This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4101 Message Board Post: SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. January 9, 1936. "TECHNICAL EDUCATION ONE CCC CAMP AIM".-- Yes, school bells ring in a CCC camp. Last Monday evening the boys in Sidney camp resumed classes after a Christmas recess. These studies are held each evening and are planned to meet the needs of the boys. When a boy enters camp he is interviewed by the educational adviser.This interview furnishes the background of the boy and directs his instruction and avocation or hobby interests. One hundred ninety boys are enrolled in two or more classes meeting two or more times each week. The subjects proving most popular are classes in arithmetic, reading, writing and spelling, which are of an elementary level. Other classes are in agriculture, auto mechanics, baking, cooking, carpentry, electricity, mechanical drawing, radio, surveying, truck operating, social etiquette, personal hygiene, and first aid. A recreational program is in progress, magazines and books furnish reading sources. A traveling library and current issues of magazines keep a variety of literature available in the reading room, Tournaments in checkers, chess, pool, pinochle and ping-pong are being played as a means of elimination for entrance in district camp tournaments. Basketball competition between camp teams and district teams create lively activity. Volleyball, baseball and softball are played in season. Boxing is of continued interest. The educational and recreational program is planned for different types,and for the individual. Enrolled in the program are boys who were unable to sign their own names as well as boys who would be juniors in college. If a boy has an unusuall ability or trait, it is encouraged. For example, in camp is boy with a second grade attainment in school. However, he has a flare for sketching and is found copying magazine covers on wrapping or scrap paper. This ability is supplied with adequate crayons and an extension course in drawing. Thus in similar instances the educational program of the CCC camp is attempting to serve the youth. The very definite objectives established for the educational program in CCC camps are: Elimination of illiteracy, to help enrollees who are deficient in school subjects, job training, avocational training or recreation and the proper use of leisure times, general culture training, and as a background of all training, that of citizenship and character building.