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President John F. Kennedy ######### LEGACY JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION Winter | 2009 Caroline Kennedy Honors Recipients of the 2008 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards “Giovanna Negretti and Cory Booker exemplify the spirit of President Kennedy’s call to service. They inspire us to remember that we can all make a difference no matter how old, or young, we are.” ~Caroline Kennedy, November 24, 2008 n Monday, November 24, 2008 The John F. Kennedy New Frontier strate the impact and the value of public Caroline Kennedy presented the Awards were created by the John F. service in the spirit of John F. Kennedy. Ofifth annual John F. Kennedy Kennedy Library Foundation and One of the New Frontier Awards New Frontier Awards to Mayor Cory Harvard’s Institute of Politics to honor honors an elected official whose work A. Booker of Newark, New Jersey and Americans under the age of 40 who are demonstrates the importance of elective Giovanna Negretti, co-founder and changing their communities and the service as a way to address a public executive director of the Boston-based country with their commitment to pub - challenge or challenges. This award, non-profit ¿Oiste? . The awards were lic service. The awards are presented called the Fenn Award, is presented to presented during a ceremony at the annually to two exceptional individuals a young elected official in honor of John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard whose contributions in elective office, Dan Fenn, the Kennedy Library’s first Kennedy School. community service, or advocacy demon - director and a former member of ᮣ P10 Bill Purcell, Director, Harvard’s Institute of Politics; Giovanna Negretti; Caroline Kennedy; Cory Booker; and John Shattuck, CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT: S A new exhibit now open in the N O M Museum at the Kennedy Presidential M I S Z T I Library and Museum. ᮣ P4 F M O T Building a Digital Archive John Shattuck Chief Executive Officer John F. Kennedy Library Foundation WHEN PRESIDENT KENNEDY confident that the work we have done CHALLENGED THE NATION in with EMC and Iron Mountain, and 1962 to go to the moon by the end the standards we have established of the decade, he set a goal that for this undertaking, will serve as a would transform American technol - model for other institutions. ogy. The Kennedy Library is now John Shattuck, CEO, Kennedy Library The long-term cost of completing engaged in a far-reaching project Foundation, former Assistant Secretary this massive undertaking will be that will similarly transform what it of State for Human Rights and substantial, difficult to estimate with Ambassador to the Czech Republic. means to be a Presidential Library: precision and challenging to meet digitizing millions of presidential in the current turbulent economic documents, manuscripts, photo - EMC Corporation is the lead environment. While we are fortunate WHAT’S INSIDE graphs and audiovisual recordings, partner in this historic initiative. Its to have such extraordinarily generous and providing online worldwide in-kind commitment in hardware, partners as EMC and Iron Mountain, An Evening with access to this material. The Kennedy software, personnel and other we will have to raise the necessary Ted Sorensen Library’s Digital Archive Initiative technical assistance now exceeds resources to help us cover the sub - P9 was announced at a press conference $1 million. Because of EMC’s stantial cost of technical personnel in June 2006 by Senator Edward extraordinary donation, the and ongoing operations of this Kennedy, Allen Weinstein, Archivist Kennedy Library’s Digital Initiative remarkable project. Fortunately, of the United States, and Joe Tucci, has been designated by the National AT&T Foundation and Blue Cross Victura Society Chairman, President and CEO of Archives as the pilot project for all Blue Shield of Massachusetts – two EMC Corporation, whose company presidential libraries. outstanding corporate partners – P13 has generously donated the technology A second major corporate partner have provided significant early lead - and expertise needed to undertake for the initiative is Iron Mountain, ership grants for our staff capacity this path-breaking project. which will provide an offsite climate- for this digital project. We will The Kennedy Library Foundation controlled data center for storage continue to seek additional partners Kennedy Library is committed to supporting this of the sophisticated hardware to provide charitable support for Forums initiative by providing financial required to conduct this massive this historic initiative. P14 support, staffing and creative digitization effort. Despite these challenges, I’m resources to the Library. The The Kennedy Library and the confident that we will