Now “officially” retired, she puts her energies into various volunteer roles, including serving on the board of the Maine Community Foundation, which provides grant support to the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, and the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank and nonprofit partner to the Franklin D.
I’ve always been a city person so this is really like starting a whole new life.”Īs part of her new life, Anne postponed retirement to serve as CEO and president of Goodwill Industries of New England from 2011-18. The vegetation is a little bit different. “It has been surprisingly moving to wake up every morning and see a different scene, even though it’s the same lake, it’s the same mountainside. “To be this surrounded by natural beauty without a built environment dominating is a new thing for me,” she said. The daughter of Franklin and Eleanor’s oldest son, James, Anne was born and raised in California, and spent all of her life in and around cities. and Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne’s family has a long, multigenerational relationship with Maine, but she herself hadn’t spent any time here. So she chose to move to Maine to live between the mountains and the ocean. “You can’t do that so I had to rely on the landscape.”Īnne, who spent many years living in the Midwest, loved the plains, but the plains, she noted, are flat. “How can you choose between two beloved daughters?” she said. One lived in the Midwest, and the other had married a Mainer and settled in central Maine. To that end she needed to move near one of her two daughters. When Anna - who goes by Anne - Roosevelt retired from her job as vice president of global corporate citizenship for the aerospace behemoth Boeing, she looked forward to leaving the corporate world behind and being a grandmother.
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