Forest Service Job Corps Courier

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Volume 1, Issue 1
Job Corps Civilian
Conservation Center Courier
January/February 2014
In FY12 JCCCCs contributed 299,797
hours on projects ranging from ecosystem management, facilities, forest
management, research, and wildlife,
fish and threatened and endangered
species programs of work that allowed
the Forest Service to meet its youth
program goals. These volunteer hours
translate into work on the ground with
an appraised value of $6,532,576.
Inside this issue:
Job Corps Civilian Conservation
Centers. . .No Longer America’s
Best Kept Secret
1
From the Desk of the National
Office
1
Ouachita JCCCCC
Wilderness Act’s 50th Anniversary
3
4
Job Corps Fire Program
5
2013 USDA Honor Awards
5
Curlew JCCCC
Young Job Corps Graduates
6
7
Pay It Forward
8
Columbia Basin JCCCC
9
Write for the Courier
9
JCCCC - Huron-Manistee NF
Partnership
10
The Safety Journey - Great Onyx
JCCCC
11
The Safety Journey – Hidden
Dangers
12
Job Corps Employee Profile
13
Job Corps Associated National
Forests and Grasslands
14
First Forest Service JCCCCs and
Critical Staff
15
JCCCC Map and Job Corps
National Office Contact Address
16
Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers . . . No Longer America’s
Best Kept Secret
Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office
This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon
Baines Johnson’s call upon
Americans to build a “Great
Society” and his sponsorship of
the largest social and economic
reform agenda since President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New
Deal.”
In response to Johnson’s challenge, on August 20, 1964,
Congress passed “The Economic Opportunity Act,” which created the flagship Job Corps program. The Economic Opportunity Act was meant to enable the
poor to pull themselves up from
the grasp of poverty. Most sec-
Forest Service Chief Edward P. Cliff hosts Schenck Corpsmen and staff on December 30, 1965.
Photo courtesy of the Vern Hamre Photograph Collection
tions of the Act have been rescinded; however, Job Corps
proved so valuable that it continues today.
From the Desk of the National Office
Tina J. Terrell, Acting National Director
This year, 2014, marks a historic occasion. Job Corps was
established over 50 years ago
when the Economic Opportunity Act was signed into law by
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Forest Service was in a
unique position in 1964 as the
agency worked with the Department of Labor to establish Job
Corps Centers in national forests. Back then, over 47 different Job Corps Centers were
established in 31 states. Other
agencies such as the Bureau of
Reclamation, National Park
Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, or Fish and Wildlife Service also established centers;
but the largest number of centers was established on Forest
Service land.
Today, the Forest Service is the
only Federal agency managing
Centers (JCCCCs) help ensure
that none are left behind and
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28 Job Corps
Civilian Conservation Centers
in 18 states.
The vision of
Sargent Shiver
(founder of Job Corps) and
Forest Service leaders at that
time has put the agency on a
path to connect young people
to conservation and the mission of the agency which is to
care for the land and serve
people.
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provide a solid foundation for
economically disadvantaged
young people to reach their
potential and succeed both in
their communities and careers.
What is not as widely known is
that the U.S. Forest Service had
a central role in designing Job
Corps. In Job Corps, Forest Service leaders, men like then Forest Service Chief Edward P.
Cliff, Deputy Chief Clare Hendee, District Ranger and Forest
Supervisor Jack Deinema, future Forest Service Chief Max
Peterson, and Ed Shultz and
Clayton Weaver in the Division
for Administrative Management,
saw an opportunity and seized
it.
Dating back to the depression
era Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC) of the 1930s, which provided room, board and employment to millions of unemployed
young people, the Forest Service has a history of involve-
full economic and social
as a nation
only if its
Thepotential
United States
can achieve
every individual has the
opportunity to contribute to
the full extent of his capabilities and to participate in
the workings of our society.
It is therefore, the policy of
the United States to eliminate the paradox of poverty
in the midst of plenty in this
Nation by opening to everyone the opportunity for
education and training, the
opportunity to work, and the
opportunity to live in decency and dignity."
Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center Courier
. . .No Longer America’s Best Kept Secret (continued from page 1)
ment in employment programs
with a rich legacy of land stewardship that serve people and
natural resources alike.
These Forest Service leaders
exhibited strong support, understanding, and commitment
to the Job Corps program. For
these men, Job Corps was a
new opportunity to conserve
and develop human resources
as well as the nation’s abundant natural resources. Forest
Service Job Corps is a rare
alignment of real life solutions
to the challenges of youth unemployment and the urgent
need to protect our nation’s
natural resources.
Today, Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers continue to
shape the values and attitudes
of America’s youth toward nature and their role in protecting
our natural resources for future
generations. They are building
a cadre of young people whose
education and skills are being
used in conservation projects
that are restoring our natural
resources and revitalizing rural
economic development, while
lifting our youth out of poverty.
The work that occurs each and
every day by Job Corps students and staff showcases our
nation’s wise and continuing
investment in the conservation
of America’s natural resource…not just our land, but
our young people’s lives.
Share your knowledge of the JCCCCs
with the Forest Service JCNO! Contact
information on page 16.
See the list of the 28 JCCCCs and the
list of original Forest Service JCCCCs
on pages 15 and 16.
Frenchburg Job Corps partnered with HistoriCorps® and renowned Kentucky restorationist Patrick
Kennedy to restore Gladie Cabin on the Daniel Boone National Forest. The Gladie Cabin dates to the
late 1800s and represents the logging period of Kentucky's rich history. Photo courtesy of Charles
Betram
Columbia Basin carpentry students complete repairs on the historic 1936 Ski Hill Lodge at the Leavenworth Ski Hill on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. Photo courtesy of Columbia Basin Job Corps
Right click
to view the
video:
Johnson’s
Great
Society
Speech
On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Economic Opportunity Act while press and supporters
of the bill look on. Photo courtesy of the LBJ Library
Within the Job Corps, there is authorized a Youth Conservation
Corps in which no less than 40 per centum of the male enrollees..
. ..shall be assigned to camps where their work activity is directed primarily toward conserving, developing, and managing
public natural resources of the Nation and developing, managing, and protecting public recreation areas.
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From the Desk of the National Office (continued from page 1)
Over the next several months,
(the Job Corps program will be
working with staffs in the National Forest System and the
State and Private Forestry-Fire
& Aviation Staff to forward our
commitment to connect young
people to conservation. Already, through the work of a
number of people, we have
seen progress in getting more
Job Corps students trained to
serve on fire crews, camp
crews, or fuels crews.
