Tennessee DAR Officers: Chaplain Jill Jones-Lazuke , 1st Vice Regent Cecile Wimberley, Regent Charlotte Reynolds, 2nd Vice Regent Emily Robinson, Corresponding Secretary Pam McConnell, and Historian Linda Moss Mines
Regent Council Representatives: Chickamauga Regent Joye Duke, Chief John Ross Regent Jessica Mines Dumitru, Council Chairman Lee Parham, Nancy Ward 1st Vice Regent Linda Crawford, Moccasin Bend Regent Pamela Randolph, Judge David Campbell 1st Vice Regent Susan V. Lindsey
Linda Moss Mines portrays Abby Milton, TN Suffragette
Abby Milton, Tennessee suffragette
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Regent’s Council of Chattanooga held its annual luncheon at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club. Over 160 Daughters and special guest attended.
Lee Parham, Council chairman, officiated. Honored guest NSDAR Tennessee State Regent Charlotte Reynolds sat at the head table along with representatives of the five local chapters: Joye Duke, regent, Chickamauga Chapter, Council vice chair; Jessica Mines Dumitru, Chief John Ross Chapter, Council chaplain; and Pamela Randolph, Moccasin Bend Chapter, Council secretary. Representing Nancy Ward Chapter was Linda Crawford, first vice regent. Susan Lindsey, first vice regent of Judge David Campbell Chapter was their representative.
Special guests included Susan R. Thomas, NSDAR vice-president general; Cecile Wimberley, Tennessee first vice regent; Emily Robinson, Tennessee second vice regent; State Chaplain Jill Jones-Lazuka; State Corresponding Secretary Pam McConnell, and State Historian Linda Moss Mines. Additionally, Larry Underwood, president of the John Sevier Chapter Sons of the American Revolutions, was welcomed.
Mrs. Reynolds brought greeting and announced the formation of a new DAR chapter in the Chattanooga area. Heather Green, executive director of the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School in Grant, Al., thanked the chapters for their support of the school.
Each year a local NSDAR chapter selects an outstanding citizen to honor their community service in historic preservation, education, or patriotic citizenship. This year’s honoree was Program Coordinator Bobbie Allison Standefer for her tireless work with veterans in Operation Song Chattanooga. The mission of Operation Song is to improve the lives of area veterans and their families through music. She was presented the DAR Service to Veterans award for 2018 by Ms. Dumitru.
Daughters with 50 years of continuous DAR service were recognized along daughters who are servicing or have served our country through the uniformed services.
Guest speaker was Mrs. Mines. She presented a costumed re-enactment of Abby Crawford Milton, a Chattanooga suffragist, who was also an early Chickamauga Chapter DAR member. Mrs. Milton was dedicated to voting rights for women. After the passage of the 19th Amendment in August 1920, she worked toward establishing thousands of acres in eastern Tennessee which became the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote historic preservation, education and patriotism. Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With more than 177,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world's largest and most active service organizations. DAR members are committed to volunteer service having served more than 12.5 million hours in communities throughout the world during the past three years. To learn more about the work of today's DAR, visit www.DAR.org or connect with DAR on social media at facebook.com/TodaysDAR, twitter.com/TodaysDAR and youtube.com/TodaysDAR.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote historic preservation, education and patriotism. Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With more than 177,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world's largest and most active service organizations. DAR members are committed to volunteer service having served more than 12.5 million hours in communities throughout the world during the past three years. To learn more about the work of today's DAR, visit www.DAR.org or connect with DAR on social media at facebook.com/TodaysDAR, twitter.com/TodaysDAR and youtube.com/TodaysDAR.