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THE SPIRIT OF ’76

PUBLISHED BY THE DESCENDANTS OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE VOLUME 55 NO. 2 SPRING 2021

DSDI visits “The Promised Land”

In a virtual excursion, DSDI members gathered March 13, 2021 for a Zoom visit to the West, following the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Oregon Trail, as well as paying tribute to two brothers who have served the Society for many years.

First Vice President-General Marianne Brinker delighted us with a slide presentation on the explorers’ expedition, the Native Americans in the region and life in those early days of our country. Assistant Secretary-General Shelley Cruz provided a video tour of the region (https://youtu.be/U_Y3moLmiOc) and a second video (https://youtu. be/CPdztOS5lFM) featuring Jim and Johnny Alexander, who have performed so many services for DSDI.

The brothers Alexander will retire from their positions at the Annual Congress in July and DSDI is so grateful for their work. They joined the Society in 2003. Jim has served as webmaster since 2003 and as Registrar-General since 2007. Johnny has served as Treasurer-General since 2014 and previously served as Assistant Registrar, Historian and Editor of The Spirit of ’76. Johnny lives in Salem and Jim owns a Jim and Johnny Alexander, honored by DSDI for service to the organization vineyard producing pinot noir near Portland. Thirty-seven members of the Alexander family have become members of DSDI. s IN THIS ISSUE From the President-General Scholarship thank-you note Gifts and Contributions page 2 page 6 2020-2021 page 12-13 Annual Congress 2021 Treasurer-General’s Report page 3 page 7 DSDI Registrar-General’s report page 14-15 In Memoriam A farewell note from the page 4 Treasurer-General DSDI Spring Meeting in Indiana page 7 Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous Fall meeting in Princeton page 16 page 5 Looking sharp page 8-9 page 5 DSDI Officer and Governor Nominations Scholarship report page 10 page 6 DSDI merchandise page 10-11 Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence From the President-General DSDI Officers, 2020-21 Moving Ahead Through Safest Choices President-General Treasurer-General Lucy Duke Tonacci Johnny D. Alexander Hello DSDI Members! [email protected] [email protected]

First Vice President-General Assistant Treasurer-General As we make plans to meet each Annual Congress Nancy McBride Wark Sally G. Fridy other in for the Fourth of July, we realize that our Signers Acting Second Vice Secretary-General in Philadelphia President-General Donald Crosset Ward Jr. must have felt many of the same

Shirley Hunter Smith, Ph.D. concerns facing a pandemic. s Assistant Secretary The Society is planning to return to Philadelphia July 3-4, 2021 for the Annual Congress. As decisions Registrar-General Shelley Horsely Cruz Our Scholarship Committee drew are made by the host hotel, the city and Independence National Historic Park concerning COVID-19 James Herbert Alexander, Jr. protocols, we understand that our plans may be altered. [email protected] Chancellor-General attention to this topic when Chair James S. Bainbridge Esq Jill Haimes shared the essay Assistant Registrar-General question at our Virtual Oregon General Meeting March 13 by Zoom: All events will be the same as planned for 2020, including the visit to the Museum of the American Wendy Davis-Bushey Chaplain-General “Looking back at the smallpox epidemic of 1775 to 1782, how might Revolution and the Bell Tapping ceremony. Dr. Shirley Smith, Chair of the Signers Wives Project, will The Rev. W.P. Daphne Hawkes Historian-General your ancestor have been affected by this epidemic?” The Signers, be our speaker at the dinner. All the Tappers scheduled for 2020 are invited to be with us in 2021. Leroy Anderson Keller Immediate Past too, needed to find food and shelter in the safe places, avoiding President-General: the rampant smallpox while they met in Philadelphia. How did they When event details are determined, DSDI will post a notice on our website (www.dsdi1776.com). Assistant Historian-General R. Bruce W. Laubach feel when they gathered at ? How did they send Thomas Page Nelson Members who have provided DSDI with their email addresses will be notified via email. If you have messages to each other through the safest circumstances? not provided your email address to the Society, we ask that you send it immediately to Registrar Jim Alexander at [email protected]. Board of Governors We learned a lot about these situations during a long winter and hesitant spring, staying home, missing family, friends and co- Because of the timing for some decisions, we will not be able to prepare and mail the usual printed New Hampshire Lt. Col. Erin P. Hayde, USAF workers. Many of our members worked together in committees by invitation, agenda and registration form. All of that information will be provided on our website, and Massachusetts Ellen Brinker Zoom. We’ve become quite capable of having meetings, church you will be able to register and make your DSDI payment on the website. If you prefer to print and Rhode Island Henry Duke Beecher services and cocktail parties via Zoom. It’s been remarkable for all of mail the registration form, information will be provided on the website. Connecticut Henry Duke Beecher us to learn to use our computers and phones to reach out to others Elaine Livingston in new ways. Philip Robert Livingston The Annual Congress has always been a special occasion for DSDI and we look forward to resuming New Jersey Pennsylvania Donald Crosset Ward, Sr. that event this year. Please consider joining us. I thank all of our governors, committee members and board Delaware Constance Wahlig members who have supported each other in our many decisions Maryland Madelyn Sturgeon Gene and Carol Mayhew and I invite all of our members to be involved. It has been a pleasure Virginia Andy Keller Annual Congress Host Committee to visit each other through Virtual Trips. But honestly, I’d rather see North Carolina Nancy McBride Wark you in person. South Carolina Robin Leigh Rawl

