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Maryland State President
Mrs. Richard E. Ruffing (Jackie)

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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:

 
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.















 


















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 award to Christina Jean Moore.
 
 

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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