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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:

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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

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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

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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

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O suggested that Kennedy should carve a message on the husk of J a coconut plucked from a nearby tree by Kumana. On the coconut, Kennedy etched a message – “NAURO ISL/NATIVE KNOWS POSIT/HE CAN PILOT/11 ALIVE/NEED SMALL BOAT/KENNEDY” – and the two scouts began their overnight canoe trip rowing 35 miles to the nearest Allied base, facing certain death if captured by the Japanese. Biuku Gasa has since passed Mark Roche places the tribute from Eroni Kumana on the gravesite of away on November 23, 2005. President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION 3 The Making of a President

he Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library unveiled a new exhibit – The Making of Ta President – during last year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The Making of a President explores those elements of John F. Kennedy’s background that prepared him for a life in public service and to seek our nation’s highest office. The exhibit remains open until September 2009. The display features documents, photographs, and artifacts Typewriter used by from the Kennedy Presidential Library’s collections including John F. Kennedy while some items never before displayed. The exhibit highlights key a student at Harvard. New Exhibit to Open aspects of John F. Kennedy’s early life, including growing up as for Inauguration part of a large and service-oriented family; his education at ; his foreign travels as the son of an ambassador and as a United States Congressman; his Naval service TO HELP MARK the inauguration in the South Pacific during World of President , the War II; and his authorship of Museum at the JFK Presidential two books, Why England Slept Library opened a new document and Profiles in exhibit, Poetry and Power: The Courage. Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy, which guides visitors through the process of drafting, revising and polishing this iconic speech. Visitors will have the opportunity to view rare original documents including typed and handwritten notes and drafts of Kennedy and his close advisor, Theodore Sorensen. Many of these Choate School “Muckers” Club. L-R: Ralph Horton, documents have never been Lem Billings, Butch Schriber, John F. Kennedy. Lt. JG John displayed before. This exhibit will Kennedy’s Navy remain open through 2009. dress uniform. The Making of a President is made possible by the generous support of AIG Private Client Group. The media sponsor is WCVB-TV 5.

R. Sargent Shriver, first Director of the Peace Corps, points to his portrait on a July, 1963 cover of TIME Magazine during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on August 28, 2008. Accompanying Shriver is Museum Exhibit Specialist James Wagner. L L I H S E M A J

4 LEGACY S S N N O O M M M M I I S S Z Z T T I I F F M M O O T T Barack Obama addressing fans who had been waiting in line to have Senator Barack Obama discussing his book, The Audacity of Hope, with copies of the Senator’s book signed. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. President-Elect Obama’s 2006 Visit to the Kennedy Library

n October 20, 2006, form, that unique office. Senator Barack Obama What I then also think is that Ospoke at the Kennedy that office is so different from Presidential Library about his any other office on the plan - book, The Audacity of Hope, with et, that you have to under - New York Times columnist Bob stand that if you seek that Herbert. After the forum, Mr. office, you have to be pre - Obama signed copies of his book pared to give your life to it…. for those in attendance; however, But essentially the bargain

