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Seattle Draft Counseling Center Records, 1934-1982
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Seattle Draft Counseling Center
- Title
- Seattle Draft Counseling Center Records
- Dates
- 1934-1982 (inclusive)19341982
- Quantity
- 3.21 cubic ft. ((4 boxes))
- Collection Number
- (Accession No. 3925-003)
- Summary
- Records of a Seattle Peace organization for draft, military, and alternate service counseling.
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Open to all users.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
The Seattle Draft Counseling Center was founded in 1969 to provide draft, military, and alternate service counseling. It continued until at least 1982. Reverend George Poor (of the Quaker faith) and Gretchen Parker were influential in the operations and success of the SDCC. The SDCC was a non-profit agency dedicated to providing information and counseling to any civilian with questions or problems concerning the Selective Service System, or any military personnel having problems with the military. They also encouraged draft education in the Seattle school system and gave workshops on draft counseling throughout Western Washington.
Irwin Hogenauer was a passionate activist against war and the draft. He was a conscientious objector during World War II and spent two years in a conscientious objector camp. After serving ten months of a two-year sentence for resistance to conscription, he was discharged early as a "non-cooperator." Beginning in 1947, Hogenauer was a war tax refuser and counselor, and he conducted workshops for training in nonviolence for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee. Hogenauer cared deeply about the individuals he was representing through his activism. He served as a resource, advocate, and pen pal for many drafted soldiers who were against war. Hogenauer wrote to the parents of soldiers to give them information about their sons, as well as to military officials to inquire about court decisions. Not only did he correspond with draftees and resisters, he also established relationships with other activists and nonviolent organizations, including the Chicago Nonviolent Training and Action Center.
Throughout his many years of activism, Hogenauer remained committed to nonviolence. In 1971, inspired by the nonviolent action occurring around the nation, he founded the Northwest Nonviolent Training and Action Center. Though NWNVTAC was declared defunct in 1972, Hogenauer continued to teach workshops in nonviolent action by request.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The bulk of this accession documents the Center's activities during the Vietnam War era. Most of the SDCC's material is ephemera used in its counseling centers, including religious pamphlets against the draft. The SDCC also collected court papers dealing with draft resisters and conscientious objectors. The accession also includes records of another organization, the Northwest Nonviolent Training and Action Center, and personal papers of Irwin Hogenauer, both of which document Hogenauer's draft resistance and nonviolent training activities.
One explicit connection between Hogenauer and the SDCC was discovered in the collection. In a 1982 letter to the Port Angeles Peace Coalition of Port Angeles, Washington, Hogenauer wrote of a conversation he had with George Poor of the still functioning SDCC. He informed the Peace Coalition that the SDCC could not spare either of its two skilled draft counselors to visit and train the group. The group was invited to send someone from Port Angeles to attend the evening training classes held at the University Friends Meeting House in Seattle.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
The records were donated by Abraham Keller on May 17, 1988, and by Rosemary Brodie on November 30, 2001.
Processing Note
This a merger of two accessions and was processed in 2003.
Related Materials
Also available in the repository are the Irwin R. Hogenauer Papers , Accession no. 3697-3.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Seattle Draft Counseling CenterReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | Organizational
Features |
1973-1980 |
1/2 | Incoming Letters |
1970-1981, n.d. |
1/3 | Outgoing Letters |
1974-1981 |
1/4 | Intra-Office
Correspondence |
1973-1981 |
1/5-6 | Minutes |
1969-1982 |
Newsletters |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/7 |
The Advocate
|
1969 |
1/8-10 |
CounterDraft
|
1968-1971 |
1/11 |
Equity: A New York Metropolitan
Draft Newsletter
|
1969-1970, n.d. |
1/12 | Miscellaneous |
1949-1981 |
1/13 |
News Notes of the Central
Committee for Conscientious Objectors
|
1958-1968 |
1/14 | Seattle Draft Counseling Center |
1947-1981, n.d. |
1/15 |
Selective Service Law
Reporter
|
1973 |
Box/Folder | ||
1/16-22 | Pamphlets |
1945-1981, n.d. |
Subject Series |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/23-28 | Amnesty |
1972-1977, n.d. |
1/29-30 | Anti-Draft Movement |
1966-1980, n.d. |
2/1 | Attorney's Guide to Selective Service and Military
Case Law |
1970 |
2/2 | Call, Order of (Memo re: Defense Based on Call out of
order) |
1968 |
2/3 | Canada-General Material |
1967-1969, n.d. |
2/4 | Civilian Work in Lieu of Induction: Approved
Agencies |
1968-1969 |
2/5 | Classification Comparison under Old and New
Law |
1967 |
2/6 | Conscientious Objector Claims; Letters in Support
of |
n.d. |
2/7 | Desertion, AWOL and Missing Movement; NLG
Memo |
n.d. |
2/8 | Doctor's Draft-General Materials |
1967-1969 |
2/9 | Draft Resistance |
1965-1971 |
2/10 | Homosexuality; Separation on Account of |
1970, n.d. |
2/11 |
How Can One Be
Religious?
