Activities
The primary focus of our chapter activities is the support of the National Society’s mission to promote historic preservation, education, and patriotism. Below is a list of ongoing activities in each of these categories.
Historic Preservation
- Our chapter offers genealogy workshops for prospective members.
- Chapter members continue to research service and lineage of American Revolutionary War Patriots.
- Chapter members donate hours indexing and categorizing historic records.
- The chapter has marked graves of American Revolutionary War soldiers and continues to research and locate graves of local Patriots who served in the American Revolutionary War.
- The members participate in local commemorative events by presenting our wreath at special ceremonies for the Battle of Kings Mountain, the Battle of Cowan’s Ford, and Cowpens.
- We honor an American Revolutionary War Patriot at each chapter meeting.
- Chapter members participate in the Wreaths Across America program by laying wreaths on graves of American soldiers from all wars.
Slideshow of chapter activities (photos from chapter archives)
Education
- The chapter provides a Constitution Week display at local libraries and nursing homes for the week of September 17.
- We sponsor candidates for the DAR American History Essay Contest at local middle schools, as well as candidates for the DAR Christopher Columbus Essay Contest at local high schools.
- We sponsor the DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest at local high schools. This award recognizes and rewards a high school senior who displays the good citizenship qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism.
- Our chapter awards the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) medal to an outstanding cadet at each of our participating high schools.
- We encourage applications to a variety of scholarships through the NSDAR Scholarships and the NCSDAR Scholarships by supplying information to the local high schools.
- We encourage students in grades K-12 to enter the Junior American Citizens contest to express their patriotism.
- We support Crossnore School and Children’s Home with donations of requested items.
- We present American history programs at many of our meetings.
Patriotism
- Our members provide requested items to the Chaplain’s Closet at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, where wounded service personnel receive treatment.
- We donate funds to the local USO for purchase of snacks and supplies for soldiers.
- Chapter members write and send greeting cards to active duty service personnel.
- We regularly collect and send manufacturer’s coupons to various troops overseas.
- The chapter contributes funds to “Operation: Bean of Life,” a coffee house opened by the Army Chaplain located on a base in the Middle East.
- Chapter members donate gift cards, personal care items, and clothing to the veterans at the W.G. Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina.
- Chapter members march and hand out flags at local holiday celebrations.
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