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uled national television interview. T office, and in turn, my fears, Not wanting to disappoint the Senator Barack Obama speaking at the Kennedy Library in October of 2006. doubts, insecurities, foibles, hundreds of people still waiting need for sleep, family life, in line, Senator Obama had everyone who was still waiting leave vacations, leisure is gone. I am giving myself to you. their books with staff and he then spent the evening at his hotel BOB HERBERT: To what extent do you think that a new signing the remaining copies so people could pick them up at the Democratic majority will have to occupy itself with repair work, Kennedy Library. with systematic reversal of a long list of policies of the recent While the forum focused on Senator Obama’s book, the conver - Republican majority, without enough funds to work with? sation did touch on whether or not Obama would run for office. Obama would announce his candidacy for office just a few short SEN. BARACK OBAMA: I think that we have to be very clear and months after his visit to the JFK Library. Below is an excerpt from honest with the American people about the constraints that we’re that conversation: under right now. As I said, in terms of foreign policy, you know, just because the Democrats take over, Kim Jong Ill is still going to BOB HERBERT: …the widespread assumption is that at some be in North Korea, and there’s no easy solution to that problem. point, you will run for President. So my question is, when you think Iran is developing nuclear weapons, there are no easy solutions to about yourself and the Presidency, what is it that runs through your that problem. And is a mess. Changes in tone from an admin - mind? What kind of thoughts do you have about that? istration could make an enormous difference. It’s hard for SEN. BARACK OBAMA: …the reason you go into politics or any Congress to entirely force that tone. Domestically, our budget is form of public service is, hopefully, because you’re going to have shot. And even if we begin a phase-down of troops, we’re still influence, you’re going to create some sort of change out there. looking at tens of billions of dollars going to Iraq over the next And obviously the President has the most influence, and so I think several years, even if we phase down our occupation there. And it would be disingenuous for me to say – or, for that matter, let me so we’re not going to have a lot of pleasant choices over the next tell you, any of the other 99 Senators who are the United States couple of years. I think the American people understand that, as Senate, or any Governor across the country – to say at some point long as we are leveling with them and not trying to overpromise they don’t think about what it would be like if you had that plat - in terms of what can be accomplished.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION 5 New Senior Staff at the Chief Archivist Receives the National Kennedy Library Archives’ Highest Honor NEW CURATOR LOOKS TO BRING THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN F. KENNEDY TO LIFE FOR YOUNGER VISITORS llan Goodrich, Chief Archivist of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, has received the National Archives and Records Administration’s This past fall the highest honor, a Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Goodrich received John F. Kennedy A this prestigious award from the Archivist of the United States, Dr. Allen Weinstein, Presidential Library in a ceremony last December in Washington, D.C. and Museum Beginning in 1969, Allan welcomed Stacey Goodrich initially organized Bredhoff as Museum the Library’s Audio/Visual Curator. Before collection (at the National J A

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E Archives and Records S H I L Library, Ms. Bredhoff Administration’s Records L was the Senior Curator Curator of the Museum Center in Waltham). In the at the John F. Kennedy for the National 1970’s he helped design the Presidential Library and Archives Experience Library’s building and advo - Museum, Stacey Bredhoff. where she curated cated for an unprecedented J A state of the art facility exhibits such as American Originals: M E S

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Treasures from the National Archives L L cold storage vault for film and Eyewitness . Chief Archivist of the John F. Kennedy Presidential to run at zero degrees and Library and Museum, Allan Goodrich. Ms. Bredhoff’s first exhibit, Poetry and 30% humidity. For years, Power: The Inaugural Address of John F. Allan was the team leader of the JFK Presidential Library’s AV Archives division Kennedy (page 4), which opened this before being named Chief Archivist in 2003. As a capstone to his career, Allan month, focuses on the crafting of has played an integral role in the Library’s groundbreaking digitization effort to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. allow worldwide access to the Library’s most prized collections via the Internet.

JAMES ROTH ASSUMES POSITION OF LIBRARY DEPUTY DIRECTOR Albanian President Visits the Kennedy Library James Roth has been ON SATURDAY, September 27, 2008, presentation of a bust of President selected as the new President Bamir Topi, First Lady Teuta Kennedy to the Albanian leader. Deputy Director of Topi, daughter Etida Topi, Ambassador the John F. Kennedy President Topi’s visit to Boston came on Aleksander Sallabanda, and other digni - Presidential Library the heels of a U.S. Senate vote paving taries from Albania visited the John F. and Museum. Mr. Roth the way for Albania to become a full Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. has a history of success member of NATO and a speech given by at the Kennedy Library, Albania’s First Family and their guests took Topi to the United Nations in New York. previously serving as part in a guided tour of the Museum , and an Archivist and as the James Roth, Deputy afterward were given a private reception Director of the John F. Ernest Hemingway in the Library’s 7th floor Mural Room. Kennedy Presidential Collection Curator. The visit was also marked by the Library and Museum. His work includes leading the Digital Asset Management Albanian President Bamir Topi (left) and Secretary General System (DAMS) Group, whose innovative Aleksandër Flloko listen to work in digitization serves as a model for Museum docent Colleen Trahan describe the Kennedy Library’s the Presidential Library System. temporary exhibit – The Making of a President.

