2021
Articles and Events
Chapter Work and Contributions
The Samuel Doak Chapter has a long history of public contributions.
All newspaper articles come from the Citizen Tribune by Lakeway Publishers Inc.
27 November, 2021
18 November, 2021
10 November, 2021
Samuel Doak Chapter members L to R: Kathy Ward, Carol Long, Linda Triplett, and Charlotte McEntire with
TSDAR Regent Cecile Wimberly at the presentation of the America 250 Marker at the
Watauga River Crossing of the Overmountain Men. These men marched to King’s Mountain in South Carolina
where they defeated the British detachment on October 7, 1780. This was the first
major patriot victory after the British invasion of Charleston, SC.
1 October, 2021
New Members were installed: Elizabeth Minix in person, and by zoom: Marcella Carson, Erin Tharp, Tamara Damon, and Sheila Walsh, by Chaplain Linda Triplett and Regent Carol Long. Kathy Ward is monitoring the zoom site.
23 September 2021
Samuel Doak Chapter NSDAR’s speaker on the Constitution, Jim Claiborne visited with Elizabeth Minix, Samuel Doak Chapter’s new member and Jim Claiborne’s former student.
23, September, 2021
L to R in Photo: Cindy Lane and Ina Schmidt
Samuel Doak Chapter Librarian Ina Schmidt presented a check to Cindy Lane, Director of the Hamblen County Archives, in memory of Past Regent Gloria Beauchamp, who passed away in December, 2020, in Hydro, Texas. The check is for the Aquila Lane Data including Aquila Lane’s Bible, 1782-1840 on microfilm from Tennessee State Library and Archives. Gloria Beauchamp served as Regent of the Samuel Doak Chapter from 2012 – 2014.
21 September, 2021
At Parrott-Wood Library, Strawberry Plains; Constitution Week poster; L to R: Donna Phillips, Director and Linda Triplett, Samuel Doak Chapter, DAR
2021 is the 66th anniversary of Constitution Week. NSDAR Past President General Gertrude S. Carraway was responsible for the annual designation of September 17-23 as Constitution Week. The DAR made its own resolution for Constitution Week, which was adopted April 21, 1955.
Members of the United States Congress received the DAR resolution and on June 7, 1955, the resolution was discussed in the Senate. The first resolution to observe Constitution Week was made June 14, 1955, by Senator William F. Knowland of California. Following the passage of the resolution by both Houses of Congress, President Eisenhower issued his proclamation on August 19, 1955.
The first observance of Constitution Week was so successful that on January 5, 1956, Senator Knowland introduced a Senate Joint Resolution to have the President designate September 17-23 annually as Constitution Week. The resolution was adopted on July 23, 1956, and signed into Public Law 915 on August 2, 1956.
For his patriotic aid and interest, Senator Knowland received an Award of Commendation from the NSDAR Continental Congress in April 1956.
17 September, 2021
On September 6, 2021, at First United Methodist Church’s Prayer Garden, Samuel Doak Chapter Regent Carol Long, JROTC Awards Chairman Kimberly Lowry and Committee Member Hannah Kinkead presented Cadet Hayden Sinnamon a JROTC medal, a certificate, and a check for $50.00. Hayden is a senior at Grainger County High School, and the son of Jeffrey and Emily Sinnamon. LTC William Lynn, who is the instructor of the Army JROTC Program at Grainger County High School, selected Hayden for this award.
The requirements for the JROTC Award were read by Samuel Doak Chapter Awards Committee Woman Hannah Kinkead, who has recently returned from her deployment as a soldier at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The requirements are as follows: The Bronze JROTC Medal is awarded to either a junior or senior student in a secondary school JROTC program or to a Junior College graduating senior (one medal per unit). Medals are worn according to JROTC protocol. JROTC medals and campaign bars are awarded to student cadets of outstanding ability and achievement in high school, junior college, college, or university ROTC programs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The DAR has awarded ROTC medals since 1967 because the ROTC is such an important source of trained officers for our armed forces.
The selection of the student to receive the DAR ROTC Award is made by professors of military science, principals or heads of schools, junior colleges, colleges, or universities, or by unit commanders. Recipients must have demonstrated loyalty and patriotism and earned a record of military and scholastic achievement during their participation in a ROTC program. They must be in the upper 25 percent of their ROTC classes and in academic subjects. They must have shown qualities of dependability and good character, adherence to military discipline, leadership ability and a fundamental and patriotic understanding of the importance of ROTC training. Not more than one student in a graduating class in a secondary school Junior ROTC program may be the recipient of the DAR Bronze ROTC Medal.
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4 July, 2021
17 March, 2021
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30 March, 2021
4 February, 2021