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Merovingian Mirror Reflecting on the Merovingian Dynasty Merovingian Mirror Newsletter of the Order of the Merovingian Dynasty: 448-751 www.merovingiandynasty.com Winter 2011 Volume 4, Issue 1 Officers... Save the date... 2012 Speaker… PRESIDENT GENERAL President General COL Charles C. Lucas, Jr. C. Brian Rose (Ph.D. Columbia University) is COL Charles C. Lucas, Jr., MD James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at 1ST VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL the University of Pennsylvania Brantley Carter Bolling Knowles and Curator-in-Charge of the 2ND VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL Mediterranean Section of the Charles William Neuhauser University Museum of 3RD VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL Archaeology and Juanita Sue Pierce Augustus Anthropology. He has been 4TH VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL excavating at Troy since 1988, Anna Ferguson Duff where he has been Head of and the General Officers of the Post-Bronze Age Excavations GENEALOGIST GENERAL Timothy Field Beard, FASG Order of the Merovingian Dynasty at the site for more than a decade, and he excavated at Aphrodisias for five years. Brian’s REGISTRAR GENERAL request the pleasure of your company John Harman, Jr. at the new survey project in the Granicus River Valley Order’s Annual Meeting and Luncheon focuses on recording and mapping the ACTING WEBMASTER on Greco-Persian tombs that dominate the area. Barry C. Howard Wednesday, the eleventh of April Brian is President of the Archaeological SECRETARY GENERAL Two thousand twelve Dianne A. Robinson Institute of America (AIA), and a Trustee of at the both the American Research Institute in Turkey ASST. SECRETARY GENERAL The City Tavern Club and the American Academy in Rome. Courses Jane Wooten Walker (Courtesy of Barry C. Howard) he has recently taught have included Roman CHAPLAIN GENERAL 3206 M Street, NW Topography; the Archaeology of Troy; The Rev. Dr. Albert Clinton Walling II Washington, DC 20007 Augustan Rome; and Roman Republican (202) 337-8770 TREASURER GENERAL sculpture, architecture, and coinage. Brian is the Barry C. Howard Speaker: Professor C. Brian Rose English language editor of Studia Troica, the annual journal of the Troy excavations, and is ASST. TREASURER GENERAL Meeting of the Officers and Council 11:00 A.M. Catherine McCreary Strauch currently finishing the final publication of the Welcome Reception 12:00P.M. ARCHIVIST GENERAL Luncheon 1:00 pm architecture and architectural decoration of the John Mauk Hilliard Roman houses at Troy. Use of cell phones is prohibited in the Club. CURATOR GENERAL Coat and tie required. Eva Gray Harding Reservations must be received by April 6, 2012 CHANCELLOR GENERAL ~ Craig Huseman Metz, Esq. ____ Member(s), ___ Guest(s) @ $85 = $_______ Table of Contents… ____________________________ M ____G ____ SURGEON GENERAL Save the Date .................................................. 1 George James Hill, MD, DLitt (Name) 2012 Speaker Dr. C. Brian Rose .................... 1 COUNSELOR GENERAL ____________________________ M ____G ____ Saying Our Goodbyes .................................... 2 J. Michael Phelps, Esq. (Name) The Merovingians – The Making of a Medieval ADVISORY COUNCIL ____________________________ M ____G ____ Dynasty by Helmut Reimitz ........................... 3 Ms. Caroline Bowen (Name) Proposal for Membership Form ...................... 4 Mrs. Karen Mandeville Cardullo Check, payable to OMD, should be sent to: Mr. Alan Stratton Hammock, Jr. Scholarship Recipients ................................... 5 Mr. John Hallberg Jones COL Charles C. Lucas, Jr., MD Corrections & Changes to Directory .............. 5 Mr. Russell Cecil Scott OMD President General New Members ................................................ 5 Ms. Shari Kelley Worrell 2039 Palmer Avenue, Suite 103 Minutes from the 2011 Meeting ..................... 6 HONORARY PRESIDENTS GENERAL Larchmont, NY 10538-2483 Memories in Photos from 2011 ...................... 7 Richard Alan Gregory 914-434-3074 Insignia Order Form ....................................... 8 Hardwick Smith Johnson, Jr. EdD [email protected] (Registration is required in order to attend) Saying our Goodbyes... FOUNDING MEMBER units from platoon to battalion, in combat and in garrison, interspersed SUSAN PIERCE PATTERSON with staff assignments and attendance at military schools. He has been February 4, 1927 - August 9, 2011 awarded the Legion of Merit; Bronze Star Medals with combat "V" in Korea and Vietnam; the Purple Heart; the Meritorious Service Medal; Susan Pierce Patterson, formerly of as well as many other United States and foreign military awards. Col. Okmulgee, Tulsa, Muskogee, Oklahoma McCarty is currently a consultant in management and foreign trade City, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas, passed matters. away on August 9, 2011, in