By Dorothy Carnine
Secretary
Point of Rock Chapter, NSDAR, met for a lovely dessert meeting at the Knight Museum at 1 p.m. with 10 members present. Lynne Messersmith made a lime dessert for St Patrick’s Day, it was her mother’s recipe for card night and was delicious.
Our Meeting was called to order by Regent Audrey Hoerler, leading us in the Opening Ritual and Pledge of Allegiance.
President General’s Message: March, which is recognized nationwide as “Women’s History Month,”also provides a fitting opportunity to honor the women who have contributed to American History—both past and present—through the DAR’s Women in American History award. The 132nd Continental Congress is from June 28 to July 2.
Indian Minutes: Pueblo Dress—The modern Pueblo Native American wears a combination of traditional and western-style clothing. The men wear a cotton shirt over a pair of cotton trousers, which end just below the knees. A sash, usually yellow, or leather belt with silver adornment is worn around the waist. The more traditional breech cloth or g-sting is only used for ceremonial purposes, along with a feather headdress. The women wear a rectangular woolen garment in black or brown called a manta, which us tied over the right shoulder and under the left arm. It is often decorated at the hem with red or blue trim. A hemmed skirt is worn underneath, tied with a sash at the waist and from the Spanish influence a slip is worn underneath and an apron in front, and perhaps a shawl. Both sexes use blanket wraps for cold weather and wear hard moccasins, the women preferring white moccasins or boots. Hopi maidens often wear their hair in a symbolic butterfly style.
National Defense: Battle Buddies: South Dakota to Vietnam and Back. Lyle Bowes and Gene Murphy met on a bus in 1968 heading to the induction station in Sioux Falls and became battle buddies from boot camp and Vietnam. Lyle rescued Gene after being wounded. After the war they stayed in South Dakota helped start the Disabled Veterans (DAV) transportation system in Sioux Falls. This was the start of what would become a nation-wide DAV network of vans providing rides to vets for their VA appointments.
Secretary’s Report was accepted as read for February.
Program: Lynne Messersmith had a program on Pre-Revolutionary War Scots-Irish Immigration.
The first wave from Ireland came in the 1720’s. A large migration of over 200,000 Ulster Presbyterians fled the north of Ireland between 1700 and 1775. From 1750 to 1775, most Ulster immigrants went via Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Charleston to the Mid-Alantic area in favor of greater land and employment opportunities in a region with less religious hostility than New England.
We thanked Lynne for being our hostess and for the program. The next meeting will be at the home of Dorothy Carnine April 1. Meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m. A picture of all present was taken by the Newberry Horse for the scrapbook.