Bryant, Michele

Michele Bryant chronicles the ultimately doomed efforts of Katherine Augusta Wescott Tingley to transform the San Juan and Kettle Hill battlefields in Cuba into the Latin American headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Bryant notes that Tingley managed to buy the battlefield land and to erect two memorials, one an archway and the other a pillar, to Americans and Cubans who had died in the Spanish-American War. Bryant chronicles Tingley’s involvement with the Theosophical Society and her related charitable works, including establishing three schools in Cuba in the wake of the war, and she relates that Tingley’s planned development of the San Juan Heights property never was realized. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2013

Creator(s)

Bryant, Michele

Michele Bryant recalls the 2010 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in Seattle, Washington. Bryant provides brief notices about each of the six speakers and their topics, and she notes the tour of Seattle and sites visited by the TRA members, including the Space Needle and the Museum of Flight. Bryant also acknowledges the winners of the Bertha B. Rose Award, the USS Theodore Roosevelt Junior Officer Leadership Award, and the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. Thirty-five photographs of various guests, dignitaries, and speakers supplement the text. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2011

Creator(s)

Bryant, Michele

Michele Bryant describes two visits by ships of the United States Navy to Seattle, Washington. The Great White Fleet made a port call in and around Seattle beginning on May 23, 1908, and two ships visited the city on May 23, 2008 to commemorate the fleet’s arrival a hundred years earlier. Bryant provides details of each event, highlighting the parade and the gift of live bears to each of the sixteen battleships during the 1908 visit. She notes the many dignitaries from the navy on hand for the 2008 port call, highlights the speakers, including Joe Wiegand, and details the various ceremonies, speeches, and gatherings that marked the occasion.

Sixteen photographs accompany the essay with four devoted to the 1908 visit and twelve showing the various guests, dignitaries, and speakers at the 2008 events.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2008