Newsletter Vol. XLI No. 2 Summer Issue • September 2018 comes away with a grand experience that will last a lifetime. Look around you at the rising generation and assist them in participating in The President’s Pen next year’s pageant which will be held the end of March, 2019. Look for the applications in February on the website. I know your response will exceed expectations. It is our sincere desire to provide better service to you when you call into our offices. Daughters you can help us with this. Your calls and questions are important to us. When you call, as the message begins you can go immediately enter the extension number, such as Summer is waning and a touch of fall is in the air, a welcome 204 for membership. (The extensions are listed at the top left hand reprieve if only for a moment from the heat we have experienced corner of the back page of each issue of the Legacy as well as on our this year. website.) Membership by far gets the bulk of the messages. Sheryl Many wonderful accomplishments have occurred over the past few Nabrotzky, Membership Director, and those who work with her, do months. The major one that affects everyone started with the training an outstanding job of answering your questions as well as keeping the that came from our Leadership Seminar in June. “Daughters of membership databases current and up to date. There are a few things the Future” you have rolled our organization forward into the future that will assist membership as well as other departments when you –– you have received this major transition with open arms, open call: state your name clearly, leave membership number and phone minds and warm hearts and have risen to number with area code, state your question or issue briefly and the the occasion. THANK YOU, THANK best time to return your call. In addition, assist us in streamlining this YOU, THANK YOU for taking on this process by only calling one time on an issue or change. The person challenge. The President’s Packet (which that needs to address a specific issue or problem may have been in contains International/Company/Camp the day before you called and may not be in again for a week or so. information) will be a living document that Some of our people have 50-100 messages on their voice mail. It will be updated as needed. I need your takes precious time to retrieve these messages especially if 8 of the feedback and suggestions. As you work 50 or so messages are from the same person on the same issue. through it and if you see something that All of us have busy lives - most of us are multitasking continually. might improve the process as we go I want to reach out to you and receive your feedback about a possible forward, let me know. I want those who do future change from past procedure of having Leadership Seminar in not have a computer or computer access June and then having the International Convention in October each Cheryl R. Searle to know we have not forgotten you. A year. This will require a bylaw change. I want to present now so you request I made at the Leadership Seminar have time to think about it. When I brought it up to the board, they to your leaders was that they inform us of those who do not have were excited. I hope you will be, too. Would you consider having computers or computer access so that we may provide the necessary Seminar and International Convention the same day: Seminar in the material to you. The important part here is that we need to know who morning and International Convention in the afternoon all in one day? you are. This would be a cost-saving initiative. If you are coming to Interna- We had an outstanding Royalty Pageant for 2018. The lovely tional Convention I would love to hear your feedback. Those who are young women that were chosen: Queen Lauren Bell, First Attendant unable to come to convention, please call or email me with your Heidi Farley, Second Attendant Rachel Roy, and Annie Taylor Hyde comments or concerns ([email protected]). Recipient Sabrina Wheeler are all educated, talented, spiritual ISDUP International Convention is coming up on Saturday, individuals that represent our organization beautifully. My appreciation October 13. Some of you have already checked our website. Our goes to Constance Huntsman for producing an excellent pageant as guest speaker, Richard Hatch, descends from some wonderful pioneer well as the many individuals that assisted her. I am sad to say that many heritage. He will be telling us about some of those pioneers and magic of you did not take the opportunity to witness this wonderful event. in pioneer period and maybe a little about the Salt Lake Theatre. We Daughters — this is a clarion call — if we are “Keepers of the hope you will join us. (The information