When Camp Simon, CPS Camp No. 54 operated by the Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors in Warner, New Hampshire closed in February 1943, twenty-five Warner men arrived at Trenton.  The Warner men, who had first transferred into CPS Camp No. 84 at Oakland, Maryland, also an AFSC camp but open for only one month, had hoped that all Warner assignees could have relocated together.   A significant number of men did remain together in Trenton.

Men in Friends units tended to represent the greatest diversity with respect to religious identification.  Few men in AFSC camps and units reported Friends denominational affiliation and it was not uncommon for the group to include men from a variety of religious groups in addition to COs reporting no religious affiliation. 

In Friends projects, men on average entered CPS with 14.27 years of educational experience, with forty percent of that number having completed both college and post graduate education.  With respect to prior occupation, forty-three percent of men in Friends camps and units entered with technical and professional work experience, as opposed to eighteen percent among men at Brethren and twelve percent in Mennonite projects.  Men in the Friends projects tended to report entering CPS from urban rather than rural communities. (Sibley and Jacob pp. 171-172)

J. Benjamin Stalvey, one of the assignees, had been drafted from his teaching assistantship at the University of Illinois.  He served at both Big Flats and Trenton.  After discharge, he accepted an appointment as an instructor in the political science department at Duke University, fully accepted and admired by the department chair for “his strong convictions”.  Later reappointed to his teaching assistantship at the University of Illinois, he completed his Ph.D. degree.  (Sibley and Jacob p. 446)

John H. Michener, a Friend who entered CPS in his freshman year at the University of Kansas, reported on his time in CPS.

I was assigned to Trenson, North Dakota, and worked some on the land reclamation project there, but I was primarily in the kitchen.  When they closed Trenton I went to the Gatlinburg camp in the Smoky Mountains National Park.  I started off on the trail crew maintaining park trails, but then they stuck me in the kitchen again.  I had 28 months in CPS.