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Maryland
State Society Officers 2007 - 2009:
President: Mrs. C. Kent Jordan (Millicent)
1st Vice President: Mrs. Richard E. Ruffing (Jackie)
2nd Vice President: Miss Nancy E. Smith
Chaplain: Mrs. Herman H. Mares (Mary)
Recording Secretary: Mrs. Godfrey R. Gauld (Betsy)
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Glen J. Thorson (Ellan)
Organizing Secretary: Miss Virginia Louise Apyar (Ginger)
Treasurer: Dr. Linda C. Mistler, Ph.D.
Registrar: Mrs. Allen E. Edwards (Donna)
Historian: Mrs. Harry T. Begg (Margaret)
Librarian: Mrs. Sarajane DiLaura Morris
Parliamentarian: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Musgrove
Organization
of the Maryland State Society:
Maryland Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
was organized 22 March 1974 at Baltimore Maryland. Organizing President
was Mrs. D. Delmas Caples.
Mrs. Harold B. Chait was elected in 1975 as Maryland's
first State President. She also served as President General of the
National Society of Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century.
Currently there are nine chapters:
Fort Garrison Chapter organized
July 7, 1964 and chartered December 12, 1964. It is the first chapter
organized in Maryland and was known as the Maryland State Chapter
from 1964 to 1972.
Terra Mariae Chapter organized
January 13, 1972 and chartered October 14, 1972.
Sir George Calvert Chapter organized
July 13, 1974 and chartered July 13, 1976,
Augustine Herman Chapter organized
February 27, 1974 and chartered September 18, 1976.
Ann of Arrundell Chapter organized
October 18, 1978 and chartered October 3, 1979.
Potomack River Chapter organized
April 14, 1979 and chartered January 10, 1981.
Lady Jane Sewall Chapter organized
February 22, 1983 and chartered October 9, 1984.
Elizabeth Hundred Chapter organized
September 7, 1979 and chartered October 4, 1986.
John Waller Chapter organized June
7, 1986 and chartered June 18, 1987.
Recent Happenings
of the Maryland State Society:
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| On Saturday, November 22nd, the annual Maryland
State Society scholarship was presented to Miss Nori Elliott,
a freshman at West Nottingham Academy,
in recognition of her character and academic achievement. Accompanied
by her grandmother, Mrs. Glinda Elliott, and WNA History Chair
Mr. Rusty Eder, Nori travelled to the home of Mrs. Harry
Begg, Treasurer
of the Augustine Chapter,
where she enjoyed brunch with the membership before the scholarship
presentation by Mrs. C. Kent
Jordan, Maryland State President and Mrs. Sarajane Morris,
Augustine Herman Chapter President. The scholarship is awarded
each year with a different
chapter selecting the recipient
school to more effectively cover the entire geographic area
of Maryland.. Also in attendance were State Chaplain,
Mrs. Herman Mares; Chapter
Secretary,
Mrs. Veronica Peden; Chapter Historian, Mrs. Nelson Rowe;
and Chapter
member Mrs. Kenneth A. Wilcox and her husband, the Honorable
Kenneth Wilcox. |
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| On November 9th, 2008 in honor of Veteran's
Day the Maryland State Society participated in the 40th Annual
Massing
of
the Colors
at the United
States Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Pictured are Mrs. C. Kent Jordan, Maryland State President
and Mrs.
Richard
E.
Ruffing,
Maryland State First Vice President. Also attending were Miss
Nancy Smith, State Second Vice President; Mrs. Herman H.
Mares, State Chaplain; Mrs. Godfrey R. Gauld, State Recording
Secretary;
Mrs. Glen J. Thorson, State Corresponding Secretary; and
Miss Virginia Louise Apyar, State Organizing Secretary. |
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| On May 22nd at the United States
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Midshipman First Class Kristen
Anne Sproat was the recipient of the National Society's award
for the female midshipman of the graduating class with the
highest order of merit completing a degree in systems engineering.
Presenting the award on behalf of the Society was Mrs. C.
Kent Jordan, National Public Relations Committee Chairman and
Maryland State President. Also attending was Dr. Linda C.
