John Roosevelt Boettiger | |
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 Boettiger (left) with his parents and grandmother in 1942 | |
| Born | (1939-03-30)March 30, 1939 (age 86) Seattle,Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor of psychology (retired) |
| Spouse | Leigh McCullough |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Clarence John Boettiger Anna Roosevelt |
| Family | Roosevelt |
John Roosevelt Boettiger (born March 30, 1939) is a retired professor ofdevelopmental andclinical psychology, and the son ofAnna Roosevelt Boettiger and her second husband,Clarence John Boettiger. He is a grandson ofU.S. PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt andEleanor Roosevelt. He lives in northern California.[1]
As a child, Boettiger lived with his mother in theWhite House duringWorld War II while his grandfather was president. His parents divorced in 1949, and his father committed suicide the following year. His mother remarried to James Addison Halsted on November 11, 1952. She died on December 1, 1975.[citation needed]
As a college student atAmherst College he lived and traveled with his grandmotherEleanor Roosevelt and joined her in work on behalf of the United Nations. He served as national president of the Collegiate Council for theUnited Nations from 1958 to 1960, and also served on the board of the American Association for the United Nations.[citation needed]
Boettiger served for 21 years as professor of human development atHampshire 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 theCalifornia School of Professional Psychology inSan Francisco andBerkeley, California. From 2007 to 2010 he was professor in the Research Institute ofModum Bad Psychiatric Center [no] inVikersund, Norway.[citation needed]
He is chairman of the board and president of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, on whose board he has served for nearly 50 years. Trained as a political scientist atColumbia 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 developmental and clinical psychology, for which his principal mentor was Erik H. Erikson of Harvard University.[citation needed]
Earlier in his career, Boettiger wrote on educational and political themes, including two books on United States policy in Vietnam. He has an interest in the intersections ofsocial history, memory, narrative, family dynamics, and life cycle human development, themes explored in his biography of his parents' lives and their family histories,A Love in Shadow, published by W.W. Norton in 1978. More recently he published a monograph, "A Resource for Healing and Renewal," about Modum Bad, a healing community, research center and psychiatric hospital in Vikersund, Norway. Since 2000, Boettiger has edited and written an online journal, "Reckonings: a Journal of Justice, Hope and History." He continues to edit research papers of clinicians and research psychologists at Modum Bad in Norway, and is a member of the Advisory Board of The Living New Deal in Berkeley, California.[citation needed]
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Boettiger married first Deborah Ann Bentley (b. May 6, 1938) on August 20, 1960, inSyracuse, New York. They had two children: Adam John Boettiger (b. 1966) and Sara de Noyelles Boettiger (b. 1968). He married secondly Janet Roslyn Adler (b. February 20, 1941) on July 21, 1971. They had two children: Joshua Adler Boettiger (b. 1973) and Paul Woolf Adler Boettiger (b. 1977). He married thirdly Nancy Smalley (b. April 3, 1941) in June 1989. All three of these marriages ended in divorce.[citation needed]
He was married for a fourth time toLeigh McCullough, who before her death in 2012 was clinical professor of psychology atHarvard Medical School and Director of the Research Institute at Modum Bad Psychiatric Center inVikersund, Norway. Boettiger also has eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.[2]
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