BROCHURE
DEDICATION
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MONUMENT
Saturday, October 5, 1996
1 P.M.
72nd Street and Riverside Park
CITY OF NEW YORK PARKS & RECREATION
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor
Henry J. Stern, Commissioner
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MONUMENT FUND
Franklin D. Roosevelt III
Herbert Zohn
8 Pages
ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
1884 - 1962
Born in New York City on October 11, 1884, she was orphaned at age ten and educated in England. She married
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1905 and bore six children between 1906 and
1916. She became a leader in New York
State's Democratic Party in the 1920's and served actively for four years as wife of Governor Roosevelt. From 1933 to 1945 she greatly expanded the role of First Lady of the United States. She fought for the advancement of labor, mi-norities, the poor, women, and young people. She was appointed United States delegate to the United Nations by President Truman in 1946. As Chair of the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights, she led the successful effort that secured passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in
1948. She continued her work as teacher, writer, advocate, and humanitarian until her death on November 7, 1962. She is remembered as "First Lady of the World."
Prelude
Sherrie Maricle and DIVA (No Man's Band)
Welcome
Herbert Zohn
Co-Chair Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund
Flad Presentation
Girl Scout Troop 3005
National Anthem
Solo: Migratory V
Audra McDonald
Remarks
Henry J. Stern
Commissioner of Parks & Recreation
Franklin D. Roosevelt IlI
Ruth W. Messinger
President of the Borough of Manhattan
Ronnie M. Eldridge
Member of the New York City Aid Society Chorus
Francisco J. Nuñez, Music W. Giuliani
Mayor of the City of New York
Keynote Address
Hillary Rodham Clinton
First Lady of the United States of America
Postlude
America the Beautiful
Peter Bogyo, Coordinating Producer for the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund Laura Kravets and Bern Gautier, Stage Managers Ray Schilke/Ins & Outs, Sound Consultant
Special thanks to:
Acker, Merrall & Condit Jessica Bass Sid Liebl Hely Lima Shirley Goldstein
Party Time Division of
Academy Chair Renting Co.
Joseph Vieira
Thanks to:
GSD Productions, Inc. (sound equipment)
Carroll Musical Instrument Rental
Ms. McDonald's accompanist,
Michael Dansicher
Migratory V written by Adam Guettel
Program design, Toby Allan Schust Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt, 1911.
Courtesy of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
Americal America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw
Confirm thy soul in self control
Thy liberty in law
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Til all success be nobleness
And ev'ry gain divine
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the vears
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
- Katharine Lee Bates, 1893
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