Dear Arkansas Daughters,

As this State Regent has traveled around the state visiting

Arkansas chapters, she has developed a new sense of pride in this state.

Everywhere she has gone, there are Arkansas Daughters making a

difference within their communities. Daughters have kept alive the

traditions and memories of our heritage and history; you have nurtured

and mentored our youth through involvement and support of school and

literary projects, C.A.R., and scholarships. Community leaders have been

recognized through Community Service, Conservation, and other

National Awards. You have whole-heartedly supported our troops

through Project Patriot. Our veterans have not been forgotten either.

Your volunteer work within our VA hospitals and clinics has been

outstanding and gratefully accepted. These sites have benefitted from

your presence and presents. Your generous gifts have resulted in

renovation of two SICU waiting rooms within the John McClellan facility

in Little Rock. Your gifts of comfort items, calling cards, coffee, games,

and a seemingly never-ending list of other things have made life more

comfortable for our veteran patients and their families. “Horses for

Heroes” is making a difference in rehabilitation of our wounded warriors.

And the list of accomplishments does not end there. Arkansas

Daughters have given thousands of hours to promote patriotic events,

collect Bible records and genealogical data, mark gravesites of American

Revolutionary patriots, AND you have worked toward preservation of

our incredible National DAR buildings and its contents. In traveling

approximately 23,000 miles during the past two years, your regent has

discovered first-hand why Arkansas Daughters are recognized and

respected for their dedication.

Representing Arkansas this regent has attended National

Board of Management meetings, visited several other states as guest at

their conferences, and toured Berry College in Rome, Georgia. She has

served on the Board of Trustees, Kate Duncan Smith (KDS) School in

Alabama, and on the Advisory Board as its vice president at Tamassee

DAR School in South Carolina and has visited their campuses. Highlights

for this regent, however, have always been the visits to Arkansas

chapters despite the excitement of a prolonged stay in our nation’s

capital during the blizzard in February! Since that time this regent has

visited Enoch Ashley, Captain Basil Gaither, Cadron Post (for their 30th

anniversary tea), Tate's Bluff (also, for their 30th

anniversary and then at

Garvin Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs), Major Jacob Gray,

Hot Springs of Arkansas, Charlevoix, Little Rock Centennial, and Prudence

Hall. Additionally, your regent has attended SAR events including

Arkansas Post festivities and meeting with their President General twice,

with the Colonial Heritage Era Societies, and the formal opening of the

VA Clinic in Searcy (as well as attending an orientation class for

volunteers). She looks forward to her visit on Mount Magazine with the

Abendschone members as they present Lori Spencer with the National

Conservation Award and to her visits with Provincia de la Sal and

Shawnee and Caddo Districts. The upcoming C.A.R. regional meeting

June 18 and 19 should prove exciting as will upcoming trips to Tamassee

and KDS in the company of your State Regent-Elect Sue Thompson.

As your State Regent writes this message to you, it comes with

the realization that the 2008-10 administration is coming to a close and

she will attend her last NBOM meeting in July 2010. The energetic,

productive Calvin Administration 2007-10, also, is coming to a close.

Changes lie ahead, but DAR remains a constant in many ways: We

continue our objectives of historic preservation, education, and

patriotism being ever aware of our priorities of God, home, and country.

Arkansas Daughters, you have faithfully committed yourselves to the

ideals of NSDAR and have selflessly shared your gifts, both tangible and

intangible. You have truly kept the butterfly effect alive.

This regent salutes you and thanks you for these incredible two

years.

In DAR service,

ARKANSAS STATE SOCIETY

DAR NEWS VOLUME XXV ISSUE 2 May 2010

"And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season

we shall reap, if we do lose heart." Galatians 6:9

A Message from your State

Regent

Table of Contents

Meet your New State Regent page 2

Meet your New State Vice Regent page 3

State Conference Results page 4-6

From the Chapter page 8 & 9

Project Patriot page 9 & 10

Good Citizen page 12-15

New Members, Deaths, Honorariums and Memoralx page 16 &17

ROTC page 17 & 18

Meet Your New State Regent

Sue Tener Thompson (Mrs. Verl )

Member since 1993

NATION DAR SERVICE: National Vice Chairman Membership Committee, South Central Division 2007-2010,

National DAR Speaker Staff 2007-2010

Club Affiliations: National Vice Chairman Club - Life Member; Heritage Club Member;

State Vice Regent’s Club – Vice President/Chaplain 2009-2010 – Life Member.

STATE DAR SERVICE: Arkansas State Vice Regent 2008-2010, Arkansas State Registrar 2006-2008, Co-Chairman Arkansas Historical Marker Book Committee 2004-2008

Club Affiliations: State Officers Club – Life Member – President 2007-2008

CHAPTER DAR SERVICE: Marion Chapter Regent 2004-2006, First Vice Regent 2002-2004, Treasurer 2000-2002, Registrar 1994-2000, numerous chairmanships, VAVS volunteer

N.S.C.A.R.:

Organizing Senior President, James Leeper Society, Fayetteville AR 2006-2007

CHURCH AND COMMUNITY:

Member First Baptist Church, Fayetteville, AR; served on several church committees, taught Preschool Sunday School for 12 years; Cooperative Emergency

Outreach volunteer; Veteran’s Affairs Volunteer Service, member Washington County AR Genealogical Society, member Washington County Historical

Society.