Georgia P. Randolph Taylor We are waiting patiently as we plan our Annual Congress in District of Columbia Laura Belman Philadelphia for the Fourth of July weekend. We do not know DSDI WEB SITE: www.dsdi1776.com whether we will be tapping the Liberty Bell and sharing time together. The announcements will be made close to the meeting dates. We will be reaching out to you through our private DSDI DSDI dues notices for 2022 were mailed April 1, 2021. We hope Facebook page, in our DSDI website/Members Only, and by email , they arrive without too much delay from USPS. Your prompt , to spread our news. I am confident that we will find a way to meet! payment (by check or PayPal) is appreciated.

We welcome submissions Meanwhile, join me in taking Covid shots so that we can shake Dues notices When paying by check use the enclosed self-addressed return hands together during a healthy, happy Fourth of July! If you have information you’d like to submit in mail envelope. Please remember to share your current email address for publication in The Spirit of ’76, send it to: with your payment as we transition to electronic correspondence.

Hunter George Sally G. Fridy, Assistant Treasurer-General Editor, The Spirit of ‘76 [email protected] Lucy Duke Tonacci DSDI President-General [email protected] 2 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 3 In Memoriam Fall meeting in Melvin Phillip Livingston Melvin Phillip Livingston, New York Governor for DSDI, died Jan. 30, 2021 at age 88. Mel Princeton was born in Binghamton, N.Y. and served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He