6 LEGACY Boston Teacher Sparks Enthusiasm Educational Sponsorship for Learning and Discovery at the Opportunities GENEROUS CORPORATE AND Kennedy Library INDIVIDUAL PARTNERS help provide the charitable funds required to under - oston history and government teacher Simulation Program. In addition, he and write high-quality and award-winning Steven Goode has brought students his students regularly attend Kennedy educational programs at the Kennedy Bto the Kennedy Presidential Library Library Forums. Presidential Library and Museum. and Museum for more than 15 years and he Goode so highly regards the Library’s If you or your company are interested looks forward to continuing this tradition. professional development programs, that in supporting the enrichment programs Goode teaches 11th and 12th grade stu - he once changed his family’s summer travel listed below, please contact Aisha Francis dents at the John D. O’Bryant School and plans to Japan in order to participate. He has taken part in the Kennedy Library’s considers the Kennedy Presidential Library at [email protected] or Election-Year Debate Program (for more and Museum to be “a gem” for students (617) 514-1674. on this program turn to page 11) , guided and teachers alike. “Words cannot express PROFILE IN COURAGE HIGH museum visits, and the Federal Budget how valuable the Kennedy Library’s price - SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST less resources have been to my professional development. And A companion program of the Profile in it’s amazing how much the Courage Award, the Profile in Courage Library helps keep students High School Essay Contest, is the excited about learning!” Kennedy Library Foundation’s flagship He notes that frequent access writing and scholarship program for to speakers of national acclaim high school students. through the Forums “gives stu - dents an invaluable opportunity CHILDREN’S GUIDE TO JFK S

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M will expose their students to the This new educational guidebook will O T Kennedy Library and he will be distributed to all family groups Steven Goode (left) and his students with Kennedy Library continue spreading the word Forum panelists Garrett Graff of The Washingtonian , Matt upon entry to enhance the visit for Bai of and political strategist Joe about the caliber of programs families with young children. Trippi at the September 2008 forum The Internet, , offered here. YouTube and Presidential Campaigns. MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS TOURS Advertised with signage in the Main Lobby, informative docents lead these Foundation Salutes 2008 Education tours twice a day. Program Sponsors STUDENT DIALOGUES ON DIVERSITY This program engages diverse student he Kennedy Library Foundation is proud to acknowledge the support of the groups in interactive discussions on following funders whose generosity has kept the Kennedy Library education issues of inclusion, racial and ethnic programs thriving this year. T diversity, and religious tolerance. Kennedy Library Forum Sponsors —Bank of America; Boston Capital; Lowell Institute; The Boston Foundation; and Corcoran Jennison. Media Sponsors: , FEDERAL BUDGET SIMULATION WBUR and NECN. During this intensive one-day School and Family Resources Sponsors —Fidelity Investments; Citizens Bank; Liberty program, students analyze how our Mutual; The Staples Foundation for Learning; and The Boston Globe Foundation. national priorities are reflected in the Youth and Community Outreach Sponsors —The Boston Foundation; The Red Sox federal budget process and then Foundation; and John Hancock. create their own national budgets.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION 7 Richard Moscarello Brings West Coast Support to the Profile in Courage Award Trust

