Mary Frisch, National Chair, Chapter Development and Revitalization Commission

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

Sharon Withers, Registrar General

“You’ve Got Mail!”  the title of a popular 1998 movie was also the theme of the Office of the Registrar General during the month of October.  In the movie version, the title refers to e-mail but in Data Entry, it refers to postal mail, specifically large envelopes containing new member

The last couple of years have been ones of incredible growth for Manor House.  It started as a passion project for Peggy Grieve, the woman we all now regard as our "DAR Mom."  She saw the potential in this small but historic chapter and made some strategic and brilliant decisions

On the national level, we have several ways to monitor the health of a chapter and to offer assistance when needed, including a policy that a chapter regent may not serve more than six years in a row.  I’d like to share with you a success story because of that

One of the many benefits that I have found from being a member of the DAR is the lifelong friendships that I have developed with other members. Many of those friendships often start at the chapter level and many times, the more fun a chapter has together, the more active

Our back yard has a massive live oak tree in the center.  Although we love watching the birds and squirrels play on it, the shade of the tree kept grass from growing.  A few years ago we turned the entire back yard into a garden with a path along the