My Late Uncle Jim’s Life of Tomorrows
He Found Meaning and Wisdom in Looking Ahead
When I think of my Uncle Jim, I often remember him as Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Jim Mathews, who died earlier this summer at age 77, loved to perform in community theater productions near his home in San Mateo. He sang in many shows and took on many roles, but his signature was playing the former president in the musical Annie, that classic Depression story about an orphan girl taken in by a rich capitalist, Daddy Warbucks.
Late in the show, Annie and Daddy Warbucks go to the White House, where FDR is …
