Awards

President Roosevelt congratulates Philippe Bunau-Varilla on his new honor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-12

Emlyn M. Gill thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his suggestions. Gill informs Roosevelt that he will send him a small, bound volume of certificates awarded to Roosevelt by the Camp Fire Club the year before. Roosevelt won the awards for feats he performed during his African safari.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-22

On behalf of the Logansport Trades and Labor Assembly, Oliver P. Smith thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his gift, which will be the main prize at the grand baby show.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-29

L. S. Rowe writes to Theodore Roosevelt to express regret that Roosevelt is unable to accept the American Academy of Political and Social Science’s award. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-02

Commissioner Ernest H. Wands sends Theodore Roosevelt the diploma he was awarded at Ecuador’s Centennial of Independence in 1909. A new set of diplomas had to be made after the originals were destroyed by a fire in the national palace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-02

Some members of the Grand Army of the Republic wish to present Catherine M. Gallagher with a medal in recognition of her work on behalf of soldiers. If they are successful, she would like for Theodore Roosevelt to be present at the recognition ceremony, and asks if it would be possible for him to come to Washington, D.C., for the occasion.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-03

William E. Coffin, Chairman of the Honors and Medals Committee of the Camp Fire Club, would like to include Theodore Roosevelt in the honors list of the club. Coffin asks Roosevelt to mark a list of game to indicate which he has killed himself while in Africa, and additionally to review the list to suggest which animals should be deemed worthy of Honor and which of High Honor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-24

Ernest H. Wands informs Theodore Roosevelt that this summer at the exposition commemorating 100 years of Ecuador’s independence, he was awarded a Grand Special Premium. A handwritten note from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt instructs a secretary to acknowledge the letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-12-01

Report on the 2014 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in New York City. The report covers the events of the weekend, highlighting the various authors and speakers in attendance, and it notes the conferring of four TRA awards, including the annual Bertha B. Rose Award and USS Theodore Roosevelt Junior Officer Leadership Award. The TRA also gave awards to documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and the former Superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Valerie Naylor.

Eleven color photographs accompany the text which is followed by a fourteen page album of eighty-four color photographs of the meeting venues, speakers, guests, and award winners.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Listing of twenty-two individuals who donated money to the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in memory of others or to fund initiatives of the TRA like the P. James Roosevelt Lecture Series. The page also includes a text box promoting the TRA’s website and a notice that the organization had received the Hostfest Heritage Award at the Norsk Hostfest in October 1998.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1999

Report on the annual meeting and dinner of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in October 2003 in New York City. The report highlights three awards conferred by the TRA and the annual elections for members of the executive committee, board of trustees, and the advisory board. The report also touches on reports from various officers and committees, and it highlights the TRA’s involvement in publishing, art exhibitions, and documentary films about Theodore Roosevelt. The section closes with a look at the field trips undertaken by the members of the TRA in and around New York City to Roosevelt-related sites.

Three photographs from the annual dinner appear in the report.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Report on the 78th annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The report details the field trips, dinner, speakers, and elections that marked the weekend meeting. The report highlights the reelection of Lawrence H. Budner as President of the TRA, the address of William N. Tilchin, and the conferring of the Junior Officer Leadership Award for the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Jesse Shapiro, winner of the TRA Public Speaking Contest for the New York City public schools, also addressed the dinner gathering. 

Eight photographs of some of the assembled guests, speakers, and dignitaries, including four commanders of USS Theodore Roosevelt, populate the report. 

The Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site in Buffalo, New York, provided the venue for the conferring of two annual awards on September 13, 1996: the Theodore Roosevelt Association Police Award for Western New York and the Theodore Roosevelt Exemplary Citizenship Award. The article describes the setbacks suffered by the winner of the police award, Kenneth M. Bienko, and it lists a number of the dignitaries in attendance at the awards luncheon. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1997

Report on the 77th annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in and around Boston, Massachusetts in October, 1996. The report highlights the conferring of several awards sponsored by the TRA: the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to author David McCullough; the Bertha B. Rose Award to Wallace Finley Dailey of Harvard; the Police Award for a member of the Boston, Massachusetts, Police Department; and the Junior Officer of the Year Award to a member of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The report also details the annual elections of the TRA, including the selection of Lawrence H. Budner as the next president, and it notes that tours of Harvard, including the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, were given for those who attended. The report highlights the many years of service to the TRA of P. James Roosevelt and announces that a lecture series will be established in his name.

Thirteen photographs of those who attended the various events populate the report, including five of McCullough.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Two photographs from May 1995: one shows an exhibit in honor of Theodore Roosevelt’s time as a Civil Service Commissioner found in the lobby of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building in Washington, D.C. The other shows a group gathered at the Oval Office of the White House for the conferring of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park Foundation Medal of Honor. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1995

The front cover of the Fall, 1989 volume of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features Theodore Roosevelt atop a steam shovel in Panama during his 1906 inspection of the construction of the Panama Canal. The back cover shows a delegation from the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) to the Netherlands, as well as the winners of the third annual Lawrence J. Saunders Awards of the TRA at the Roosevelt Study Center.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1989

This four page edition of “News and Notes” is divided into six sections and is mostly concerned with a series of celebrations and commemorations of the 125th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth. The article details the celebrations held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in New York State in New York City, Oyster Bay, and Buffalo, and at Harvard University. The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace hosted events as did the American Museum of Natural History. Oyster Bay held a parade while the Indianapolis gathering saw the planting of a tree at the home of Roosevelt’s Vice President, Charles W. Fairbanks. The meeting at the American Museum of Natural History saw the awarding of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to four recipients. A dinner was held in Buffalo while at Harvard, John Morton Blum gave a lecture.

The article also discusses the 1983 Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest for the New York City public high schools held at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, and it details the premiere of the documentary film The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. “News and Notes” closes with an obituary for Helen M. MacLachlan who worked for both the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the National Park Service at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in New York City.

A photograph from the Oyster Bay parade and two photographs of members of the Roosevelt family at Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C., are included in the article.

Report on the award ceremony for Eisha Dyer and Jessica Van Ausdall Kraft who were each given the Bertha B. Rose Award for service to the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The article reprints the citations given to Dyer and Kraft, with special emphasis on their work in preserving Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.

A photograph of Dyer and Kraft accompanies the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Obituary of Bertha Benkard Rose, a fixture of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), that emphasizes her work in historic preservation, especially her role in preserving Theodore Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill. The obituary notes her work on behalf of numerous museums and historical organizations, especially the TRA, and it cites the creation of an award in her name by the TRA to honor service to the association.

Two photographs of Rose, one with her husband, accompany the obituary.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

This article covers the elections, speakers, and ceremonies during the fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association held at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in October 1978. In addition to the usual reports of committees and officers, highlights of the meeting included the introduction of Edmund and Sylvia Morris, authors of biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt respectively. The meeting also recognized, with a citation and picture of Theodore Roosevelt, the work of Harold Schafer and the Gold Seal Company in restoring and reviving Medora, North Dakota, the gateway community to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The article closes by listing members of the Roosevelt family and special guests in attendance at the meeting.

Two photographs of the meeting featuring Leonard W. Hall, John A. Gable, Theodore Roosevelt III, and Harold Schafer accompany the article, along with one political cartoon.