Soon, some of our students will
be working on wilderness projects to develop and build kiosks and scales in the backcountry at some of the most
pristine and beautiful Wilderness areas around the country.
This project will seize on an
opportunity to integrate the
50th anniversary of Job Corps
with the 50th anniversary of the
Wilderness Act. Late this spring
we will work with Human Resources to get students hired
permanently through Pathways
or as a member of a Public
Lands Corps.
Richard Louv wrote in Last
Child in the Woods – Saving
Our Children from NatureDeficit Disorder, “…at the very
moment that the bond is breaking between the young and the
natural world, a growing body
of research links our mental,
physical, and spiritual health
directly to our association with
nature – in positive ways.”
Now is the time to get our
young people out into the
woods to not only connect
them to nature, but to also
work with them to become
citizen stewards to take care of
Ouachita Job Corps Now the Longest Operating Civilian
Conservation Center
OUACHITA FAST FACTS:
Students: 197
Employees: 73
Students served each year: 314
2013 Volunteer Hours on NFS Lands:
5,340
Career Technical Trades:
Office Administration
Union Bricklaying
Union Carpentry
Union Cement Masonry
Union Painting
Union Plastering
Urban Forestry
Welding
The Ouachita JCCCC, activated
on February 6, 1965, and one
of the first three Job Corps centers opened nationwide, is now
the longest operating Forest
Service JCCCC. On March 22,
1965, United States Secretary
of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman
and Arkansas Governor Orval
Faubus welcomed over several
hundred people to the opening
ceremony. Ralph Kunz, a career
National Forest Service employee, was the first center director.
By the end of Ouachita’s fourth
year of operation, it had trained
over 850 corpsmen and completed over $1,000,000 on
the land that is ours to
treasure.
Picture of Tina Terrell taken at
the Sequoia National Forest
Supervisors Office. Photo
courtesy of Mary Chislock
Flatwoods Job Corps students , members of the Longsome Pine Fire Team , working on the historic
Stone Mountain Area Trail within the newly designated Stone Mountain Wilderness Area on the George
Washington-Jefferson National Forest. Photo courtesy of Pete Irvine
National Forest
System Lands
(NFS) and oncenter. Completed projects included the Oden
Ranger Office
Building, the
Jessiveville
Arkansas Govenor Orval Faubus speaks at the official opening of Ouachita Jobs Corps center on March 22, 1965. Photo courtesy of Ernie
Ranger Office
Deane Photographic Collection
Building, the
Mazarn Recreation Area, the
with the Hot Springs DocumenCharton Campfire Theater, and
tary Film Institute’s (HSDFI)
the Hickory Nut Vista Road.
Today, the center continues this Malco Theatre Complex, recentproud tradition; in Program Year ly listed on the National Register of Historic Places, to com2013, the center contributed
plete numerous facility improve5,340 hours of volunteer work
on NFS Lands and thousands of ments that will allow it to expand programs throughout Arhours to local community prokansas. Happy Birthday Ouachijects. Ouachita’s community
ta!
collaborations include several
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Job Corps Helps Celebrate the Wilderness Act’s 50th Anniversary
Cyndi Szymanski, Natural Liaison, Job Corps National Office
2014 marks
the 50th Anniversary o the
Wilderness
Act, signed
into law September 3rd, 1964.
It also marks Job Corps 50th
Anniversary signed into law on
August 23rd, 1964. This coincidence provides an opportunity
for JCCCC students to partner
with the National Forest Service (NFS) System on several
anniversary activities. JCCCC
students will construct trailhead entrance kiosks and pack
scales; visit Wilderness areas
to install the kiosks and scales;
and, assist with trail construction, clean up and maintenance.
“This is a great opportunity to marry Job Corps skills with Forest
Service needs while simultaneously exposing a new generation
of students to Wilderness values. Wilderness can be a foreign
concept for the uninitiated so this provides some great exposure to our JCCCC students, encouraging them to consider a
career as a Wilderness manager.”
—Ralph Swain, R2 Wilderness Coordinator
For many JCCCC students this
will be their first opportunity to
visit wilderness, as joining
JCCCC may have been their first
exposure to National Forests.
Ideally this exposure will plant a
seed of interest for students in
these special areas either for
personal recreation or as a
future career.
Ralph Swain, Region 2 Wilderness coordinator, says “This is
a great opportunity to marry
Job Corps skills with Forest
Service needs while simultaneously exposing a new generation of students to Wilderness
values. Wilderness can be a
foreign concept for the uninitiated so this provides some
great exposure to our JCCCC
students, encouraging them to
consider a career as a
Wilderness manager.”
As for JCCCC students, they will
showcase their carpentry, production and installation skills.
Collbran JCCCC students will
create 200 50th Anniversary
awards for distribution at the
October, 2014 Wilderness conference in Albuquerque, NM
(October 15-19).
“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas
where man and his own
works dominate the
landscape, is hereby
recognized as an area
where the earth and its
community of life are
untrammeled by man,
where man himself is a
visitor who does not remain."
The Wilderness Act
Tim Parlove, United Brotherhood of Carpenters-National Job
Corps Training Fund, Inc. Trade
Instructor at Collbran JCCCC,
says “Any opportunity to expose
our students to a production
environment with deadlines is
always welcomed. Students will
approach this assignment by
setting up teams, assessing
output quality, tracking units
produced per hour and per day,
and adjusting production schedules as needed. It creates a
real work environment and allows students to work on planning skills in addition to their
carpentry skills.”
JCCCC students at eight additional centers will construct
wilderness kiosks and backpack scales, traveling to wilderness trailheads to install the
kiosks and participate in Wilderness clean ups and other activities.
Students will work alongside
Forest Service Staff, wilderness
partners and committed citizens to commemorate the
Wilderness Act. Making connections between JCCCC students,
the National Forests and these
Wilderness areas will create
future stewards for these areas,
allowing them to be protected
and preserved for the next 50
years and beyond. Looking to add professional, trained, youthful, diverse staff to
your project or office? A Forest Service Job Corps Mobile Corps
can be a valuable addition to your next project. Mobile Corps projects are larger scale, multi-student and/or multi-center projects. These projects have ranged from painting/maintenance at
Grey Towers Historical site, building smaller buildings and
campsite projects, to the construction of ranger stations and staff
housing. A formal application process must be completed for project consideration: contact Cyndi Szymanski at 303-275-5074 for
additional information.
