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Harry M. Blair, secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, congratulates Sylvane M. Ferris on being named the Chairman for the Roosevelt Memorial campaign in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1919-05-23
Michael Patrick Cullinane argues that the publication of Heather Cole’s Theodore Roosevelt: A Descriptive Bibliography will enhance the understanding and appreciation of Theodore Roosevelt as an author and intellectual which is too often overshadowed by the hunter, soldier, and man of action. Cullinane explores the roots of the bibliography stretching back to the 1920s, and he praises Cole for both her work in compiling the bibliography and for paying attention to its look with the inclusion of color illustrations and manuscript pages. The front and back covers of the bibliography and three examples of its illustrations supplement the review.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
Gregory A. Wynn chronicles the search by the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) for a home for its extensive Theodore Roosevelt Collection. Wynn highlights the choice between Columbia and Harvard University, and he highlights the group’s sensitivity to the feelings of Theodore Roosevelt’s widow, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, as well as those of Nora E. Cordingley, the collection’s caretaker at its home at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace. Wynn reveals the disagreements and tensions between members of the RMA and the arguments made for and against each university gaining the collection, and he notes that the New York Public Library was also considered as the repository for the collection.
Three pieces of correspondence from the RMA and a photograph of John A. Gable with Hermann Hagedorn supplement the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
Tweed Roosevelt chronicles the history of Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. Roosevelt traces the history of the island back to Native American inhabitants and notes the island’s swings between use and neglect. Roosevelt also charts efforts to establish a national memorial to Theodore Roosevelt in the nation’s capital and how those efforts finally led to the dedication of a memorial on the island in 1967. Roosevelt concludes the essay by noting how the island has once again fallen victim to neglect, and he proposes that the Theodore Roosevelt Association work with the National Park Service to restore and reinvigorate the island for visitors.
Four photographs and three illustrations supplement the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2015
History of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that traces the TRA back to the days following the death of Theodore Roosevelt in January 1919. The present day TRA came into being in 1956 following the merger of three Roosevelt memorial organizations. The history notes the TRA’s work in securing historic sites related to the life of Roosevelt, such as his birthplace and home, and the acquisition of additional sites to serve as memorials. It also looks at efforts to preserve historic documents about Roosevelt, and it notes the work of the TRA’s public speaking contests and police awards.
The second page of the article features two photographs from the TRA’s meeting at the White House with President Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1982.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1999
Alan R. Havig examines the effort of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) to secure a site on the Washington, D.C., mall to erect a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Havig argues that it was not the grandiose design by architect John Russell Pope that doomed the proposal, but that many in and out of Congress felt that constructing a memorial to Roosevelt in the 1920s was too soon after his death. Other critics argued that Roosevelt had not yet earned a place among the memorials to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Havig notes that Roosevelt, while denied a monument in the nation’s capital, would gain a memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967, and he would earn a place on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore among the figures that he was deemed unworthy of joining in the 1920s.
Four illustrations, three photographs of memorials to Roosevelt, and the logo of the Theodore Roosevelt Association populate the essay.
Gregory A. Wynn describes the nineteen page book produced by the Roosevelt Memorial Association to promote the construction of a Theodore Roosevelt memorial in Washington, D.C. Wynn also examines other projects undertaken in the nation’s capital by the project’s architect, John Russell Pope. Wynn discusses why the proposed memorial failed to be built, and he compares its design to the National World War II Memorial. A photograph of Wynn and photographs of the book’s cover and title page appear in the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2011
Edward Renehan provides a brief history of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), noting its origins in the immediate days after Theodore Roosevelt’s death in 1919. Renehan notes the work of the TRA’s predecessor, the Roosevelt Memorial Association and its sister organization, the Women’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association, in preserving and restoring historic sites related to Roosevelt’s life, and he highlights the TRA’s work with the National Park Service, Harvard University, and the American Museum of Natural History. Renehan also discusses the TRA’s work in publishing and charitable causes, such as its Teddy Bears for Kids program. A photograph of Roosevelt with his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, accompanies the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2005
By-laws of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that contain eight articles that define topics such as the qualifications for membership, the powers and terms of the board of trustees, the business of the executive committee, and the roles and responsibilities of the TRA’s officers. An introductory note provides a brief history of the TRA and its predecessors, the Roosevelt Memorial Association and the Women’s Theodore Roosevelt Association. Three photographs showing James R. Garfield with Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Gifford Pinchot with his son, and Hermann Hagedorn, appear among the by-laws.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2000
Congressional Charter for the then Roosevelt Memorial Association established in May 1920 that lists the original incorporators and includes some of the key provisions guiding the organization. These include stipulations that the association will be governed by a board of trustees; that its income will go only to further its educational goals; and that it will work to establish memorials to Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. and Oyster Bay, New York.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2000
This page provides a brief history of the formation of the present day Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), and it provides useful contact information such as phone and fax numbers, along with a mailing address, and the names of the TRA staff. Also on this page is a listing of the “Patrons of 78th Annual Meeting” who supported the TRA’s 1997 annual meeting in Newport, Rhode Island.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1997
This abbreviated version of “News and Notes” contains listings of the Presidents of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association. It notes that a made for television movie, The Rough Riders, will air in July 1997, and it announces that the TRA has an email account. The section also provides commentary on this issue’s cover photograph, and it highlights the work of Stephen R. Fox who wrote the lead article for this issue.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1997
This edition of “News and Notes” covers a variety of topics such as the conferral of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the results of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) Public Speaking Contests. The section also notes the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the TRA, and it highlights the naming of a new commanding officer for the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. Updates on Pine Knot, the TRA Journal indexing, and the need for volunteers at both Sagamore Hill and the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace are noted. An obituary for Grace Green Roosevelt McMillian also appears in the section.
