Evening star., 1937-09-14
JOHN ROOSEVELT
ENGAGED TO WE'D
Will Marry Anne Clark, Fl,
of BoSton-Brida Plans
Not Yet Formulated.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NAHANT, Mass, September IA
John Roosevelt, handsome, strappine
Harvard undergraduate and only un-
married member of the Nations frs,
family, is engaged to pretty Anne
Lindsay Clark, Boston debutante, but
wedding plans have not been formu-
lated.
The youngest son of President and
Mrs. Roosevelt made this clear after
his fiancee's mother, Mrs F. Haven
Clark, widow of wealthy Boston
banker, announced the engagement
ending weeks Of rumors and con-
slant denials.
1--WE haven't made any plans yet
for getting married" said John, a
senior at Harvard. I've got to finish
one more year at college, you know.
Then I hope to get into advertising
asa commission salesman. Just where
we'll settle down I don't know. 1t
may be Boston"
Although the announcement was
made yesterday, John disclosed that
they were engaged at the time he
escorted Miss Clark to the wedding
of his older brother Franklin and
Ethel du Pont on June %.
WhirIwind Courtship.
Apparently it was a whirlwind
courtship. Only last April l Mrs.
Clark announced that the engagement
OF her daughter to Samuel Stevens
Sands of Middleburg, Va, had been
broken, with the explanation, "It was
more or less a hasty romance any,
way"
Sands, son of Mrs. Richard Whitney
Of Far Hills, N. j.. and New York and
grandson of Mrs. William K. Van
derbilt, was classmate of young
Roosevelt at Groton, and is now at
Harvard.
The engagement of John and Miss
Clark had President and Mrs. Roose-
velt's blessing.
At the Presidents Hyde Park, N. Y,
estate, James Roosevelt, the Presi-
dents eldest son and secretary, who
married q Boston debutante, said "the
family is very pleased"
Miss Clark, slender and blue eyed,
Il 81, four months ito the day"
younger than John. She is feet So
inches tall. John is feet 4 inches.
She wears her blond hair in long bob
Sailing Favorite Hobby.
Sailing is her favorite hobby. She
admits playing tennis terribly" and
dislikes golf.
Miss Clark said she "adores' dane
Ing, but she explains I'VE have no
favorite dance numbers as Ethel and
Franklin were supposed to have had"
Miss Clark, wearing q three-dia-
mond engagement ring, told inter-
viewers she didn't have any politics
and stated firmly "and, what's more, I
don't know a thing about the New
Deal"
Young Roosevelt's fiancee made her
debut in the Winter of 1885, the year
she was graduated from the fashion,
able Winsor School in Boston. Pre-
viously she studied at the Greenwood
School in Baltimore. She is a men,
Der Of the Junior League, although not
active, and has Travelled extensively,
Born in washington.
John was born In Washington. D.
c., while his father was Assistant Sec
retary Of the Navy. He prepared for
Harvard at Groton School. At Har-
ward he belongs to the Groton Club
and Fly Club, the Iroquois and the
Hasty Pudding Institute of ITO. He
Is member of the Rombout Hunt
Club of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
The engagement marks the fourth
romance of the Roosevelt children
since their father has been in the
White House.
Anna, the only daughter, divorced
from Curtis Dali, was married to John
Boettiger, Seattle, Wash, newspaper
publisher, and Elliott, divorced, mar
ried Ruth Googins of Forth Worth,
Tex, July %, 1888. The June we'd
ding Of Franklin, jr., and Miss du
Pont was one Of the social events of
the season.
The eldest son, James, has been
married since June 4, 1880. His wife
Is the former Betty Cushing, Boston
debutante.