EDUCATION AND CAREER:

Attended Fort Hays State University, Hays KS, AIB/ABA recognition for completed courses of study in Applied Banking; 12 years experience in the banking and

credit industry. Five years as a small business owner

FAMILY:

Husband Verl L. Thompson (deceased); one son, Kevin Thompson, who lives in Siloam Springs AR and has given me three grandsons and four step-

grandchildren. Two step-children, Philip, who serves our country in the Department of State and is posted in Manila, Philippines, and Vivian, who sells real

estate in Taos, NM and is a singer and song writer.

Meet Your New State Vice-Regent

Jo Ann Roth Cooper (Mrs. Arnold Cooper)

National DAR Service

Heritage Club Member since 2007

Chapter DAR Service:

Joined Jonesboro Chapter NSDAR as a junior in 1974, 36 years of membership and now Life Member

Served Chapter as Librarian, Genealogical Records Chairman, Yearbook Chairman, Chapter Registrar 1997-2005, Chapter Regent 2009-2010

District Service:

Served as Treasurer, Shawnee District 2004-2006

State DAR Service:

Membership Chairman 2001-2002, State Registrar 2002-2004, State Genealogical Records Chairman 2004-2006, State Recording Secretary 2006-

2008, State VIS Chairman 2008-2010

Club Affiliations: Life member of State Officers Club serving as Secretary/Treasurer 2009; Life Member of Cameo Society

Church and Community:

Member St Mark’s Episcopal Church, Jonesboro; served on Vestry 4 years, President of ECW, member of altar guild; served as Secretary of

Jonesboro High School Athletic Booster Club; Water Safety Instructor with American Red Cross and Red Cross Blood Drive Volunteer; Auxiliary

member, pink lady, at St. Bernard’s Regional Medical Center; Past President of Chapter AJ P.E.O, Jonesboro; member of Chapter DL P.E.O., Cabot,

member National Society of the United State Daughters of 1812, served as treasurer and now registrar; Founding President of James Wiseman

Honnoll Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, Past State Third Vice President, State Registrar and Past President of Arkansas Division

United Daughters of the Confederacy; Member of Craighead County-Jonesboro Public Library board 10 years, Member Crowley Ridge Regional

Library Board 10 years, serving on State Library Board at the present time appointed by Governor Beebe.

Education and Career:

Public school education in Searcy, White County, AR; attended Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX; Louisiana Tech, Ruston LA and graduated

with degree in Business Education from University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, graduate work at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

Office manager, for deceased husband Dr. Wayne Taylor a Family Practice Physician, for 26 years. Taught accounting to dependent wives on

Hickam Air Force Base and Pearl Harbor Navy Base in Hawaii, taught business education classes at Black River Vo-Tech School in Pocahontas.

Family:

Husband Arnold Cooper, retired Vice President and Branch Manager of A.G. Edward’s office in Jonesboro, member of NSSAR and Arkansas

Pioneers; Son Lance Taylor, Executive Director of Arkansas Activities Association, member of NSSAR, lives in Cabot with his wife, Tanya, and two

daughters, Elliot and Leighton who are members of C.A.R. and C of C. Daughter, Jodie Hickman lives in Little Rock with husband John and two

daughters Taylor and Kori Ann. Jodie is a member of NSDAR and Cameo Society as are her daughters. Lance and Jodie are members of Arkansas

Pioneers. Three Step children: Todd Cooper, wife Lisa and son Luke live in Little Rock; Dr. Scott Cooper, wife Cynthia and daughter Mary Bowman

live in Rogers; Kristin, husband Lee Maris and children Mary Cooper and Tripp live in Little Rock. All of these grandchildren are members of C.A.R.

and C of C.

State Conference Results

American Heritage

American History

American Indian

Chapters under 50: 1 Chicot Trace; 2 Tate's Bluff; 3 Captain Nathan Watkins.

Chapters 50-99: 1 Arkansas Post; honorable mention Little Red River

Chapters over 100: 1 Akansa; 2 Jonesboro.

Americanism

Chapter Achievement Awards

Children of the American Revolution

Enrolled new Members

1 Jonesboro; 2 Maria Van Buren; 3 Provincia de la Sal;4 Robert Crittenden

Outstanding Event

1 Chicot Trace 1st place Dallas County Fair for educational booth

Hospitality

Marion enlists CAR society to assist members at State Conference, attend DAR

Meetings and a Real Daughter Dedication

Major Jacob Gray invited ASCAR to serve August BOM meeting

Community Service Awards

1 Carmen Susan Bell Abendschone

2 South Central Carmen Susan Bell Abendschone

2 Robert Alan Megahan Akansa

3 Kay Martin Tate's Bluff

3 Jerry Bolin General William Lewis

Conservation

Constitution Week

Most Proclamations (10) Jonesboro; Most Events (20) Benjamin Culp; Most

Number of Articles (24) Akansa; Most Square Feet of Displays (154) Chicot Trace;

Most Broadcast Minutes (510) Strawberry River; Outstanding Activities: John

Percifull, Akansa, Chicot Trace, and Benjamin Culp.

DAR Good Citizen

DAR Magazine

DAR Museum

DAR Scholarship

Sponsoring Students for scholarships:, Akansa, Jonesboro, Colonel David Love,

Major Jacop Gray, General William Lewis, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Post, and Benjamin

Culp.

Sponsoring students for NSDAR scholarships: Chicot Trace, Little Red River and

Persis Lovely

Awarding Chapter Sponsored Scholarships ($3687): Akansa, Chicot Trace,

Dardanelle Rock, General William Lewis, John Percifull, Jonesboro, Little Red

River, Major Jacob Gray, Persis Lovely, Pine Bluff, Robert Crittenden, and Tate's

Bluff.

