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OUR HERITAGE February 2015 Ourour Heritageheritage Volume 2 Issue 2 OUR HERITAGE February 2015 OurOur HeritageHeritage Volume 2 Issue 2 Mississippi Division United Daughters of the Confederacy ® Division Officers President’s Message By Janice Strohm President Janice Strohm V President Kay Henry hew! I’m getting behind on 2nd V P Rebecca Fairchild nearly everything. Surely 3rd VP Courtney Hodge W y’all didn’t expect me have Rec. Secretary Sandy Gaddis those over 1,000 Santas put away Treasurer Mary Landin yet. Spending sixteen nights in January away from home put us Registrar Pam Mauldin behind. We were behind getting Historian Lynda McKinney everything out because of an RMSA Carole Gospodnetich unplanned trip over the Thanksgiving weekend. This did Appointive Officers give me an opportunity to meet on Dec. 2 with the Tupelo Chapter. Chaplain Beth Koostra Larry and I enjoyed helping pack the goody sacks going to the nursing Editor Sharon Tallman home patients and playing Corr. Secretary Tina Johnston Confederate bingo! My other UDC On January 30, I met with the 150th activity was on December 6 when I Council at the Marriott in Jackson. attended the joint meeting of the The members attending and I were Biloxi Beauvoir 623 and Gulfport shown the spacious rooms in which 621 Christmas luncheon at the we will register and hold Gulfport Yacht Club. Granddaughter meetings, have our luncheon and banquet, and hold our January activities included attending meetings on Saturday. Convention the 20th Anniversary celebration of Chairman Margaret Murdock is the Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee getting everything in order. We are Chapter 2583 on January 24 and kicking off the Convention on the Lee-Jackson Banquet in Thursday with a bus trip to Louisville on January 24. General Vicksburg. Please everybody make Grant’s speech, relating his plans to attend this event – even if knowledge of both Gen. Lee and you’ve toured Vicksburg in the past. Gen. Jackson was most informative. There is always something new to Don’t worry. We didn’t have a learn. Our opening business Major General Patrick Cleburne Yankee speak to us! Gen. Grant, session will be special. I urge all Division officers and others to don “If we are to die, let us die like men.” a.k.a. Dr. Curt Fields, lives in Memphis and is a member of the their best suits or dresses, hats, and Attala County Chapter 2592 learned Sons of Confederate Veterans. gloves! Being that this is the last about this brave Confederate general. (Continued on page 2) See page 15 to read about it. The names United Daughters of the Confederacy® and Children of the Confederacy® are registered trademarks of the General Organization and may not be used outside the Organization without the express written consent of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In all references to the official names in this document, the ® shall be understood. The official UDC insignia is a registered trademark of the General Organization and may not be used without the express written consent of the President General. Due to privacy restrictions set forth by the General Organization, Chapters are restricted from posting this document to their website. OUR HERITAGE Page 2 President’s Message, cont. (Continued from page 1) not attend the Lee-Jackson Banquet in Meridian due to a scheduling conflict. th official event of the 150 commemoration of the War, I am pushing for an attendance of 150 members and guests! While on a personal trip to Florida, we made a short side- Our Presidents Evening will be outstanding. Bring on trip into the town of DeFuniak Springs to find the oldest those fancy dresses!! Confederate monument. You will find pictures of the monument and the historical marker in My January activities ended with the this issue. If you are ever tooling down I- presentation of Military Service Awards This is the oldest Confederate 10 in Florida, between Pensacola and on Jan. 31 for Bedford Forrest 448 in monument in Florida. Marianna, it’s worth a stop to go find the Hernando. It was an honor to present monument on the corner of the county two posthumous World War II Crosses courthouse grounds on Highway 90. and two National Defense Medals. I encourage all Chapters to try to While in Jackson for the Convention present at least one Medal this year. meeting, I made a trip to the UDC Room. We walked over to the south I want everybody who can, whether grounds of the Old Capitol Building to they are officers in their Chapters or find the Confederate monument there not, to come to Jackson on March 14 and take pictures. to attend the Division Workshop. In addition to the Presidents receiving While in the Southaven area, we took their packets and 2014 Division the short trip up U.S. 51 into Tennessee, Minutes books, members will get to just to turn around to come back to the meet and greet and learn from other Jefferson Davis