaign.
Visualize
the Vastness - The Boys of the CCC planted approximately 3
Billion trees. How can we visualize 3 Billion trees?
Applied math questions for the 8th grade and above.
K - 5
Elementary Education Package - Designed to coordinate with the
recognition of CCC Members Appreciation Day in Virginia, March 31, but
it can be used at any time.
Historical Tidbits
It was President Roosevelt's hope that the
young men who entered the CCC under such desperate economic conditions
would be discharged being fit in body and mind.
Preliminary conditioning camps evaluated the health
and condition of the young man's body. 
Exercise, good food, lessons on physical hygiene and medical care
physically prepared the enrollees for the manual labor that would be
required. However, organizers soon realized that it took more
than a sound physique to prepare a young man for the world once he
left the camp.
In the 1930s, it wasn't uncommon for students to
quit before high school because they too were required to play a role
as bread-winners within the family structure. There
was less emphasis on formal education because the masses of American
citizens earned their livelihood from agriculture and manufacturing.
The requirement for camp educational and training
programs was not written into the original legislation that enacted
the Emergency Conservation Work Act in 1933. Within weeks,
training was highly recommended and by 1934 a formal program had
begun.
Each Camp had a C.E.A., Camp Education Advisor.
It was his responsibility to design lesson plans for any enrollee who
wanted to volunteer and use his free time in the evenings and weekends
to further his education. Programs ranged from basic elementary
skills such as reading and writing to college level classes.
Vocational training was designed based on the skill level available
from within camp personnel or neighboring community.
Education made a difference in the lives of the Boys
of the CCC. It is said that approximately 40,000 men learned how
to read and write. A CCC classroom was located anywhere that you
could find a chair, blanket or tree stump. Subjects covered the
liberal arts and a wide range of vocational endeavors. Truck
driving, mechanics, cooking, furniture building, forestry, masonry,
road construction, dam building, conservation techniques and any
number of other related professions were all derivatives of the public
service projects of the New Deal.
 Company
322, Edinburg, VA. Capt. Joseph W. Koch, C.O,; 1st Lt. Donald J.
Woolley, Exch. Off.; 1st Lt. Edward J. Schultz, surgeon, Mr. W.
Davidson Tenney, C.E.A. (Photo provided by NACCCA. 1937
3rd District Annual, Subdistrict 13)
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