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Who’s ready to Rise and Shine for America! The CDRC Team thinks 2022 will be a banner year! We want all chapters to be committed to spreading sunshine in their community. Now is the time to set your chapters’ goals for 2022. Are you ready? Take the health of your...
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Every three, or in this case four, years DAR Museum education staff and curators develop a new period room exhibit for the holiday season. As education and preservation are our guiding principles, decorating period rooms must be accompanied by a unifying theme and information for our visitors that expand their...
As many of you know, President General Denise VanBuren recently traveled to Amsterdam to place a marker honoring the centuries-old diplomatic ties between the United States and the Netherlands. This achievement led us to wonder about the extent to which DAR members are familiar with the National Society’s rich history...
Though the Pilgrims landed in 1620, it was not until the following autumn that the dwindling survivors joined their Native American neighbors for a meal to give thanks for having persisted during a difficult first year. That, of course, makes this year the 400 th anniversary of our annual rite...
As Thanksgiving approaches, I am deeply grateful for your continued support of our National Society, its important mission and my administration. Allow me to also express by deep gratitude for the financial and moral support that so many of you have already provided to the restoration of DAR Constitution Hall...
In 2021 the DAR is celebrating 125 years of the official establishment of the DAR Library. What started with 126 books, no budget, no staff, and a volunteer Librarian General to handle every aspect of the operation, has grown into one of the leading genealogical collections in the country. The...
While I am grateful to the many individuals, chapters and state societies that have answered our call to plant Never Forget Gardens in commemoration of the centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier this year, I am especially appreciative of the Alabama Daughters who cordially invited me take part...
One hundred years ago the DAR hosted in Memorial Continental Hall a major diplomatic event – the Washington Naval Conference, also known as the Conference on the Limitation of Armament. On November 12, 1921, the day after the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was dedicated, representatives from nine nations gathered...
Less than a month ago, a DAR delegation traveled to Leiden in South Holland to lay a wreath in memory of the Pilgrims in the very community from which they had departed for a wonderous and dangerous New World four centuries before. We toured the 900-year-old Peterskirk where they are...
A chapter recruitment strategy should be similar to a sales campaign with the goal of attracting women who will become long time members. One aspect of the campaign will be making the public aware of your chapter’s awesomeness. What is it about your chapter that attracts members and what makes...