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
2003-2006
1985-1988
Shelby Dean Ward
2006-2009
Marguerite Poole Horton
2009-2012
Nancy Sturkie Folk
2015-2018
Constance Haynsworth Grund
2012-2015
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.
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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 Renee Donnelly State Second Vice Regent…………………………………….Clariece Boyd Lilly State Chaplain………………………………………..Flora (Tad) Riddle Douglas State Recording Secretary……………………………..Anne Haedicke Parramore State Corresponding Secretary………………………..Janice Ausbrooks Jennings State Organizing Secretary………………………..Mary Kendrick Adwell Lewey State Treasurer…………………………………………….Athelia Woodall Gibbs State Registrar……………………………………………..Judith Kennedy Arthur State Historian…………………………………………………...Terri Lynn Dean State Librarian………………………………………………..Sandra Ard Rackard Parliamentarian………………………………………………...Shelby Dean Ward
ADVISORY BOARD
Mildred Rhodes Byars…………………………………….Honorary State Regent Jean Whatley Vaughan……………………………………Honorary State Regent Shelby Dean Ward……………………….………………..Honorary State Regent Marguerite (Rita) Poole Horton….………………………..Honorary State Regent Constance (Connie) Haynsworth Grund.….………………Honorary State Regent Nancy Sturkie Folk……………………..…………………Honorary State Regent
NATIONAL OFFICER FROM ALABAMA
Nancy Sturkie Folk………………….Vice President General, NSDAR 2018-2021
NATIONAL OFFICER RESIDING IN ALABAMA
Yvonne Spann Boone………………..Honorary Vice President General, NSDAR
ALABAMA DAUGHTERS SERVING NSDAR
2019 - 2022
By Appointment of the President General
NATIONAL CHAIR
Elizabeth (Beth) Ellen Cagle………………………………………..Americanism
NATIONAL VICE CHAIRS
Elizabeth (Beth) Hudson Stewart……….…..…………………..American Indians
American Indian Youth Camp
Sarah Hill Bryant………………………………….……………. DAR Scholarship
Occupational/Physical Therapy Scholarship
Tammy Bradshaw Clemons…………….………...DAR School, DAR School Tour
Malinda Williams Shackelford………….…………………….Junior Membership
Junior School Representative, KDS DAR School
Sherry Maples Spurlin………….……….….Service to America, Salute to Service
NATIONAL DIVISION VICE CHAIRS - SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION
Sue Ellen Hipp Adams……………………..………………….American Heritage Patrice Renee Donnelly…..…………………………..…..Commemorative Events Rhonda Burks VanZandt………………………......……………..Women’s Issues Melvina Pritchett Phillips….…..…………...…………….Volunteer Genealogists
AMERICA 250! TASK FORCE MEMBERS
Nancy Carter Billings Lisa Gale Bucklin
Nannette (Nan) Weaver Kirk Mary Kendrick Lewey
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THIRD STATE CONFERENCE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Conference Chair…………………………….…..Elizabeth (Betty) Hatchett Weir Vice Chair Facilities and Planning………………………..Kayla Johnson Panehal Vice Chair Hospitality for State Guests…………………..Patrice Renee Donnelly Vice Chair Programs………………………………….Janice Ausbrooks Jennings Vice Chair Reservations…………………………………...Sherry Maples Spurlin Host District Director (Southeastern)……………..………Elizabeth Speer Gillian Conference Protocol and Marshal……………………………...Julea Dodd Moats Conference Secretary………………………………….Anne Haedicke Parramore Conference Treasurer……………………………………..Athelia Woodall Gibbs Planning Consultant………………………………………….Janet Ewing Deaton
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES – 2021 HYBRID
Chapter Regents Packet Distribution……………….....Janice Ausbrooks Jennings Credentials………………...…………………..…Twyla Froman Brammell, Chair Flowers…………………………………….………Southeastern District Chapters Hospitality…………………………………...……Light Horse Harry Lee Chapter Host District………………….………………………………………Southeastern Pages…….………………..….Allison Talley Skipworth, Michele Ann Yarbrough Publicity…………………….……………………………...Heather Watson Green Registration……………….………………………………..Sherry Maples Spurlin
Sheila Cox Barbuck, On-line Registration
Teller...………………….…………………………………Sally Hellums Woolley VIS……………….……………….……Sheila Cox Barbuck, Melissa Rider Isbell
Amy Stenlake Martin, Audra Lynn White
CONFERENCE EVENT CHAIRS AND HOSTESS CHAPTERS
Awards Ceremony……….……………...Allison Talley Skipworth, Awards Chair
Southeastern Chapters, Hostesses
Memorial Service…………………...Flora (Tad) Riddle Douglas, State Chaplain
Southeastern Chapters, Hostesses
Patriotism Ceremony...……………Kaye Walker Sutley, National Defense Chair
Southeastern Chapters, Hostesses
Regents’ Night Ceremony…………….Tammy Bradshaw Clemons, State Regent
John Coffee, Hostesses
Hospitality Room……..………………………..Light Horse Harry Lee, Hostesses
HOSTESS CHAPTERS
SOUTHEASTERN DISTRICT CHAPTERS AND REGENTS