resident John F. Kennedy and Abraxas Hicks, and later wrote his 1957 Pulitzer their family grew with the births Prize-winning book, Profiles of two biological children, Justin P th in Courage, to document the stories and Lauren. On his 40 birthday, of eight U.S. Senators who sacrificed Moscarello resolved to spend a their careers for the national interest. month each year working for social The book introduced the concept justice – a challenge that over the of political courage, and inspired past 23 years has taken him to the the John F. Kennedy Profile in West Bank six times to volunteer Courage Award. The Profile in at a children’s hospital, to Afghanistan to help build a girls’ Courage Trust is a dedicated fund John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles to sustain the award for all time. in Courage , and the Profile in Courage Award. school, to Indian reservations in This year, the Trust topped South Dakota and New Mexico $10 million in support, including teaching science, and to many a generous commitment from Richard Moscarello and his more places around the world helping people in need. family, profiled below. After visiting the Kennedy Presidential Library, the As a businessman, volunteer, war veteran, philanthropist, Moscarello-Kahmer family chose to express their social husband and father of four, Richard Moscarello strives to live values by pledging $100,000 in support of the Profile in by three simple rules: always fight for social justice; always Courage Trust. “The Kennedy Library fights for social justice treat others as you want to be treated; and always use personal by honoring people who speak the truth,” Moscarello said. resources to take care of the first two rules. “I believe that the idea of standing up to injustice is a concept Moscarello, a California resident and President of STB rooted in everyone and the Profile in Courage Award nurtures Lifesaving Technologies, discovered the Kennedy Presidential and inspires this instinct in us all.” Library and Museum two years ago on a visit with CEO John Shattuck and former Michigan Senator Don Riegle. “I was Gifts to the Profile in Courage Trust can be made through enthralled with the Library and how its mission fits with our January 31, 2009. If you would like to participate in this life goals,” Moscarello said of his first visit. historic initiative, please contact Sandra Sedacca, As a teenager growing up in New York City, Moscarello Vice President for Development, at (617) 514-1673 greatly admired Robert Kennedy’s life and work, and was or sandy.sedacca @jfklfoundation.org. moved by President Kennedy’s call for global citizenship. “Kennedy said listen, we all have to do something,” Richard Moscarello with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Kennedy Moscarello explained, “and I took that message to heart.” Presidential Library. In their 20s, Moscarello and his wife, Kimberly Moscarello Kahmer, adopted two African-American boys, Rwaana Barnes

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8 LEGACY An Evening with Ted Sorensen

n May 28th, former members of the Kennedy Administration came together to speak about one of the most influential Omen to work in the White House – Special Counsel to President Kennedy, Theodore Sorensen. Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Carl Kaysen, Assistant Special Counsel to the S N

President, Lee C. White, and Adam Frankel, who assisted Mr. O M M I S

Sorensen in researching his autobiography, Counselor: A Life at Z T I F

the Edge of History, all took part in the discussion. Tom Oliphant, M O former Boston Globe columnist, served as the moderator. T Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; Special Counsel to President Kennedy, Theodore Sorensen; and Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Carl Kaysen, at the Kennedy Presidential Library on May 28, 2008.

Theodore Sorensen speaking before a capacity crowd in the Stephen Smith Center of the Kennedy Presidential Library. S N O M M I S Z T I F M O S T N O M M I S Z T I F M O T Kennedy Presidential Library Director Tom Putnam with Diana and Robert McNamara.

This Date In History

JANUARY 8, 1963 JANUARY 25, 1961 FEBRUARY 3, 1962 FEBRUARY 5, 1963 FEBRUARY 14, 1962 MARCH 1, 1961 In ceremonies in President Kennedy In response to the The president Jacqueline Kennedy President Kennedy the National Gallery gives the first dictatorship of proposes legislation gives her Emmy at a press confer - of Art, President live televised Fidel Castro, for the first com pre - Award-winning ence discussing and Mrs. Kennedy Presidential press President Kennedy hensive program to televised tour of Executive Order open the Mona Lisa conference. It was bans all trade with combat mental the restored White 10924, which Exhibit. First Lady held in the State Cuba except for illness and mental House. Shown established the Jacqueline Kennedy Department some food and retardation. Seen here is the restored Peace Corps. arranged for a loan auditorium so that medicine under the here, President Red Room in the of the painting it could accommo - authority of the Kennedy addresses White House. from France for date the number Foreign Assistance the National a three-week of journalists in Act of 1961. Association for exhibition. attendance. Retarded Children on October 24, 1963.

