D.A.R. names new officers
Gladys Shay | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years, 8 months AGO
Officers of Bird Woman Falls D.A.R. Chapter have been announced.
They are Tracy Morsching, Kalispell, regent; Margie Haaland, Coram,
vice regent; Janice Moore, Whitefish, chaplain; Sandy Stoutenburg,
Whitefish, secretary; and Earleen French, Columbia Falls, treasurer.
Chapter, formed in June, 2007, has been active in patriotic community
events. These include special projects for Montana Veterans’ Home.
Meetings are held second Saturdays of each month with sessions
alternating between Columbia Falls and Whitefish.
Members of Bird Woman Falls DA.R. Chapter were among officers named
during annual sessions of the Montana Society of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution in Billings.
Tracy Morsching was named vice regent and Carol Nicholson became
registrar.
Other members of the Montana Society of the NSDAR elected were Joy
Linn, regent, Milk River; Eva Burroughs, chaplain, Black Eagle/Assinniboine;
Jennifer Buckley, secretary, Silver Bow; Louanna Butler, treasurer, Bitter
Root; Myrle Theimer, historian, Shining Mountain; Catherine Lane, librarian,
Chief Ignace; and JoAnn Pizzola, parliamentarian, Silver Bow.
Special guests welcomed were Beverly Jenson, National vice president
general from North Dakota, and Darla Teter, Wyoming state regent.
Eleven chapters making up the Montana Society of the D.A.R. had 40
voting delegates. Registration showed 67 attending meetings at the
Holiday Inn Grand. Also in attendance were three members of the organizing
chapter of Kuilix out of St. Ignatius.
The 2013 state sessions are scheduled for April 17 and 18 in Billings.
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