Mistler, National Courtesy Resolutions Chairman, Maryland
State Treasurer and Maryland Honorary State President. |
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| This beautiful quilt featuring
the Colonial Dame and Maryland color palette was painstakingly
designed and handcrafted by Mrs. Richard E.
Ruffing,
Maryland State First Vice President. The quilt was auctioned
during State Conference as a fundraiser for the State President's
project. |
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| Maryland Society Dames having
a wonderful time as hostesses for the Saturday luncheon during
the 84th
National Conference. Pictured are left to right: Mrs. Glen
J. Thorson, State Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. William B.
Rever, Jr., Honorary State President; Dr. Linda C.
Mistler, National Courtesy Resolutions Chairman,
State Treasurer and Honorary State President; Mrs.
Herman H. Mares, State Chaplain; Mrs. C. Kent Jordan, State
President; Mrs. Richard L. Cornish, Honorary State President;
Miss Virginia Louise Apyar, State Organizing Secretary; Mrs.
Richard
E.
Ruffing,
State First Vice President; Mrs. Gary R. Whitsell, State Music
Chairman and State 100th Anniversary Committee Chairman;
and Mrs. Thomas H. Closs, Jr., Ann of Arundell Chapter President. |
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| Ann of Arrundell Chapter, following
a 20 year tradition of recognizing historic site preservation
every two
years, marked the Charles Carroll House of Annapolis on May
2, 2007. Pictured are Mrs. Edward A. Masek, Jr., MD State Committee
Chairman, Markings and Preservation of Historic Sites and Miss
Lyndall Johnson, Past National Headquarters Treasurer and
Ann of Arrundell Chapter President. Attendees included Mrs.
C. Kent Jordan, Maryland State President; Honorary
State Presidents
Dr. Linda Mistler and Mrs. Elizabeth Musgrove; several state
officers and chairman; representatives of the owner, Redemptorists
from the St. Mary’s RC
Church; representatives of the manager caretakers
of the building, the Charles Carroll House of Annapolis,
Inc.; and the Capital newspaper. The chapter hosted a lovely
tea followed the marking ceremony. |
Society Calendar of Events:
17 October 2008 - Fall Board of Management Meeting,
The Milton Inn, Sparks, MD
28 February 2009 - Thirty-Fourth State Conference,
Chartwell Country Club, Severna Park, MD
Historic Sites Marked by Maryland:
Most of the chapters mark historic sites on a regular
basis. Some, but certainly not all, of
those sites are:
Betty's Delight, Port Tobacco, Maryland 1972
Fort Garrison, oldest permanent fort in Maryland
1973
Chapel of Ease, Taylor's Island, Maryland 1975
Bench in Londowntowne Gardens, Annapolis, Maryland
- a bicentennial project in 1976
Griffith's Adventure 1977
A log tobacco barn at London Town Publik House and
Gardens, Edgewater, Maryland, 1980
The Bethesda Meeting House, Bethesda, Maryland 1980
Ballestone, Baltimore, Maryland, Land of William
Ball, maternal Great Grandfather of George Washington - project
for Maryland's 350th anniversary in 1984
Cedar Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1984
The Tavern, Great Falls, Maryland 1986
Maxwell Hall, Benedict, Maryland 1986
Belvoir, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 1986
Holly Hill, Friendship, Maryland 1988
Ann Arundel Co. Free School, Davidsonville Vicinity,
Maryland 1990
St. James Episcopal Church, Tracys Landing, Maryland
1992
Benson Hammond House, Linthicum, Maryland 1994
All Hallows Parish, southern Anne Arundel County,
Maryland 1996
Old Quaker Burying Ground, Galesville, Maryland
1998
Old Wye Grist Mill, Wye Mills, Maryland 2000
Boone Property, Severna Park, Maryland 2001
Chandlers Hope, Charles County Maryland 2001
Spye Park, White Plains, Maryland 2003
Robert Morris Inn, Oxford, Maryland 2003
Hancock's Resolution, Ann Arundel Co., Maryland
2003
Dobbin House, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 2003
Linthicum Walks, Gambrills/Crofton vicinity, Maryland
2005
Carroll House, Annapolis, Maryland
2007
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