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION 9 New Frontier Award Recipients Honored continued from P1

President Kennedy’s staff. The other New Frontier Award honors an innovative public-private partnership to create and refurbish an individual whose contributions in the realm of community 20 city parks, a $40 million commitment scheduled for comple - service, advocacy or grassroots activism have had a positive tion by the end of his first term, and has secured multimillion impact on a broad public policy issue or challenge. dollar commitments from several national philanthropies, including the Gates Foundation, for the creation of new charter CORY A. BOOKER, MAYOR, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY schools in Newark. FENN AWARD RECIPIENT Booker began his political career in 1998, after serving as staff When Cory A. Booker, 39, took the oath of office as mayor of attorney for the Urban Justice Center in Newark. He rose to political New Jersey’s largest city on July 1, 2006, he assumed the leader - prominence as Newark’s Central Ward councilman, drawing ship of a city plagued by crime and economic blight. Booker attention to the plight of young people in the city, which had the immediately launched a “100-Day Plan” to improve public safety, highest infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and high school develop the economy, and reform city government. Among his dropout rates in the country. After losing his first mayoral race early reforms were a reorganization of the police department, a in 2002, Booker founded Newark Now, a nonprofit aimed at commitment to a “zero-tolerance” policy with respect to petty improving safety, economic independence crime, and the implementation of programs focused on at-risk and civic participation in Newark. youth and fatherhood. In July 2008, two years after taking office, Booker and his administration reported a 40% decrease in the T O

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tion in violent crime among major U.S. cities. Booker has also led S I M M O N S S N New Frontier Award recipient, Newark, O M M

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The John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award.

New Frontier Award Committee

John Shattuck (co-chair) Dan Fenn Kica Matos CEO, John F. Kennedy Library Former member of President John F. Community Service Administrator, Foundation, former U.S. Ambassador to Kennedy’s staff and former Director of City of New Haven; recipient, the Czech Republic, and former Assistant the John F. Kennedy Library 2005 New Frontier Award Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Carol Fulp Kristin McSwain Rights and Labor Vice President of Community Relations, National Director, AmeriCorp Bill Purcell (co-chair) John Hancock Financial Services Rick Musiol Director, Harvard’s Institute of Politics and Alan Khazei Chief of Staff, Massachusetts Senate former Mayor, Nashville, Tennessee Founder and former CEO, CityYear; President Therese Murray Ranny Cooper Founder, Be The Change Barbara Souliotis President & COO, Weber Shandwick State Director, Public Affairs, former Chief of Staff Office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy for Senator Edward M. Kennedy

