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The Junior Membership Committee's Helen Pouch Memorial Fund celebrates 80 years of impact in 2018. Since its inception, the Helen Pouch Memorial Fund has primarily supported the DAR's objective of education through financial donations to our DAR Schools. Originally proposed by the Midwest Regional Assembly of Juniors in Chicago in...
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March is Women’s History Month. This year it coincides with our ongoing commemoration of the World War I Centennial. Did you know the extent to which DAR members tirelessly worked on behalf of war relief both during and after the Great War? With American men mobilized to fight, some American...
We are finalizing plans and counting down the days until the 127 th Continental Congress! This year’s Congress will take place from June 20 – 24, 2018. The week will be full of important business meetings and social functions. Stay tuned on the Congress section of the Members’ Website and...
Many of you may recall that in December we learned that the remains of Revolutionary War heroine Margaret Corbin are not buried in the West Point Cemetery as had been believed for the past 92 years following a DAR led effort to reinter her with full military honors at West...
Leaving my winter coat in the car as my husband left me at the Denver International Airport did not concern me in the least as I headed to Manzanillo, Mexico for the annual Mexico State Conference, Linda Shiflett, State Regent. I was surprised to learn that many Daughters throughout the...
The DAR Museum’s sampler collection has expanded its range! When I became curator of needlework following the retirement of Olive Graffam just over a year ago, we had 76 New England works and 92 from the Mid-Atlantic states, but only twelve from the Midwest (mostly the Great Lakes states) and...
What a treat it was to be greeted at the Jackson, Mississippi airport by my friend Dot Ward. Dot and I not only served as State Regents together but we enjoyed being Vice Presidents General at the same time and were able to pick right up on our friendship as...
The DAR Library is constantly adding new books, materials and resources. With new additions to the Collections comes the need for reorganization of existing materials. For those who haven’t been to the Library recently, there have been some exciting changes. The additions of new equipment (computers and digital book scanners)...
Remember how excited you were as you were about to become a new member of our Society? As prospective members discover their ancestors and anticipate becoming Daughters, a prolonged wait for required evidence for their applications - or a letter requesting additional information – can really discourage them, and you...
Two weeks ago I invited Daughters like you to be a part of something truly different, a unique fundraising appeal in support of the President General’s Project. In this appeal, along with your donation to complete the funding for the Phase Two Renovations in DAR Constitution Hall, I am asking...