1930s Below, standing on the left of this photo is Howard Adema of Buffalo, New York, who married Gladys Osborne. Howard was helping direct a Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC), a New Deal agency attempting to combat the Depression by employing young men to work in America's forests to develop parks and national forests. The man of the right was his boss. While stationed in Virginia working for the CCC, he met Gladys and the southern girl moved north when they married. Their children are Peggy, Robert and Alan.