attended Syracuse University on the GI Bill, receiving a BS in electrical engineering in 1959 s The Fall meeting is scheduled for Oct. 8-10, and an MS in engineering administration in 1965. He was involved in many programs for 2021 in Princeton and Hopewell, N.J. IBM, including the Apollo Project, in which he designed the ground test equipment for the IBM guidance computers in the Saturn V Instrument Unit. He also was project manager for the Our headquarters hotel will be the Nassau Inn U.S. Air Force F-15 computer guidance system. He was chairman of the board for the Central in Princeton, ideally located at Palmer Square. United Methodist Church for 24 years and created a library of all the ministers’ sermons and You will have the Princeton campus, shopping, special music from the 1960s on. He also was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He and restaurants all within walking distance of is survived by his wife Norma, to whom he was married almost 68 years, daughters Elaine Livingston, who recently began serving as co-governor for DSDI, and Cindy Scordino, three our hotel. grandchildren and one great-grandchild. DSDI members can book their reservations by calling the Nassau Inn Reservation Department Truxtun Brodhead at 800 862-7728 or going to the Inn’s website Truxtun Brodhead, 85, former Connecticut Governor of DSDI, died Feb. 17, 2021 in New using the following link: https://reservations. London, Conn. He was born in Bryn Mar, Pa., and served in the U.S. Navy as a submariner travelclick.com/13522?groupID=3183356. Due from 1954 until his discharge in 1957. He went to work for Electric Boat as an electrician to COVID the best method is using the link above and retired after 25 years in 1983. Besides his wife Mary he is survived by one son Paul since the hotel is currently not fully staffed. Brodhead, daughters Wendy Brodhead, Emily Brodhead and Alice Brodhead, brother Charles Broadhead and sister Edith Brodhead Good, stepsons Rob Funk and Richard Funk. Our room block is for 20 rooms, priced at $179 for a standard room and $279 for a suite, plus Irene Weston Croft, Jr. taxes. Rooms will go quickly! Irene Weston Croft, Jr. died at age 77 on Feb. 23, 2021, at her home in Smyrna, Ga. An iconoclast to her last breath, she was the first girl born in 100 years into the Croft family If the Nassau Inn block is booked, here are of South Carolina. Her career milestones included: the first production assistant for The some other hotels to consider: Monkees’ TV series, a fashion writer for the Los Angeles Times, managing editor of Rags, • The Peacock Inn (a B&B) 0.2 miles a hippie-oriented style magazine, inaugural women’s editor of the Northside Neighbor from the Nassau Inn in Atlanta, volunteer for the Junior League, co-founder of Outstanding Young People of • Hyatt Regency Princeton 2.1 miles Atlanta, developer of two blocks of historical buildings in Atlanta, donor and volunteer from the Nassau Inn for philanthropic organizations in Hawaii, and editor of “Kona on My Plate,” which won the • Courtyard by Marriott Princeton 1.9 miles Tabasco Community Cookbook Award. She is survived by her siblings Ed Croft, Weston Croft, from the Nassau Inn Mary Croft Ferguson, all of Atlanta, and Laurie Croft of Richmond. • Homewood Suites by Hilton Princeton 1.9 miles from the Nassau Inn Patricia Lynn Brown Petitt Patricia Lynn Brown Petitt died Jan. 26, 2021 in Chattanooga, Tenn. She graduated from Nova (We do not have a block at these places; it is up Southeastern University in 1994 and received her master’s degree in public health from the to members to select and make their own hotel Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1999. She served at the U.S. Army arrangements.) Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. She worked on the anthrax program, securing the safety of the institute staff and other government agencies with her Occupational Please look for the meeting invitation in the mail. Livingston family photo Exposure Treatment Program. In 2007, Tricia left the military and became board certified in If plans change, the DSDI website will publish a DSDI Governor Elaine Livingston said her dad, Melvin, left anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She was a board member of the Society of the Lees. notification and members who have provided their behind four generations of DSDI members. Shown here are She published “The Descendants of David McWhirter & Mary Poston” volumes 1 through 3 email addresses will receive an announcement. Norma Livingston (spouse of Melvin, Life Member), Elaine’s and “The Turbervilles of Virginia” volumes 1 and 2. Her signature achievement in the Society sister, Cindy Scordino (Life Member), her daughter Jessica Carson (Life Member), and Jessica’s daughter, Grace Carson, of the Lees of Virginia was finishing Bill McCarty’s book on Hannah Lee, titled “Hannah!” She Nancy McBride Wark, Princeton Meeting Hostess age 3, just now joining as a new Junior Life Member. is survived by her husband Morris (Mo) Carroll Petitt, brothers William Raymond Brown, III, Richard Thornton Brown, Mark Carter Brown, sisters Kristin Jeanne Brown King and Kelley Marie Brown Johnson.

4 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 5 Scholarship applications TREASURER-GENERAL’S REPORT under review

s ASSETS INCOME EXPENSES The DSDI Scholarship program for the 2021-2022 academic year is closed for new applications as of March 12, with approximately 70 applicants. This is the essay prompt that was used for this year’s The fair market value of our assets on Our ordinary income represents income Our ordinary expenses for the first 9 January 31, 2021 was $1,780,872 and associated with membership and months of FY 21 were $46,054 for a net application: represents a $168,908 increase in assets general administration. The new fiscal income of $10,251. since September 30, 2020. year started May 1, 2020. Total ordinary This past year has been unparalleled in the challenges that have confronted the American income for the first 9 months of FY 21 people….at least we think so! Looking back at the smallpox epidemic of 1775 to 1782, how might was $56,306. your ancestor have been affected by this epidemic? Use your own experience during our current pandemic, and the response from the United States, to speculate what historians of the future Assets as of Jan 31, 2020 9 Month Income as of Jan 31, 2021 9 Month Expenses as of Jan 31, 2021 might say about us.