Highway marker, just members. Details are included in this south of the state line! And then down in issue. Hernando, we found the old section of the cemetery. There is a Confederate As I prepare for the Division marker and a burial trench in the back of Workshop, I will be attending the the cemetery. I know that many of you General Spring Board meeting in are out there scouting out these Richmond on March 7. I look forward monuments and markers and taking to meeting with the other Division pictures. Keep up the good work. Presidents at a meal on Friday evening and then with the other Executive Board Keep up the good work that I know that each and members on Saturday in the UDC Memorial Building. everybody does. Record all those books you read, volunteer hours, patriotic and benevolent activities, etc. I I know that I can’t attend each and every meeting your want Mississippi Daughters to shine!! Chapters have, but I would like to try to attend at least most of them. If you could let me know where and when your Chapter meets, I will try to arrange my schedule. So far, I have met with Gulfport 621, Tupelo 2443, and Mary Janice Strohm Ann Randolph Custis Lee 2583. I am sorry that I could MS Division President Marker for Florida’s First Burial trench names in Burial trench in Confederate Monument Hernando, Mississippi Hernando February 2015 OUR HERITAGE Page 3 Jefferson Davis Hwy Marker Hwy 51 in Southaven MS Confederate Monument Janice Strohm Jackson MS Confederate Monument Janice Strohm Hernando MS Janice Strohm March 14: MS Division Workshop - See registration form within this newsletter. March 15: Application deadline for UDC scholarships - Contact Rebecca B. Fairchild, MS Division 2nd Vice President. March 15: MS Division Essay deadline - Contact Lynda McKinney, MS Division Historian. May 1: UDC Magazine submission deadline for August Mississippi issue is May 1, 2015. May 1: MS Division Bylaws proposed changes must be received by Ruth Murdock, MS Division Bylaws Committee Chairman. June 12 & 13: MS Division CofC Convention “Shelling Out Confederate History” will be held at the Division Convention at Beauvoir. July 15-18: CofC General Convention will be held in Lynchburg, Virginia. Sep 24-26: MS Division Convention “Celebrate Mississippi” will be held at the Downtown Marriott ~ 200 East Amite Street, Jackson, MS. See registration form and more information within this newsletter. February 2015 OUR HERITAGE Page 4 2nd Vice President scholarship recipients may reapply by notifying the Division Second Vice-President in writing and sending an official transcript no later than June 1. This is the time of the year when high school seniors UDC Chapters wishing to sponsor an applicant typically begin to finalize should obtain the scholarship forms from the UDC General plans for their first year in website under the members’ only section or by contacting college. As acceptance the Division Second Vice-President. The forms are the letters begin to appear in same for the Division and General scholarships. It is students’ mailboxes, the important that all of the forms are complete and that five search for financial sets (one original and four copies) are submitted to the assistance has typically Division Second Vice President. Incomplete applications already begun. Full cannot be considered for a Mississippi scholarship or be financial aid is rarely forwarded to the Second Vice-President General. offered by colleges today. Not only does the application need to be This means scholarships complete, it needs to stand out. The rubric for evaluating offered by other scholarship applications communicates exactly what organizations such as the information should be emphasized by the applicant and in United Daughters of the the reference letters. When properly utilized by the Confederacy are highly sponsoring UDC Chapter and the applicant, this valuable desired. document can serve as a tool for formulating an The Mississippi Division United Daughters of the outstanding application. The rubric can be found on the Confederacy currently offers two undergraduate General UDC website. scholarships. Both the Margaret Howell Hayes Davis Yes, assisting a student with the application Scholarship and the Blanche Abels Burrell Scholarship are process will require effort and time from the sponsoring awarded from interest accrued on permanently designated UDC Chapter, and the deadline is rapidly approaching. funds. A third scholarship established in 2013 with funds However, it is also very satisfying to know that this donated by the Putnam Darden Chapter 2242, the Rebecca Hamner Scholarship, is currently being funded. organization is contributing to the education of the future leaders of our businesses, schools, churches, healthcare The application process begins with the applicant obtaining the appropriate forms from a sponsoring UDC organizations, communities, and states.
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