Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wallace), 1913-

Harvard University recently held a symposium on May 9, 1980 to mark the one hundred year anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s graduation from Harvard. The article notes the order of the proceedings and it provides brief background information on each of the three speakers–Barbara Tuchman, David McCullough and Edmund Morris–and lists their books and literary awards. A listing of some of the attendees from Harvard, the Roosevelt family, and the Theodore Roosevelt Association concludes the article.

A photograph of Tuchman, McCullough, Morris, and Harvard librarian Douglas W. Bryant is found on the first page of the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1980

John A. Gable summarizes the symposium held at Harvard University to mark the one hundred year anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s graduation, and describes the Roosevelt collection in the Harvard libraries. He notes the scholarship of Sylvia Jukes Morris and Frederick W. Marks, and he details the outcome of the annual Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) essay contest at the New Rochelle, New York high school. He closes the “News and Notes” column with a plug for the TRA Journal and an invitation to join the association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1980

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.

Description of the ceremony surrounding the dedication of new library space at Harvard for the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, a reading alcove, and exhibit space across three separate libraries. The article notes the benefactors for the facilities, the speakers at the ceremony, and provides a brief description of each of the new spaces dedicated to furthering the study of Theodore Roosevelt. It also gives a history of the collection and of the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s role in amassing and safeguarding its contents. The article is accompanied by two pictures which show some of the dignitaries at the ceremony and the other is of a young Roosevelt during his student days at Harvard.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1976

Creator(s)

Unknown

Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) John A. Gable provides an update on the various projects undertaken by the TRA in 1976 with an emphasis on the expansion of the Theodore Roosevelt holdings at Harvard University. He notes the establishment there of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, and he gives an update on the revitalization project underway in the neighborhood surrounding the Theodore Roosevelt National Historic Site in New York City. Gable promotes the reissue of Roosevelt’s biography of Gouverneur Morris, and he lists the various clubs and organizations he spoke to in his role as Executive Director of the TRA. He notes the receipt of four letters from Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday which the TRA has added to the Harvard University Roosevelt Collection.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1976

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.

P. James Roosevelt and John A. Gable, President and Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), provide a detailed accounting of the TRA’s outreach and education activities for 1976. Many of these initiatives are covered in more detail in individual articles in this issue of the Journal. The two longest sections of the report cover the expansion of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, exhibits, and reading spaces at the Harvard University libraries and the project to restore the neighborhood surrounding the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in New York City. The report also covers the annual student contests sponsored by the TRA, the research grants awarded by the American Museum of Natural History, and the publications, such as the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, produced by the TRA.

 

A listing of the officers of the TRA is included in the report.

 

A photograph of TRA President P. James Roosevelt with Trustee Dorothy Horton McGee at the Annual Meeting and another of two children admiring a bust of Theodore Roosevelt at the Roosevelt Birthplace accompany the report.