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Show Remembering Roosevelt, The Collector by David M. Maxfield and a little intoxicating for researchers. Here, for instance, one can turn up a typed note from stamp Besides the local artifacts enthusiast FDR to Winston and stamps -- the latter, the Churchill, dated The one well- - known Roosevelt White House, May 7, 1942. I found this collection envelope the president among my things today, collected historical manuRoosevelt begins. Even if scripts, campaign buttons, you prefer the art of brickcoins, naval prints and laying to the great science painting, ship models, portraits of presidents, prints of philately, you may have of Washington, D.C., a descendant who collects Dutch tiles, photographs, stamps. . . FDR." Like other collectors, autographs, Christmas cards and, as his wife Roosevelt learned a lot Eleanor recalled, Franklin from his specimens. The stamp collection augmentbought books, Ixxiks, everyed his early interest in geowhere we went, childrens books, miniature graphy, developed as he followed the comings and books, books on military of his widely tragoings tactics, rare books, books veled family. "He knew the related to all his interests. The late historian Sam- location of every island uel Eliot M orison went so which had post offices," llullard notes. On at least far as to judge that Rooseone occasion, as commandvelt would have gone er- in- - chief, this knowdown in history as a great ledge was put to good use. collector even if he had At a 1942 war council, done nothing else." Stewart related, a New Zealand official advocated According to William J. that, to protect the Allies Stewart, former Hyde Park communications lines, assistant director, who re- American forces land on a searched this aspect of certain island in the PaciFDRs life several years fic. That would be all century has passed written alxmt, the fact that he was an avid collector since Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, surprisingly has received NJ. on Jan. 30, 1882, in the little attention. A clapboard house overlook ing the Hudson River and its steep, picturesque bluffs. To this home Roosevelt returned again and again, as a young man, as a state political leader and as president of the United States. Even today, the large, com- fortable living room- - library FDR added to the house reflects his public career and great variety of personal interests. Visiting here, it is easy to imagine Roosevelt sitting at the desk near the window working on his stamp collections, as he often did in the evening, and one can eye other reminders about the room of the presidents heritage and hobbies: portraits of FDRs ancestors hang over the room's two opposite fireplaces; naval paintings and prints cover other walls; hundreds of first edition books line yards of handsome cases, and two highback leather chairs used by Roosevelt when he was governor of New York stand at one end of the room that served as the center of Roosevelt family life. By its artifacts and furnishings, it is not hard to tell that a collector lived at Hyde Park. And, as the curators and administrators at this National Historic Site say, Roosevelt collect- ed everything. Incredible, just incredible, curator Marguerite Hubbard laughs, thinking about all the wagons, farm implements and blacksmith tools that FDR was always rescuing because they had some connection or other with the history of his native Duchess County. Although the public Roosevelt the president, the has long been statesman - - ago, Roosevelt was not only a collector, he was also a bom preserver, a trait in- herited from his mother right, Roosevelt interjected, but Mangareva would be Utter." The official confessed and cultivated by an informal tutor who admonished that the first principle of collecting is: Never destroy anything." that he had never heard of the place, a miniscule atoll in the Pacific. Oh, its a few thousand miles from New Zealand, Roosevelt replied, I know the place because I am a stamp colAnd in 43 years his pulector. American troops did violate not this once pil interdiction, to the alrsolute soon occupied the speck of despair of his wife, children land. Roosevelt cared little and secretaries, Stewart determined. For her part, alxmt the technical details mother Sara Delano Roose- and the value of the items velt scrupulously retained he collected. A humanist, every letter, notebook, he was concerned with the school exercise, report card significance of each object, and essay her son pro- the history and human induced. Franklin, of course, terest associated with it. He particularly liked to saved every scrap, including all correspondence collect letters written by from 1900 through the unknown sailors, and he once paid $900 for a scrapyears of his presidency. book of watercolors drawn To look through this invaluable material now pre- by a seaman aboard the served in the FDR Library USS Dale during the Mexiis a task both monumental can War. Interested less in a paint- fiated with presidential ing's artistic quality than in powers. Another FDR- - designed its accurate depiction of an a map commemorstamp, historic event, Hubbard