among those who had joined the short-lived work at "camp william james" was a dartmouth student, page smith, who later became an important american historian at the university of california, santa cruz. while on the faculty at ucla, in 1962, smith wrote a letter to hubert humphrey proposing an international version of the "camp william james" experiment in the "moral equivalent of war". humphrey passed along the idea to the us president, john f. kennedy, and by 1963, the peace corps was created.