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4. Camp Discharge
4. Camp Discharge of Edward Sekermestrovich — printed p. 3 — recorded February 6, 1980 at Corvallis, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- Narrator
- Edward Sekermestrovich
- Recorded
- February 6, 1980 · Corvallis, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Royal G. Jackson, Karen Thomas
- Printed pages
- p. 3
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Karen Thomas: [KAREN] That was the third group, and it came into camp December 20, 1937.
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes, I came in 1937. I said in 1938, didn't I? I'm mistaken there.
Karen Thomas: [KAREN] That was a junior camp.
4. Camp Discharge
Royal G. Jackson: Here we have the discharge from the first came you were in?
Edward Sekermestrovich: This is from Camp Arboretum.
Royal G. Jackson: "This is to certify that Edward Sekermestrovich, CC5209381, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, was enrolled . . . 1-6-38 at Fort Knox, Kentucky, is hereby discharged therefrom by reason to accept employment. Said Edward Sekermestrovich was born in Detroit, in the state of Michigan. When he enrolled he was 20 years of age and by occupation a laborer. He had brown eyes, brown hair, ruddy complexion, and was five feet seven inches in height." Nothing's changed. "His color was white."
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes.
Royal G. Jackson: "Given under my hand at Camp S-220, Oregon, this 23rd day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty, by George F. Black, CCC Subaltern. Commanding Company 3503 CCC." So you signed up at Camp Fairlawn, did a stint of duty there, that ended.
Edward Sekermestrovich: That ended.
Royal G. Jackson: Then did you do something in between?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Well, when was the Lindberg baby kidnapped? I was selling papers then. I think I'd done that before I came here. I really had to, because I was selling papers and magazines and stuff like that, and I was selling extras when the Lindberg baby was kidnapped.
Royal G. Jackson: You remember that?
Edward Sekermestrovich: I remember that well, but I don't remember the dates on it, what time that was, or what year it was.
Royal G. Jackson: But that was while you were in Ohio?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes, oh, yes. While I was in Ohio.
Royal G. Jackson: Now, did any of your friends sign up with you and come to this camp, Camp Arboretum?
Edward Sekermestrovich: No, nobody. I was the only one.
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.
- As printed
- Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
- This page
- Sekermestrovich 1991. 4. Camp Discharge, p. 3. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m04-sekermestrovich/04-camp-discharge/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Sekermestrovich 1991, p. 3 — Monograph #04:3
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