10 LEGACY GIOVANNA NEGRETTI, CO-FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ¿OISTE? Giovanna Negretti, 37, is the co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste? , established in 1999 to provide Massachusetts Latinos with the tools and training to enter public service. The organization was founded in response to concern about the underrepresentation of Latinos in public decision making roles. While its original goal was to provide non-partisan campaigning workshops to Latinos who planned to seek public office, ¿Oiste?’s mission quickly expanded to include civic education, leadership development and advocacy. A student poses a question to Republican political analyst Among Negretti’s early achievements was a successful legal challenge Avi Nelson and Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman, to protect the enfranchisement of voters in Lawrence, Massachusetts, John Walsh during the October 10th debate program. whose population is predominantly Latino. ¿Oiste? now has six grassroots regional councils across the state, each of which engages High School Students Debate the Issues in local public issues with an eye toward expanding Latino civic participation. The organization has plans to expand to five states This past October, 900 students from 31 schools through - within the next three years. out New England participated in the Kennedy Library’s Under Negretti’s direction, ¿Oiste? also serves as the lead manager 2008 Election-Year Debate Program . The program was of an innovative three-year partnership to prepare Boston’s promising organized by Kennedy Library Educator Nina Tisch and young people of color for political leadership. The partnership pro - Director of Education Nancy McCoy. vides a free 16-week course in politics, public policy and leadership to young men and women from greater Boston in exchange for a At each of the five sessions students were broken up into promise to run for office or work on a political campaign within small work groups where they discussed the campaign the next several years. issues most important to them. Following each work At the New Frontier Awards ceremony, Caroline Kennedy group session, the students were brought to the Stephen presented Booker and Negretti each with a ship’s navigational Smith Center where they asked questions of representa - compass in a wooden box bearing the inscription: “We stand today tives of the Republican and Democratic parties such as on the edge of a New Frontier…. I believe the times demand new former Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, former candidate for invention, innovation, imagination, decision. I am asking each of Governor Warren Tolman and State Senator Marian Walsh. you to be pioneers on that New Frontier.” – John F. Kennedy.

New Frontier Award The New Frontier Awards are named after President Kennedy’s Recipient Giovanna Negretti, co-founder bold challenge to Americans given in his acceptance speech to the of ¿Oiste?. Democratic National Convention on July 15, 1960. A distinguished bipartisan committee of political and community leaders selected Booker and Negretti based on their contributions to the public and their embodiment of the forward-looking public idealism to which President Kennedy hoped young Americans would aspire. Past recipients of the New Frontier Awards include: Jay Williams, Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio; Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International; Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Council President; Jane Leu, Founder and Executive Director of Upwardly Global; Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General; Kica Matos, Community Service Administrator, City of

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M Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO of Teach for America. M I S Z T I F M O T

JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION 11 Conservation Work New Technology Gift to Keep Begins on Hemingway Manuscripts Digitized Library Safe and Secure

FORTY YEARS AGO, with a simple he highest level of exchange of letters, Jacqueline protection will be Kennedy and Mary Hemingway applied to the arranged for Ernest Hemingway’s T digitized collections of papers to be donated to the yet to the John F. Kennedy be built John F. Kennedy Presidential Presidential Library, Library. Inspired by Hemingway’s and thanks to the generosity President Kennedy’s mutual respect of Iron Mountain. The for each other, the two women created company has agreed to the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the become the official S John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. N “Preservation and O M M I