Life Dues Fund Scholarship Fund General & Administrative Contributions Merchandise Sales The DSDI Scholarship Committee is currently at capacity with six reviewers. If you participated in the $590,201 $5,359 $798,904 $25,365 $71 33% 12% website survey and indicated an interest in serving on the committee, your name will be retained for 45% 45% 0% future openings. Your interest is very much appreciated. Scholarship recipients will be announced at the DSDI meeting on July 4.

Scholarship applications for the 2021-2022 academic year will be open on or about December 1, 2021. You must be an admitted member of DSDI by the end of October 2021 in order to apply. For the most recent scholarship news please check our website http://www.dsdi1776.com. Membership Sustaining Fund Program service Wells Fargo $9,138 Respectfully submitted, $364,912 $31,557 Dues and Applications 20% $26,855 20% 68% D. Jill Haimes 2% $30,870 55% DSDI Scholarship Chairman

A farewell note from the Thank you for my scholarship Treasurer-General s s I’m writing this letter because I would like to thank the Descendants of the Signers of I’d like to thank some folks for support since I Third, the Board of Governors. Effective man- the Declaration of Independence, particularly those who volunteer their time on the became a member of the Board of Governors. agement of a large international organization Scholarship Committee, for awarding me four scholarships over the past four years. requires attention to detail. Thank you for sup- I’ve been honored and grateful for this financial assistance, and I’m excited to say that First, my wife, Myrna Alexander. Without her porting my efforts to pay attention to details. I will graduate from Willamette University (WU) in Salem, Oregon this Spring with a support, I would not have been able to spend Bachelor of Arts in History. the countless hours I do on DSDI business. Last and certainly not least is the group of Many of you met her when she volunteered to Presidents-General that have tried their best to I’ve really enjoyed my experience at WU, and the support that I’ve received from this sit at the meeting registration table. keep me focused on the tasks at hand. I joined organization has allowed me to access a number of opportunities that I may not have the Board of Governors when Tommy Hey- been able to experience had I not attended WU. As a descendant of Richard Stockton, Second, the membership of DSDI. Without ward was still with us and I have served each I hope that DSDI will continue to support students in their pursuit of education, and I your support, DSDI would not function. If I have president since, to include current president cannot express my appreciation enough. taken an unprofessional approach in any of my Lucy Tonacci. actions, I apologize. Leah Bushey Thank you to all for your support.

6 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 7 Looking sharp

Many DSDI members have served their country in uniform. We asked several to send us photos. Herewith, a parade of veterans.

Air Force Lt. Col. Erin P. Hayde with her Navy Nurse Dorothy Simmons USMC Captain David Marshall Tonacci, In 2006, LTJG, Marshall S. Croft, Johnny Alexander, right, at Udorn In March 1969, Army 1st Lt. Lawrence mother Susan and infant Rylin. Kennedy, grandmother of Erin Hayde son of Mark and Lucy Duke Tonacci. a graduate of the U.S. Naval Royal Thai Air Force Base, where he was “Laurie” M. Croft, a Phoenix Program and a former President-General Capt. Tonacci pilots Cobra helicopter Academy in Annapolis, mans the stationed in 1973-74, flying F-4s. Advisor in the Mekong Delta region of DSDI. gunships. He is stationed at Camp conning tower of his submarine With him is his weapons system of Vietnam, displays a captured Pendleton in Southern California. when it has surfaced. operator, Jimmy Lee. Viet Cong AK-47.

John Glynn and his wife Kathryn at the Army 2LT Edward S. Croft, III at Cam R. Bruce W. Laubach during training as As an Army officer, Rieman dedication of Morven Museum and Ranh Bay, South Vietnam 1966. an Army still photographer at McNamara trained soldiers at Fort Gardens, the home of John’s Signer Fort Monmouth, NJ. He later served Benning in 1948. After 1950, he served Richard Stockton, several years ago. with the 34th Engineering Battalion as an active reservist for eight years and at Ft Riley, KS. was a captain at discharge.

