Official circular distributed among the Harvard Class of 1904 regarding their plans to honor the life and family of late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one page, 8.5 x 11, April 16, 1945. In part: “At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Boston Association of the Class duly held on April 16, 1945, the following resolution was unanimously adopted by a rising vote: Our most distinguished classmate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945. He had served as a member of our Class Committee from senior year on. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1918 to 1924, Chief Marshall at our Twenty-fifth Reunion in 1929, and the recipient that year of the degree of L. L. D. from Harvard… But rather than record the countless honors that were conferred upon him, or the burdens that he carried so courageously, we, his Harvard classmates, desire to express our admiration for his simplicity and charm; for those characteristics that generated so naturally the idea of the reception of his classmates at the White House; for those qualities manifested in his love of the sea and of sailing and fishing; for his warm humanity, his abounding faith and his Christian fortitude…It was then Voted: To approve the action of the Class Officers / (a) in sending, with the most affectionate sympathy of the Class, red roses to Mrs. Roosevelt at Hyde Park; (b) in sending to the Warm Springs Foundation, which was so close to our classmate’s heart, the sum of $502 from the Class Fund representing a gift from the 502 living members of the Class." In fine condition, with faint toning and intersecting folds.
