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The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center
has a dedicated staff of professionals, members, students, affiliates and volunteers
to bring to you the Center's many programs, including the operation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center
Museum and Special Collection, for your learning and enjoyment of this important progressive era of American history. In the coming months we
will be profiling members, students and other affiliates and volunteers who are assisting us in realizing our
goals of being one of the highest quality and interactive resources available in the preservation of the history and
the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal. We encourage you to contact
us if you wish to learn more. Further, we hope that you will join us in our mission to bring the New Deal
era to the public, and to participate fully in
the many cultural, historical, and other educational activities related to the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center and Museum.
The FDR American Heritage Center Museum and Special Collection are major cultural and
historic institutions, showcasing one of the finest primary source
documentary and other artifact collection of materials related to
FDR, ER, and the New Deal in the world. Further, the FDR Center is
developing and promoting curricula to integrate into primary and secondary
educational settings, so that the New Deal era will be taught more
substantively and effectively to children and other students of all
ages.
The FDR Center, therefore, not only functions as a major Museum,
but also as an educational outreach center devoted to teaching people
about the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Please join a dedicated group of individuals
working hard to make the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center,
Inc. a reality. Please send us your tax-deductible DONATION! Making
a contribution is easy, just go to Join Us
and click on the Make a Donation button. We are at a critical juncture,
and your help and support would be greatly appreciated today.
You may also view and print our FDR Center Membership Application
and assist us in fulfilling our mission by making a fully tax-deductible contribution to the Franklin
D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center, Inc.
Alternatively, you can send a check or money
order to:
The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage
Center, Inc.
Membership Office
44 Hickory Lane
Whitinsville, MA 01588-1356 U.S.A.
Telephone: (508) 579-0043
Facsimile: (508) 526-8787
Contact Information for the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center
Museum and Special Collection:
Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum
Union Station, Second Floor
2 Washington Square
Worcester, MA 01604-4016 U.S.A.
Telephone: (508) 770-1515
Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Special Collection
Henry Hobson Richardson Room
Thomas Crane Public Library
40 Washington Street
Quincy, MA 02169-5304 U.S.A.
Telephone: (617) 376-1300
The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage
Center Museum and Special Collection are homes to a large, diverse, and historically
significant collection of Roosevelt and New Deal materials. Here is some information about
the principal officers of the FDR Center. Please scroll down or click on one
of the links at the top right of this page to go directly to the officer of the
FDR Center that you wish to learn more about. Again, welcome to the Franklin D.
Roosevelt American Heritage Center and Museum.
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Dr. Joe Plaud is the founder and President of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American
Heritage Center and Museum. Information about the large and diverse collection of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and New Deal
artifacts and other ephemera may be found in the links to the various newspaper articles appearing in 2003 and 2004 about Dr.
Plaud and the FDR Center. Links to all these newspaper articles may be found on the homepage of the FDR Center. Dr. Plaud is a clinical
psychologist whose graduate training was primarily focused on behavioral assessment and therapy. He received his B.A. in psychology
in 1987 from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, with High Honors in Psychology. While an undergraduate
at Clark University, Dr. Plaud was also an active student in American history, and spent his last collegiate year deciding whether to attend
graduate studies in psychology or history. He ultimately decided to continue his education in psychology, but his interest in history would not be
vanquished! In the fall of 1997 Dr. Plaud enrolled as a clinical psychology graduate student at the University of Maine, in Orono, Maine, where he received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology
in 1993, after completing his clinical internship at the University of Mississippi and Jackson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Centers in Jackson, Mississippi. Upon matriculation, Dr. Plaud joined the clinical psychology faculty at the University of North
Dakota in 1993 (until 1998), where he was actively involved in the training of clinical and experimental psychology graduate students
in their Ph.D. programs, as well as pursuing his teaching and research activities in psychology, such as behavior analysis, behavior modification and therapy, and behavioral assessment. While on faculty
at the University of North Dakota, Dr. Plaud took graduate courses in American history at both the University of North Dakota and North Dakota State University, and at the latter institution he was admitted to the graduate masters
program in history. As a scientist-practitioner, Dr. Plaud is widely published in national and international psychology journals. Dr. Plaud also has a strong interest in the philosophical and historical foundations of psychology, with particular interests
in the theoretical underpinnings of behaviorism and behavior therapy, and the accurate dissemination of behavior analysis
in public forums. His interest in the New Deal and American history has also been with him since Dr. Plaud's early days. As President
of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center, Dr. Plaud oversees the mission and goals of the Center to provide cultural, educational and
other learning opportunities concerning Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the New Deal, and American history during the 1930s and 1940s, and
to advance the importance and relevance of the New Deal legacy in the world today. In addition to maintaining an active clinical psychology
practice and several faculty appointments, including his being both a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Plaud has also served as the founder and manager of multiple Internet forums in psychology and
behavior analysis. Dr. Plaud has also served as Director of Research and Webmaster at the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies and a Visiting Scholar of Human
Development at Brown University. Dr. Plaud's military background includes service as a clinical psychologist in the Medical
Service Corps of the United States Naval Reserve. He is presently in an inactive status in the Naval Reserve, but holds a commission as
a Lieutenant Commander. Dr. Plaud's goal is to bring the era of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal alive to students of all
ages, through psychology-based curriculum development, and of course the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum. Dr. Plaud also proudly serves
as a member of the Board of Governors of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) in Hyde Park, New York.
Dr. Plaud's long-standing and central interest in preserving the Roosevelt legacy has been covered in several newspaper articles about the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center,
on October 14, 2003 , December 16, 2003, December 24, 2003, May 25, 2004, August 4, 2005, and August 9, 2005.