the 5th anniversary ating convinced was "FDR says, that the naive art works of the admission of MonNebraska and North conveyed the feeling of tana, battle far 1x4 ter than those and South Dakota to the Union, raised a few eyeby the professional artists. of the geoloRoosevelt, after all, is brows Irecause included In features well- - remembered today gical the design. of details after the (long That map shows mounmany of his programs have scattered in the fastains faded) for his ability to communicate with average hion in which salt is scatAmericans and to provide tered on a slice of meat, a former Montana resident assurance at times of uncerwrote Rraaevelt. tainty. In a sen.sc, his per"If the object of the sonal collections and interests reflected this concern stamp is to teach geowith the human side of ma- graphy," the correspondent lectured FDR. who had jor events. Resides his radio fireside learned a thing or two chats, which conveyed the alxmt the subject from his It is not impression that govern- own collections, in doing succeeding ment was an intimate and wholly that accurately. FDR friendly presence, communicated with the people through the stamps he himself designed. Art Mollella, curator of the Smithsonians FDR centennial exhibition at the National Museum of American History, points out. Eight stamps personally sketched by the president and now preserved at the Smithsonian include a 1934 Mother's Day stamp, the first airmail issue and postage honoring Susan B. Anthony. Like other presidents, FDR often became involved with details and projects not ordinarily avso- - No postal item was sent to press without Roosevelts personal approval, according to Stewart. Ever the communicator, Roosevelt once nixed a proposal to honor Pennsylvania's most. Rut Roosevelt was interested in the Ixxik as an Hubbard exjilains. He appreciated their fine bindings, typography and illustrations." And although he had read the classics, most of his reading object, was either recreational, journalistic or related to his hoi iliies. Her read for content, not style, Hubbard says, and he was not considered to have had any artistic taste at all, for music, for literature or art." But Roosevelt certainly had a taste for and was knowledgeable alxmt Hudson River Dutch Colonial architecture. The President, in fact, had a very visible hand in designing a new Hyde Park Post Office and other area buildings, directing that each be sheathed in hx-a- l fieldstone that he felt conveyed a spirit of simplicity." FDR also planned Eleanor's retreat, l (to lie hi 1984, the cenVal-Kil- tennial of her birth), con- -' cerning himself with "every detail of the cottmaster Ceneral Frank tage's arrangement, Walker, it is more impor- appointments and confounder William Penn he insisted to Pos- e, tant to commemorate motion pictures than the old Quaker." In addition to his extensive stamp and Navy collections, Duchess County memorabilia and rare books interested him the struction the local architect rememlx:red. Roosevelt was aware of the parallels between his own interests and activities and those of Thomas Jefferson, according to William B. Rhoads, a State Univer- - Towle Transcript, TJiurs. January 21, 1982 sily of New York assix iatei professor of art history, yet he surely recognized that Jefferson far surpassed his own ability as a designer." FDR, to a greater or lesser degree, shared an in- terest in other pastimes with other chief executives, though it might lie pointed out that Calvin Coolidge entered the White House without any special hobby, only developing an interest in riding and then, for health reasons. Rut the fate of FDR's collections setsNcw him apart from all previous u6 SSMEAtge?-A- T VOu6 having pun, Birr PCNT was e Anv. presidents. Rixtsevelt's concern for a permanent place to preserve his life's accumulations led to the construction of a library near his I liaison River home. ComFDR. not pleted in surprisingly sketched its design and called, of course, for fieldstone facing - the library prompted the enactment of the 19. 5 Presidential Libraries Act and ultimately led to the const ruction of libraries for the papers of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and, most recently. Ford. Fittingly, the FDR Library will play a major role in commemorating his centennial this year, and the U.S. Postal Service will issue a sjxcial stamp in honor of the nation's 32nd 19-4- - HAIR FLAIR 25 East Vine Mon.-Sa- l. Evening Appointments Also Call For An Appointment. 882-209- .. 0 School Lunch Still A Bargain! Since the National School Lunch Act was established in 1946, its primary intent to provide nutritious meals to all children in public schools has been accomplished reports H.W. Win-awe- r. Child Nutrition Program coordinator at the Utah State Office of Education, adding that it is a sus- taining objective. Recent federal budget shortfalls have precipitated some changes in student qualifications for free and reduced-pric- e meals. Increases in meal costs and redesignation of those eligible for low-comeals have cut participation in reduced-pric- e meals by 33 percent in Utah. 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