Deal develop programs and materials exploring the Roosevelts and their legacies, especially in terms of contemporary social policy issues. With the graceful banisters now once again agleam, Hunter’s Public Policy Institute began its work in mid-2010, when two visiting scholars moved into apartments carved out of former servants’ quarters on the sixth floor. John McDonough, the inaugural Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health, helped shape health care reform both in Massachusetts and nationally as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s senior adviser. And Jonathan Fanton, the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt Visiting Fellow and former president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, is helping to develop Hunter’s human rights program. Fanton said guest speakers invariably want to tour Roosevelt House, for “every room has a piece of history that’s inspiring, which I hope will call forth all who work here to think about the high ideals that the Roosevelts set for us and for the world.”
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Hunter College president Jennifer Raab in the refurbished Roosevelt House library, shown in bottom right photo filled with Hunter students during the 1950s; above and below, the stately townhouse exterior today and in 1910.
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