meet our Foundation now employs three Kennedy Library Foundation are goal of digitizing and opening for full-time digital archive staff who trailblazers in this New Frontier of worldwide public access by the work under the supervision of the communications technology. Every 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Library’s Digital Archivist and are challenge we face and resolve is Presidency in 2011 a remarkable responsible for describing documents one less challenge that will be faced digital archive of the records of and photographs that have been by other presidential libraries and President John F. Kennedy. scanned and digitized by using key archives. EMC is a fellow traveler words or meta-data that will make on this journey and is learning new millions of digitized records search - applications for its technology as well able and accessible to the user. as discovering its limitations. We are Cert no. XXX-XXX-000 2 LEGACY Eroni Kumana Pays Tribute to His Chief n the beautiful afternoon of November 1, President Kumana’s son had a look Kennedy’s sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, his niece Sydney of shock on his face, but OLawford McKelvy and his nephew Tim Shriver gathered then explained that at Arlington National Cemetery with their family members to among the many uses of witness a special tribute to President Kennedy. Eroni Kumana, “Custom Money,” it was one of the two Solomon Islands natives who helped rescue John F. traditional to lay it on the Kennedy and his PT-109 crew following the boat’s collision with chief’s grave. Eroni gave the Japanese destroyer Amagiri , had asked that a formal tribute it to Roche, squeezing it from him “be placed on the grave of his chief.” in his hand and making The tribute, a large piece of “Shell Money” or “Custom him promise to place it Money” that had been in Kumana’s family for several generations, on the president’s grave. M E L I was given to an American by the name of Mark Roche who was S At the request of S A A R Caroline Kennedy, visiting the Solomon Islands. M S T R arrangements were made Roche, an investment banker by profession and a WWII O N aviation historian by avocation, had the opportunity to visit G with Arlington National the Solomon Islands last March where he met Eroni Kumana. Eroni Kumana clutches the bust of his Cemetery so that Mark Kumana, now 83, lives in Konqu Village, on Ranongga Island, chief, John F. Kennedy. Roche could honor the where next to his home he has created a shrine with an obelisk wishes of Eroni Kumana to President Kennedy whom he appointed his honorary chief. and place the priceless tribute on President Kennedy’s grave. Roche His extended family of 30 members gathered round while was accompanied by his two children Caleb and Frank, friend Janet Roche and Kumana visited for more than an hour. Kumana’s son, Al-Saad and by Judge Jim Osborne of Indiana who first contacted John F. Kennedy, did the interpreting. At one point Eroni ran to the Kennedy Family on behalf of Roche. Kumana’s tribute was for - his hut and pulled out the bust of John F. Kennedy and cradled it as mally received by Eunice Shriver, Tim Shriver and Sydney Lawford if it were a newborn. McKelvy and it has been conveyed to the Kennedy Presidential As Roche attempted to leave, he noted that Eroni had a variety Library and Museum where it will someday be displayed next to of flowers growing in his yard. Remembering that he would be in the coconut that led to the rescue of JFK and his crew. Washington within the next couple weeks, Roche asked if Kumana The Solomon Islands’ “Shell Money” or “Custom Money” would like him to lay something on the President’s grave. Kumana was used to pay for a bride, buy land, for tribal reconciliation and charged into his hut and pulled a large piece of “Custom Money” compensation and for honoring one’s chief. The money was made from his cabinet where he kept the bust. According to Roche, by hand out of giant clam shells and is considered very rare. Few Solomon Islanders still know how to make it and anthropologists N O I T are still studying how it was made. Larger pieces like the one A D N U placed on President Kennedy’s gravesite typically have been in the O F Y R family for over 200 years. A R B I L Without the heroic efforts of Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, Y D E N Lt. John F. Kennedy likely would never have made it to the end of N E K . F World War II, much less the U.S. Presidency. Kennedy and his men N H O survived for days before they were found by the two islanders. J / Z E U Kennedy asked that they carry a message to Allied forces and as G I R D O he looked around for something to write the message on, Gasa R E S O suggested that Kennedy should carve a message on the husk of J a coconut plucked from a nearby tree by Kumana.
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