Harbaugh, William Henry, 1920-2005

In this edition of “News and Notes” John A. Gable reviews the annual dinner and meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation in Buffalo, New York, notes the various publications, presentations, and research of Roosevelt scholars such as David McCullough, and highlights the new members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Executive Committee. He also provides details about a Broadway musical, Tintypes, that features Roosevelt as a character.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1981

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.

Article detailing the proceedings of the sixty-first annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) on October 25, 1980. The article summarizes and quotes from the addresses given by the outgoing president, Howard T. Hogan; the incoming president, William Davison; the executive director, John A. Gable; and Peter R. Fisher, TRA Treasurer and chair of the nominating committee. The names of some of those in attendance are listed as are the past presidents of the TRA.

A picture of Howard T. Hogan and his wife with John A. Gable accompanies the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1981

This edition of the “Book Notes” column features news and reviews of four Theodore Roosevelt related works: Edmund Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvia Jukes Morris’s Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady, John A. Gable’s The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party, and Gary G. Roth and Hermann Hagedorn’s Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide.

The column begins with the announcement that Edmund Morris had won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in biography for his study of the young Roosevelt. An excerpt from a review of Sylvia Morris’s biography of Edith Roosevelt is followed with excerpts from four reviews of Gable’s book on the Progressive party. A review of Sagamore Hill concludes the column.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1980

Report on the annual meeting for 1977 of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). The report details the ceremonies of the meeting with an emphasis on the awarding of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to Ethel Derby Roosevelt and the passing of the presidency of the TRA from P. James Roosevelt to Judge Howard T. Hogan. The report details the events of the meeting by noting the speakers and the reports given by the TRA leadership. It also provides brief biographies of P. James Roosevelt and Hogan.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1978

Creator(s)

Unknown

John A. Gable describes in detail the life and work of Hermann Hagedorn, historian, biographer, and long-time Director of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and its successor, the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Gable covers Hagedorn’s life as a child of German immigrants in Brooklyn, New York, his education and teaching at Harvard, and his early career as a writer and poet. He notes Hagedorn’s difficulties as a German-American during World War I and the start of his friendship with Theodore Roosevelt that would define his career. Gable traces Hagedorn’s leadership of the Roosevelt Memorial Association over nearly four decades, discusses his many publications on Roosevelt, and looks at his other writings, including a number of biographies and many works of poetry.

Two photographs accompany this article. One is a formal portrait of Hagedorn and the other shows Hagedorn with President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the dedication of Sagamore Hill in June 1953.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

John A. Gable recaps some of the items presented in this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal by noting the visit to the White House by a delegation from the Theodore Roosevelt Association, his visit to Camp Bronco Junction for asthmatic children, and the dedication of a memorial bird sanctuary to Hermann Hagedorn. He details the additions that have been made to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard, lists the donors of materials, and notes the many requests for use of items in the collection.  

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1977

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.