DAR Good Citizens to be recognized

The Colonel William Prescott Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution of Wayne County will host ten of the eleven Wayne County high school senior Good Citizens at the chapter house next week.

The noon luncheon is set for Wednesday, March 21. The DAR house is located at 119 High Street, Newark. Following the luncheon, the public is invited to attend the program at 1 p.m.

The traditional opening DAR ritual will be conducted by Regent Madelyn Jagger of Palmyra. Public relations chairman Helen Walker of Phelps will give a brief overview of the DAR organization entitled Our DAR.

Nancy Patrick of Wolcott, Chairman of the Good Citizen Project, will introduce the students and award pins and certificates. Also, Regent Jagger will present an American Flag to the first place winner.

Since 1937 the local chapter has participated annually in the National DAR Good Citizen Pilgrimage. Records show that about 580 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, won the national scholarship. Cynthia Cuddeback of Sodus Point, then acting Good Citizen chairman, reports that Dr. Davis is now Professor of English at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a Harvard graduate and received a Master's Degree and a doctorate from Oxford. Davis's national award was $1000. Presently, the national good citizen scholarship is $3000. Honors are bestowed at the annual April NSDAR Continental Congress in Washington, D.C. that is attended by over four thousand DAR members.

Contestants for 2001, their parents, and their school are listed:

• Johanna Henderberg, M/M Edward Riebsame, (Clyde-Savannah);
• Melanie Hamel, Robert/Deb Hamel, (Gananda);
• Erica Gansz, Edythe and the late Duane Gansz, (Lyons);
• Peter Stevens, Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Sharon Stevens, (Marion);
• Rachel Anne Prong, The Reverend Lee and Mrs. Demaris Prong (Newark);
• Bradley Seymour, M/M Edgar Seymour, (North Rose-Wolcott);
• Heather Bamford, Christine and Larry Bamford, (Palmyra-Macedon);
• Scott Wilkinson, Mark and Jean Wilkinson, (Red Creek);
• Evan Blondell, Duane and Constance Blondell, (Sodus);
• Heather Scheidt, Richard and Karen Scheidt, (Wayne)
• Erin Klinkman, Robert and Linda Klinkman, (Williamson).

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