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In 1959, the Mississippi chapter's "National Defense Committee" undertook a state lobbying effort that secured an amendment to state law which added "lay" members to the committee reviewing school textbooks. A DAR board member was appointed to one of the seats. [17]
For example, a formal tea party hosted on December 19, 1971, by the Alhambra San Gabriel Society of the CAR was covered in the News-Herald and Journal Green Sheet on December 19, 1971, featuring Mrs. Alvin Willard Kirkham, a member of the DAR and her granddaughter, Karen Earle Lile who at the age of 12 was noted in the paper as one of the ...
Dillon was elected DAR President General in 2016, having previously served as First Vice President General, Registrar General, Colorado State Regent, and various other positions. She is a first-generation DAR member and is the first member from Colorado elected to the position.
Sep. 9—Ten members of the Chimney Hill chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution have "adopted" residents of the Sulphur Veterans Center. Each member of the DAR group is paired with a ...
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Presley Merritt Wagoner, 40th President General of the DAR; Eva Ingersoll Wakefield (1892–1970), writer and poet; Margaret Anderson Watts (1832–1905), social reformer; May Rogers Webster (1873–1938), naturalist; Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845–1928), writer and historian; Helen M. Winslow (1851–1938), editor, author, publisher, and ...
The amendment was voted on at the 2023 DAR Continental Congress, which was held in Washington, D.C.. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] At the congress, Jennifer Mease, a DAR delegate and regent of the Liberty Bell Chapter in Pennsylvania, inquired whether chapters could vote against admitting a new member on the basis of their sex if the applicant was born male ...
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