Making extra donation to NSDAR Scholarship Fund($1215): Akansa, Dardanelle

Rock, Marion, and Ozark Mountain.

DAR School

DAR Service for Veterans The Flag of the United States of

America

Genealogical Records

Historical Preservation

Chapters under 50: 1 Major Jacob Gray; 2 Texarkana; 3 General William Lewis

Chapters 50-100: 1 Harrison Colony; 2 Maria Van Buren.

Chapters over 100: 1 Marion; 2 Akansa.

Junior American Citizens

Most number of children involved in all JAC Activities ~Chapters up to 49 members: 1st-Robert Crittenden, 2nd-Persis Lovely, 3rd-John Percifull ~Chapters 50-99 members: 1st-Charlevoix ~Chapters over 100 members: 1st- Jonesboro, 2nd- Marion Most number of Contest Entries submitted to State ~Chapters up to 49 members: 1st-Robert Crittenden, 2nd- Persis Lovely, 3rd- James Bright ~Chapters 50-99 members: 1st- Charlevoix ~Chapters over 100 members: 1st-Jonesboro, 2nd-Marion Most pictures/articles published: ~Chapters up to 49 members: 1st- Robert Crittenden, 2nd- John Percifull ~Chapters over 100 members: 1st- Jonesboro, 2nd- Marion New Participation at State Level: Strawberry River

Junior Membership

Most new Junior Members: Arkansas Post & Little Rock/Centennial

Target Marketing: Marion

Kid friendly approach to meetings: Ozark Mountains

Lineage Research

Membership

Membership Contest Essay: Sylvia Lynch Matthews (Akansa)

National Defense

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Program

1 Chicot Trace; 2 Abendschone

Public Relations and Media

Best Newsletter: 1 Marion; 2 Arkansas Post; 3 Akansa.

Best Media Coverage: 1 Cadron Post & Tate's Bluff; 2 Chicot Trace; 3 Major

Jacob Gray. Honorable Mention: Abendschone, Benjamin Culp, Captain Nathan

Watkins, Dardanelle Rock, General William Lewis, Maria Van Buren, Robert

Crittenden and Strawberry River.

Best Print Media Campaign: 1 Akansa; 2 Chicot Trace; 3 Cadron Post.

Best Overall Public Relations for chapters over 50 members: 1 Akansa; 2

Harrison Colony; 3 Maria Van Buren.

best Overall Public Relations for chapters under 50 members: 1 Robert

Crittenden; 2 Strawberry River; 3 Major Jacob Gray.

Seimes Technology Center

The Flag of the United States of America

Chapters 12-39 members: 1 John Percifull; 2 Benjamin Culp.

Chapters 40-99 members: 1 Chicot Trace; 2 Major Jacob Gray; 3 Tate's

Bluff; 3 Strawberry River.

Chapter 100+ members: 1 Akansa; 2 Jonesboro.

Volunteer Information Specialists

Special award: Martha Poplin for her years of dedication

Chapters less than 50 members: Nita McDonald (Benjamin Culp); Rochelle

Cockran (John Percifull), Mary Jackson (Texarkana).

Chapters 50-99 members: Patty Windle (Dardanelle Rock), Barbara Coleman (Fort

Smith), Sally Jo Gibson (Harrison Colony).

Chapters 100+: Betty Korbus (Akansa), Gale Markley (Jonesboro), Janie McKinney

(Marion).

Chapter Development & Revitalization

Commemorative Events

Chapters 0-49 members: Chicot Trace.

Chapters 50-100 members: Harrison Colony.

Chapters 100+ members: Akansa

DAR Genealogy Preservations

Arkansas Post: Marilyn Hembrick Sickel, Elizabeth Robnett Simmons, Jerri Jones

Townsend. Chicot Trace: Virginia Wood Frost. Jonesboro: JoAnn Roth Cooper,

Susan Mays Dacus. Little Red River: Fran Ruth Marvin Pearson. Ozark Mountains:

Valerie Ezell Scott. Major Jacob Gray: Shirley Hawkins Harrington, Carole Falkner

Villarreal. Prudence Hall: Frankie Young Holt. Strawberry River: Ruth McHenry

Ashcraft.

DAR Project Patriot

Most activities/projects supporting goals of DAR.Members 0-40 :Grand Prairie;

members 41-80: Major Jacob Gray & Harrison Colony. Members over 80: Akansa

Most items sent to Landstuhl Medical Center . Members 0-40: Ozark Mountains.

members 41-80: Robert Crittenden. Members over 80: Akansa.

Most money for Project Patriot activities. Members 0-40: Independence County

and Ozark Mountains. Members 41-80: Harrison Colony & Robert Crittenden.

Members over 80-Akansa.

Best Overall Chapter in support of Project Patriot: Akansa

DAR Speaker's Staff

1 Susan Veal; 2 Sheila Beatty; and 3 Sue Thompson.

Friends of the Library

Insignia

Literacy Promotion Committee

Arkansas won an award from NSDAR South Central Division for Outstanding

Service of a State.

Individual DAR Member Contributions: Shirley Barham (Cadron Post); Tanna Clark

(Benjamin Culp).

Outstanding DAR Chapter Contributions: Abendschone, Akansa, Benjamin Culp,

Cadron Post, Captain Nathan Watkins, General William Lewis, Independence

County, Marion, Ozark Mountains, and Tate's Bluff.