8 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 9 DSDI Officer and Governor DSDI MERCHANDISE Nominations To be voted on at the Annual Congress July 4, 2021

Officers

President-General Historian-General Assistant Secretary-General DSDI Note Cards DSDI Pewter Christmas Ornament Camelot Pewter Bowl Lucy Duke Tonacci Leroy Anderson Keller Shelley Horsley Cruz 1 package of 5 cards $5.00 Cost without engraving is $9.00 per ornament plus 6-inch bowl from Camelot Pewter that can be engraved First Vice President-General Assistant Historian-General Chancellor-General plus $3.50 for postage shipping. Engraving is additional charge of $8.00 with the DSDI logo and your signer’s name. Nancy Mcbride Wark Thomas Page Nelson James S. Bainbridge, Esq. total $8.50 per ornament for up to 3 lines, 20 characters per line. $7.99 $62.50, engraving $2 per line (two styles) Shipping is 1-3 ornaments , 4-8 $8.99 $10.99 DSDI logo $5/shipping $8.99 per bowl Second Vice President-General Treasurer-General Chaplain-General ornaments and 9-12 ornaments . Shirley Hunter Smith, Ph.D. William N. Urbina The Rev. W.P. Daphne Hawkes

Registrar-General Assistant Treasurer-General Wendy Davis-Bushey Sally G. Fridy

Assistant Registrar-General Secretary-General Jamie Singer Donald Crosset Ward, Jr.

Governors Insignia Lapel Pin Lapel Pin Recognition Pin Rosette Blazer Crest

On Society Ribbon $12 $40 New Hampshire New Jersey North Carolina Gold Filled Lapel Black Lapel Pin Gold Filled Lapel Miniature/Large Gold Filled/Bronze Gold $80 $10.50 $125 Lt. Col. Erin P. Hayde, USAF Philip Robert Livingston Nancy Mcbride Wark Plated/10k Gold/14K Gold/Gold- Filled Lapel $110/$210 Massachusetts Pennsylvania South Carolina Ellen Brinker Donald Crosset Ward, Sr. Robin Leigh Rawl To order insignia or lapel pins: go to hamiltoninsignia.com and put DSDI in search box

Rhode Island Delaware Georgia Henry G. Beecher Constance Wahlig P. Randolph Taylor

Connecticut Maryland District of Columbia Henry G. Beecher Madelyn Sturgeon Laura Belman

New York Virginia Elaine Livingston Leroy Anderson Keller, Jr. DSDI Scarf Bronze Grave Marker Signet Ring Signet Ring

40x40 inch $137 - $225 Sterling Silver/10K Gold/14K Gold Sterling Silver/10K Gold/14K Gold $40 plus $5 shipping Cushion shaped Round $225 - $1,750 $175 - $850 New DSDI glassware available

New items are available for members Members can find the order form (fillable) to order. DSDI is offering wine glasses, on the DSDI website. Download and save stemless wine glasses and highball glasses the form to your computer first, then open from Camelot Pewter. Each set includes four the saved form, fill it in and save once glasses that will have the DSDI seal. more. You may then email the form to Merchandising Chairman Nancy McBride NEW ITEM! Cost is $44 per set, including shipping and Wark at [email protected]. Please Insignia Pendant Name Badge Pewter Jefferson Cup DSDI Tie tax. The cost of personalization will depend note these directions apply to all the Sterling Silver/14K Gold $8.50/$10 $40 $40.00 per tie on how many lines are desired. Camelot merchandising forms on the website. With or without chain plus $5.00 shipping Pewter will work with you on pricing for $75 - $395 personalization.

Visit dsdi1776.com for details and ordering information. Or contact Nancy McBride Wark at [email protected] or 704-256-3263.

10 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 11 GIFTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS GIFTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ANNUAL APPEAL 2020-2021 ANNUAL APPEAL 2020-2021 November 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021 November 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021

