Greene County DAR learns about the Constitution
The program for the recent luncheon meeting of the Greene Academy Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was “The Constitution.” Chapter member Jean Fuller related pertinent details about the Constitution.
Constitution Week was signed into law in 1956 to be celebrated Sept. 17 to 23 by President Dwight Eisenhower. The DAR undertakes the task of educating the DAR members, their children and the community on the contents of the Constitution.
The group’s goal is to read the Constitution, to go into the schools with packets of information, to go into the community with bookmarks and to have everyone read the Constitution.
Fuller considers Abigail Adams one of the first feminists who wanted, and through family members received, more culture and education than normally available for women at that time.
The wife of President John Adams had four children and became the mother of a president and a senator.
She was an avid letter writer due to the long separations from her husband, and she campaigned for female rights and asserted that females should not be bound by laws if they had no representation.
After lunch at the Pappy Don’s Restaurant in Mount Morris, the chapter meeting opened with the DAR ritual by the Regent Carol Harvey, reading of the president general’s message and the national defense message.
The chapter accepted into membership the following: Helen Elizabeth Fox Snyder, Helen Lucretia Cunningham, Heather Muth, Stephanie Lemley and Rebecca Lemley.
The regent and several members will attend the luncheon meeting of the CAR, SAR and DAR chapters in the Ramada Inn, Washington, on Saturday and the Pennsylvania State Society Section I and II luncheon Oct. 26 at Hilton Garden Inn, Southpointe.
The chapter also will participate in the Greene County patriotic organizations dinner Nov. 14 at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesburg, sponsored by the Fort Jackson SAR. Reservations are due by Nov. 4.
The local chapter will raise funds for its projects by selling safety kits for car and home and kitchen fire extinguishers.