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Soldiers Delight-Thomas Johnson Chapter, NSDAR

Stevenson, Maryland

Chapter Activities

Chapter Meeting and Event Highlights 2024

October

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

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 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