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grant from a Boston-based corporate T Library’s vast collections Senator Edward M. Kennedy greets Bob Brennan, President and foundation, critical work is underway of documents, photos, CEO of Iron Mountain, and his wife Andrea at the Kennedy Library at the Kennedy Presidential Library film and audio files. Foundation’s President’s Council event in March 2008. to conserve the manuscripts of Beginning in 2009, Iron Ernest Hemingway. Mountain will host and manage the data preserving the historical documents; center that will house storage and document artifacts; and audio/visual materials of the The Hemingway Manuscript series is management equipment donated by EMC Kennedy administration, which help bring a highlight of the collection which Corporation, the Kennedy Library this important point in American history to contains the author’s personal Foundation’s “Storage Solutions Partner.” life. With Iron Mountain’s generous support, correspondence, photographs, books This extraordinary gift from Iron we will not have to worry about the safety and private collections, along with over Mountain means that the historic digital and integrity of our digitized collections. 17,000 pages of manuscripts for records of President Kennedy’s administra - For that, the Kennedy Library Foundation Hemingway’s legendary novels and tion will reside in a high-security Iron is deeply grateful to Iron Mountain.” short stories. Mountain data center located approximately Iron Mountain and EMC Corporation 200 feet underground. Here, the digitized are partnering with the Kennedy Library “These manuscripts are the most collections of the Kennedy Library Archives Foundation by donating significant in-kind significant material in the Hemingway will be backed up with a duplicate copy and technical resources to undertake a multi-year Collection,” stated Susan Wrynn, the protected from disaster, thereby ensuring initiative to build the first-ever presidential Kennedy Library’s Hemingway Curator. their preservation for generations to come. library digital archive. The project, known “They demonstrate, as no other Bob Brennan, President and CEO of Iron as Access to a Legacy , also has received documents can, the creative genius Mountain said, “The John F. Kennedy generous grants and gifts from AT&T of Ernest Hemingway.” Presidential Library and Museum is an Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of important inspirational center for historians, Massachusetts, Boston Capital, Bank of The first manuscripts to be preserved journalists, researchers and all citizens who America, Camrose & Kross LLC, Ted Hoff under the new grant will be In Our Time aspire to understand history and serve their and Kathleen O’Connell, Clive F. Palmer, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. community.” Mr. Brennan continued, “Iron Michael and Elizabeth Perik, Richard and This initiative builds on the generous Mountain is honored to help protect our Sally Phelps and the Government of Ireland. Iron Mountain, a global leader in support of Patrick and Carol nation’s history.” In thanking Iron Mountain, Kennedy information protection and storage services, Hemingway, and a 2003 grant from Save Library Foundation CEO John Shattuck serves more than 120,000 customers America’s Treasures , which provided said, “Iron Mountain’s technical and securi - worldwide, including more than 93 percent funds to address urgent conservation ty expertise, applied to this project, enables of Fortune 500 companies. needs of Hemingway’s scrapbooks, the Library to focus on what it does best: correspondence, and museum items.

12 LEGACY Victura Society News

his summer, the Victura Society, the Kennedy Library DAN H. FENN, JR. Foundation’s new legacy gift program, welcomed two As a Staff Assistant to President Kennedy and the first Director Tnew members profiled below. If you have included the of the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Dan Fenn’s Kennedy Library Foundation in your estate plans or would role in presenting JFK’s vision for our country began well like to learn how to do so, please contact Amy Goldman, before the doors opened on Columbia Point. When the Planned Giving Advisor, at (617) 514-1532 or Kennedy Library facility opened in 1979, it was Fenn’s goal [email protected]. to welcome young people to the Library. Today, the Library’s parking lot is filled with buses of visit - JACKIE JENKINS-SCOTT ing school groups. As a father of seven A nationally-known public health and grandfather of fourteen, Dan advocate, Jackie Jenkins-Scott is knows the importance of inspiring a leader in Boston and beyond. young people. C

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intently to a recording of Z O T I L F the Kennedy Library L E M G O E President Kennedy, I believe Foundation in her estate plans T to help secure the mission of the Jackie Jenkins-Scott, President that there is hope and Dan H. Fenn, Jr., Founding of Wheelock College and Director of the Kennedy Kennedy Library and its vital Kennedy Library Foundation opportunity to improve our Presidential Library and role of educating young people. Board Member. Museum, greets Caroline “This is one of the most communities, our country Kennedy at the New Frontier Award Ceremony in valuable experiences for Boston’s youth, and I want to be and the world.” November 2007. sure that future generations can walk through the doors of the Kennedy Library, and think to themselves, I, too, can make of his estate plans to provide yet another lasting legacy to the a difference and can even become President of the United Kennedy Presidential Library. “There are few places on earth States.” Jenkins-Scott and her husband Jim Scott, have two where one can find the inspiration to lead with courage. When adult children: Amal, a medical student and Amber, a graduate I see children listening intently to a recording of President of Smith College. She and her husband can often be seen at the Kennedy, I believe that there is hope and opportunity to Kennedy Library Forums. improve our communities, our country and the world.”