The Descendants of the Signers of the gifts are most important and will enable the Society to continue David Crenshaw Barrow III Edith Brodhead Good Elise Rutledge Bradford all its programs, including research and education while preserving the legacy of our forefathers. This report spans the first 3 months of Declaration of Independence wishes to thank all of those who have so Emily Sedgwick Bagwill George R Whittinghill Grace Keiper Staller generously participated in the Annual Appeal. Your Annual Appeal 2020-21 from November 1, 2020 to Henry Levent Uz Hunter Thompson George Jamie M Singer January 31, 2021, and about $18,500 was received. Janet L W Nolan Jason Tighe Easterly Joanne Cronin Adams John Glynn, III Justin Wolcott Erickson DELEGATES Katharine Van Rensselaer Brush Katherine Patricia Payne Lauren Nye Johnson George H Combs Berger Karl E Nelson James H Alexander* Louise Weston Rainey Linda Coley Teare Lynn Sheppard Manger Margaret Fisk Genvert Marsha H Martin Marshall A Burke Miriam A Richardson SONS and DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY Nicholas Waln Manganaro Page M Woltz Richard Edgar Robinson Constance S Wahlig Laura Haines Belman Lynda Carol Dresser* Martin Everard Mason Robert Davis Keller Scott Richard Lewis Sarah F Dickerson Sharon Marie Schmelling Sonya Valerie Armstrong Timothy E Coy Brittingham Susan Jane Spalding Bull Susan Phillips Dewing Thomas Bradford Johnson PATRIOTS Wendy Leah Davis-Bushey Whitney Bunting Pickett William Edward Senn A Christian Burke Anna Keitt McIlwain Annalise McKean-Marcus William Francis Eppes Shine William Muir Manger, Jr Anthony Morris Caroline H Davidson Charles Wilson McNeilly Charlton Henry Chatfield D Jill Haimes Debra J Rafferty MATCHING GRANTS Elizabeth N Gottwald Erin Peterson Hayde Eugene King Weston, Jr Hartford Fire Insurance Company George Joseph Olney, Jr George Meredith Bergen Hope Middleton Wood* Mastercard James Albert Harper, Jr James H Whitney James Monroe Wells, III PayPal Giving Fund James S Bainbridge Jesse Reid Sumner Johnny Dow Alexander 1776 LEGACY SOCIETY Karen L Turner Landon Bell Lane, Jr Lawrence McMahon Croft Six members have included a gift to DSDI in their wills. Margaret Storer Garvey Marianne M Brinker Marietta Edmunds Zakas Hope Middleton Wood* James Herbert Alexander* Rieman McNamara, Jr* Mary Louise Guertler Michelle L Farrell Nancy McBride Wark Lynda Carol Dresser* Elizabeth C. McNeilly* Roger M L Schmitt* R Bruce W Laubach Robert Mason Blake Robert Michael Britton SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS 2019-2020 Shirley Diana Hunter Smith Steven Edward Sumner Susan Croft Pasco Thomas Blake Thacher Virginia I Owens William Sutherland Strong SONS and DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY BELL RINGERS Kristin Paige Flechsig donated to the Scholarship fund in honor of her uncle Richard (Sandy) Hanson Stromberg, 1894 LM, in celebration of his 80th birthday. Alice Ganoe Ryden Allison Nancy Johnson Anita Marion Davis BELL RINGERS Anne C Nelson Anne Carrington Croft Arthur Heath Light Lucy D Tonacci Sharron J Bohning Stacey M Bohning Barbara Lipscomb Hunt Barbara Teter Greeley Bradley Fisher Erickson Brennan Erickson Carolyn Houghton Chapman Clara Regenia Mulford

12 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 13 DSDI REGISTRAR-GENERAL’S REPORT VIRTUAL BOARD MEETING March 12, 2021

5 New Senior Members # Name Signer 5 New Senior Member Applications by Signer: 3681 Mary Young Raih John Witherspoon - 8 928 Ruth Herrick John Morton Francis Lewis 1 John Morton 1 2200 Green Oaks Dr. Greenwood Village, CO 80121-1545 1282 Elizabeth Morris 1 John Witherspoon 1

3682LM Caroline Hadwen Beecher* John Morton - 9 1642 Nancy Boyle Thomas McKean 1 363 Main St 1809 Elizabeth Smith William Ellery New Canaan, CT 06840-5903 Seniors Juniors Kannon Philip Zdimal* Philip Livinston - 10 2258 Alan Sholomskas John Hart 3683LM 1217 Total Active Membership, Last Report 188 21 Horseshow Dr 2661 Morgantown, PA 19543-8825 Whitney Dorer 3 New Members (does not include Junior upgrades) 5 3684 Geoffrey Pierre Tellion Thomas McKean - 9 2848 Leidy Lemoine John Hart 0 New Supplements (does not increase # of Members) 0 80 Hewlett Ave 2797LM Rye, NY 10580-3266 Sally Gilespie Thomas Nelson, Jr. 2 Junior Transfer to Senior - 2