The Camino Real Ranger Station project, completed in 2011, entailed demolishing a 2,000 sq. ft.
structure and constructing a 6,500 sq. ft. energy efficient structure. Over 500 Job Corps students utilized
their vocational skills during the building construction.
Photo courtesy of GakStonn Imagery
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New Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center Fire Program
On March 15, 2013, Chief Tom
Tidwell announced an innovative partnership between Job
Corps Civilian Conservation
Centers and Fire and Aviation
Management (F&AM). This partnership will expand the
importance of the Job Corps
program in filling future fire
management positions in the
Forest Service.
The partnership between JCCCC
and F&AM will formalize the
expansion of fire programs over
the next five years beginning in
2013. Centers included in the
first phase include: Boxelder,
Centennial, Collbran, Curlew,
Harpers Ferry, Pine Ridge, Weber Basin, and Wolf Creek. The
phased approach will allow the
training and development of
both students and programs at
all 28 JCCCCs.
F&AM has committed to admitting 10% of graduating JCCCC
students into the Fire Apprenticeship Program. Successful
Job Corps students may be
recruited as apprentices for the
Wildland Fire Apprentice Program (WFAP). WFAP will be one
of the training programs for new
firefighter hires to better meet
the demands for a professional,
highly-skilled, and diverse
wildland fire management workforce. Upon completion of program requirements, Job Corps
students will have the opportunity to compete for permanent or seasonal appointments.
For more information, contact
Jane Eide, Fire Program Coordinator at 605-673-9304 or
Raquel Stanton, Administrative
Assistant, at 605-673-9358.
In 2013, 1,514
Job Corps
students were
deployed to 177
fire assignments,
working a total of
1,301 days and
123,009 hours.
Cheri W. Jones Presented with the 2013 Secretary’s Award for Innovative Customer Service
Cheri W. Jones, Literacy Coordinator at Schenck Job
Corps Center, was awarded the Secretary’s “Award
for Innovative Customer Service – Individual
Achievements” at the Sixty-Fifth Secretary’s Honor
Awards Ceremony. This year, Ms. Jones was one of
only twelve recipients of an Honor Award.
Cheri received the award for exhibiting excellence
and leadership for designing a Job Corps Literacy
Program that propelled Schenk’s literacy program to
the number one ranking out of all 125 Job Corps
centers nationwide from a previous ranking of 121.
Cheri’s program has been successfully implemented at other Job Corp centers and she has now assumed a leadership position managing the GED
program at Schenck Job Corps.
To find out more about the Job Corps Literacy Program, contact Cheri W. Jones at 828-862-6121 or
[email protected]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta
Harden present the Secretary’s Honor Award to Cheri W. Jones at the 2013
Secretary's Honor Awards in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Dec. 11,
2013. Photo courtesy of Lance Cheung
“Everyone at Schenck Job
Corps is extremely proud to
have an Honor Award
recipient on our team. Cheri
Jones is an important part of
TEAM SCHENCK and is a
major contributor to our
success. Cheri goes above
and beyond every day! She is
a dedicated employee who
genuinely cares about the
success of our students. She
has a positive attitude and
bubbly personality which is
contagious. We really
appreciate Cheri and all that
she has done for the students
and the center.”
—Center Director Tammy
Wentland
Schenck Job Corps Civilian
Conservation Center
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A Curlew Job Corps Graduate Demonstrates How “Determination
Turns Obstacles into Opportunities”
Alicia D. Bennett, Job Corps National Office
“The instructors and students at Job Corps
helped me learn the Job Corps motto that
‘determination turns obstacles into opportunities.’ Nobody gave up on me.” —Tim Estes
Right Click to view the video:
Tim Estes is on the Montana Mill Fire in August
2011. Photo courtesy of James Beckwith
There is a Chinese proverb that
captures the essence of a
young man born in China in
1992, adopted by American
parents in 2006 right before he
turned 14 and who graduated
from a Forest Service Civilian
Conservation Center in 2012 at
age 20: “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of
standing still.” Tim Estes, a
graduate of Curlew Job Corps
Civilian Conservation Center in
Washington State, is not afraid
to grow. Nor does he stand still.
Estes began life in the Henan
Luoyang Orphanage in Luoyang,
China, where he was born with
a heart defect. “After walking
just three feet, I would become
so exhausted that I would have
to sit down and rest,” said Estes. In China, once a boy or girl
turns 14, he or she becomes an
“aging out” child who must live
independently and is no longer
eligible for adoption. Tim credits
his adoptive parents, Peggy and
Andy Estes from Seattle, for
turning his life around and giving him the opportunity to become part of a family. “I want to
make other people feel the way
I felt after my parent’s adopted
me,” says Tim.
In Seattle, Estes struggled to
catch up to his grade level in
Chinese orphans reunite accidentally at Winter Park”
nel, but read it to the entire division on the fire.
Tim Estes at the 49 Degrees North Ski Resort on the
Colville National Forest in 2012. Photo courtesy of Seth
You never had to worry
Krohn
whether Tim was working
when he was out of your
sight. If someone needed help,
school. A high school counselor
he would jump right in.”
suggested that the individual“The instructors and students
ized attention he would receive
at Job Corps helped me learn
at Job Corps would help him
the Job Corps motto that
succeed. “When I entered Cur‘determination turns obstacles
lew Job Corps, I could complete
into opportunities.’ Estes said.
fifth-grade math, but I could
“I worked day and night and
read only at a second-grade
was transformed from an immalevel,” Estes said. Tim entered
ture kid to a mature adult. I was
Curlew’s carpentry program
unknowledgeable when I arwhere he overcame many chalrived, but a knowledgeable
lenges. “Al Eveland, my carperson when I graduated.”
pentry instructor, told me that
you get out of Job Corps what
you put in to it,” Estes said.
“When I heard that, I decided I
would put all I have into getting
everything I could out of Curlew.
Estes also served on Curlew’s
fire crew. According to squad
boss Bodie Kjolseth, “Tim was
one of the hardest workers I
have ever seen. I had to make
him take breaks while we were
working long shifts. He was
always willing to volunteer for
something new. Other students
were afraid to use the radio
and he stepped right up and
not only read the weather observations over our crew chan-
After finishing the Job Corps
program in 2011, Estes travelled to Denver to join AmeriCorps, where he would gain
confidence, master additional
work skills and earn money for
college. AmeriCorps has taken
Estes to Arkansas, New York,
Texas, Colorado, and Missouri;
however, it was an experience
in March 2013, that brought
the world full circle for him.