Dallas, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents McCarty belonged to many organizations including leadership roles in Mr. and Mrs. Albert Edward Pierce of Tulsa, General Society of Colonial Wars, National Gavel Society, National Oklahoma, and her son, David Edward Patterson of Rockford, Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, National Society Americans of Royal Descent, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in Illinois. the United States of America, Order of the Merovingian Dynasty, She is survived by her husband, Louis Winfield Patterson, and Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and Patriots, General her children, Steven Thomas Patterson and his wife, Elizabeth Society Sons of the Revolution, Huguenot Society of Washington Simpson Patterson, of Kerrville, Texas, and Reynolds West D.C., St. Andrew's Society of Washington D.C., Society of the War of Patterson and his wife, Teresa Arnold Patterson, of Plano, 1812, Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter, Sovereign Texas. She is also survived by her daughter-in-law, Janice Hines Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace of the Patterson Roberman and her husband Charles Harold Roberman, Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem of Houston, Texas. Col. McCarty’s avocations included skiing, scuba diving and biking. She is also survived by her grandchildren, Thomas Winfield Patterson of Arlington, Virginia, Andrew Edward Patterson and GLORIA SUE REED HENDRY his wife Meghan McAllister Patterson of Austin, Texas, March 30, 1926 - November 26, 2011 Christopher Warren Patterson and his wife Sara Katheleen Gloria Sue Reed Hendry, 88, died November 26, 2011 Kilroy of Boston, Massachusetts, and Claudia Gagen Patterson in the comfort of her home. She was born March 30, of Houston, Texas and great-grandson, Cody Parker Patterson. 1926 to the late Col. Lear B. and Bertha Lee Compton Patterson was a member of a number of lineage societies Reed, of Richmond and Northern Virginia. She was the including leadership roles in National Society Daughters of the granddaughter of Dr. Llewellyn Thomas Reed and American Colonists, National Society Colonial Daughters of the Katherine Effie Beasley Steele Reed, of Atlanta and up Seventeenth Century, National Society Daughters of the Barons -state New York and of Edward Henry Compton and of Runnemede, and The Order of the Merovingian Dynasty. Susan Long Menefee Compton, of Warren County, Virginia. In 1947, she married Robert Needham Hendry, of She was a She was a graduate of Tulsa University, where she Jacksonville, Florida. earned a Bachelors of Science in Medical Technology. She was also member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Mrs. Hendry graduated from Florida State University, Tallahassee, where she majored in history and journalism. She was a member of Other organizations in which she was active included P. E. O. Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. After moving to Raleigh, NC, she earned Sisterhood, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge and the a master's degree from NCSU (Phi Kappa Phi). Clopton Family Association. As a student, she was known for her feature articles in the Florida COL STEWART BOONE McCARTY, JR. Flambeau and the Tallahassee Democrat and in Virginia by the July 13, 1926 - November 21, 2011 Warren Sentinel. She continued to write historical articles from time to time and was especially interested in the leading role played by the Stewart Boone McCarty, the son of Stewart Livery Companies of London in the Settlement of Virginia and of the Boone McCarty, Sr. and Vivian Myers importance of these Companies in the founding of the Nation. Mrs. Simmons, was born in Kansas City, MO. Col. Hendry also wrote historical columns for the NC Jamestowne Society McCarty and his wife, Janet Dorothy (McCord) Newsletter and edited the South Riding Post Reader for the Colonial McCarty, are the parents of Anne Stewart Dames of America, the original and oldest lineage society for women McCarty Parker and Elizabeth Boone McCarty. in the United States. Also, she created the historical portions of the Col. McCarty graduated from the UCLA with an AB in national Jamestowne Society web site. Economics. He completed an MA in Management and Personnel Administration from George Washington University. Col. Mrs. Hendry was a member of a number of lineage societies including leadership roles in United Daughters of the Confederacy, National McCarty has completed graduate studies in Archaeology at Society Daughters of the American Revolution, First Families of Worcester College of Oxford University and the Catholic North Carolina, National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars, University of America. Colonial Dames of America, 1890; and Daughters of the Cincinnati. A career military officer, McCarty entered active duty as an Mrs. Hendry is survived by her husband, Robert
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