Historical Marker Book

Colonel David Love and Marion

President General's Project

3rd Year 100% in President General's Project: Arkadelphia, Captain Basil Gaither,

Chicot Trace, Colonel David Love, Gilbert Marshall, Hot Springs of Arkansas, James

Bright, John Percifull, Little Red River, Lovely Purchase, Pine Bluff, and Robert

Crittenden.

Protocol

Volunteer Genealogist

Woman's Issues

State Historian

Revolutionary War Markers:

Old Washington Cemetery (Eli Collins, John Holman, James Williams) : Benjamin

Culp, John Cain, Mine Creek-Paraclifta, and Texarkana.

Camden (Priscilla Elliott): Akansa, Benjamin Culp, Cadron Post, Chicot Trace, and

Tate's Bluff;

Columbus (Edward Johnson): Benjamin Culp.

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Camden REAL daughter (SarahMcGill): Akansa, Benjamin Culp, John McAlmont,

Major Jacob Gray, and Tate's Bluff.

Wreaths on Patriot's graves (George and Anderson Tate): Tate's Bluff

Fayetteville, Evergreen Cemetery REAL daughter (Catherine Robards Stirman):

Marion

Maintenance of Historical Marker (Willie Hock) designer of Arkansas State Flag:

Pine Bluff .

Texarkana Memorial Marker at Arkansas Tourist Bureau.

State Registrar

New Members: Chapters 0-50 members: 1 Ozark Mountains; 2 Major Jacob

Gray; 3 Little Rock/Centennial; Chapters 51-100 members: 1 Tate's Bluff; 2

Robert Crittenden; 3 Colonel David Love. Chapter Over 100: 1 Marion; 2

Akansa.

Supplements: 1 Arkansas Post; 2 John Cain; 3 Colonel David Love.

Outstanding Chapter Registrar: Jeanette Frahm, Akansa.

Veteran's History Project

NSDAR LITERACY PROMOTION COMMITTEE SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION

2010 CONTEST JUDGE’S RESULTS

OUTSTANDING SERVICE OF A STATE:

1. KANSAS

2. ARKANSAS

3. TEXAS 6

Announcement

American History Essay Contest Themes

2010-2011

The themes for the American History and Christopher Columbus Essay Contests for the 2010-2011 school year have been released, so that chapters may communicate with local schools before the end of the current year. For details, please visit the Members web site at http://members. dar.org/committe es/history/ index.htm

NSDAR Building Hours during Continental Congress

The plan is to be open on Friday, July 2nd

but closed

on Saturday and Sunday, July 3rd

and 4th. However,

special arrangements will be made on Saturday

between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. for chairmen and others

who require access in order to set up for activities

on Monday.

DAR GREAT PLAINS AND GRAND PRAIRIE

TEA DURING CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 2010

As you may know, Arkansas Daughters join with

the Daughters of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South

Dakota and Wisconsin for the DAR GREAT PLAINS

AND GRAND PRAIRIE TEA. The tea will take

place at the J. W. Marriott Hotel on Wednesday, July

7, from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m. If you want Tea invitations sent to your friends,

please notify Sue Thompson, 315 West Allen Avenue,

Springdale, AR 72764 or email

darlady1776@aol.com. The deadline is May 15.

Remember to send the following information:

Your name, address, email address and phone

number

Your friend's names, addresses, email

addresses and phone numbers

Remember, you will be responsible for the cost of

your guest's tickets. Tickets are $46.00 and will not

be sold during Continental Congress.

DID YOU KNOW THAT AKANSA AND

HARRISON COLONY ASDAR ARE NOW

LISTED AS FOUNDING PARTNERS WITH

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VETERANS

HISTORY PROJECT? THESE TWO DAR

CHAPTERS HAVE JOINING WITH A DAR

CHAPTER IN INDIANA WHO HAS ALSO

COMMITTED TO BEING A PARTNER (25

INTERVIEWS A YEAR). ONLY 3 DAR

CHAPTERS IN THE WORLD HAVE MADE

THIS COMMITMENT AND TWO ARE IN

ARKANSAS.

AKANSA WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE

TO DO THIS WITH JEANNE &JEFF MEEK.

THE SITE HAS AS LAST COUNT 107

INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED BY JEFF &

JEANNE.

Announcement

See Your DAR Photos Featured at Congress

A picture is worth a thousand words! The sentiment behind this saying has never been more true. In an age when people’s attention spans are

getting shorter, photos are a great way to catch someone’s eye and tell a story when they might have just glazed over a bunch of words.

Good photographs are a great way to share with the public all the amazing work that DAR chapters are doing and the

variety of members involved. DAR Headquarters needs your help in gathering more contemporary photos to show

examples of the true foundation of our Society – our local members hard at work.

Members, chapters, states – send in your favorite photos of Daughters, local events, volunteer activities, etc – and you

will help spread the word about the great work that DAR does in communities across the country and around the world.

These photos will go in a database for possible inclusion in upcoming promotional materials, including a special feature at

this year's Continental Congress.

The most compelling photos are of members in action, bringing to life the objectives of historical preservation, education

and patriotism and showing the broad range of activities in which DAR members can participate. Examples include:

Volunteering at schools or VA hospitals

Naturalization ceremonies

Dedications or memorials

Events at your chapter’s or state’s historic properties

Assembling care packages for troops

Award and scholarship presentations

Educational programs

Unique chapter events

Photos used for promotional purposes must be extremely high quality, both in artistic composition as well as technically.

