• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

THE ALABAMA SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THIRD STATE CONFERENCE MARCH 12, 13, 2021 Tammy Bradshaw Clemons State Regent Growing and Blooming for Future Generations! “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor.” Ecclesiastes 4:9 “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father; and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.” Deuteronomy 32:7 “Guard what has been entrusted to you.” I Timothy 6:20 “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 Tammy Bradshaw Clemons ALABAMA STATE REGENT 2018 - 2021 Lynn Forney Young HONORARY PRESIDENT GENERAL, NSDAR 2013-2016 AMERICA 250! COMMITTEE NATIONAL CHAIR 2019 - 2022 Nancy Sturkie Folk VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL, NSDAR 2018 - 2021 HONORARY STATE REGENTS Mildred Rhodes Byars Jean Whatley Vaughan 1985-1988 2003-2006 Shelby Dean Ward Marguerite Poole Horton 2006-2009 2009-2012 Constance Haynsworth Grund Nancy Sturkie Folk 2012-2015 2015-2018 VISITING STATE REGENTS Kay Yarbrough Florida State Society 2019-2022 Kay was elected Florida State Society DAR Regent in March 2019 and was installed at the 128th Continental Congress in June 2019. She is the 64th state regent to serve Florida since 1892. Joining as a Junior member in the Thomasville Chapter, GA in 1984, Kay moved back to her home state of Florida in 1998 and joined the Fort Pickens Chapter in Gulf Breeze. She served as the chapter regent from 2001-2003. A native of Houston, TX, Kay grew up in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. She is an alumna of Auburn University, Auburn, AL where she majored in theater and fine arts. During Kay’s thirty-six-year career with DAR, she has served as Georgia State Historian and Georgia State Registrar. In Florida, Kay served two-terms as State Treasurer, as State 2nd Vice Regent and State Vice Regent. She has held two National Committee Chairs and several National Vice Chairs. She served as a Personal Page to President General Marie Yochim during the Centennial Continental Congress. Kay is a third generation DAR member and joined on Virginia patriot William Pollard. She has nine supplemental patriots including female Mary Bacon of Virginia. Paula Pratt Renkas Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution 2019-2022 Paula was born and raised in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, little did she know that this town would hold special meaning to her later in her life. She was told by a Great Aunt in her pre-teen years that her Paternal Grandmother’s family had very long roots. Unfortunately, she did not investigate that fact until many years later. She became a NSDAR member in April 2004 after pursuing her Aunt’s tidbit. She discovered that the Goodnow Family arrived in 1638 as one of the founding families of Sudbury, Massachusetts. Her line moved westward in Massachusetts and beyond, but the Patriot Ancestor on which she joined, Abner Goodnow, posted his marriage bans in Shrewsbury during the Revolutionary years. Paula also holds Italian heritage of which she is also immensely proud. She has served her Mansfield Chapter as Chapter Vice-Regent, Chapter Regent, Recording Secretary and House Curator, and fundraising Co-Chair, her chapter having a Chapter House. She has held state committee positions, District Three Director, New Horizons Coordinator, and State Vice Regent. She has been married to her loving and supportive husband Richard for 36 years. They both enjoy travelling the world but also enjoy the seashore of nearby Cape Cod. Hellen Hicks Polk Mississippi State Society 2019-2022 Hellen Hicks Polk joined NSDAR as a Junior member in 1979. She is an active member of the Hic-A-Sha-Ba-Ha Chapter in Starkville. Hellen previously served the Mississippi State Society as First Vice Regent, Organizing Secretary, Rosalie Governing Board Gardens Co-Chair, and State American History Chair. She is past president of NSDAR’s State Vice Regents Club. Currently Hellen is a member of the finance committees of the Mississippi State Board of Management and the Rosalie Governing Board. She serves on the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School Board of Trustees and KDS Programs and Promotions Committee. Hellen is a charter member of the Mississippi Society SAR Ladies Auxiliary and is the recipient of the SAR Martha Washington and Daughters of Liberty Medals. She is a graduate of the DAR New Horizons leadership program. The theme for the Polk Administration is Lighting Our Paths through Deeds of Service. Hellen resides in Starkville with her husband Carlton, who is president of his William Hillhouse SAR chapter. They have one son and daughter-in-law (a DAR member) and one young grandson. Hellen is a retired educator, having taught preschool and kindergarten for 10 years prior to serving as elementary principal for 21 years. She is chairman of the Flower Guild at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection and is a Master Gardener. Roberta Cecile Wimberley Tennessee State Society 2019-2022 A twenty-six year member of DAR, since Feb. 1995, Cecile is currently serving as the Tennessee State Society Daughters of the American Revolution's 51st State Regent, as well as NSDAR National Vice Chair Property Beautification and Hospitality State Regent's Dinners and Member of the Board of Trustees at Kate Duncan Smith DAR School. On the chapter level she serves as Insignia Chair for Long Island Chapter, Kingsport, TN. Previously Cecile served as NSDAR National Chair of the Junior Membership Committee, NSDAR National Vice Chair of Scholarships and NSDAR SE Division Constitution Week Committee Vice Chair; TSDAR 1st Vice Regent, 2nd Vice Regent and Corresponding Secretary, Member of the Board of Trustees at Kate Duncan Smith DAR School (2013- 2016), and Tamassee DAR School (2013-2016). She served Rhea Craig Chapter, NSDAR as Chapter Regent, Registrar and Historian, and Long Island Chapter, NSDAR as Treasurer. She was honored as the 2001 and 2010 TN Outstanding Junior, and 2010 Outstanding Junior National Finalist. Cecile is a 1999 graduate of Lipscomb University with BA in History and Political Science and a 2002 graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law. She and Matt, her husband of 18 years, are the parents of two active boys, Michael (14) and Matthew (11). THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Francis Bellamy SALUTE TO THE FLAG OF ALABAMA Flag of Alabama, I salute thee; to thee I pledge my allegiance, my service, and my life. THE AMERICAN’S CREED I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. William Tyler Page THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Gouverneur Morris THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war’s desolation. Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Francis Scott Key EXECUTIVE OFFICERS NSDAR 2019 - 2022 President General.……..……….…………………….… Denise Doring VanBuren First Vice President General……….…...……………….…. Pamela Rouse Wright Chaplain General………………………………..………… Pamela Petersen Bork Recording Secretary General……………………….………Peggy Carney Troxell Corresponding Secretary General…………………………..Kathryn Walker West Organizing Secretary General…………………….…...Virginia Sebastian Storage Treasurer General………….……….………….....…..Dawn Crumley Lemongello Registrar General…………………………...…………..Patsy (Pat) Miller McFall Historian General…………………....…………….……...Laura McCrillis Kessler Librarian General………………………………………..Cynthia Brown Sweeney Curator General………………………………………...Janet Looney Whittington Reporter General……………………….…………………Cynthia Moody Parnell National Parliamentarian………………………………...……Linda Hardin Sehrt STATE OFFICERS ASDAR 2018 - 2021 State Regent………………………………………….Tammy Bradshaw Clemons State First Vice Regent…………………………………...Patrice

Load more

  94

Copy Link