Southeastern District Director………………………..……Elizabeth Speer Gillian *Anne Phillips...………...…………….…………………Susan Richardson Patton *Atagi..…………………………….………..………………Barbara Ware Russell Bigbee Valley…….…………………………………………Lucy Taylor Gallman *Captain William Bibb…………..…………….……………Bonnie Miller Shanks *Choctaw……………….....………………………………...Ann Taylor Langford *Coweta Town……………………….…………………LaDania Enfinger Norton *Emassee-Robert Grierson……..……………….…………Olivia Hand McDaniel *Fort Dale………..………….……………...………..………Carol Hamm Teague *Francis Marion…………..……………………...……………Mary Ernst Rentfro John Coffee…………………………….……..…...……Mary Nell Wilson Gilmer Lewis……………………………….………....………Ellen Thompson Dewberry *Lieutenant Joseph M. Wilcox…………..………….…….…Gladys Marie Mason Light Horse Harry Lee…………………...…......…………. Shannon Tara Walden *Margaret Lea Houston……..…..………….....…………Eleanor Compton Drake *Martha Wayles Jefferson……..……………….………………Shelby Dean Ward Old Three Notch………………………………..……………Brenda House Gouge Oliver Wiley…………………………………….….……Mabeth Williams Gibson Ozark………………………………………...……………. Janet Hailey Mathison *Peter Forney……………..………………………Teresa (Terry) Kerby Dotherow Pocanachi…………………………………..…...Katheryne (Kathy) Shannon Plier Tohopeka……………………………………………………...Janell Smith Kozak *William Rufus King……………..…………….…………Amelia Dennis Bowers *Monetary donations
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123 STATE CONFERENCE PAGES
Pages Co-Chairs……...……………………..Allison Talley Skipworth, Alamance
Michele Ann Yarbrough, Needham Bryan
Personal Page to the State Regent…….…..…Sarah Hill Bryant, Gunter Mountain Personal Page to the Honorary President General.…Malinda Williams Shackelford
Cahawba
GENERAL PAGES
Lisa Acosta, Atagi
Kaitlin Elizabeth Tysinger Bennett, Huntsville Kathleen Elizabeth Gillian, Captain William Bibb
Keegan Hammond, Oak Mountain Christina Noel Panehal, Peter Forney
Lillian Mae Pennington, C.A.R. Captain John Farrar Society and
John Wade Keyes
Melanie Gates Pepper, Hunt’s Spring
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
The State Regent and Conference Committee express their appreciation to all Daughters and Chapters who generously contributed to help with the expenses of the conference.
Bouquet Level Sponsors
($150 or more)
Tammy Clemons, Gunter Mountain
Janet Deaton, Maple Hill Clariece Lilly, d’Iberville
Anne Parramore, Anne Phillips
Betty Weir, Hunt’s Spring
Blossom Level Sponsors
($100-$149)
Sue Ellen Adams, Hunt’s Spring
Portia Chilton, Maple Hill
Patrice Donnelly, Birmingham Territory
Nancy Folk, Cahawba
Cathy Freeman, Princess Sehoy Athelia Gibbs, Dripping Springs
Rita Horton, Hunt’s Spring
Sandra Rackard, Needham Bryan Marilyn Tucker, Peter Forney
Bud Level Sponsors
(up to $99)
Mary Ruth Andrews, Tristan de Luna Sheila Barbuck, Gunter Mountain Sandra Baugh, Rainbolt Mountain Patricia Bennett, General Sumter Jacqueline Berry, Anne Phillips Lori Berryman, Lily of the Cahaba Nancy Billings, Twickenham Town Amelia Bowers, William Rufus King Rebecca Bradley, Birmingham Territory
Twyla Brammell, Maple Hill
Jane Burris, Captain William Bibb Sophia Burwell, Twickenham Town
Claudia Campbell, Fort Mims
Miranda Cassell, Rainbolt Mountain Peggy Collins, Twickenham Town Sara Craft, Birmingham Territory
Helen Crowe, Lewis
Marilyn Davidson, Fort Mims
Ellen Dewberry, Lewis
Mary Dixon, General Sumter
Marian Doss, Hannah White Arnett
Julia Doty, Josiah Brunson Tad Douglas, Princess Sehoy Kay Foster, William Rufus King Drema Gates, Hunt’s Spring Nancy Gilliland, Chief Colbert
Nell Gilmer, John Coffee
Rose Ann Goss, Rainbolt Mountain Heather Green, Gunter Mountain Teresa Hall, Light Horse Harry Lee
Katherine Halverson, Martha Wayles Jefferson
Patsy Hamilton, Tristan de Luna Jacque Hawkins, John Coffee Dana Henry, John Wade Keyes
Robin Hill, Peter Forney Elizabeth Hornish, Stephens
Rosemary Ingram, Chief Tuskaloosa
Janice Jennings, Hunt’s Spring Karol Kapustka, Hunt’s Spring Maureen Kennedy, Tristan de Luna Carolyn Long, John Parke Custis Jill Mann, Lily of the Cahaba Anne McKinley, Maple Hill Jeanie McNees, Chief Colbert Claire Murphy, John Coffee Susan Patton, Anne Phillips Joyce Quinn, Lily of the Cahaba Kathy Rains, Twickenham Town
Rita Reid, David Lindsay
Mary Rudd, Martha Wayles Jefferson Cynthia Sackett, Twickenham Town
Brenda Scott, Dripping Springs Malinda Shackelford, Cahawba Glenda Sharp, Rainbolt Mountain Bunny Smith, Lily of the Cahaba Patti Smith, Zachariah Godbold Sherry Spurlin, Gunter Mountain
Susan Stanley, Light Horse Harry Lee
Claire Strand, Maple Hill
Penny Sumners, Twickenham Town Kaye Sutley, Lily of the Cahaba
Mary Jane Tingle, Birmingham Territory
Susan Tomlinson, d’Iberville
Mary Alice Touchon, Hunt’s Spring Rhonda VanZandt, Dripping Springs
Betty Vaughan, Huntsville
Shannon Walden, Light Horse Harry Lee
Betty Wascom, Stephens Beverly Wenzel, Bon Secour
Nancy White, Cahawba
Martha Wilkinson, Bienville Lynne Williams, Josiah Brunson Mary Flo Williams, Fort Mims Nancy Williams, Peter Forney Teena Williams, Stephens