3685LM Isabelle Miriam Bowman Francis Lewis - 8 2873 Abigail Mitchell -0 Resignation/Drop or non-transferring Juniors - 540 San Vincente Blvd #10 3056 Anne Randolph Benjamin Harrison, V -24 Converted to Inactive Santa Monica, CA 90402-1864 3078 Alexander Mitchell Carter Braxton 4 Reinstatement 0 * Junior Upgrade 3094 William Crawford Thomas Nelson, Jr. -6 Deaths 5 New Junior Members 3209 Nicolas Johnson -21 Total Net Added This Report 3 J1615 Alexandra Aleece Miller John Hart - 10 66965 Gist Rd 3232 Hope Elizabeth Staller John Hart Spousal/Honorary Bend, OR 97703-9210 3261 Alyson Burnett-Rawitch John Hart 1196 Total Membership, This Report 191 J1616LM Hudson Wells Morris Robert Morris - 9 236 Washington St, apt 5E 3340 Elizabeth R. Boss John Witherspoon Total Life Members as of this report: Seniors = 808, Juniors = 47, Total = 855 New York, NY 10013-1496 3377 Eason Philip Mahone Thomas Nelson, Jr. Wells Hamilton Twiss J1617 3392 Bruce C. Phillips Thomas Nelson, Jr. Respectfully Submitted, 935 Starboard Dr Vero Beach, FL 32963-2912 3409 Bruce D. Higgison Arthur Middleton

J1618 Kaden Martell Bowman Francis Lewis - 9 3456 Andrew W. Katzfey Thomas Nelson, Jr. Jim Alexander 540 San Vincente Blvd #10 Registrar-General, DSDI Santa Monica, CA 90402-1864 3460 Kirstin A. Nelson Thomas Nelson, Jr.

J1619 Sean Karl Bowman Francis Lewis - 0 3478 Olivia L. Polk Richard Henry Lee 540 San Vincente Blvd #10 3491 Alison M. Katzfey Thomas Nelson, Jr. Santa Monica, CA 90402-1864 3581 Michael W. Pinelli 1 Upgrade to Life Membership We do not have phone numbers or emails for these members and cannot contact them # Name Signer Date 6 Deaths reported this period; 2301LM Emery Livingston Flannery Philip Livingston 2 Mar 2021 # Name Date Signer 4 Reinstatements 1333LM David Livingston Fortson 5 Apr 2020 Robert Morris # Name Signer Date 3670 Susan Meyers Burbage 10 Nov 2020 Arthur Middleton 3166 Corso Dimitri Serra di 20 Sep 2020 3481LM Patricia Lynn Petitt 21 Jan 2021 Richard Henry Lee Cassano 2195LM Mel Livingston 3 Feb 2021 Philip Livingston 1713 John Addison Thomas 5 Oct 2020 2321LM Irene Weston Croft 23 Feb 2021 William Hooper 3564 Courtney D’Evrux Marshall 11 Oct 2020 1419LM George Combs Berger 2 Feb 2021 2632 Kareena Shippee 15 Dec 2020 Remember these thy servants, O Lord, according to thy gracious mercy, and 24 Senior Members Made inactive - we do not have an email or phone number and having opened to them the gates of larger life, grant them an increase in cannot contact them. The Fall 2020 Spirit was returned marked, “undeliverable.” knowledge and love of thee, that they may go from strength to strength in the life of perfect service in thy heavenly kingdom. Amen

14 SPIRIT OF ‘76 SPIRIT OF ‘76 15 D.S.D.I. James H. Alexander 7157 SE Reed College Place Portland, OR 97202

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SAVE THE DATE May 27, 28, 29, 2022

DSDI Spring Meeting in Indiana Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous

“Parade: Spirit of Northwest Territory Alliance pose for inspection in front of the George Rogers Clark Memorial at the GRC National Park in Vincennes, Indiana, during the Rendezvous.”

Photo by Bernie Schmitt, for “Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous,” an Indiana Local Legacies Project