Civilian Public Service Unit (Poughkeepsie, New York, USA)
Poughkeepsie, New York, is the location of the Hudson River State Hospital, an institution with more than 5,000 mental patients. Civilian Public Service Unit No. 144 was located here from April 1945 to April 1946. Nearly all of the men in this Mennonite unit were in relief training and pursued courses of study designed to prepare them for relief service in war-devastated countries. The thirty members of the 1945 women's summer service unit also took courses in relief training.
Bibliography
Gingerich, Melvin. Service for Peace: A History of Mennonite Civilian Public Service. Akron, PA: Mennonite Central Committee, 1949: 242-46.
Author(s) | Melvin Gingerich |
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Date Published | 1959 |
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Gingerich, Melvin. "Civilian Public Service Unit (Poughkeepsie, New York, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 16 Aug 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Civilian_Public_Service_Unit_(Poughkeepsie,_New_York,_USA)&oldid=62836.
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Gingerich, Melvin. (1959). Civilian Public Service Unit (Poughkeepsie, New York, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 August 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Civilian_Public_Service_Unit_(Poughkeepsie,_New_York,_USA)&oldid=62836.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 208. All rights reserved.
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