By DOROTHY CARNINE
Secretary
Point of Rock Chapter, NSDAR met for a dessert meeting at Haven on the Bricks, with Lynne Messersmith as Hostess. She served a delicious green dessert for St. Patrick’s Day. Nine members and guests were present. The Opening Ritual and Pledge of Allegiance were led by Regent Audrey Howler.
President General’s Message: we have welcomed 12,000 new members in 2020, and volunteered more than eight million hours of community service despite a global pandemic. She has come to realize that DAR may also stand for “Daughters of Resilient, Daughters of Resourceful, Daughters of Relentless, and Daughters are Radiant,” shining forth in service to our neighbors.
National Defense Report: Star Spangled Banner…quote from Francis Scott Key: “Then, in that hour of deliverance, and joyful triumph, the heart spoke; and, does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?” 1836. The song tells a very specific story and gives us an eyewitness perspective of the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. It was used by the abolitionists before the Civil War and the temperance movements. By 1899, the US Navy officially adopted it for formal ceremonies. In 1916 President Wilson ordered it used at all military occasions. In 1918, it was performed at Game one of the World Series. On March 3, 1931, President Hoover signed into law House Resolution 14, making it the National Anthem.
Indian Minutes: Sioux Nation—The Great Sioux Nation is a group of peoples generally called the Sioux. They’re divided into three major groups: Lakota, Western Dakota and Eastern Dakota. The Sioux are Great Plains Indians.
Secretary’s Report was approved as read.
New Business: it was moved, seconded and passed to send $25 out of the Flower Fund to the Junior Bazaar.
Program: Lynne Messersmith gave a very interesting American History lesson on the Colonial Scots-Irish Immigrants. Just because an ancestor came from Ireland to America during the colonial period before 1776 does not mean that he/she was necessarily Scots-Irish. Many Anglicans, Catholics and Quakers also came during this period. An ancestor from Ireland can often be identified as Scots-Irish from: family tradition, the surname, the given names in the family, association with other Scots-Irish, or identification as a Presbyterian.