Interview with William Shake

Partial Transcript: The following is an unrehearsed

Segment Synopsis: Personal background, family going back to the Civil War, school.

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Partial Transcript: Did you go on to college?

Segment Synopsis: Mr. Shake describes how he got involved in the Civilian Conservation Corp and explains how the CCC legislation worked.

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Partial Transcript: I went into Utah, when I was seventeen years old

Segment Synopsis: Talks about what being the assistant educational advisor while he was in the CCC, stationed in Utah. He talks about how he learned about the CCC and the travel he was able to do while he was in the CCC. He was on the boxing team.

Keywords: boxing; CCC; college; Fort Knox; newspaper; travel; Utah

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Partial Transcript: What ages, what were the variable ages in this camp.

Segment Synopsis: He talks about the ages of the men in the corp and the duties of WWI veterans. He talks about the politics involved in the CCC. He talks about the health care of the men and how they gained weight after they joined. He also talks about working for local farmers during their days off.

Keywords: bird sanctuary; dental assistant; farmers; locks; Native Americans; politics; US Forest Service; veterans; World War I; WWI

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Partial Transcript: You all moved around a whole lot.

Segment Synopsis: Mr. Shrake describes his subsequent CCC jobs and describes how he was trained to be a dental assistant during his third term of service. He describes CCC members working at various disasters such as forest fires and floods.

Keywords: 1937 flood; clothing; dental assistant; disasters; trains; travel

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Partial Transcript: Just like today's CCC boys of California

Segment Synopsis: Talks about current day CCC programs in California and Ohio and state and national legislation that was being developed at that time.

Keywords: retention damns; soil conservation; volunteers

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