As recounted in the October 14, 2003 edition of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette,
"As a child, Joseph J. Plaud was
fascinated by his grandmother's stories about President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. She didn't know the president, but she admired
him so much that she spoke about him in familiar terms. 'She made him seem like he was her best
friend,' Dr. Plaud said.
The grandmother piqued her grandson's curiosity.
'I thought, Who is this FDR, and why is he so important?'
As a teenager, Dr. Plaud started buying kitschy
items connected to FDR and the New Deal. As he matured, so did his
interest. Dr. Plaud said he moved on to books, photographs and documents,
especially the ones with FDR's signature, which represented 'the
force of a pen behind a bill, policy or government action.'
By the mid-1990s, Dr. Plaud, a forensic psychologist
by trade, had become a very serious collector - so serious, in fact,
that he had amassed a cache of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt material
considered by many collectors and dealers to be the largest of its
kind in private hands." Through Dr. Plaud's continued efforts and support, as well as the good works being done by the other officers and staff of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center and Museum, the initiatives begun by Dr. Plaud over a quarter century ago
will continue to preserve the legacy of the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the New Deal.
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Dr. Debbie Plaud is the Vice President of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American
Heritage Center and Museum. Dr. Plaud has been an integral member of the Drs. Plaud team (Joe and Debbie) who work tirelessly
in assembling and maintaining one of the most diverse, interesting, and comprehensive collections of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and New Deal material outside the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. Like Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Plaud is a native New Yorker, born and raised
close to the other branch of the Roosevelt family (the Theodore Roosevelts) on Long Island. She received her B.A. in psychology
in 1985 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, with High Honors in Psychology. Dr. Plaud received her Ph.D.
in clinical psychology in 1993 from Binghamton University, in Binghamton New York, specializing in child clinical psychology,
especially working with children with autism and developmental disabilities. After completing her clinical internship in Rockland, Maine, Dr. Plaud began working on
state of the art and science behavioral psychology techniques with children with developmental disabilities, including serving as a Clinical Director at the Groden Center
in Providence, Rhode Island, and then as Program Director for the Developmental Disabilities Program at Butler
Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Plaud presently serves as the behavior specialist for the Northbridge Public School Department in
Massachusetts. In addition to her work with children, Dr. Plaud is an animal lover, and keeper of exotic birds, enjoying outdoor recreational activities.
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Cyrus D. Lipsitt, B.F.A. is the Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum. Mr. Lipsitt is well known in the Worcester, Massachusetts area through his affiliations with many cultural organizations and endeavors. Previously Mr. Lipsitt was assistant director, marketing director and development director of the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, for five years. He was involved in the Museum's relocation to Lowell as well as construction of the new facility, where he was responsible for the development of many of the Museum's programs and operations. Prior to that, Mr. Lipsitt was executive director of the Worcester Center for Crafts, for fifteen years, where he was instrumental in developing educational programs, exhibitions, special events, fundraising strategies, and increased enrollment and membership for the Center. He has also been director of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts, art director of The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, instructor at the Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, and graphic designer with the Container Corporation of America, Medford, Massachusetts.
Mr. Lipsitt is currently a commissioner with the Worcester Cultural Commission, appointed by the city manager in 2003. He has served on boards of cultural organizations including Arts Worcester, 1992-1995, and Studio Potter Magazine, Goffstown, New Hampshire, 1993-1996, and on numerous committees including: selection committee for "Art-in-Architecture" for the Harold Donohue Federal Building, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1991; "Art-for AIDS Sake" exhibition and fundraiser, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1992; "The Domestic Object" exhibition at the Fuller Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1993. Mr. Lipsitt served several terms as the Massachusetts representative to the American Crafts Council in New York City; he has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant Program and a panelist for the Worcester Cultural Commission's Arts Lottery Grant Program.
Cyrus Lipsitt resides in Worcester with his wife Carole, an elementary school reading specialist, and son Adam, a student. Their daughter, Alisa, is a documentary film editor in Los Angeles, California. Cyrus, Carole and Alisa are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. Lipsitt attended Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, a town where he grew up and which he still considers his home town. Please read about Mr. Lipsitt's distinguished career in a newspaper article featuring the FDR American Heritage Center Museum's Director published on January 4, 2005.
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Brendan M. McGinty is a Consultant and the Webmaster for the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center. Mr. McGinty's vast political experience includes his positions as Regional
Director for Dick Durbin's Illinois United States Senate campaign, County Coordinator for Dan
Hynes' campaign for Illinois State Comptroller, and volunteer for many Democratic
national, statewide, and local candidates.
As the elected Secretary of Tomorrow's Democrats, founded by United States Senator
Dick Durbin, Mr. McGinty was chartered with getting new and young people
involved in the Democratic Party and managed membership through maintaining
databases and providing an online community network for the organization.
In addition to serving the Democratic party, Mr. McGinty founded and
continues to serve as President & CEO of Leo Alliance, Inc., a business
consulting firm, and Campaign Advisory Corp., a political consulting firm.
According to Mr. McGinty: "I started studying politics when I was in first grade. I realized a long
time ago that few people have more real influences over people's lives than
good politicians. That's why I'm pleased to take my political involvement to
another level, helping a broad spectrum of candidates throughout the United States
with the services offered by CAC."
The FDR American Heritage Center Museum and Special Collection
showcase one of the finest primary source documentary and other artifact
collection of materials related to
FDR, ER, and the New Deal in the world. Further, the FDR American Heritage
Center develops and promotes curricula to integrate into primary and secondary
educational settings, so that the New Deal era will be taught more
substantively and effectively to children and other students of all
ages.
Visit Union Station, 2 Washington Square in Worcester, Massachusetts, the home of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum.
Visit the Henry Hobson Richardson Room of the Thomas Crane Public Library, 40 Washington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, the home of the Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Special Collection.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt American Heritage Center Museum also has items on loan to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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