Please make sure that photos are clear, well-lit, high-resolution, and not grainy or pixilated. One sure way to provide

great photos is if your chapter has had a professional photographer at an event, or can acquire photos from a newspaper

that covered an event.

By sending in your photos, you agree to allow the National Society to use them in any future print, video or online

publications. Please obtain the appropriate permissions from everyone pictured before sending the photo, and include

their names and a description of the activity. Only send duplicates of your photos because physical photos or photo CDs

cannot be returned.

Please email photos to publicrelations@dar.org, or mail photos or a photo CD to:

Public Relations Office

NSDAR

1776 D Street NW

Washington, DC 20006

We look forward to seeing – and sharing – all the exciting work you are doing

Dear Daughters

I want to thank you for all your help and patience as I compiled the DAR News. I have enjoyed meeting you

whether it was in person or online. DAR is a wonderful organization and it does such good works for our

community. It is so true that "Arkansas needs DAR".

Sincerely,

Ann Presley

From the Chapters

Abendschone

Abendschone Chapter nominated Carman Susan Bell for a

Community Service Award for her work in getting ECHO

started in Eureka Spring, Ar. ECHO stands for Eureka

Christian Health Outreach. It is a free health clinic that

extends medical services to those in the Eureka Springs area

who cannot afford health care. It is staffed with at least one

Doctor, several nurses, a Pharmacist, and a lot of volunteers.

They also serve an evening meal before the clinic opens up.

The meals are furnished by local churches and other

organizations and served by volunteers from those groups.

They have just moved in to their own building that also has a

thrift shop, coffee bar and bookstore. Carman Susan Bell was

on the Oprah Show some time in the late fall or winter before

she was on the Dr. Oz Show. They were featured on the Dr. Oz

Show this winter. Several of our chapter members are regular

volunteers; putting in many hours with ECHO. The chapter won

First Place, State in Community Service and Second Place

South Central District-Community Service. Our chapter

member Sherry Kerr did all the paper work to get Suzie's name

placed in nomination. Sherry has been a volunteer with ECHO

since its inception in 2005.

Fort Smith

The Fort Smith Chapter of DAR presented Good Citizen

Awards to students from Greenwood High School, Van Buren

High School, and Union Christian Academy in Fort Smith.

Pictured are two of the three students with Good Citizen

Chairman Shirley Perez at the February meeting of the Fort

Smith Chapter.

JROTC Awards were presented in April to one student

each in ceremonies at Alma, Van Buren, Greenwood and Fort

Smith Northside high schools.

Our annual salad supper was held May 3 with twenty-

one members and three guests. Our program, “The Presence of

the Past, A History of Fort Smith,” was a colorful presentation

of Fort Smith history from 1817 through Judge Parker‟s days.

Displays included photos of students studying various aspects

of Fort Smith‟s history, along with quilts and artifacts.

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Captain Basil Gaither

The Capt. Basil Gaither Chapter of the Daughters of the

American Revolution awarded three students from Pulaski

Academy for excellence in American History. These students

are: Caroline Fortson, Emily Shull, and James Hughes. Twenty-

five dollar checks and certificates were awarded to the

students and a thank you to their teacher, Nancy Schaefer in

appreciation for the hard work of these 8th grade students,

Kathy Webb, State Representative donated an American Flag

and an Arkansas Flag to Pulaski Academy Middle School on

behalf of the chapter. History is alive in Little Rock!

Major Jacob Gray

Major Jacob Gray Chapter NSDAR awarded its 2nd $500

chapter scholarship to Brittany Briswalter, a senior at Cabot

High School. Brittany will be studying nursing at the University

of Central Arkansas this fall.

Jonesboro

Jonesboro Chapter in attendance at State Conference

Front Gale Markley, Vice Regent, State American History

Chair; Jo Ann Cooper, Regent, State VIS Chair; Carolyn

Atkinson, Historian, State American Heritage Chair Back

Welda Hunt, Librarian; Barbara Dacus; Sarah Dacus, Registrar;

Elizabeth Parsons, Page.

Contest winners with teachers from Buffalo Island School

System in attendance at Jonesboro Chapter DAR Meeting,

February 23, 2010.

Pictured from left are Nicole Stewart, BIC East Elementary

Principal; Julie Thompson, sixth grade student; Carolyn

Atkinson, DAR member; Kasey Davis, sixth grade student; and

Jill Sanders, Social Studies Teacher.

Tate's Bluff

Tate‟s Bluff Chapter of the Daughters of the American

Revolution

Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Tate‟s Bluff DAR Chapter members and friends gathered

Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Tate Cemetery near Tate‟s Bluff on

the Ouachita River to honor the grave sites of Anderson and

George Tate, Revolutionary War soldiers. A short service was

held at the cemetery, followed by a luncheon at the river home

of Jean Smith, one of the Chapter organizing members and

former Chapter Regent. Alfred Smith also served as host.

State DAR Regent, Mary Lee Schultz of Cabot, joined the

group for the event and presented a program on the early

history of DAR. Emma Jean Wood, Jean Smith, and Barbara

Morton gave highlights of the organizing of the Chapter and

the Tate‟s Bluff Chapter first year. The Chapter currently has

sixty six active members. The Chapter encourages Patriotism,

Education, Historical Preservation, and Genealogy through local

projects and yearly events.

