Swarthmore
College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081
U.S.A.
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Norman J.
Whitney
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Papers,
1938-1967
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Document Group: DG 061
Provenance: Donated by sister Mildred C. Whitney, the
Syracuse Peace Council & the American- Friends Service Committee
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- Size: 7 linear feet & 5 inches
Restrictions: Yes
Microfilm: None
Finding Aid: Collection reprocessed & checklist revised
by Anne Yoder, November 2001
This checklist is the property of the Swarthmore College Peace
Collection.
Historical Introduction
Norman Jehiel Whitney (1891-1967) was a Quaker teacher,
writer and devoted peace worker. From 1919-1957, he taught English at
Syracuse University (NY), during which time he helped establish and
directed for many years the Syracuse Peace Council. He left Syracuse
in 1957 to work for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in
peace education.
Whitney's major peace work was in the area of counseling
conscientious objectors to war (COs), particularly those in Civilian
Public Service (CPS) camps. In 1941 he helped establish the New York
State Board for Civilian Public Service, which attempted to counsel
and assist COs in New York state. Whitney also served in various
positions with the AFSC, including Field Representative for New York
and New England, National Secretary for Peace Eduction, and as Peace
Consultant. His activities sometimes overlapped, and this collection
of papers reflects those often dual roles. In the 2001 reprocessing
of the papers, it was often difficult to discern which entity Whitney
was associated with at the time a particular folder was created, so
that the organizing designations used below should be not be
considered as entirely definite.
Correspondents include Stephen G. Cary, Harrop A. Freeman, Paul
Comley French, Paul J. Furnas, Philip E. Jacob, Abraham Kaufman, Evan
W. Thomas, Robert S. Vogel, Mildred C. Whitney, Harold P. Winchester,
and many AFSC staff members.
A set of "Spectator Papers," edited by Whitney (from January 1943
until his death in 1967) was removed to the Periodical Collection.
This set is not complete.
The records of this collection are
restricted until the year 2020, in that anyone making reference to
personal information from this collection must disguise it so that
the identity of the individual/s concerned will not be disclosed.
Researchers wishing to use the collection must sign a form agreeing
to this stipulation.
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Contents of the Collection
Box 1 (1/2 box)
General
Biographical information
Involvement with Syracuse Committee on CO Counseling,
1942-1944- Leadership of Syracuse Peace Council, 1938
- Speaking engagements / activities
- Writings & speeches
- Production of & correspondence re: "Spectator Papers"
[ed. by Whitney]
- Correspondence received re: "Spectator Papers" [ed. by
Whitney], 1943-1947
Box 2
Correspondence re: CPS
Correspondence re: CPS, 1942-1948
- Correspondence with/about COs & CPS, 1940-1943
Box 3
Correspondence re: CPS
Correspondence with/about COs & CPS,
1944-1945
Box 4
Correspondence re: CPS
Correspondence with/about COs & CPS,
1946-1947, n.d.
- Correspondence re: counseling of individual COs,
1940-1946
A [collective file]
- Alister, Wilbur
- André, Luther Aumund
- Atwater, Elton
- B [collective file]
- Barfoot, Fred
- Barnes, Leland A.
- Bauman, Frank S.
- Bishop, George A.
- Biviano, Angelo [includes Dominic Ruffo]
- Bodenstein, Shirley
Born, Julian E.
- Bump, David R.
- Burlingham, Atherton
- C [collective file]
- Carpenter, Clifford
- Chaffee, Clarence
- Cleaver, William Yarnell
- Cole, Jordan D.
- Coté, Gordon
Box 5
Correspondence re: counseling of individual COs,
1940-1946
D-E [collective file]- DiGiacomo, Frank John
- Dippel, Perry W.
- Drake, Anthony Nicholas
- Edelstein, Leonard
- Ernst, Albert C.
- F [collective file]
- G-H [collective file]
- Goodrich, Roger B.
- Green, Stuart
- Grover, Kingman Nicholas
- Gundlach, Arthur Edwin
- Hahn, Robert O.
- Haney, Edgar Clinton
- Haynes, John [Jack] Calvin
- Hecker, Herman William
- Hinkey, Wendell A.
- I-J [collective file]
- Jefferis Jr., Raymond P.
- Jones, J. William
- Jones, Richard Arthur
- K-L [collective file]
- King, John C.
- Klayman, Alexander
- Klotzbach, Frank & Harry
- Knapp, Robert J.
- Kreinheder, Albert
Box 6
Correspondence re: counseling of individual COs,
1940-1946
Larrabee, Kent Rood- Leavy, Stanley Arnold
- LeTourneau, Lowell Sherry
- Lew, Albert Kamping
- Long Jr., Edward Leroy
- M [collective file]
- Mecartney, John
- Meng, Heinz Karl
- Metz, Waldemar A.
- Milks, Leonard
- Muelke, Robert H.
- N-O [collective file]
- P [collective file]
- Pettit, David H.
- Pettit Jr., Earl M.
- Powelson, Jack
Box 7
Correspondence re: counseling of individual COs,
1940-1946
R-S [collective file]- Ragonese, Joseph
- Ratner, Max
- Reussow, August F.
- Rickel, Rev. William
- Ruffo, Dominic James
- Rustin, Bayard, 1944
- Schultze, Waldemar J. (& Robert)
- Sea, (Private) Felipe
- Shimizu, James Ruya
- Somerville, Durward S.G.
- Stockdale, George Fairbank
- Sturm, Gerald Maurice
- T-U [collective file]
- Tarolli, (Private) James W.
- Tatum, Lyle, 1943
- Toth Jr., Alexander B.
- W-Z [collective file]
Whitsitt, (Private) Joseph
- Wolfson, Samuel M.
