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State Projects: Heraldry, Preservation of Historic Sites, and
Veterans' Project
Scripture: Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the
people whom He hath
chosen for
His own inheritance. Psalms 33, verse 12
KJV
Maryland State Society Officers 2009 -
2011:President: Mrs. Richard E.
Ruffing (Jackie)
1st Vice President: Mrs. Gary R. Whitsell
(Carol)
2nd Vice President: Mrs. Glen J. Thorson
(Ellan)
Chaplain: Ms. Carolyn S. Billups
Recording Secretary: Mrs. Sarajane D.
Morris
Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Thomas H. Closs, Jr.
(Renee)
Organizing Secretary: Mrs. Lee C. Park
(Mary)
Treasurer: Mrs. Godfrey R. Gauld (Betsy)
Registrar: Mrs. Rudolph Carroll (Irene)
Historian: Mrs. Harry T. Begg (Margaret)
Librarian: Mrs. Hugh Batten (Mary Ellen)
Parliamentarian: Linda C. Mistler, Ph.D.
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 Sunday, April 25th, it was an honor to
present three Maryland State Society History Day awards to
Maryland students in the category of Social History. These
students will go on to represent Maryland at the National
level. The Maryland Humanities Council sponsored the
event. Pictured are Julia Fine, So Jung Kim and Mrs. Richard
Ruffing.

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On
May 21st, the United States Naval Academy held its
presentation of prizes and awards in Annapolis, Maryland. It
was indeed an honor to accompany our President General, Mrs.
Bernard T. Renzy III, as she presented the National Socoety
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Society Calendar of
Events:
7 October 2009 - Historic Marking at Wade's Point,
McDaniel, Maryland
30 October 2009 - Fall Board of Management Meeting,
The Sly Horse Tavern, Crofton, Maryland
27 February 2010 -
Thirty-fifth State Conference, Chartwell Country Club, Severna Park,
Maryland
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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