Prudence Hall

Betty Harp presented the book Forgotten Patriots to Jeff

Baskin, Librarian at the Laman Library in North Little Rock.

Betty Harp presents the NSDAR Conservation Award to Ed

McDonald for his important work with Monarch butterflies.

PROJECT PATRIOT

". . . the most important program of the year."

DAR Project Patriot is the official Daughters of the

American Revolution committee that supports America’s

service personnel in current conflicts abroad. As you can

see in the photo on the left, Sylvia Matthews and Sheila

Beatty worked as a tag team in explaining the myriad of

ways the Akansa Chapter of the DAR "Akansa Soldier

Squad" works to help our military - past and present. This

group serves our Active Duty Military by being present at

deployments, welcome homes, and ceremonies honoring

soldiers as they return. They also provide the honor guard

for fallen soldiers, send gifts with the "Any Soldier" Project,

and send out holiday mail to soldiers. Veterans are not

forgotten by this Patriot Project. This group has collected

thousands of dollars of in-kind donations for the VA

Hospital; they work with the Wounded Warrior project,

provide Veteran's Day Programs, and support Wreaths

Across America. In the special project category, they

provide "pocket" flags for veterans (They gave one to each

Veteran present in our audience -pictured here is Leif

Ericson receiving a pocket

flag from Sheila Beatty), they

have collected clothes and

toys for "Tyler's Kids" (A

soldier, Tyler, noticed the

many needs of children in Iraq

- and he asked for assistance

for them.) The Patriot Project

also has sent school supplies

to children in Afghanistan and Iraq. Larry

Averill honored these two women by awarding each

of them Rotary's highest honor, a Paul Harris Fellow Award.

A Paul Harris Fellow award occasionally is made to non-

Rotarians for outstanding public service. Larry is correct

that these two clearly deserve this award. As Larry

remarked, "They are everywhere when it comes to our

troops." Sylvia and Sheila established the Soldier Squad,

have traveled over 10,000 miles supporting our active duty

personnel and our veterans, and work tirelessly for Project

Patriot.

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Project Patriot

All,

I just wanted to send out a few lines to update everyone on the

1037th. As you all know, we were stuck in Wisconsin longer than

expected before departing to Afghanistan. Well, we are finally

to our permanent location. We have been here for about a

month or so now, and are up and running missions doing what we

were trained to do. I really can‟t go into specifics, but I can

tell you our Arkansas boys are doing a fantastic job. When we

first got into country, we had to spend some extra time at

Kandahar Airfield getting our equipment fielded. While doing

so, we had to deal with some trucks that came from Iraq and

weren‟t in the best of shape. SFC Greg Stanley and his

maintenance team worked many long days getting the

equipment up to par to keep our soldiers safe. My hat is off to

that team as they showed everyone here that they knew their

stuff. I would also like to point out that our commo NCO, SGT

Jeremy Ervin and his team worked hand in hand with the

maintenance team getting all of the cammo gear installed and

functioning. I wish that everyone at home could see that our

boys worked circles around any active duty unit that had

better equipment. Once we finally got to move out and start

running missions, these boys excelled. I‟m sure the ones that

have been home on leave have been talking us up, and I am here

to tell you that it is all true, every word. LTC Seats and CPT

Mason and the entire 875th should be proud of how the 1037th

is representing the 875th and the entire state of Arkansas. I

would thank everyone, but I would leave someone out, so I will

tell the entire area Thanks for all of the support. Please take

these words to heart when I say again that everyone should be

proud of our soldiers, the families and friends, and the entire

Jonesboro and surrounding communities. We are doing our job

and doing it well. We are head and shoulders above our peers

and intend to stay that way. The morale of the soldiers is high

and keeps climbing. During this time, we have had some new

fathers, some new husbands, some new grandfathers, and some

new uncles. Keep the good news coming, we love to hear stories

from home.

Thanks again for your time.

CPT Bradley J. Smart

Commander

1037th Route Clearance Company

From the Sentinel-Record, Sunday March 28, 2010 page 8B

Letters to the Editor:

“SEAL team‟s „heartfelt thanks‟

Dear Editor:

On March 24, I, along with 50 of my teammates from

the Naval Special Warfare community, had the distinct honor

of visiting Hot Springs to attend the memorial service of our

fallen teammate, Chief (SEAL) Adam Brown. Adam needs no

introduction to your audience. Throughout the day, each of us

in uniform was thanked countless times for our service to the

nation by the citizens of Hot Springs. In reality, it is we who

must thank your town.

The members of our team live in an isolated world. We

work in remote areas and our efforts, both mental and physical,

move quickly from one enemy target to the next. We know in

our hearts that these efforts are important, but it is easy to

forget the true reason behind what we do. Yesterday, in your

town, we were reminded of what lies at the heart of our

efforts.

We sat in a church filled with Adam‟s friends, family

and loved ones. In that sanctuary, we saw the piece of America

this is worth fighting and dying for. In our drive to Adam‟s

gravesite, we saw countless numbers of your townsfolk lining

the streets, holding American flags high and saluting as Adam

passed through. In their actions, we were reminded of what

makes our nation great.

At Adam‟s final resting place, we saw rows of your

citizens quietly paying their final respects to our fallen

brother. In their faces, we saw our own wives and children, our

own parents and loved ones and we knew that Adam would be

remembered in Hot Springs as the hero he is.

For all that, we send you our deepest respect and

heartfelt thanks.