A member of the AmeriCorps
Ski Team, one of Tim’s service
assignments involved conducting ski camps for the blind and
sight impaired at Winter Park
Ski Resort in Colorado. Melody
Kadzis, from Jacksonville, Florida, seemed familiar to Tim. A
short conversation between the
two quickly established that Tim
and Melody both grew up in the
Henan Luoyang Orphanage in
Central China. The odds of Tim
and Melody being united on the
other side of the world are improbable. Tim and Kadzis exchanged phone numbers and
plan to keep in touch.
Estes’ AmeriCorps service ended in July and he is beginning
the next stage of his life – finding a full-time job, with the hope
of pursuing a career with the
U.S. Forest Service. Now 21, his
Job Corps and AmeriCorps work
as a firefighter, disaster aid
worker, carpenter, conservationist, and teacher for “at-risk”
children have equipped him
with marketable skills and experience, he says. “I earned my
GED in April,” says Tim. “Now I
need to find a job and a place
to live. I want to be a good person, become financially independent, and eventually have a
family,” he emphasized. “I want
to go to college and have a
brighter future,” says Estes. No
individual’s success is guaranteed; however, it is almost certain that Tim will not be lingering on his road ahead.
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Meet Kayla G. May-Marsh
A young, employed, successful Job Corps graduate
mother encouraged me to
attend Job Corps to learn a
trade and skill that I could
use to be a productive
citizen of this country,”
says Kayla. Taking Mom’s
advice, in August 2013,
Kayla enrolled in the OcoKayla May Marsh at the CCC Legacy Gathering in Tucson, naluftee JCCCC. She quickAZ on October 25, 2013. Photo courtesy of John Irish
ly determined that she was
Kayla G. May-Marsh is an examinterested in a career as an
ple of why generalizations do
electrician. “I wanted to learn
not always apply to young peoto work with electrical energy
ple choosing to enter Job Corps.
and eventually renewable reBefore enrolling in Job Corps,
sources like solar, wind or therKayla was awarded a B.A. Demal alternatives. My intention is
gree from the University of Tento contribute to restructuring
nessee in May of 2011. Kayla
our electrical grid to a more
graduated with a triple major in
environmentally conscious and
Philosophy, Psychology, and
sustainable design,” says Kayla.
French. Yet, even with her sucAfter graduating from Job
cessful college career, the job
Corps, Kayla was offered a job
market was tough and competiby the Haskins Electric, LLC,
tive and she found herself worklocated in Phoenix, AZ. She
ing unfulfilling, minimum wage
helps construct homes in a
jobs.
retirement community.
Kayla sought the advice of her
“Haskins emphasizes quality
mother, who suggested Job
and attention to detail, but they
Corps as an alternative. “My
are even more insistent on
speed and efficiency, says Kayla. “I’ve found myself struck
throughout the day by the tremendous appreciation for the
training and instruction I received at Oconaluftee,” she
adds. Kayla said her wage rate
was initially disappointing; however, she also knows her wages
will rise. ”There are certainly
opportunities to grow here, so
I’m going to continue to grow
my skills.”
When John Irish, Vice-President
of the Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC) Legacy requested a
speaker from Forest Service Job
Corps for the CCC Legacy’s 80th
anniversary gathering in Tucson, AZ, Kayla was a natural
choice. “Kayla was very articulate and she is an excellent
advocate for the Civilian Conservation Centers,” says John.
Kayla’s mother, Nicki Marsh,
also attended the gathering,
which made the event even
more special for Kayla. “My
Mother not only provided me an
Congratulations Chloe Oberman!
Chloe Oberman staffs a Forest Service booth at a Denver
University Career Fair in May 2010. Photo courtesy of
Chloe Oberman
Barely a month into the New
Year, Chloe Oberman, administrative support clerk in the Job
Corps National Office, has
multiple reasons to celebrate.
On December 10, 2013,
Chloe was awarded her Associates Degree in Business
Management and Supervision
from Red Rocks Community
College. On January 27, 2014,
Chloe officially transitioned
from a student trainee in the
Pathways Program to a career
U.S. Forest Service employee.
During the past four years,
Chloe, a graduate of the
Age: 25
Hometown: Columbia, TN
Job Corps Center: Oconaluftee
Career training area: Electrical
Trade
Career: Residential Electrician
Wage: $9 hour
Personal Quote:
“The journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.”
—Lao-Tzu
incredible foundation, but continues to be a pillar of strength
in my life to this day,” says Kayla.
When asked about her future
goals, Kayla says that in five
years, she sees herself more
advanced in her career.
Finally, when asked how she
had changed because of her
Job Corps experience, Kayla
stated, “To put it simply, I grew.
Job Corps provided a safe and
motivating environment for me
to recover from a recent personal loss, and the structure and
encouragement to move forward with my life in a productive
way.”
“Before I went to Job Corps, I had no direction in
life and I was very care-free. The Job Corps experience forced me to take responsibility for my
actions, learn discipline, and helped me realize
that I could make something of myself.”
Collbran Job Corps Center, has rotated through
various positions in the
Forest Service offices in
Golden, CO, including External
Affairs and the JCNO Budget
Staff. Chloe enjoys working in
the financial management arena and she plans to pursue a
Bachelor’s degree in Business
Administration at CSU Global. In
the coming months, as a newly
minted career employee, Chloe
will complete details in Fleet,
Human Resources, and Acquisi-
—Chloe Oberman
tions Management to help her
determine which staff group is
the best fit for her job skills, talents, and interests.
Chloe is just embarking on her
journey with the Forest Service,
but she is certainly an employee
to keep your eyes on as her career progresses.
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Job Corps Graduate Cassandra Ramos Pays It Forward
Clara Johnson, Job Corps Liaison, Region 9
“I took one big step onto that bus and look where it got me
- a good job with insurance and retirement and a future
and meeting lots of new people.” —Cassandra Ramos
Cassandra’s success started
when she left Santa Maria, CA,
and enrolled at the Wolf Creek
Center (JCCCC) in Glide, OR.
Santa Maria is a city in Southern California, 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It is known
for its wine industry and Santa
Maria-style barbecue.
As violence, drugs and gang
activity increased, retirees and
families left, leaving a bleak
future for those who remained.
“I didn’t see my life changing as
long as I stayed,” said Cassandra. Cassandra’s high school
recommended her to the Big
Brother Big Sister Program and
there she met Kimberly.
