Milano, Linda E.

In “Best Wishes From Oyster Bay,” twenty-six friends, colleagues, and fellow historians offer their thoughts on the life and work of John A. Gable, the Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the founder and editor of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Some of the themes that recur are Gable’s support and mentoring of historians and biographers in the early stages of their careers, his encyclopedic knowledge of Theodore Roosevelt, and his promotion of membership in the TRA. The authors also note his unsentimental critique of their work and his fostering a truce between the feuding Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York factions of the Roosevelt family. Two of the contributors, William N. Tilchin and Gregory A. Wynn, share some of their correspondence with Gable to demonstrate these themes, and almost all of the contributors highlight Gable’s generosity with his time and talents.

The piece includes a table of contents on its first page and it concludes with brief biographies of each of the authors. Twenty-three photographs populate the text, including twenty of Gable.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2005

Report on the annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held on November 3, 2001 at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in New York City. The report covers the many sets of elections for officers and members of the advisory board and board of trustees for the TRA. The report highlights the election of Norman Parsons as the next President of the TRA, providing a brief biography of him, and it provides a synopsis of his address to the gathering. The nationwide tour of Theodore Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor, the status of the Pine Knot property, and the conferring of the TRA’s annual Junior Officer Leadership Award for the USS Theodore Roosevelt are also discussed.

 

Photographs of the most recent presidents of the TRA, Parsons and Lawrence H. Budner, supplement the report.

 

 

Three photographs with captions depicting the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. One picture highlights the ship’s participation in Operation Enduring Freedom while another shows the carrier in formation in the Arabian Sea with nine other vessels. A third photograph shows Linda E. Milano of the Theodore Roosevelt Association presenting the commander of the carrier with a commemorative New York State license plate for display on the ship. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2002

Creator(s)

Unknown

Report on the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Buffalo, New York, on October 19, 2002. The article notes the various reports given by officers of the TRA, and it covers the election of a slate of officers as well as members of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board. The report highlights the TRA’s approval of efforts to expand the Elkhorn Ranch site in North Dakota, use of the TRA website, and changes to the association’s by-laws.

 

Three photographs supplement the report, including two winners of the Bertha B. Rose Award, Paul F. McHale and Kent Conrad, honored for their work in securing Theodore Roosevelt the Medal of Honor. An advertisement for Liberty Title Agency of Garden City, New York, appears at the end of the report. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Report on a variety of news from the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), including obituaries and personnel changes at the TRA office. The passing of former TRA President Howard T. Hogan leads off the report, and the deaths of Roosevelt biographer Carleton Putnam and Mary E. Richard, Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary, are highlighted. The addition of a TRA Police Award for Nashville, Tennessee, the history of Youngs Memorial Cemetery, and publicity for the 1998 annual meeting also feature in the report. A photograph of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt appears on the first page of the section.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1998

Creator(s)

Unknown

The Theodore Roosevelt Association claims that a well known photograph of Theodore Roosevelt at Crater Lake is not actually Roosevelt. The photograph came under scrutiny as the National Park Service prepared to celebrate the centennial of Crater Lake National Park. Local lore claims that Roosevelt visited Crater Lake and the Baldwin Hotel in Klamath Falls, Oregon, but written evidence is lacking.

Collection

Crater Lake National Park

Creation Date

1999-12-14

Creator(s)

Unknown