Box 8
Correspondence re: counseling of individual COs,
1947-1957
A-C [collective file]- Barenbaum, Simon
- Champion, Melvin
- Chapman, Joseph
- D-G [collective file]
- Emery, David
- Galatino Jr., Erasmo [Gene]
- Green, (Sgt.) Stuart
- H-M [collective file]
- Hall, George Bret
- Keefer, Irving George
- Keefer, Lewis Calvin
- Keefer, Raymond
- Kuhmer, Merle
- Maine, Paul
- N-R [collective file]
- North, Jon Frederick
- Norton, Edgar
- Pyke, Dr. Charles R.
- Ringewald, Robert Herbert
- Roggie, Howard
Box 9
Correspondence re: counseling of individual COs,
1947-1957
S [collective file]- Somers, Robert
- Squires, Burton E.
- Strader, Robert C.
- T-Z [collective file]
- Wallace Jr., [Neal] Clark
- Widrick, Royal A.
- Woodruff II, Fred
- Leadership of NY State Bd. for CPS
General
- Notebook re: COs [notes by Whitney? by Harold
Sullivan?]
Correspondence with Scipio Quarterly Meeting [Society of
Friends], 1940-1941
- Correspondence etc. re: selective service in Albany (NY)
- Correspondence, 1941-1946, n.d.
- Correspondence re: Robert Vogel, 1942-1943
- Acknowledgement of IV-E letter, 1943-1944
- Correspondence re: COs in prison, 1943-1945
- Information for / correspondence with draft counselors
- Correspondence re: Chicago Conference on Social Action,
1943
Box 10
Leadership of NY State Bd. for CPS
Advisor's Memorandum (A-C) [forms filled out by draft
counselor re: interviews with COs]- Advisor's Memorandum (D-G)
- Advisor's Memorandum (H-K)
- Advisor's Memorandum (L-N)
- Advisor's Memorandum (O-R)
- Advisor's Memorandum (S-T)
- Advisor's Memorandum (V-Z)
- Correspondence re: lists of New York COs in CPS camps
- Correspondence & lists re: New York COs [most names
provided by NSBRO], 1941-1945
Box 11
Leadership of NY State Bd. for CPS / AFSC Field
Representative
Follow-up to field trips -- New England, 1944 (Feb.-June)- Follow-up to field trips -- New England, 1944 (July) - 1945
(June)
- Follow-up to field trips -- New York state, 1943-1945
- Follow-up to field trips -- New York metropolitan area,
1944-1945
- Speaking engagements, 1945
- Expenses re: CPS, 1943-1946
- Appeal to NY state ministers re: CPS, 1944-1945
- Appeal to NY state ministers re: CPS, 1944-1945 [file of
M. DeLine]
- Appeal to New England F.O.R. re: CPS, 1944-1945
- Appeal to New England ministers re: CPS, 1944-1945
Box 12
Leadership of NY State Bd. for CPS / AFSC Field
Representative
Correspondence re: denominational support for CPS, 1943- Correspondence re: denominational support for CPS, 1944 - 1945
(Jan.)
- Interpretation & support for CPS, 1943-1945
- Correspondence with Methodist conferences, 1945
- Correspondence with allied organization -- Metropolitan Bd.
for COs, 1942-1945
- Correspondence with allied organization -- National Service
Bd. for COs, 1942-1943
- Correspondence with allied organization -- National Service
Bd. for COs, 1944-1946
- Correspondence with allied organization -- Northern CA Service
Bd. for COs, 1942-1944
- Correspondence with allied organization -- Pacifist Research
Bureau
- Work re: Friends CPS
Planning & policies of AFSC's CPS Committee [includes
relationship with NSBRO & F.O.R.]
- Meeting minutes of AFSC's CPS Committee, 1942 (Dec.) - 1946
(Jan.)
- Finances re: AFSC's CPS, 1942-1946
Box 13
Work re: Friends CPS
Correspondence re: AFSC's CPS Committee, etc.- Co-editing of "They Speak for Themselves"
- Activities, 1950-1967
Correspondence, 1951-1956
- Involvement with AFSC Subcommittee on COs -- counseling,
1951-1953
- Correspondence with/about Selective Service, 1951-1952
- Correspondence with AFSC-CO Services re: "Spectator Papers"
[ed. by Whitney], 1952-1957
- Correspondence re: COs in Yugoslavia, 1955-1957
- Correspondence, 1957-1958
- Writings "Epistles to Peacemakers" [monthly letters to
regional offices], 1957 (Nov.) - 1960 (June)
- Correspondence, 1959-1960
Box 14
Activities, 1950-1967
Trip to Europe (1960) & follow-up, 1960-1961- Trip to Prague (Czechoslovakia) for Christian Peace Conf.,
1960
- Correspondence, 1961
- Witness for Peace, Easter 1961
- Correspondence, 1964-1967
Box 14A [acc. 75A-037]
Activities, 1950-1967: as AFSC National Peace
Secretary / Peace Consultant
Speaking engagements / program work, 1957-1967
Box 15
Reference Material
CPS staff reports -- program for the future of CPS, 1944- Mental health program of CPS, 1944-1946
- Re: CPS, 1942-1944
- Re: CPS, 1945-1947
- Lists of NY COs in CPS camps
- COs in CPS (by denomination)
- Denominational support for CPS
Statements by COs
Box 16
Reference Material
American Prison Association Proceedings of the 74th Annual
Congress of Correction, New York (NY),
- Oct. 12-14, 1944
- Prisons & COs in prison, 1943-1946
- Probation of COs in prison
- Demobilization of COs in CPS
- CO counseling
Box 17 [card file box]
Cards with notes re: IV-E men, 1941-1944
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See Also:
Syracuse Peace Council (CDGA)-
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