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In 1952, DAR reversed its "white performers only" policy. [34] Commemorative plaque honoring Lena Santos Ferguson at DAR Constitution Hall. In 1977, Karen Batchelor Farmer (now Karen Batchelor) from Detroit, was admitted to the Ezra Parker Chapter in Royal Oak, Michigan as the first known DAR African American member. [35]
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 ...
Since the organization announced the amendment during DAR’s 2023 Continental Congress, over 500 members and former members of the DAR have sent nearly 3,000 messages to DAR leadership expressing ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Wallace DAR member, Martha Cox, is the chairman of the Good Citizens Committee. This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Shaylin Thomas, Carson Boady are DAR's 2024 Good Citizens.
She is a first-generation DAR member and is the first member from Colorado elected to the position. Her administration's theme was “Moving Forward in Service to America,” which continued the previous administration's emphasis on meaningful community service, but with more structured guidance and projects from the National level.
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