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My mother was adopted. It bothered her all her life that she did not know who her people were. My paternal grandmother, on the other hand, knew a lot about her family and often talked about the DAR and her patriot ancestors. When my mother died in 1995, I called...
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Born and reared in Indiana, I graduated from Butler University in Indianapolis with a B.S. in Business Administration with a major in accounting and played string bass in the University Symphony. Accounting was a natural choice. My mother attended Butler as an accounting major before World War II. After the...
Visitors to the DAR Museum enjoy peeking into the period rooms in Memorial Continental Hall, each one a snapshot of another time and place. Now our visitors can access information about the period rooms on several levels with the installation of new interpretive panels and booklets. The first thing you...
I had just returned to Nashville from Japan, where my husband was serving as an Air Force Officer, when my sister joined DAR. She asked me if I would like to join the DAR and I said, “Sure!!” (Now all you Genies are going to say "Oh, the Horrors" when...
What am I doing sitting in the chair of the Corresponding Secretary General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution? For someone who never imagined she would be a Chapter Regent, it is pretty amazing to have been elected, thirty years after joining, as the State Regent of...
What an honor it is to be part of the Dillon Administration leadership team, and to be Moving Forward in Service to America with you! Joining the DAR has been a blessing for me beyond measure. I found the DAR after I lost my mother to breast cancer at a...
Psalm 100: 5 5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. Members often ask what path pointed me to DAR. The answer is simple – family! My maternal grandmother wanted me to find friends when I moved to the big city...
How exciting to join with you in moving forward in service to America! It is a thrill for me to support Mrs. Dillon as an Executive Officer of our National Society. The primary responsibility of the First Vice President General is to revise the DAR Handbook and National Bylaws as...
I hope the new leadership of the Dillon Administration Executive Officers, National Board of Management and National Committee Chairs will help bring new energy and new ideas as we continue the important work that DAR members have carried out for the past 125 years. During the first National Board of...
After an exciting and busy 125th Continental Congress, your newly installed executive officers took little time off before beginning our Executive Committee meetings at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, June 20, the very next day after the Installation Ceremony. We jumped right into informal discussions and formal reports and had lots...