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"ROOSEVELT HISTORY MONTH"
In a tribute not previously accorded to an American president, Congress
designated this October as "Roosevelt History Month." Such major
institutions as the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library at Hyde Park, New York, planned special events or exhibits keyed
to the life and work of the nation's thirty-second president.
In New York City, a notable collection of Rooseveltiana assembled by Donald
S. Carmichael '35 will be exhibited and sold at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller,
19 East 76th Street, from November 1 to December 14.
The coordinating committee for "Roosevelt History Month" was
chaired by Peter B. Kovler, M.P.A. '80, of Washington, D.C., who has also
been active in the drive to construct an FDR Memorial there. A 7.5-acre
site between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials was reserved for such a memorial
by act of Congress in 1955. About $5 million must still be raised from private
sources to meet the projected $10 million cost. The Kovler Family Foundation
made a donation of $500,000 last year.
The FDR Memorial will consist of outdoor rooms with sculptural narratives.
The memorial is scheduled for completion next year.
Back to Frank Roosevelt at Harvard. Also see Roosevelts at Harvard
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