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Guide to the Seattle Draft Counseling Center Records
1934-1982



Accession No.: 3925-003
Creator: Seattle Draft Counseling Center, creator
Title: Seattle Draft Counseling Center Records
Date Span: 1934-1982
Quantity: 3.21 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Languages: Collection materials are in English.
Image from Fellowship of Reconciliation pamphlet against the reinstatement of draft registration by the Carter Administration, 1980. Special Collections, UW Libraries, UW22337z

Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.



Historical Note

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Restrictions on Access

Open to all users.

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info

The records were donated by Abraham Keller on May 17, 1988, and by Rosemary Brodie on November 30, 2001.

Processing Info

This a merger of two accessions and was processed in 2003.

Related Material

Also available in the repository are the Irwin R. Hogenauer Papers, Accession no. 3697-3.


Inventory

 
Box/Folder Date
Seattle Draft Counseling Center
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
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
1/16-22 Pamphlets 1945-1981, n.d.
Subject Series
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.
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
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
2/64 Draft Kit from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, CA n.d.
2/65 Miscellaneous 1948-1982, n.d.
3/1 Miscellany 1975-1980, n.d.

 
Box/Folder Date
Northwest Nonviolent Training and Action Center
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
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.
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.

 
Box/Folder Date
3/25 Washington State Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1948-1957, n.d.

 
Box/Folder Date
Hogenauer, Irwin R. Papers
3/26 Biographical Features 1968, 1973
3/27-28 General Correspondence, A-Z, Unidentified 1948-1977
Speeches and Writings
3/29 A Perspective on Violence 1968-1969
3/30 Miscellaneous 1959-1971, n.d.
4/1 Leaflets 1961-1965, n.d.
Course Materials
4/2 Free University: Nonviolence Course 1966
4/3 Nonviolence Seminar 1970, 1972
Subject Series
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.
4/10 Notes 1964, n.d.

Subject Terms

Personal Names:
Hogenauer, Irwin R., 1912-1984--Archives.
Organizations:
Northwest Nonviolent Training and Action Center--Archives.
Seattle Draft Counseling Center--Archives.
Washington State Committee for Conscientious Objectors.
Subjects:
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.
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