By Fran Strawn
MC-P DAR Chapter Registrar
The DAR Good Citizen Award and Scholarship Contest, established in 1934 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, encourages and rewards the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism among high school seniors. Students are selected by their teachers and peers for demonstrating these traits to an exceptional degree in their homes, schools, and communities.
Members of the Mine Creek-Paraclifta DAR Chapter invited this year’s honorees from six area schools to participate in the scholarship portion of the chapter’s April meeting. Students recognized included Bailey Kessler of Nashville, Kaedon Davis of Horatio, Lillian Hogg of Dierks, Mabree Sweat of Murfreesboro, Maddelyn Harris of Mineral Springs, and Lizeth Baltazar-Bahena of De Queen.
In preparation for the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, students were also encouraged to enter the Patriots of the American Revolution High School Essay Contest, which highlights the men and women who played significant roles in the American Revolution. Mabree Sweat of Murfreesboro was named the essay contest winner.
Students, their families, and chapter members enjoyed a taco salad meal together prior to the meeting, making the event both a celebration of achievement and a time of fellowship.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a women’s service organization whose members can trace their lineage to an individual who contributed to securing American independence during the Revolutionary War. Today’s DAR is dynamic and diverse, with over 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters in the United States and abroad. DAR members annually provide millions of hours of volunteer service to their local communities across the country and world. DAR chapters participate in projects to promote historic preservation, education, and patriotism. Over one million members have joined the organization since its founding in 1890.