“Kimberly was the first person
who believed in me and taught
me about the good in the world.
She was the first person to care
for me.”
Open to the world of possibilities in Glide, she sharpened her
natural resources/forestry
skills. She improved her education and gained life, communication, and finance skills. She
mastered the Global Positioning System (GPS), forestry tools,
measurement tools and
learned about tree identification, tree care and chain saw
operation. She volunteered for
most leadership programs and
graduated 18 months later. “I
felt a sense of relief and happiness – but missing everyone. I
also knew that my classmates,
who viewed me as the class
clown, outgoing, helpful to others, friendly and not shallow,
honest and straight forward,
would miss me. They all knew
that I would succeed.”
After graduation from Wolf
Creek, she applied for a fire
apprentice program. She did
not get the job. Not giving up,
she applied for an advanced
forestry program at the
Schenck JCCCC in North Carolina. She was accepted. For the
next 16 months, she studied,
learned, and earned her red
card as a Type II Firefighter.
She traveled to the Shoshone
National Forest in Dubois, WY,
as a reforestation technician
and completed a five month
required assignment, two of
these months working alone.
In the spring of 2012, Cassandra took a permanent position
in timber management on the
Huron-Manistee NF, in Oscoda,
MI. She brought with her a
backpack of clothes. She borrowed a bike, walked almost
everywhere, rented a cabin and
purchased a vehicle. “I used
everything Job Corps taught
me. It helped me get everything
I have now – job, house and
vehicle.”
Along with her
marking crew
duties, Cassandra staffed a fire
Cassandra on the Huron-Manistee National Forest in January
engine during
2013.
high fire danger Photo courtesy of Elizabeth McNichols
on the forest.
The Little Mack
Fire, an 800-acre jack pine fire
required the crew to work all
night. “I was scared… it was
amazing how the jack pine
lights up and has its own voice
and changes direction… I realized how important communication is on a fire. I told Ben (Ben
Eby- Engine Captain) I wanted
to be a firefighter.”
A few months later Cassandra
and a 20-person crew traveled
to assist with Hurricane Sandy
cleanup in New Jersey and Connecticut, her first time to the
East Coast.
Cassandra is currently on a
120-day detail as a lead timber
marker. She will start her “pay it
forward initiative” when the new
Job Corps/Forest Program
starts this March. The first life
lesson I will share with the students will be “don’t assume
anything. Don’t assume that
what is around you is all evil –
the world is so big and there is
so much out there.”
“People are always coming in
and out of your
life. Every person can pass
on a tool to
help you. People are messengers. People give you
tools that you
need in that
part of your
life.”
—Cassandra
Ramos
Page 9
Job Corps in Action—Columbia Basin JCCCC
Susan Mann, Business Community Liaison, Columbia Basin Job Corps
son who has special needs. The
moment was one
of celebration for
the family.
The new homeowners are required to put in
sweat equity to
show that they
are serious about
being good partners and to help
them feel like the
home is truly
theirs. The new
homeowners did
Individuals pictured in Hard Hats are Columbia Basin Job Corps CCC. Standing Left to Right: Tim Mitchell, UBC Carpentry
Instructor, Jacob Derrick, Kalie Provins, Anthony Bargma, Brad Rieush, Alex Wilson, Sean LaFrancois, Homeowners Darrell
the excavation
and Tammy Roloff, Terry Winn, Ronald Beeny, Justus Griffin, Alex Statstill and Habitat for Humanity Project Manager Terry
Hall. Kneeling left to right: John Coals, Trevor Bradt, Jalen Rude-Filgo, Jeremy Ward, Jason Gilbert, Yasara Alverez. Photo
and backfilling for
courtesy of Susan Mann
the foundation to
help make the
sional job. They are taught to not
wall raising possible.
On September 27, 2013, Habiwaste material and try to reuse
Habitat for Humanity is a nontat for Humanity of Greater
as much material as possible. It
profit non-denominational ChrisMoses Lake along with Columhas been a pleasure to have and
tian organization dedicated to
bia Basin Job Corps students
work with Job Corps on this proeliminating poverty and homeand family and friends of the
ject.”
lessness. They build simple,
partner family helped raise the
The home will have 5 bedrooms
decent, affordable houses with
walls of the organization’s 12th
to accommodate the family as
help from the community and
House in Moses Lake, WA..
well as their nineteen year-old
Columbia Basin Job Corps carpentry students were at the
jobsite 5 days a week with a
crew of 5 to 6 students, averagAlicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office
ing 250 hours per week.
the new homeowner and their family. The houses are sold to the partner families at a no-profit and nointerest mortgage.
Side note on Job Corps students
pictured:
Students Sean LaFrancois, Terry Winn and
Ronald Beeny were
among 8 students that
successfully trained with
the Cle Elum Ranger District of the OkanoganWenatchee National Forest and became FFT2 certified. Winn and Beeny
spent 8 weeks with a crew
on the Olympic national
forest working on fires in
the Northwest and
LaFrancois completed a 3
week assignment with the
Cle Elum crew. Ronald
Beeny would like to pursue and career as a
wildland fire fighter.
Write a Job Corps Success Story for the Courier!
Right click to view the video:
Raising the walls video: Twelfth house being
built by Habitat for Humanity in Moses Lake,
WA
Terry Hall, Habitat for Humanity
Building Manager, said that
“Job Corps are hardworking
students and do a very profes-
Help tell the story of Forest Service Job Corps and create a lasting record of what Job Corps
students accomplish each and
every day. A good story will answer the questions of what happened, when did it take place,
who was involved, why was it
done, where did it take place and
how did it happen. Describe the
accomplishment, internal and
external partners and why your
story is significant. Submit high
quality photographs in .jpeg
format with your story. A good
photo will convey the essence
of what you want people to remember. As they say, “A picture is worth a thousand
words.” Provide captions for
your photographs. A reader
wants the answers to the following questions: Who is that?
(identify people from left to
right); What’s going on?, When
and where was this?, How did
this occur? Your audience
wants to understand your picture.
Call Alicia D. Bennett at 303275-5934 or send an e-mail to:
[email protected] describing
the story you would like to write
and to discuss its placement.
Page 10
Huron-Manistee National Forest Finds Innovative Ways to Partner with Forest Service
Job Corps
Clara Johnson, Job Corps Liaison, Region 9
In July 2010, the Chief told
more than 100 students at
the Forest Service Harpers
Ferry Job Corps Center,
"You are part of the Forest
Service, a part of the agency - I want you to understand that. And after graduation, I'd like you to consider working for the Forest
Service. We want to entice
you to have a career with
the service."
