As we promote our organization to the public in promotional materials and other avenues, we are always searching for quality professional photos of our vibrant membership in action – showing what DAR members do.

In particular right now, we are in need of fresh new professional photos of our members

Last week the Executive Officers participated in the February Executive Board Meeting and later in the week joined with State Regents and Vice Presidents General for activities and the February National Board of Management meeting on Saturday.

It was a great week filled with important business, productive meetings and of

Several years ago I saw a wonderful presentation by a chapter regent in Texas, Mae Bruce.  Mae has marvelous organizing skills and put them to good use simplifying the files which a chapter regent needs to keep on hand. Even in an age when we strive to be paperless and

Last Spring, a C-SPAN producer contacted DAR to feature our Headquarters and collections in their upcoming programming. We were so pleased to welcome them to DAR Headquarters where they filmed two programs for C-SPAN’s American History TV series, American Artifacts.

The first program, which aired in August 2013, featured the

As much of the country suffers from the cold, wet winter, I thought you might enjoy seeing how our beautiful Headquarters looks with a dusting of snow.  It was 14° when I drove to work and took these photos but our cleaning crew was already shoveling the sidewalks for the

I am so thrilled to announce that 2013 was yet another record year for new member applications at DAR. During this past year DAR approved 13,906 applications, which is more than any other year in the Society’s 123 year history! For more information about the record number of new members

Every time I look at the Celebrate America! ticker on the Members’ Website I am amazed and so proud of the dedication that DAR members have demonstrated through meaningful  community service. We encouraged you to provide 1 million hours of service in 2013, and you responded by giving 2,865,489 AND

The concept of the Americana Collection, which would house early-American manuscripts, emerged at the time of the commemoration of the DAR’s 50th anniversary in 1940.  No formal collection of such material existed at the National Society prior to that time; rather, documents were dispersed among the holdings of the

With the new year come many exciting new developments for DAR! As many of you may recall me reporting to you after the October Board, the decision was made to begin accepting Y-DNA as supporting evidence for DAR applications and supplementals starting in 2014.

I am so pleased that this

As we leave 2013 and enter a new year, we find ourselves reflecting on our many accomplishments over the past 12 months and setting goals for the next year.

We made incredible achievements in DAR over the past year, including doubling our Celebrate America! goal and reaching 2 million hours