In deepest regard,

The Warriors of Naval Special Warfare”

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Captain Brad Smart, commander of the Arkansas

National Guard 10Sorry I have not gotten back to you

yet. You can send it to me and I will distribute. Things

we need are shaving razors and/or blades, shaving

cream, body wash, beef jerky, etc. We greatly

appreciate anything you guys send. Please don't feel

obligated to send anything. If you choose too, thank

you very much.

Smart, Brad

1037th RCC, 105th EN BN

FOB WILSON

APO AE 0935537th Route Clearance Company wrote

Hillside School

We invite all DAR members to join us for a day of tribute to

the invaluable connection between your organization

and Hillside School. DAR Day will take place on Saturday,

November 6, 2010 in combination with another favorite

Hillside event: Farm Day. We know you will enjoy the

opportunity to visit our campus farm and to meet other Hillside

community members, supporters, neighbors, and friends. An

invitation, with event details and RSVP information, will be

mailed at the start of the next academic year.

State Conference Pictures

Crowley Ridge SAR Color

Guard

New Cameo Officers: Sarah Dacus, Jonesboro Chapter,

Historian Louise Wisener, Akansa Chapter, Treasurer MarJo

Dill, Pine Bluff Chapter, Rec. Secretary Vive Allen, Harrison

Colony Chapter, Vice President Susan Railsback, John

McAlmont Chapter, President.

Change of Addresses

Mary Lee Schultz 49 Lindulake Drive

Cabot, Arkansas 72023-9325

501-941-5259

(Email remains the same:

maryleeschultz@ yahoo.com)

Volunteer Field Genealogists Training

October 12-13, 2010 Norman, OK

Volunteer Field Genealogists (VFG)workshops

are held in various locations around the

nation. Training is given in the proper

completion and documentation standards

required by the DAR for verification of

applications. Graduates of this class may

then share this information by leading

workshops at the local level. Training is

conducted by staff genealogists from DAR

Headquarters in Washington, D.C. While this

program is geared to DAR members, anyone may

attend. Registration Form Volunteer Field Genealogists Workshop October 12-13, 2010 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center 2501 Conference Dr Norman, OK 73069

norman.embassysuites.com 405-364-8040 or 1-800-embassy Please make your own hotel reservations.

The DAR rate is $130/night

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Good Citizen Winners for 2010

Akansa Chapter Top: Victoria Lynn Bell with parents Nathan & Phyllis Bell (Mena High). Middle: Mason Cole Qualls with parents Thomas & Rebecca Qualls (Fountain Lake High). Bottom: Alexander Dimitrl Fergadis with parents Dimitre & DianeFergadis (Jessieville High).

Other winners: Micah Thompson (Umpire High); James Ira Stone (Delight

High); Chantavong Mark Vilavanh (Western Yell County High); and

Samantha Jewell (Van Cove High).

Captain Basil Gaither Chapter

Regent Linda Ferstl,Joshua David Jones from Pulaski Academy and Lorna Kirkpatarick from Arkansas Baptist High School and Robert Dudley from Catholic High were entrants (Robert not pictures)

Tate's Bluff Chapter

Included in the photo are: Rachelle Sorrells, counselor NGHS; Alexia

Forbes( Harmony Grove High; Clara Freeland, Chapter Chair; Amelia

Lindsey (Camden Fairview High) winner; and Peggy Burton, CFHS

Principal.

Colonel David Love Chapter

Annette Rawls Sandy Funderburg – essay coordinator Quinn Ranahan – Good Citizen

Abendschone Chapter

Baltazar Lemus (Eureka Springs

High)

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Chicot Trace

Caitlin Buchannan of Fordyce

Little Red River

Vice Regent Fritzie Statler present award Sarah Martin of Beebe as her

mother, Jackie Martin, looks on.

Marion Chapter

Back row left to right: Justin Bramall from Greenland High School, Reid Joseph from Har-Ber High School, Zachary Schrock from Prairie Grove High School and Courtney Rees from West Fork High School. Front row left to right: Sue Thompson, DAR Good Citizen Chairman for Marion Chapter NSDAR, Olivia Wood from Elkins High School, Annemarie Beck from Fayetteville High School, Dilma Pena from Springdale High School, and Jeanne Tackett, Marion Chapter Regent. Caitlin Mitchell of Lincoln High School is not pictured

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Charlevoix Chapter

Justin Lynn Hopper-- Nicole Spiers Marcus -

Armorel High School Manila High School

Alayna Marie Bell - Rivercrest High School

Brooke A. Siegler -

Blytheville High School

Callie Elizabeth Wright - Gosnell High School

Darian Darshun Dyson- Osceola High School

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Major Jacob Gray Chapter

Kayla Lashun Drone

North Pulaski High School

Justin Allen Blankenship, Cabot High

Alana Beth Whatley, Jacksonville High

Texarkana Chapter

Left to Right: Larissa Powell of Arkansas High School and Whitney Davis

of Genoa High School.

General William Lewis

Terrence Heaggans of Morrilton High

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Robert Crittenden

Chapter

Laura Foster with Dylan McVay, West Memphis Christian School

Fort Smith Chapter

From left: Rebel Clay of Greenwood High, DAR Good Citizens Chairman

Shirley Perez, Hannah Smith

Arkansas Post

Alexis Aufderheide and her mother Margo. 15

Dardanelle Rock

Dardanelle High School senior Mazie Pyburn and Chair Lee Ann Daniels.

