Robert Nestor

Albion, NE

1934, 2737, Fullerton, NE, SCS-1, First Cook
1935, 2737, Presho, SCS-2, Supply Steward
1936-37, 2737, Hartington, NE, SCS-4, Senior Leader
1938-40, 789, Este, F-3, Senior Leader

From Este Ripples (Camp Newspaper) December 1940

ROBERT NESTOR HAS 78 MONTH CCC RECORD

Robert Nester, Este's Senior Leader, has a long and enviable CCC record. He has been in the CCC since July, 1934, when he was enrolled at Albion, Nebraska.

He has never worked on the project, but started out in the kitchen in the camp at Fullerton, Nebraska, where he was First Cook during most of his twenty one month stay in that camp.

Robert Nestor became Supply Steward at the camp's new location in Presho, South Dakota and remained at that job when the camp moved to Hartington, Nebraska in October 1936.

In June, 1937 he became Senior Leader and has held that post continuously. He has been at Este since January 1938.

He was called to Fort Lincoln for attendance at a two week special training school held last month for men of outstanding ability from camps of the Dakota District.

Below is addition company and camp information.

COMPANY 2737 was organized as a drought relief company in July, 1934, when a cadre was sent from the original Company 755, Albion, Nebraska, to Fullerton, Nebraska. Tents were occupied on the Fullerton Chautauqua grounds until permanent buildings were ready for occupancy.

On April 28, 1936, the company moved from Fullerton to Presho, South Dakota, where it lived in tents all summer, and did soil erosion work. On October 15, 1936, the company was returned to Nebraska, being sent to Hartington, where it resumed the same type of work.

The name of the company has changed three times since it was organized, the first name being Camp Nance. When the company moved to South Dakota, Camp Lyman was the name given it, which gave way to Camp Cedar on October 15, the day the company came to Cedar County, Nebraska.

COMPANY 789, the oldest company in the Black Hills, was organized at Fort Meade, South Dakota, on April 29, 1933. On May 18, 1933, the company moved to its present location on Este Creek about two miles south of Nemo.

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