For more than seven years,
the agency has aggressively
recruited Job Corps students
and developed programs to
make these statements a
reality.
In 2012, Charles Barron II,
Heavy/Fire Equipment Operator for the Huron-Manistee
NF had an idea. “Why not
bridge the Job Corps heavy
equipment program with
ours?” From this idea came
a unique proposal to
transport students enrolled
in the Anaconda, Cass, Fort
Simcoe, Jacobs Creek, and
Mingo Job Corps Centers
heavy equipment programs
to the Huron-Manistee NF
for three weeks. Once on
site, students would learn
and operate different types
of heavy equipment while
completing projects, and
learning about Forest Service operations.
The students also would
benefit from tours of the
Michigan Caterpillar Facility,
Michigan Army National
Guard Facility, and the Consumers Energy Ludington
Pump Storage Project in
addition to learning about
the Ferris State University
Heavy Equipment Program.
“This is a great way for the
Forest Service to expose
students to career opportunities in the Forest Service,”
said Charles. “They will be
able to build their operating
skills, see how we operate
during wildland fire operation and position themselves
for a better opportunity within the Forest Service, while
helping meet other program
needs.”
Heavy equipment operations
are an integral component
of fire management and the
Forest Service. Visiting Civilian Conservation Centers
and building long term relationships with the various
technical programs allows
heavy equipment experts an
opportunity to connect with
youth on a personal and
professional level, while exposing them to different career opportunities within the
National Forests. The program is expected to start
once funding is secured. For
more information, contact
Charles Barron at 231-7232211.
Job Corps Heavy Equipment students working on the Huron-Manistee National Forest.
Undated photo courtesy of Charles Barron II
Page 11
THE SAFETY JOURNEY
The safer we are... The more successful we are...
Great Onyx Students and Staff Learn Realistic Reasons not to Drink or
Drug and Drive
Joseph Hauck, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Specialist, Great Onxy Job Corps
On December 17, 2013, Great
Onyx Job Corps hosted a simulation-supported live training for
emergency response to a mock
alcohol and drug related automobile accident, part of National Drug Facts Week, a health
observance week for teens that
aims to shatter the myths about
drugs and drug abuse. What
follows is a re-enactment of an
event that Great Onyx Job Corps
hopes will create awareness of
the dangers of drinking, drugging, and driving.
“There is an emergency in the
Administration Parking Lot,
Wellness Staff please the respond” Center Administrative
Officer Melissa Vincent’s voice
broke through the silence on
the center radios. Twice more
the call was made by Ms. Vincent and the Wellness Staff
finally responded on the third
call. Ms. Vincent broke the silence of the radios again with
Foreground (L to R) – Jason Vincent, JAWS of Life; Daniel Highbaugh, JAWS of Life; Jamie Priddy, LPN
GOJC; Mike Clubb, JAWS of Life (at Driver’s Door). Background (L to R) – Daniel Massey, JAWS of Life
(On JAWS Vehicle); Matt Sanders, LVFD (next to fire pumper), Steve Sanders, LVFD Chief.
The Hidden Dangers of Unexploded Ordinances
Daniel Frye, Safety Officer, Pine Ridge Job Corps
to pose a substantial safety risk
to the American public.
The detonators of ordnances
many years old can deteriorate,
making them more sensitive to
disturbance and handling.
Detonation cord found in trash can
Photo courtesy of Daniel Frye
Unexploded ordnance (UXOs),
weapons that did explode when
they were employed, continue
the announcement, “911 has
been dialed.” Great Onyx nursing staff members Rita Bush
and Jamie Priddy arrived on the
scene to assess a crash scene
for possible dangers. Three
On November 28, 2013, I traveled to the McKelvie National
Forest to observe a bomb
squad detonate Trinitrotoluene
(TNT) buried on forest
lands. The TNT was discovered
by an environmental auditor
tracing water lines to and from
water wells. In the process the
auditor noticed a trash can lid
lying on the ground in the forest
and picked the lid up. The lid
was covering a buried trash can
containing TNT. A second buried trash can containing TNT
was found by an employee from
Halsey NE, a short time after
the first. A bomb squad was
called in to analyze the TNT and
to detonate it. The TNT dated
Buried trash can with lid opened
minutes later, just as units from
the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department, Edmonson County
EMS Director, Edmonson County JAWS of Life, and Edmonson
County Ambulance Service began responding, Great Onyx
students and staff assembled
at the crash scene. The paramedics were quickly informed
of the status of the victims and
the JAWS crew began their
preparation for stabilization and
transportation of both victims.
The Mammoth Cave National
Park Rangers arrived a few
minutes later to begin their
investigation of the drunk and
drugged driver.
A field sobriety test was administered to Great Onyx Assistant
Work Programs Officer Gary
Sayer, the drunk and drugged
(continued on page 12)
Explosives inside buried trash can
back to the 1960’s. Members
of the public should never touch
or handle UXOs. Always report
the location of UXOs to your
local police so that bomb disposal squads can ensure proper disposal.
Page 12
THE SAFETY JOURNEY
The safer we are... The more successful we are...
. . .Realistic Reasons not to Drink or Drug and
Drive (continued from page 8)
Joseph Hauck, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Specialist, Great Onxy Job Corps
Drunk driver Gary Sayer is led away in handcuffs as members of Edmonson County EMS and JAWS
of Life extricate crash victim Curtis Haynes from his vehicle.
Photo courtesy of Joseph Hauck
driving suspect and the second
car involved in the accident
were searched. National Park
Rangers Lance Houk and Doy
Russell placed Mr. Sayer under
arrest for open containers
(open alcohol containers in the
vehicle) and possession of a
controlled substance that they
found in his head band and
sock.
Meanwhile, members of the
Edmonson County EMS, ambulance crew, and Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department loaded
Great Onyx Math Teacher Justin
Hatchett into an ambulance
and began cutting away the
driver’s door and roof of one of
the vehicles in order to extricate
Great Onyx Acting Center Director Curtis Haynes. After almost
thirty-five minutes, an average
amount of time needed to free
car accident victims, Mr.
Haynes was freed from the
crash, placed on a backboard,
and loaded into an ambulance.