IRA Charitable Rollover Extended through 2009

FOR OLDER AMERICANS who wish to support the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, there is some good news from Washington. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 includes an extension of a key tax incentive for individuals age 70 ½ and older to make tax-free distributions from an IRA or Roth IRA directly to qualified charities in 2008 and 2009 for up to $100,000 in each year. (Please note: the distribution would be tax-free and count toward the required minimum distribution, but the gift itself would not qualify for a charitable deduction.) If you are age 70 ½ and older, please ask your financial advisor about the Charitable IRA rollover. To learn more, please contact Doris Drummond, Chief Financial Officer, at (617) 514-1668 or [email protected].

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The Centennial of Thurgood Marshall, June 16, 2008 NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner, Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier, and Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin honor Thurgood Marshall’s appointment as the first African American to the U.S. S N

Supreme Court. O M M I S Z T I F M O T S S N N O O M M M I M I S S Z Z T I T I F F M M O O T T Transformative Presidencies, September 8, 2008 The President and the Arts, October 27, 2008 Columnist Robert Kuttner and ABC News Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Dana Gioia, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, looks at Martha Raddatz discuss the leadership qualities of Presidents who transform two paintings from the Cuban home of Nobel-prize winning author history and the type of presidential leader our country needs now. Ernest Hemingway prior to a discussion about the prominence of the arts in presidential policies. The two portraits are part of the Ernest

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J The Making of a President September 16, 2008 Veteran political reporter Mark Halperin of Time Magazine puts the 2008 presidential election into historical context with political reporters Jonathan Alter and Eleanor Clift.

14 LEGACY Internet, Blogs, YouTube and Presidential Campaigns, September 11, 2008 Same-Sex Marriage in Massachusetts, November 16, 2008 Garrett Graff of Washingtonian Magazine and , advisor to Boston Globe Editorial Page Editor Renee Loth, Harvard Law Professor ’s and John Edwards’ presidential campaigns joined Laurence Tribe, GLAD Attorney Mary Bonauto, and State Senator Marian Matt Bai of The New York Times to examine how the Internet has Walsh reflect on the progress that has been made and the challenges revolutionized politics. ahead for same-sex marriage.

Become a Member Today. The Trials of Sign up as a new member and Homecoming receive free admission to the November 11, 2008 Psychiatrist and Museum at the John F. Kennedy MacArthur Fellow Presidential Library, a 10% dis - Dr. Jonathan Shay count on all your Museum Store explains the treatment of combat trauma by purchases, free admission to all using the ancient Presidential Libraries and advance accounts of battle described in Homer’s notice of new exhibits and special Iliad and Odyssey. He programs including the Kennedy was joined by radio Library Forums and the Celebrate! host Christopher Lydon and former army performing arts series for children. A Conversation with 2006 Nobel Peace captain James Meeks, Prize Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus who served two tours For more information visit our June 7, 2008 of duty in Iraq. website at www.jfklibrary.org Dr. Muhammad Yunus discussed his book, or call 617-514-1659. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism, which outlines a Running for President, October 5, 2008 new business model to create 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee S

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peaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum last August Sto discuss her book – Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters. During this Kennedy Library Forum, Speaker Pelosi recalled memories of her childhood and the beginning of her life in politics. She also addressed the role of women in American politics today. The event filled the Stephen E. Smith Center to capacity. Two spillover theaters were needed to accommodate all those wishing to attend. Afterwards, Speaker Pelosi took time to sign copies of her book in the Pavilion. Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters is a tribute to the important people who played pivotal roles in her journey. She encourages mothers and Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Kennedy Library Foundation CEO, grandmothers, daughters and granddaughters to never John Shattuck and Kennedy Presidential Library Director, lose faith, to speak out and make their voices heard, to Tom Putnam. focus on what matters most, and follow their dreams wherever they may lead.

Paul G. Kirk, Jr., Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Board of Speaker of the House Nancy Directors, with Speaker of the Pelosi discussing her book in House Nancy Pelosi. the Kennedy Library’s Stephen Smith Center.

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