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Title: Interview with Reverend David Colwell - #3
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Item Id.: spl_ds_dcolwell_01_03
Description: This is part 3 of 6 of an interview with Reverend David Colwell. This interview was conducted by Philip Swain on December 4, 1985.
Reverend David G. Colwell (1916-2001) served as pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in downtown Seattle from 1967 until his retirement in 1982. In the interview he discusses his work in his four pastorates Arlington, Mass., Denver, Colo., Washington, D.C. and Seattle. Colwell was involved in the March on Washington, the Peace Action Group and the founding of the Church Council of Metropolitan Seattle. During the interview he also talks about his family background and his school days at Yale. David’s wife, Catherine, appears in the first part of the interview and discusses meeting David, starting their family and her own family background.
This interview is part of the Donald Schmechel Oral History Collection. Don Schmechel, who was a member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation board, began this project with Seattle Public Library in 1984, with the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) brought on board as a partner in early 1985. Schmechel himself worked to raise the funding for the project, and volunteered his time to manage the project, and to conduct interviews along with a crew of volunteers. Originally titled the Videotaping Historic Figures (VHF) Program, the project interviewed 91 people, with a portion of the interviews entering the collections of the Seattle Public Library and a portion of them going to MOHAI. The interviews conducted with these Seattle civic, business and cultural leaders in 1985 are valuable first-hand accounts that provide insight into developments taking place in the mid-twentieth century.
Digitization of this videotape material has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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