Later Mr. Haynes would describe the experience as a life
changing moment as the
sounds of the metal cracking
and crunching just beside his
head made him want to flinch
away; however, he could not
due to the neck support collar
and other medical restraints
that he had been put into. “I
hope that I never have to go
through something like that for
real.”
Some students were visibly
shaken by the event and many
had doubts that the crash was
faked. “It seemed so real,” remarked one student. Another
student asked, “Are you sure
this is not really happening?”
Great Onyx Mental Health Consultant Tammy Shaffer was on
the scene to help any students
that might have problems with
what they witnessed.
Great Onyx students and staff
later attended an assembly to
answer any questions concerning the event, along with learning more about firsthand accounts of crashes involving alcohol and/or drugs, and alternatives to drinking/drugging and
driving or getting into a vehicle
with an impaired driver.
Great Onyx Job Corps Civilian
Conservation Center wishes to
express a sincere Thank You to:
Edmonson County Ambulance
Service; Keith Sanders – Edmonson County EMS Director;
Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department (Steve Sanders – Chief);
Edmonson County JAWS of Life,
AIR Evac LIFETEAM Bowling
Green, KY (Robert Rowland Program Director) for help in planning the event; U.S. Department
of the Interior Mammoth Cave
National Park, David Alexander
(Acting Chief Ranger), Joshua
Clemons – Mammoth Cave Park
Ranger, Lance Houk – Mammoth Cave Park Ranger, Doy
JAWS of Life being used to rip away the vehicle
door in order to extricate crash victim Curtis
Haynes from the vehicle. Photo courtesy of
Joseph Hauck
Russell – Mammoth Cave Park
Ranger, Brian Sacia – Mammoth Cave NP EMS Chief;
Mickey’s Towing (Brownsville,
KY); Big Country Auto Salvage
– Mammoth Cave, KY; Mark
Love for his make-up expertise; Great Onyx students: Daniel Dierolf, William Jones, and
Bobby Hyde; and all of the
Great Onyx Staff.
“I hope that I
never have to
go through
something like
that for real.”
—Great Onyx
Acting Center
Director Curtis
Haynes
Edmonson County JAWS of Life crewman is
cutting off the vehicle roof in order to extricate
crash victim Curtis Haynes. Photo courtesy of
Joseph Hauck
Page 13
Job Corps Employee Profile
Meet Elizabeth “Libby” Bagwell, Property Management Specialist
already managing the property of the Schenck, Lyndon
B. Johnson, and Oconaluftee
Job Corps centers in North
Carolina. “I’ve always believed in the mission of the
Job Corps program and knew
Libby relaxes in the outdoors with her favorite grandthere was a real need for
son. Photo courtesy of Libby Bagwell
good property management.
I was thrilled when I was
offered the opportunity to
work
with all 28 centers full“We didn’t know if we were dotime—my promotion was icing
ing you a favor to save your life.
on the cake!”
We thought you would be a
vegetable.”
A neurologist spoke these words
to Libby Bagwell eight months
after her head-on car collision in
1991. “I’m thankful that God
thought I still had some work to
do here,” says Libby.
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
Duty Station: Golden, CO
Years with Forest Service: 22
Education: BA, Sociology,
Wake Forest University
Fun Fact: My husband of 36
years refused to move to Colorado after I took the job so we
are coping with a long-distance
separation.
Favorite Quote: “For God so
loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should
not perish, but have eternal
life.”
Libby officially began her job as
Property Management Specialist in the Job Corps National
Office on July 28, 2012. However, as an employee of the Southern Research Station, she was
Outside the office, one of the
most important pursuits that
Libby pours her talent and heart
into is raising and training guide
dogs for the blind. Not long after
leaving her job at the Southern
Research Station to work in the
Job Corps National Office in
Golden, CO, Trooper, a purebred German Shepard, entered
Libby’s life as an eight week old
puppy—and also captured the
hearts of employees throughout
the Forest Service offices before
his departure last December.
Guide dogs must be exposed
early and often to situations
that they might encounter as a
companion to someone visually
impaired. “It is my responsibility
to prepare Trooper for every
situation he might encounter in
order to equip him for his future
work as a guide,” says Libby.
Trooper accompanied Libby
everywhere she went to ensure
that he learned good manners
both in private and in public,
and training him was a demanding 24/7 operation, particularly
since Libby has two dogs of her
own with who she could be
more lenient. Generally,
Libby’s dogs stay with her for
around 13 months before
they are returned to the
Guide Dog Foundation for
the Blind for final training;
however, because Libby did
not have a group of Puppy
Trooper alert to the movements of second floor R2
employees. Photo courtesy of Libby Bagwell
“I’m grateful to be able to
take this undeveloped,
fluffy bundle of love and
help turn him or her into a
life-changing companion
for someone who’s visually
impaired. There’s nothing
more rewarding than
watching a beautiful adult
dog that you’ve trained
guide a person down a
sidewalk, around obstacles, through doors and to
an empty chair with hardly
a pause.”
—Libby Bagwell
Raisers with which to work
while in CO, she determined
that Trooper was not being giving the best possibility of fully
developing his potential. When
she went back to North Carolina
for the holidays, she returned
him to the school’s Field Representative. Trooper is being
evaluated to determine if his
intelligence, high energy, and
confident nature will best be
served as a guide dog or in one
of the other service arenas for
which dogs are trained.
Although Libby misses Trooper,
his departure will allow her
time to pursue some of her
other interests—like volunteering more of her time to a music
and drama program at her
church or going out on forest
fires. When asked where she
sees herself in ten years, Libby
says she expects to be retired
and back in North Carolina. But
she adds, “I would still continue
to train dogs for the handicapped. Although there are
many schools that provide guide
dogs for the blind, individuals
with other disabilities usually
have to pay a lot of money to
get a trained service dog.”
The Guide Dog Foundation for
the Blind invests more than
$55,000 to breed, train and
place companion dogs. Individuals with disabilities pay nothing
for the dogs or the training.
Funding comes solely from individual, group, and corporate
donations and foundation
grants. Visit http://
www.guidedog.org/ to learn
more.
(L to R) Melanie Woolever, Trooper, Libby Bagwell, Pat
Carnes, and Bob Carnes. Photo courtesy of Alicia D.
