- John Roosevelt Boettiger
John Roosevelt Boettiger (born
March 30 ,1939 ) is the son of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and her second husband, John Boettiger, and is grandson ofUnited States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt andEleanor Roosevelt . He lives in Norway and Massachusetts.As a child, with his mother Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, he lived in the White House during World War II with President and Mrs. Roosevelt, his grandparents. Later, as a college student (Amherst College '60), he lived and traveled with his grandmother
Eleanor Roosevelt and joined her in work on behalf of the United Nations. He served as national president of the Collegiate Council for the United Nations from 1958 to 1960.Boettiger served for 20 years as Professor of Human Development at
Hampshire College inAmherst, Massachusetts , of which he was founding faculty member. He created and was chairman of Hampshire's interdisciplinary Human Development Program.Leaving Hampshire to work with graduate students in clinical psychology, he was Professor of Psychology and Dean of Student Affairs at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco and Berkeley, CA.
He is Vice-President and Treasurer of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, on whose board he has served for over 30 years. Trained as a political scientist at
Columbia University before moving to a career in psychology, he taught at his alma materAmherst College , was a consultant to and member of the Social Science Department of theRAND Corporation , and briefly served as a desk officer at theUnited States Department of State . He holds a Ph.D in clinical and developmental psychology.Earlier in his career, Dr. Boettiger wrote on educational and political themes, including two books on United States policy in Vietnam. He has an interest in the intersections of social history, narrative and psychology, themes explored in his book: "A Love in Shadow," published by W.W. Norton.
John Roosevelt Boettiger has four children,
Adam Boettiger, Sara Boettiger ,Joshua Boettiger , andPaul Boettiger , as well as seven grandchildren.
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