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ANNUAL REPORT September 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016 - Recognition | Fiscal Year 2016 - Financials 2Dumbarton | NSCDA House, & Dumbarton National Headquarters House of the NSCDA. LETTER FROM OUR LEADERSHIP Dear Friends, All these efforts succeed only thanks to the incredible generosity of members Welcome to our First Comprehensive Annual Report for The National and friends nationwide. We hope you enjoy our new format that chronicles Society of The Colonial Dames of America: celebrating all that your gifts the national impact of the NSCDA and recognizes donations on a calendar enabled us to achieve in 2016, our 125th Anniversary Year! year basis. Since this is our first year with this new format, the pages that Entrusted with History’s Future since 1891, our 15,200 Dames across the follow recognize donations received starting September 1, 2015 (when our country joined with partners and supporters to carry forward our mission last Dumbarton House Annual Report concluded) and running through of preservation, patriotic service, and education. Dames came together December 31, 2016. If you note corrections or omissions, please notify the nationally and at the state level throughout the year to commemorate our staff at our National Headquarters. anniversary and to honor all those Women of Vision who dedicated so much We value our donors, volunteers, members, and staff who make our efforts to our beloved Society, communities, and nation to ensure our legacy lives possible. Together, we look forward to an exciting 2017 and invite you to on to enrich future generations. join us at our National Headquarters and Museum, Dumbarton House, to This impact continues today through our NSCDA support for student see The Story of Courage, Preservation, and the Rise of a Nation in action scholarships, historical artifact conservation, military and veterans-service every day. donations, early American sampler documentation, historic buildings, landscape preservation, and so many other projects documented in With gratitude, the pages that follow. At our National Headquarters preservation and education efforts throughout the year brought our NSCDA mission to life for thousands of visitors. This year, at our 218 year-old historic house, we Anna Duff Jane Boylin Karen L. Daly focused on the replacement of our failing HVAC (heating-ventilation-air President Chair Executive Director cooling) system, highlighted on pages 10 - 11. NSCDA Dumbarton House Board Dumbarton House 2016 Annual Report | 1 OUR MISSION The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America actively promotes our national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service and educational projects. The mission of Dumbarton House, headquarters of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America, is to support the organization’s Corporate Societies and their members, to maintain its historic museum property, and to enhance the cultural life of Washington, D.C. Through the interpretation of its historic site and collections, Dumbarton House promotes the understanding of historic preservation and of the early history of our nation, so that the lives and ideals of early Americans inspire present and future generations. 