Bennett
Page 14
FOREST SERVICE JOB CORPS ASSOCIATED NATIONAL FORESTS AND GRASSLANDS
Civilian
Conservation Center
National Forest/Grasslands
Anaconda
Region
State
Activation/Transfer Date
Beaverhead-Deerlodge
1
Montana
3/15/1966
Angell
Siuslaw
6
Oregon
4/28/1965
Blackwell
Chequamegon-Nicolet
9
Wisconsin
11/30/1965
Boxelder
Black Hills
2
South Dakota
12/6/1965
Cass
Ozark - St. Francis
8
Arkansas
6/15/1965
Centennial
Boise
4
Idaho
5/15/1965
Original Name: Marsing
FS Transfer 1/17/10
Collbran
Grand Mesa, Uncompaghre
and Gunnison
2
Columbia Basin
Okanogan - Wenatchee
Curlew
Colville
Flatwoods
Colorado
11/1/1965
FS Transfer 1/17/10
Washington
11/1/1965/
FS Transfer 1/17/10
6
Washington
4/28/1965
George Washington- Jefferson
8
Virginia
9/15/1965
Frenchburg
Daniel Boone
8
Kentucky
9/10/1965
Fort Simcoe
Okanogan -Wenatchee
6
Washington
4/15/1966/
FS Transfer 1/17/10
Golconda
Shawnee
9
Illinois
4/28/1965
Great Onyx
Land Between the Lakes
8
Kentucky
6/15/1965
FS Transfer 07/01/08
Harpers Ferry
Monongahela
9
West Virginia
4/15/1966
FS Transfer 7/01/08
Jacobs Creek
Cherokee
8
Tennessee
6/21/1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Forests of North
Carolina (Nantahala)
8
North Carolina
2/1/1965
Original Name Arrowood
Mingo
Mark Twain
9
Missouri
11/1/1965
FS Transfer 2004
Oconaluftee
Carolina (Nantahala)
8
North Carolina
10/15/1965
FS Transfer 7/01/08
Ouachita
Ouachita
8
Arkansas
2/6/1965
Pine Knot
Daniel Boone
8
Kentucky
11/22/1965
Pine Ridge
Nebraska
2
Nebraska
12/6/1965
Schenck
Carolina (Pisgah)
8
North Carolina
5/18/1965
Timber Lake
Mount Hood
6
Oregon
8/10/1965
Trapper Creek
Bitterroot
1
Montana
1/5/1966
Treasure Lake
Cibola NF/ Black Kettle and
McClellan Creek National
Grasslands
3
Oklahoma
11/15/1965
FS Transfer 1/17/10
Weber Basin
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache
4
Utah
12/11/1965
FS Transfer 1/17/10
Wolf Creek
Umpqua
6
Oregon
4/13/1965
6
Page 15
FIRST FOREST SERVICE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CENTERS AND CRITICAL STAFF
Forest Service Region
Centers
Center Director(s)
Region 1
Trapper Creek
Robert W. Steiner
RF: Neal M. Rahm
Dickinson
Dale S. Thacker
ARF, Operations: Clayton Weaver
Anaconda
John M. Johnson
Job Corps Program: Vernard L. Erickson
Cedar Flat
Gerhart H. Nelson
Cottonwood
Robert R. Lusk,
Robert Smart
Region 2
Pegosa Springs
Jerald R. Martinez
RF: David S. Nordwell
Boxelder
Henry R. Taylor
ARF: Operations: Howard C. Lee
Pine Ridge
Walter J. FIllmore
Region 3
Alpine
Billy H. Shelby
RF: William D. Hurst
Heber
Duane G. Brean
ARF, Operations: Walter L. Graves
Grants
Talmdage L. Figart, Jr.
Job Corps Program: Paul D. Wild
Mountaineer
Region 4
Clear Creek
Charles J. Hendricks
Region 5
Fenner Canyon
Robert J. McDonald
RF: Charles A. Connaughton
Los Pinos
George Liddicoatt
ARF, Operations: Donald R. Ball
Sly Park
James H. Shiro
Job Corps Program: Eugene R. Lepley
Alder Springs
Adolph R. Groncki
Job Corps Program: Kenneth A. Taber
RF: Floyd Iverson
ARF, Operations: Thomas H. Van Meter
Job Corps Program: Richard W. Henthorne
Robert L. Royer
Region 6
Timber Lake
Norman E. Gould
RF: J. Herbert Stone
Angell
Robert G. Lewis
ARF, Operations: Marvin L. Smith
Wolf Creek
Richard M. Pomeroy
Job Corps Program: Jack E. Handy
Cispus
Zane G. Smith
Region 8
Hodgens
Stanford M. Adams
RF: E.W. Schultz
Ouachita
Ralph H. Kunz
ARF, Operations: Arthur A. Grumble
Cass
Ronald J. Strauss
Job Corps Program: Clarence M. Evenson
Frenchburg
Bernard J. Schruender
Pine Knot
A. Earl Haught
Arrowood
Harvey Price
Schenck
Philip M. Clark
Jacobs Creek
Harold G. Armstrong
New Waverly
William L. Sherrer
Region 9
Golconda
L. Wayne Bell
RF: George S. James
Branchville
George M. Smith
ARF, Operations: Velden A. Parker
Vesuvius
Roderic D. Herbrandson
Hoxey
Charles G. Anderson
Ojibway
John V. Lupis
Lydick Lake
James L. Kimball
Isabella
Robert R. Tyrrell
Poplar Bluff
James S. Berlin
Blue Jay
Patrick J. Sheehan
Ripton
George S. Bowliing
Anthony
Robert J. McCarthy
Clam Lake
Jack A. Weissling
Blackwell
Roger B. Johnson
Page 16
1964 — 2014
Conserving America’s
Natural Resources
for 50 Years
Job Corps is the nation’s largest
residential, educational, and
career technical training program that prepares economically disadvantaged youth, ranging
in age from 16 to 24, for productive employment. USDA
Forest Service operates 28 Job
Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (JCCCCs) with a capacity to
house, educate, and train over
6,200 enrollees. Students attend academic and vocational
classes and learn critical life
skills in preparation for longterm employment, careers in
natural resources, continued
education or military service.
The JCCCCs provide a unique
opportunity for at-risk youth to
take control of and steer their
lives in a positive direction
and contribute to the conservation of the nation’s public
natural resources. JCCCCs are
associated with national forests or grasslands and are
operated by the United States
Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Forest Service in partnership with the Department
of Labor (DOL).
For further information about
Forest Service Job Corps contact:
Alicia D. Bennett
Public Affairs Officer
USDA Forest Service Job Corps
740 Simms Street
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303-275-5934
Fax: 303-275-5940
E-mail: [email protected]
To subscribe to the Courier, send
your e-mail address to:
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