Photographs in “News and Notes” include one of some of the leadership of the TRA at Pine Knot; the winner of the TRA Public Speaking Contest for New York City; and one of John Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt in Yellowstone National Park (incorrectly identified as Yosemite). A listing of the members of the executive committee of the TRA also appears in the section.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1993-1994
Robert D. Dalziel examines the history of the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association (WRMA), noting how the organization struggled in its early years to raise funds to reconstruct Theodore Roosevelt’s boyhood home. Dalziel notes the cooperation between the WRMA and the Roosevelt Memorial Association and how the two organizations would eventually merge in 1956 to form the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Dalziel highlights the six presidents of the WRMA and says that both organizations had to add “Theodore” to their names to prevent confusion with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The article includes a photograph of Alice Gilbert Demorest, the first President of the WRMA, and a listing of the members of the executive committee of the TRA.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1993
Three works come under consideration in the “Book Reviews” section. Cole Patrick looks at both the 1941 and 1989 editions of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. He comments on the work of Albert Bushnell Hart in compiling and editing the first edition, and he quotes from William Allen White’s foreword from 1941. Patrick explains the various additions made to the 1989 edition by John A. Gable of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), including a bibliography, a chronology of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, and a history of the TRA.
Tweed Roosevelt examines Bartle Bull’s Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure and highlights its coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s African safari of 1909-1910, and he also looks at other figures, British and American, who made safaris. He praises the book’s organization and illustrations but faults it for not giving a sense of who the hunters were as people, Roosevelt included. Marilyn E. Weigold praises Elizabeth Winthrop’s novel, In My Mother’s House, for its “precise descriptions of life in Manhattan in the last few decades of the nineteenth century.” The novel’s main character is based on the life of the daughter of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt’s sister.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1989
John A. Gable, editor of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, reviews three works and Richard H. Collin a fourth in the “Book Reviews” section. Gable examines a history of Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as Police Commissioner of New York City, a biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and a reissue of Hermann Hagedorn’s classic study of Roosevelt’s time in Dakota, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands. Collin studies a work on the relationship between Roosevelt and the naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan. Gable lists sixteen changes introduced to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) by Roosevelt, and he finds Jay S. Berman’s study important as the first book solely devoted to Roosevelt’s years with the NYPD despite his misgivings about its use of academic language and police jargon.
Gable focuses on Hagedorn’s research and on his relationship to the Roosevelt Memorial Association rather than on the content of the book, but he quotes David McCullough in arguing that Roosevelt in the Bad Lands remains valuable to those wanting to know about Roosevelt’s time in the West. In reviewing Carol Felsenthal’s Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Gable quotes from newspaper reviews, compares the book to previous biographies, and asserts that it is the best overall study of “Princess Alice” done to date. Collin highlights episodes, mostly negative, from Mahan’s career, and argues that Richard W. Turk’s study of the Roosevelt-Mahan relationship is deeply flawed by its lack of knowledge of Roosevelt, factual errors, and a weak bibliography. A photograph of USS Theodore Roosevelt appears in the Collin review.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1988
This brief biography of Gifford Pinchot recounts his accomplishments as first Chief of the United States Forest Service, as well as later in life. Pinchot participated heavily in Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party, and was later elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1922 and 1930 as a Republican. Pinchot helped found many associations focused on forestry and conservation, and was additionally a founder of the Roosevelt Memorial Association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
Brief notice about the centennial of Hermann Hagedorn’s birth. The notice covers his leadership of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), lists his many publications on Roosevelt, and notes his other works of poetry and biography.
Two photographs of Hagedorn, one showing him with the future director of the TRA, John A. Gable, accompany the notice.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982
This article explains the history and work of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) from its beginnings as the Roosevelt Memorial Association in 1919. It notes the association’s efforts to preserve sites important to the life of Theodore Roosevelt such as his birthplace and home. It discusses the TRA’s work with Harvard University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary in Oyster Bay, New York. The article lists some of the TRA’s publications, notes its sponsorship of student contests, and discusses the governance and leadership of the association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1981
This article explains the history and work of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) from its beginnings as the Roosevelt Memorial Association in 1919. It notes the association’s efforts to preserve sites important to the life of Theodore Roosevelt such as his birthplace and home. It discusses the TRA’s work with Harvard University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary in Oyster Bay, New York. The article lists some of the TRA’s publications, notes its sponsorship of student contests, and discusses the governance and leadership of the association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1980