is on the back page of Legacy.) Past” and we have a desire to continue this long-standing tradition This organization has always been an organization of volunteer of the Royalty Pageant — we need your assistance and participation. service. It is because of your volunteerism and your willingness to serve We need your posterity — your daughters, your granddaughters, that allows us to be successful. young women that you are acquainted with in your neighborhoods to apply and participate in this event. Everyone who has participated Camp and Company News International News WELCOME TO THE ISDUP BOARD CAMP AND COMPANY JUBILEES MARY MONROE SHUMWAY Uinta Wyoming Company DUP Historical Marker Mary Shumway was raised on a Tour, Wyoming farm and ranch in Scipio, Utah in Davis Bountiful East Company “Generation Con- Millard County. She obtained a nection — A Link to the Past and a Bridge to the Future” bachelor’s degree and Master of Note: For the full stories and Jubilee ideas, go to Education degree from Utah State www.isdup.org/Education/Jubilees. University. Mary retired after 30 years of service as a teacher, education administrator and government rela- BEAR LAKE COMPANY tions specialist in Idaho, Washington, The docents of historic Chesterfield, Idaho sent out a special DC and Utah. She has been appointed invitation to local DUP members to come visit. The Bear to the ISDUP Board as the Efficiency Mary Shumway Lake Company in Idaho, traveled to Chesterfield for their Director and Membership Assistant. May 2018 lesson. Chesterfield was on the Oregon Trail estab- She has a rich pioneer heritage with ancestors settling in lished in 1881. When the railroad was finished several miles Manti and Scipio, Utah. Mary also serves on the Tooele Valley away in 1930, Chesterfield became a very isolated area. It Company board and is a member of the Benson Mill Camp, diminished to a ghost town of ruins as years went by. However, Tooele Valley Company, Tooele, Utah. the descendants of many of the original settlers formed the Chesterfield Foundation and restored the area back to its VICTORIA WILSON CHAMBERS original condition thus preserving the history and creating a Victoria “Vicki” Wilson Cham- historical tourist site. bers was born in Lehi, Utah. She lived A special lesson was given in the Activity Hall, built in 1895. in Cedar Fort for two years then moved Given partial sections of land the settlers cleared, farmed and to Bountiful where she grew up. Vicki built structures. Homes and outbuildings were restored carefully and her husband, Wayne, have five to show exact living conditions of the 1880s. The foundation children and 15½ grandchildren. Vicki even sent paint chips to Salt Lake City to match the paint of currently serves as Davis Heritage the era and restored stenciling on the walls and ceilings. There Company secretary and attends Mills is a fenced area showing where clay was dug to make bricks Valley Camp, Davis Heritage Com- for the homes and church buildings. Everyone enjoyed the pany, Bountiful, Utah. She has been picnic lunch on a very pleasant day in May. The outing was a Vicki Wilson appointed to the ISDUP Board as the memorable experience of learning about the pioneers of Recording Secretary. Chesterfield. If you get close to Lava Hot Springs or Soda Vicki’s pioneer heritage is through her mother’s lines, Springs, Idaho, take the time to travel out to Chesterfield and which are Hacking, Bingham, Gfroerer, Clark, Holladay, see one of the best-preserved colonies in the Great Basin. Pearson, and Sabin. The April 2018 lesson on “Historic Chesterfield, Idaho” inspired other camps, too. The Susan B. Cazier Camp, Lincoln JENEAL MARJORIE WILSON Company, Afton, Wyoming also made the trek to Chesterfield. Jeneal Wilson was recently appointed as Gift Counter Director. She was born in Salt lake City, Utah and graduated from Granite High School. She served as a docent at the Pioneer Memorial Museum. She says, “Every DUP member should do it!” Her pioneer ancestors were in the Martin Handcart Company. All eight members of the Moss family made it to Jeneal Wilson the Territory of Deseret. Jeneal partic- ipated in a ‘Pioneer Trek’ to experience what her ancestors did. Jeneal currently serves as the Stratford Camp Captain and the first vice president of Salt Lake Canyon Trails Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Bear Lake Company in the Chesterfield Activity Hall Legacy • Summer 2018 –2– WEBER COUNTY COMPANY ROYALTY CAMP 47 ENJOYS A SUMMER ADVENTURE The Weber County DUP Museum Board decided to Members of Camp 47, Weber Far South Center Company, recognize the outstanding work the Daughters in the Ogden, Utah, visited the historic Carver Cabin for their annual summer Utah area do for DUP.