Soldiers Delight-Thomas Johnson Chapter, NSDAR
Stevenson, Maryland
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Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2025
Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2025
December
Our December speaker was a Chapter member and stamp collector, who presented on the Battlefields of the American Revolution stamps that were designed to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States.
We held a Welcoming Service for a new Chapter member.
The Chapter Regent presented a member with a Service Award for 30 years with the DAR! Two other members recieved five year Service Awards.
November
Chapter members attended the National Defense Luncheon in Rockville, Maryland.
October
In early October, we met over Zoom to discuss the book The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon.
At the chapter meeting, we had a tour of the Maryland DAR Chapter House and collection, led by the State Curator.
Several Chapter members also attended Founder's Day.
September
At the September chapter meeting, we learned about the Baltimore Album quilt that currently resides in the DAR museum.
We also welcomed two new members!
May
Our new chapter officers take their oaths on May 31. The installation ceremony was conducted by the State Regent.
At the May meeting, State Regent shares her special projects with our chapter members.
Our new Chapter Regent assumes her office and adjourns the May meeting.
April
At the April chapter meeting, members and guests enjoyed a program presented by our guest speaker "The School Lady" about her fifteen-year project documenting all the standing one-room country schools in North Dakota. Following the program, State Regent and Eastern Division Vice Chair for Historic Preservation assisted Chapter Regent in awarding our speaker the DAR Historic Preservation Medal.
March
At the March chapter meeting, we enjoyed a presentation from the President of Maryland C.A.R. She shared information about her project entitled "Clear Skies and Favorable Winds" which spreads awareness about the importance of the Chesapeake Bay by sharing its cultural, historical, and environmental history and value.
We also welcomed a new member to our chapter!
The yellow rose symbolizes friendship, joy, warmth, and gladness.
Chapter members also attended the Maryland DAR State Conference at Turf Valley in March.
Chapter Regent with recent graduate of the DAR Member Course. She received her cord at State Conference in March.
February
Chapter members gather for a Zoom program entitled "The Marquis de Lafayette's Farewell Tour of America 1824-1825" with State Vice Regent/National Chair of the Franco American Memorial Committee.
Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2024
Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2024
December
In December, chapter members commemorated the 200th Anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette's Farewell Tour of America (1824-25). They enjoyed a brief history of Lafayette, a trivia game, and authentic foods from the period.
Chapter members enjoyed updated versions of two of Lafayette's favorite dishes -- Virginia Gumbo and Pound Cake with fruit, recipes found in Anne Byrn's American Cake (1754) and Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife (1838). Source: dar.org, Commemorative Events Committee, Lafayette toolkit
November
Chapter members attended the National Defense Luncheon in Rockville, Maryland.
October
Our October speaker was a nurse who served in Vietnam. Here, she accepts a chapter donation for the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, DC, along with a Vietnam Nurse's Memorial pin, a DAR Vietnam Veteran pin, and DAR Challenge Coin.
Chapter members travel back in time to 1890 to meet the four Founders of the DAR!
September
America 250 plaque dedication ceremony, September 5, 2024. SDTJ Chapter Regent, along with the ten other chapter regents who donated their Celebration Grant funds for the bronze America 250 plaque placed at the William Paca House & Gardens in Historic Annapolis. Also pictured are Maryland State Regent, Honorary State Regents, State Officers, and Committee Chairs.
Chapter Regent represented the SDTJ Chapter at the dedication ceremony for the America 250 plaques dedicated at the William Paca House & Gardens in Historic Annapolis on September 5, 2024.
Chapter Regent and Chapter Membership Committee Chair receive a Constitution Week proclamation for the SDTJ Chapter at the Open Session of the Board of Carroll County Commissioners on September 12, 2024.
Fall Forum, Sept 14, 2024
At left: Membership Committee Chair, Chapter Regent, and Registrar
Chapter members, guests, and prospective members kick off the new DAR year at the September meeting.
Honorary State Regent shared a delightful presentation for the September program. Here she poses with two of her "Thirteen Colony Cats".
May
Chapter members attended the 119th Maryland State Conference
Fun with “The Signers” at the 119th Maryland State Conference
Chapter members gather on a rainy May day for the chapter meeting at Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, the namesake of our chapter. A Maryland State Park Ranger shared his fascinating presentation on the history and unique ecosystem of the Serpentine Barrens of the Soldiers Delight area.
April
Chapter members learn about our military working dogs with a presentation from The United States War Dogs Association
March
Chapter Regent and Vice Regent with the three speakers from the Youghiogheny Glades Chapter as they share their year-long project documenting “Remarkable Women of Garrett County”.
Chapter regent attended a special program at Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, meeting guest speaker Peter MacDonald, one of the last three living Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.
Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2023
Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2023
December
Chapter officers lay wreaths at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery for Wreaths Across America
Chapter members enjoying a delightful tea and luncheon to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
November
Chapter Members attend the National Defense Luncheon
October
For October's National DAR Day of Service, chapter members personalized over 250 holiday greeting cards for local service members at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Chapter Regent presents to cards to Fort Detrick's Post Chaplain for distribution.
Chapter Officers attend the Maryland State Society's Founders' Day event at the Clara Barton National Historic Site in Glen Echo, Maryland
September
Chapter Members Attending Fall Forum
Three new members join chapter regent and membership chair in a welcome ceremony on September 30. New members were presented with yellow roses symbolizing friendship, warmth, joy, and gladness
May
Speakers for the May 6 chapter meeting, discussing the Indigenous Tlingit people and their culture.
The chapter regent presents the speakers with an honorarium for the Miller's Grant Benevolent Fund.
Chapter Members Attending our May Meeting
New Chapter Officers for 2023-2025
118th Maryland State Conference
Our chapter regent awarding an annual scholarship to a graduating senior attending college for a nursing degree
April
Chapter members pose at the end of the tea and business meeting
Two members were honored in April for their 10-year membership anniversaries. Certificates presented by the Membership chair.
Chapter member and honorary state regent gave the program at our April meeting at a local tea room. She shared information about her Patriot ancestor Roger Brooke and his family. She showed her family tree going back to Charlemagne.
Staff from the Hindman Settlement School with the 24 sets of books (144 books) donated by the chapter for their literacy program
March
State Regent accepts donation from Chapter Regent for State Regent's Project
State Regent visits our chapter
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