2 | NSCDA & Dumbarton House Historical paint analysis undertaken at Dumbarton House. NSCDA NATIONAL BOARD Executive Committee Mrs. Ronald G. Albury (NJ) Mrs. Donald Richard Jackson (DE) Thank you to the following board Rebecca Darling Alford (NY) Charbra Adams Jestin (CT) Mrs. Steven Wayne Duff (NY) Mrs. James Phillip Atkinson (TN) Mrs. Peter Irving Channing Knowles, II (VA) members whose terms expired National President Mrs. Allan Winston Ayers (MD) Ms. Rosalie Lange (IN) during the year: Mrs. John Parks Boylin, Jr. (WV) Mrs. Stephen Garesche Bell (IL) Mrs. Robert Gipsy Lineberry (VA) Mrs. Michael K. Benton (WI) Mrs. David Gilbert Linville (IL) Mrs. D. Thomas Moody (FL) National President Vice-President, NHQ-Dumbarton House Mrs. Joseph M. Blew, III (MA) Mrs. Bartholomew Thomas Lynam (WA) Mrs. James Goedhart (WA) Ms. Ellen MacBeth Boomer (DC) Ms. Martha Elizabeth MacMillan (MN) Mrs. Steven Wayne Duff (NY) Vice-President residing in Region I Ms. Mary Buckner Bradley (KY) Mrs. John Alexander McCormick (MI) Vice-President, NHQ-Dumbarton House Mrs. Marvin E. Bradshaw (TX) Mrs. Michael Eugene McPherson (OK) Mrs. George Amos Gammon, Jr. (LA) Mrs. Robert Nisbet Holt, Jr. (VA) Mrs. Leonora Alice Branca (CA) Mrs. Willis James Meriwether, III (AL) Corresponding Secretary Vice-President residing in Region IV Ms. Karen Buckley (OH) Mrs. D. Thomas Moody (FL) Mrs. Howard Scott Calhoun (KY) Mrs. Richard Marius Tempero (IN) Mrs. David Read Burnett (PA) Mrs. Dale Moore (CO) Mrs. J. Guild Cutter (ME) Vice-President residing in Region II Mrs. J. Chris Cammack, III (NC) Mrs. Richard Ward Mundy (SC) Mrs. Robert V. Duss (FL) Mrs. Christopher Carey (VA) Mrs. John Chalmers Neill (MS) Mrs. Robert Lee Ferril (WY) Arrington Johnson Walker (SC) Mrs. Laurence A. Clark (ME) Mrs. A. Corkran Nimick (PA) Mrs. Jim Lloyd Fling, Jr. (NJ) Vice-President residing in Region III Mrs. Richard Simon Cleary (KY) Ms. Elizabeth Brewster Robinson (MA) Ms. Jean Cameron Grainger (NY) Mrs. Thomas Richard Schulz (IA) Mrs. James R. C. Cobb (AR) Mrs. Joy Daniels Schwartz (GA) Mrs. Francis Parker King, Jr. (NC) Miss Cynthia Ann Cole (OH) Mrs. Geoffrey Seymour (HI) National Recording Secretary Mrs. David Castello Loughlin (NC) Mrs. James Boote Congdon (PA) Mary Shepherd (KS) Mrs. Joseph S. McDaniel, III (DE) Mrs. James Otey Walker, III (TN) Mrs. Michael Doring Connelly (OH) Mrs. Fredric Thomas Siskron, III (LA) Mrs. Ray Baird McMartin (CO) National Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Richard Thomas Crawford (NV) Mrs. David Lawrence Sloane (IA) Mrs. James J. Morrison, Jr. (LA) Ms. Ruth Donohugh (CA) Mrs. Chris Smith (WV) Mrs. R. Kendall Nottingham (DC) Mrs. Robert Gray Rogers, Jr. (PA) Mrs. Peter Baldwin Freeman (RI) Mrs. George E. Smith (WY) National Treasurer Mrs. William B. Ogden (NH) Mrs. Donald John Gerzetic (AZ) Mrs. William T.M. Smith (VT) Mrs. Stanley C. Pedersen (OR) Mrs. Robert Winslow Hagopian (MA) Mrs. Harold Edward Gippe (FL) Mrs. Kemp Crocker Stickney, Sr. (FL) Mrs. Stanley K. Sollid (CA) Assistant Treasurer Hilary F. Gripekoven (OR) Mrs. Jacob Van Dyke, Jr. (MO) Mrs. Vincent S. Villard, Jr. (NY) Mrs. Anthony Robert Guerra (TN) Mrs. Douglas Sayles VanderZee (OH) Mrs. Thomas Edward Vravick (WI) Mrs. Charles Andrew Liles, Sr. (IN) Mrs. Jeffrey Winslow Hamilton (NC) Ms. Frederika ver Hulst (NE) Mrs. Richard D. Williams (GA) National Registrar Mrs. Thomas Woodward Houghton (TX) Mrs. Lee Scott Waples (NH) Mrs. Robert Campbell Witcher (LA) Mrs. Marshall