State Winner

Junelle Mongo (Major Jacob Gray), State Regent Mary Lee

Schultz,Justin Allen Blankenship (Cabot High), Principal

Zanya Clarkson, Guidance Counselor Jayne Synder, and

Good Citizen Chair Martha Koon.

Attention District Directors

Your Junior Membership Chairman

wants to come to your District

meeting to sell Junior Membership

items.

Contact Leeann Mobley at mobleyl@sccsd.k12.ar.us

New Members ...as April 30, 2010

ABENDSCHONE Virginia Hansen AKANSA Cynthia Cerenzie Kaylene Farthing Caroline Gann Jennifer Gann Cindy Henry Thea Kocher ARKANSAS POST Dana Niemeier Debra Shea BENJAMIN CULP Janice Harrison Sally Kalkbrenner Martha Steed INDEPENDENCE COUNTY Charlotte Poliquin JOHN PERCIFULL Janice Meyers LITTLE RED RIVER Stacey Allen Amy Taylor LITTLE ROCK/CENTENNIAL Charlotte Alexander LOVELY PURCHASE Jean Olsen MAJOR JACOB GRAY Cody Ellis MARION Mary Holt PINE BLUFF Laura Fuger TATES BLUFF Jimmie Beavers Catherine Landers Glaze Catherine Dru Glaze

Transfers in: CHARLEVOIX Agnes O'Neal from TN Mary Wimberley from TN JAMES BRIGHT Sarah Clark from Little Red River JAMES K. POLK Nancy Leffel from Member at Large

MINE CREEK-PARACLIFTA Judy Hile from TN

PRUDENCE HALL Laura Lafferty from Major Jacob Gray ROBERT CRITTENDEN Sandra Logan from TN

We Hold In Memory...reported January 16,2010 through May 15,

2010.

"Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for

the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall

be ended." Isaiah 60:20

AKANSA

Margaret Pratt Schank 3/6/2010

HOT SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS

Emily Condit IrvineSimpson 3/9/20110

ARKANSAS POST

Yvonne Amonette Armstrong 2/25/2010

JOHN MC ALMONT

Patricia Ann Barnes Eddins 5/2/2010

JONESBORO

Frances Rorex Burris 4/25/2010

Hervey Lee Wallace Howington 2/14/2010

Marie L. Parker (Inactive) 1/15/2010

Willie Van Horn (Inactive) 1/13/2010

WILLIAM STRONG

Bevery "Pete" Burnett (Inactive) 4/6/2010

MARION

Marguerite Karnes Deaton (Inacative) 1/16/2010

ENOCH ASHLEY

Mary Cummings Jongeward 4/19/2010

STRAWBERRY RIVER

Loretta Catherine Rooker Taylor-Buddhu 2/9/2010

CHARLEVOIX

Ruby Nell Bevill Huntzicker 1/8/2010

JAMES K. POLK

Eva Sherman Furr 3/13/2010

CADRON POST

Frances Caroline Smith LaFace 3/21/2010

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MARIA VAN BUREN

Opal Chandler Kidd Koone (Inactive) 3/6/2010

COLONEL DAVID LOVE

Peggy Jane Culbertson Carter 2/11/2010

MEMBER AT-LARGE

Helen Elizabeth Polk Wolf 1/27/2010

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MEMORIALS AND HONORARIUMS

State Regent's Project Honorarium for Mary Lee Schultz Cameo Society Honorarium for Mary Lee Schultz State Officers Club Honorarium for Col. Patricia Anslow Chapter Regent's Club Memorial for Dewey Snowden Grand Prairie Chapter Memorial for Jerry Waymire Mary Deere through Provinia de La Sal Memorial for Beverly "Pete" Barnett Robert Crittenden Chapter Project Patriot Honorarium for Sheila Beatty Junelle Mongno through Major Jacob Gray Arkansas State Society C.A.R. Honorarium for Barbara Mitchell John McAlmont Chapter Arkansas State Society Student Scholarship Endowment Fund Memorial for Frances LaFace Cadron Post Chapter Memorial for Sue Brian Jo Kilduff Honorarium for Donna Davis John McAlmont Chapter Honorarium for Susan Veal Major Jacob Gray Chapter Memorial for Frances LaFace Jo Kilduff through Cadron Post Chapter Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Memorial for Jerry Waymire Sally Yarberry through Provincia de La Sal 17

Arkansas DAR Room Memorial for Frances LaFace Berry Korbus through Akansa Chapter Tamassee DAR School General Fund Honorarium for Bob Jolly Akansa Chapter Honorarium for Chuck Fuller Chicot Trace Chapter Hillside DAR School General Fund Memorial for Margaret Schank Akansa Chapter

ROTC AWARDS

Dardanelle Rock

Outstanding Senior ROTC student was C/CSM Aaron Anderson.

Outstanding Junior Cadet C/CPT Katelyn James

Major Jacob Gray

Cadet Lt. Colonel Meagan Byerley at the Beebe ROTC Dining Out. Presenting the award were Charlotte Huntley, National Defense Chairman, and Junelle Mongno, Chapter Regent

Cadet Jenna Sneed at the Cabot High School

Jonesboro

Heather Dapp receiving the ROTC Award at ASU

on April 17, 2010 Presented by Jo Ann Cooper, Regent

James Bright

ROTC chairman, Diane Jones, presented the medal to William Fleming, a history major at the University of AR Apr 22, 2010.

Tate's Bluff

Thomas Adam James

Prudence Hall

Bonnie Clough presents ROTC Medal to North Little Rock High School student Michelle Phillips.

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