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DAR will honor Good Citizens The Colonel William Prescott Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution of Wayne County will host nine high school senior Good Citizens and their guests at its chapter house at 119 High St., Newark on March 15. The traditional DAR opening ritual and awards program honoring the Year 2000 participants will follow noon luncheon. The chapter public relations chairman, Helen Walker of Phelps, will address the theme Our DAR. There will be a drawing in which a student will receive an historic, educational and patriotic memento. Jane DeCracker of Lyons, Chairman of the Good Citizen Project for a third year, will introduce the students and make awards of pins and certificates. Three winners of the chapter competition, initiated last September, will be announced and presented monetary awards. Regent Madelyn Jagger will present an American Flag to the winner. Beginning in 1937, the local chapter has participated annually in the National DAR Good Citizen Pilgrimage. Records show that 568 Wayne County high school seniors have represented their respective schools to date. In 1975, eligibility was opened to boys. Five years later, the Colonel William Prescott Chapter winner Daniel Davis of Williamson Central won the $1000 national scholarship. This remuneration is presently $3000. Chapter winners last year were: first, Teresa Zappia of Newark High School; second, Jessica Bugos of Red Creek; third, Jeryl E. Aman of Palmyra-Macedon Central. Current contestants are: William Lainhart (Clyde-Savannah), Nicholas Wolfer (Lyons), Amy Bantle (Marion), Emily Williams (Newark), Jeffrey M. Burnette (North Rose-Wolcott C. S.), Chad Gratton (Palmyra-Macedon), Kristine Frazier (Red Creek), Brian LeRoy (Sodus), Allison Domm (Wayne) and Emily Sandusky (Williamson). The luncheon for members and invited guests will be catered by Dolores Willemsen, with hostesses Lettie Farrell and Christine Robarge; Anne Rynearson, Elaine Lannon, of Newark; Sylvia Harding, Florence Wilkins of East Palmyra. The 1 p.m. program is open to the public. Copyright © 2000 |
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