C. Hunt, Jr. (OH) Mrs. A. A. Tilney Wickersham (MA) Mrs. Barbara H. Spaeth (WA) Mrs. Thomas Aiken Woodward (PA) Mrs. Joseph B. Hurst, Jr. (AR) Mrs. Thomas Allen Wilson (OR) National Archivist/Historian Mrs. Conrad Mathias Zeri (CO) 2016 Annual Report | 3 DUMBARTON HOUSE BOARD Executive Committee Mrs. John Robert Allen, Jr. (SC) Mrs. Steven Dale Mackey (AZ) Thank you to the following board Mrs. William Moore Aukamp (DE) Mrs. Stuart Charles Marshall (CA) Mrs. John Parks Boylin, Jr. (WV) Mrs. Patrick Bienvenue (ME) Ms. Marianne H. McCallum (MD) members whose terms expired Chairman Mrs. Joseph M. Blew, III (MA) Mrs. Edwin James McCarthy (MN) during the year: Mrs. Michael R. Bromley (CO) Mrs. Frederick Haskell Brackney (TN) Mrs. George Laurence McCrary, Jr. (AL) Mrs. Steven Wayne Duff (NY) Vice-Chairman Mrs. Peter Chase Hayden Brown (NY) Mrs. Samuel E. McTier (IL) Chairman Mrs. Charles Buonassisi (DE) Mrs. D. Thomas Moody (FL) Mrs. Peter R. Beasley, II (TN) Mrs. Horace Binney Beale (DE) Mrs. John Garling Callan (MA) Mrs. Charles Foster Moore (MA) Mrs. Richard R. Carr (PA) Corresponding Secretary Mrs. J. Chris Cammack, III (NC) Mrs. Paul Cooper Morrison (MS) Mrs. Margaret Castellani (CO) Mary H. Fields (IL) Mrs. Charles Merritt Chapin, III (NJ) Mrs. Lucian Newman, Jr. (AL) Mrs. Raymond Emery Clark (SC) Recording Secretary Mrs. Sally Archer Anderson Williams Mrs. John R. Nicholson (MI) Meredith Harding (ME) Christiansen (CO) Mrs. A. Corkran Nimick (PA) Mrs. Robert Gray Rogers, Jr. (PA) Ruth Snowdon Hoopes (NY) Mrs. James R. C. Cobb (AR) Mrs. R. Kendall Nottingham (DC) Treasurer Mrs. Charles Andrew Liles, Sr. (IN) Mrs. James Boote Congdon (PA) Harriet Dodd Port (MI) Mrs. Thomas Harry Mack (CA) Mrs. Malcolm Wallop (WY) Mrs. Michael Doring Connelly (OH) Mrs. Eugene Rowland Preaus (LA) Region I Representative Mrs. George Dewey, Jr. (DC) Mrs. David Alonzo Quattlebaum, III (SC) Mrs. Douglas E. McKinney (WV) Ms. Roxann H. Dieffenbach (OH) Mrs. Eric John Reading (HI) Mrs. Knighton Tupper Meade, Jr. (OK) Mrs. K. Derrick Powell (KY) Mrs. John Tagart von Stade (NJ) Region II Representative Mrs. Bonnie J. Duncan (VA) Mrs. Douglas R. Riggs (RI) Mrs. Michael Joseph Esser (MO) Mrs. Charles Henry Schaefer (PA) Mrs. Robert Campbell Witcher (LA) Mrs. Michael C. Carter (AR) Mrs. William Norman Floyd, Jr. (TX) Margaret True Simpson (NH) Mrs. John Duncan Wogan (LA) Region III Representative Mrs. Philip Heeth Grantham (VT) Mrs. Barbara H. Spaeth (WA) Mrs. George Estus Youmans (GA) Mrs. James E. Kernan (CT) Hilary F. Gripekoven (OR) Mrs. Lee Dougherty Staak (IA) Region IV Representative Mrs. Ross Ethan Groen (NV) Mrs. Kemp Crocker Stickney, Sr. (FL) In Memoriam Sarah Hill (NE) Mrs. Thomas John Tausché (IL) Mrs. Robert Bailey Connelly (RI) Mrs. Steven Wayne Duff (NY) Mrs. Rodman Lent Hooker, Jr. (WA) Mrs. Emmet J. Thomas (OR) Mrs. Thomas J. Fairhurst (OH) National President Mrs. Neil Williard Horstman (GA) Mrs. Richard Frederick Trismen (FL) Dr. Judith P. Goggin (TX) Mrs. Frederick Downes Iselin (SC) Mrs. Russell James Walker (OK) Mrs. Jacques M. Kelly (MD) Thanks to all the Ladies of the Mrs. Steven Edward Keller (OH) Mrs. Richard Lee Wilson (WV) Mrs. Richard V. Mattingly, Jr. (DC) Dumbarton House Board for making Mrs. William Milton King (NC) Mrs. James Edward Youker (WI) Mrs. Henry Meigs, II (KY) a contribution to the Ladies Fund Ms. Rosalie Lange (IN) of Dumbarton House.