A Message from the Florida State President :

My Theme for this administration:
Honoring Our Rich Heritage Through:
Scholarship
Membership
Preservation

Motto of the Florida State Society:
"Keep the XVII Century fires burning -
- to our successors we hand the Torch."

Florida State Society Officers 2007 - 2009:

President: Patricia Parrott Sikes

1st Vice President: Linda Varner Hunt

2nd Vice President: Ann Waggaman

Chaplain: Carolyn Welch Bodo

Recording Secretary: Roberta Hoffmann

Corresponding Secretary: Linda Dean Thomas

Organizing Secretary: Mary Lou Clutter James

Treasurer: M. E. “Beth” Finenco Wilson

Registrar: Anita Whitmore Brown

Historian: Charlene Porter Smith

Librarian: Lila Wilbanks Sandstrom

Parliamentarian: Mary Hebble Bearss, PRP

Organization of the Florida State Society:

Mrs. Patrick Bray organized the Florida Society on January Fifteenth, Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Six at the Hacienda Hotel, New Port Richey, Florida

The Florida State Society has twenty-two (22) Chapters:

St. Petersburg
Lady Alice Needham Bryan
Christian Temple Manor
Edmund Sheffield
Dominie Everardus Bogardus
Captain James Day
Surgeon General Matthew Fuller
Hannah Dustin
Captain John Smith
Abraham Venable I
Berkeley Plantation
Nicholas Meriwether
Fort San Carlos
Indian River
William Bassett
Mercy Hurd
Captain Edmund Scarborough
Everglades
James Emery
Palm Beach Island
Lord Baltimore
Timucua

Recent Happenings of the Florida State Society:

Edmund Sheffield Chapter, Christmas meeting; Pictured are, Barbara Stone Card, 2005-2007 President of the Florida Society; Mary Hebble Bearss, PRP, 2005-2007 National Society Bylaws Chairman and Parliamentarian of Edmund Sheffield Chapter.

Readie Cooper, CDXVIIC Assistant Registrar 2001-2005 and Governor of the South Florida Company of the Jamestowne Society, presented the program about the 400th Anniversary of Jamestowne

Indian River Chapter Officers for 2007-2009

Martha Esker is properly welcomed as a member of Colonial Dames XVII Century and the Indian River Chapter by Registrar, Lucia Bailey

Pertinent Facts About the Florida State Society:

FLORIDA DAMES SERVING THE NATIONAL SOCIETY:

NATIONAL OFFICER, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY GENERAL: Nancy Hemmingway Watkins

HONORARY PRESIDENT GENERAL: Ruth Keeling Hemmingway

HONORARY VICE PRESIDENT GENERAL: Sylvia Frederic McAuliffe

NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
PRINTING & PUBLICATIONS: Ann Waggaman

NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
100th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Nancy Hemmingway Watkins
REGISTRAR GENERAL’S COMMITTEE:
Anita Whitmore Brown
Barbara Stone Card
Patricia Parrott Sikes

HONORARY STATE PRESIDENTS
1975-1977: Dorothy Marvelle Boyer
1979-1981: Norma Taylor McGuire
1993-1995: Stephanie Durrance Billings
1997-1999: Ruth Keeling Hemmingway
2001-2003: Monica Darling Douglas
2003-2005: Nancy Hemmingway Watkins
2005-2007: Barbara Stone Card

Society Calendar of Events:

October 18, 2008: Fall Board of Management Meeting Holiday Inn Select, Clearwater, FL

February 20-21, 2009: Seventy Third State Conference Holiday Inn Select, Clearwater, FL

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