camp william james was opened in 1940 by dartmouth college professor, eugen rosenstock-huessy, as a center for training youth for leadership in the civilian conservation corps, which had been inaugurated in 1933 by franklin delano roosevelt. it was located near tunbridge, vermont. funding for the camp was withdrawn only a year after its founding, along with the rest of the ccc, following the attack on pearl harbor, which brought the united states into world war ii.