|
n.d. |
2/12 |
How to Stay Out of the
Army, by Conrad J. Lynn |
1968 |
2/13 | Implementation of Work Program |
1972 |
2/14 | Index of Administrative Publications |
1968 |
2/15 | Information of Draft Exemption for Ministers or
Candidates for the Ministry |
1967, 1969 |
2/16 | Local Draft Board Members |
n.d. |
2/17 | Mennonite; Pamphlet Regarding Conscientious
Objection |
n.d. |
2/18 | Military Service; Reference Material |
1968 |
2/19 | Mothers Against the Draft-Fathers Against the Draft
(MAD-FAD) |
1967-1971, n.d. |
2/20 | National and State Selective Service Headquarters'
Addresses |
1968, n.d. |
2/21 |
Noncombatant and
Conscience
|
1962 |
2/22 | Occupational Deferments; Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors Memo |
1965, 1968 |
2/23 | Order to Report for Induction; Conscientious Objector
Claims Thereafter |
1967, n.d. |
2/24 |
Personal Appearance Before Local
Board
|
1952 |
2/25 | Psychiatric Unfitness |
n.d. |
2/26 |
Report on the Conscientious
Objector and the ROTC
|
1963 |
2/27 | Seattle Public Schools |
1979-1981 |
2/28 | Selective Service Act of 1967 |
1967 |
2/29 | Selective Service Decisions, Various |
1971 |
2/30 |
Selective Service General
Counsel's Check List
|
n.d. |
2/31 | Student Deferment |
1968 |
2/32 |
Thinking Through the Basis of
Conscientious Objection
|
1972, n.d. |
Box/Folder | ||
2/33 | Financial Records |
1970-1981 |
2/34-36 | Regulations |
1961-1971 |
2/37-39 | Manuals |
1972 |
2/40-41 | Publications |
1967-1970 |
2/42 | Speeches and Writings |
1980 |
2/43 | Publicity |
1975-1979 |
2/44 | Conference and Convention
Files |
1979, 1982 |
2/45 | Resolutions |
1979 |
2/46 | Forms |
1954-1969, n.d. |
Court Papers |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/47 |
Armendariz vs.
Hershey
|
1969 |
2/48 |
Babani adv. United
States
|
1969 |
2/49 |
Brede vs. United
States
|
1968 |
2/50 |
Brooks
vs.Clifford
|
1969 |
2/51 |
Craycroft vs. Ferrall and
Clifford
|
1969 |
2/52 |
Haughton adv. United
States
|
1967, 1969 |
2/53 |
Mulloy vs. United
States
|
1970 |
2/54 |
Murray vs.
Vaughn
|
1969 |
2/55 |
Noyd vs. Bond
|
1969 |
2/56 |
Schurr adv. United
States
|
1970 |
2/57 |
Seeger vs. United
States
|
1965 |
2/58 |
Sigmon adv. United
States
|
1968 |
2/59 |
Sisson adv. United
States
|
1969 |
2/60 |
Ward adv. United
States
|
1969 |
2/61 |
Welsh vs. United
States
|
1970 |
2/62-63 | Clippings |
1934-1982, n.d. |
Ephemera |
||
Box/Folder | ||
2/64 | Draft Kit from the Archdiocese of San Francisco,
CA |
n.d. |
2/65 | Miscellaneous |
1948-1982, n.d. |
Box/Folder | ||
3/1 | Miscellany |
1975-1980, n.d. |
Northwest Nonviolent Training and Action CenterReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
3/2 | Organizational Features |
1970-1971, n.d. |
3/3 | General Correspondence |
1971-1974, n.d. |
3/4 | Minutes |
1970-1974, n.d. |
3/5-7 | Training Evaluations |
1970-1972, n.d. |
3/8 | Conference and Convention Files |
1970 |
Subject Series |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/9 | Honeywell Project |
1971-1972 |
3/10 | Nonviolence |
1957-1967 |
3/11 | Nonviolent Action in the Northwest |
1960-1972, n.d. |
3/12-13 | Nonviolent Training |
1956-1972, n.d. |
3/14 | Nonviolent Training -
Manuals |
1969, 1971, n.d. |
3/15 | Nonviolent Training - Sample Action
Outlines of War Resisters League |
1972 |
3/16 | Peace Army |
1950-1962, n.d. |
3/17 | Public Witness |
1953-1974, n.d. |
3/18 | Research for Nonviolent Training |
1941-1973 |
3/19 | UW School of Social Work Training Program
Evaluation |
1970-1971, n.d. |
3/20 | World Peace Brigade |
1961-1982, n.d. |
Box/Folder | ||
3/21 | Newsletters |
1972 |
3/22 | Writings by Others |
1961-1971, n.d. |
3/23 | Clippings |
1960-1969 |
3/24 | Ephemera |
1947-1969, n.d. |
Washington State Committee for Conscientious Objectors, 1948-1957, n.d.Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 3/25
Hogenauer, Irwin R. PapersReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Box/Folder | ||
3/26 | Biographical Features |
1968, 1973 |
3/27-28 | General Correspondence, A-Z, Unidentified |
1948-1977 |
Speeches and Writings |
||
Box/Folder | ||
3/29 |
A Perspective on
Violence
|
1968-1969 |
3/30 | Miscellaneous |
1959-1971, n.d. |
Box/Folder | ||
4/1 | Leaflets |
1961-1965, n.d. |
Course Materials |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/2 | Free University: Nonviolence Course |
1966 |
4/3 | Nonviolence Seminar |
1970, 1972 |
Subject Series |
||
Box/Folder | ||
4/4 |
Call to
Resist
|
1958-1973, n.d. |
4/5 | Conscientious Objector Counseling |
1960-1968 |
4/6 | Disaffiliation with Selective Service |
1961 |
4/7-8 | Draft Counseling |
1966-1981, n.d. |
4/9 | Projects, Material for |
1960-1970, n.d. |
Box/Folder | ||
4/10 | Notes |
1964, n.d. |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Conscientious objectors--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Pacifism--United States
- Pacifists--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Passive resistance--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Conscientious objectors--United States
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Draft resisters--United States
Personal Names
- Hogenauer, Irwin R., 1912-1984--Archives
Corporate Names
- Northwest Nonviolent Training and Action Center--Archives
- Seattle Draft Counseling Center--Archives
- Washington State Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)