Talk:John Allen Gable

message: John Allen Gable, Ph.D.
1943 - 2005
With profound regret, the Theodore Roosevelt
Association announces the death yesterday, Feburary
18th, of its executive director, friend, and guiding
light of nearly 31 years, Dr. John Allen Gable, Ph.D.
Dr. Gable was widely considered the world’s leading
authority on Theodore Roosevelt. He became Executive
Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association in
1974. He founded and began editing the Theodore
Roosevelt Association Journal, a quarterly
publication, in 1975.
Dr. Gable graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier,
Ohio in 1965 and received his Ph.D. in History from
Brown University, Providence, RI, in 1972. He held
teaching positions at various colleges and
universities (C.W. Post Campus, Long Island
University, 1977-89; Briarcliff College, 1974-1977;
Brown University 1972-73). Since 1989, he’d served as
Adjunct Professor of History at New College, Hofstra
University.
Dr. Gable was a member of the Theodore Roosevelt
Memorial Committee at the American Museum of Natural
History and the Advisory Board of the Roosevelt Study
Center in The Netherlands. He was on the Vestry of
Christ (Episcopal) Church, Oyster Bay, NY, and was a
past trustee of the Oyster Bay Historical Society.
Among the other organizations to which he belonged
were the Organization of American Historians, the
Society for the Preservation of Long Island
Antiquities, and the Center for the Study of the
Presidency. He is listed in Who’s Who in the East,
Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
Dr. Gable published extensively on Theodore Roosevelt
and related topics. His The Bull Moose Years: Theodore
Roosevelt and the Progressive Party (Port Washington,
NY: Kennikat Press, 1978) is considered a classic in
the literature. His other Theodore Roosevelt-related
writings include numerous magazine and journal
articles, forewords, introductions, contributed
chapters, and prefaces, along with a number of books
for which he served as editor. Most recently, he’d
been especially proud to serve as the editor for a
special armed forces edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s
The Man in the Arena, a compendium of speeches,
letters and essays. Dr. Gable also wrote a
highly-respected history of his boyhood church, The
Goodness that Doth Crown Our Days: A History of
Trinity Parish, Lenox, Massachusetts (Trinity Parish,
Lenox, MA, 1993), and a history of his adopted church
in Oyster Bay: How Firm a Foundation: The Anglican
Church in Oyster Bay, New York and Colonial America
(Oyster Bay: Christ Church, 2004).
Dr. Gable did extensive television and film work. He
served as historical consultant and on-camera
commentator for TR: An American Lion, produced and
directed by David de Vries and shown as a History
Channel special in 2003. Additionally, he appeared in
the PBS “American Experience” film TR: The Story of
Theodore Roosevelt (1996), and in numerous productions
for A&E, C-SPAN and NBC (including the Today Show).
Shortly before his death, Dr. Gable had been voted the
Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal: an
honor previously granted to such scholars, statesman
and artists as David McCullough, George H.W. Bush,
Hamilton Fish, Paul Nitze, Philip Habib, Ralph Bunche,
and Robert Frost. (Another recipient was Dr. Gable’s
own mentor and forerunner as Executive Director of the
Association, Herman Hagedorn, who received the Medal
in 1956.) As well, one month ago, Dr. Gable was
presented with a special book of personal tributes
composed by more than two dozen of his friends and
colleagues, among them the Pulitzer Prize winners
Edmund Morris, James MacGregor Burns, David McCullough
and Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Dr. Gable’s survivors include his mother, Mary Jane
Gable, of Naples, Florida; a brother, Patrick Gable of
Pittsfield, MA; a sister, Bonnie Jean Gable, of Lenox,
MA; a sister-in-law, Janet Gable, of Pittsfield; and
nieces Mary and Bonnie Jean, of Los Angeles and
Corvallis, Oregon, respectively.
A memorial service will be held 11 AM on Friday,
February 25th, at Christ Church, 61 East Main Street,
Oyster Bay. A later funeral service will be held at
Trinity Parish, Lenox, MA.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that contributions
be made to Christ Church (address above) or the
Theodore Roosevelt Association, P.O. Box 719, Oyster
Bay, NY 11771.
Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tr-m/message/1027  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SimonATL (talk • contribs) 21:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Obituary Press Release from the Theodore Roosevelt Association