Volume 12, Issue 2 Dates to Remember 1 Patriot’s Day 1 President’s Message 2 Member News 2 Proclamations 3 Chapter Recognitions 4 Speakers /Ramsour Mill 5 New Citizen Ceremony 6 The Chapter meeting starts at 7PM the third Tuesday every month. We gather at the Golden Corral on Barrett Parkway about 6PM for dinner and fellowship before the meeting. Family and friends are welcome. April 17 Chapter meeting Speaker Gary Rogers “The Past, Present, and Future of Family History” April 21 Gravesite Ceremony At 10 a.m. the chapter is plan- ning to honor it’s namesake, Captain John Collins, with a Patriot’s Day graveside cere- mony lasting approximately half an hour. Mars Hill Ceme- tery, 2850 Mars Hill Church Rd., Acworth May 15 Chapter Meeting Speaker Robert C. Jones “The Great Locomotive Chase” April 2012 was the 150th anniversary of this event. There are dedication events nearly every week in many parts of Georgia. Look at the GASSAR website or the Hornet’s Nest for complete listings. April 2012 Members are encouraged to submit articles and photos to Larry Guzy for inclusion in the next edition of the Collins Dispatch. Deadline June 4th. The Collins Dispatch Inside... Captain John Collins Chapter Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution Winner of the Carl F. Bessent Newsletter Award 2011 Patriot’s Day April 19
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Dates to Remember
Dates to Remember 1
Patriot’s Day 1
President’s Message 2
Member News 2
Proclamations 3
Chapter Recognitions 4
Speakers /Ramsour Mill 5
New Citizen Ceremony 6
The Chapter meeting starts at 7PM the third Tuesday every month. We gather at the Golden Corral on Barrett Parkway about 6PM for dinner and fellowship before the meeting. Family and friends are welcome. April 17 Chapter meeting Speaker Gary Rogers “The Past, Present, and Future of Family History” April 21 Gravesite Ceremony At 10 a.m. the chapter is plan-ning to honor it’s namesake, Captain John Collins, with a Patriot’s Day graveside cere-mony lasting approximately half an hour. Mars Hill Ceme-tery, 2850 Mars Hill Church Rd., Acworth May 15 Chapter Meeting Speaker Robert C. Jones “The Great Locomotive Chase” April 2012 was the 150th anniversary of this event. There are dedication events nearly every week in many parts of Georgia. Look at the GASSAR website or the Hornet’s Nest for complete listings.
April 2012
Members are encouraged to submit articles and photos to Larry Guzy for inclusion in the next edition of the Collins Dispatch. Deadline June 4th.
The Collins Dispatch
Inside...
Captain John Col l ins Chapter Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution
Winner of the Carl F. Bessent Newsletter Award 2011
Patriot’s Day April 19
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John Mattingly was just presented with his certificate of membership in March. Van Blackwell is submitting a supplement. Harry Vaughn and his son, Rickford, have submitted their applications for review. Lamar Cheatham’s application is in the process of being proofed as are Al and his son Adam Handlan. Others are in various stages of completion including Dick Roberts, Terry Kingery and Paul Gibbs. Others recently have expressed interest in completing their applications for membership and these include Justin Ove, and Devan Seabrough. Remember that additional applications, from within the same family, submitted at the same time, are reduced by $50 each.
President’s Message President Wayne Brown
Vice President Terry Gibbs
Secretary Bert Christy
Treasurer James Castle
Registrar Allen Henson
Chancellor Larry Lines
Chaplain John Jones
Sergeant-at-Arms Rodney Pritchett
Historian David Ludley
Editor Larry Guzy
Americanism Wayne Brown
Cemetery Leland Lee Hulsey
Law/Fire/JROTC Curtis McWaters
Eagle Scouts Earl Cagle
Veterans/Flags Lamon Smith
Membership Bill Coffeen
Patriot Grave Leland Lee Hulsey
Public Relations Lamar Cheatham & Rich Morrison
Schools David Martin
Asst Registrar Larry Guzy
DAR Liaison Bert Christy
Welcome/Education John Mattingly
The Collins Dispatch is published every other month. June 4th will be the next deadline for articles. Send articles, photos, or your bio to Larry Guzy at [email protected] or regular mail at 4531 Paper Mill Rd SE, Marietta, GA 30067-4025.
If you have new member leads, contact Registrar Allen Henson or Asst Registrar Larry Guzy
Officers and Committees As the first quarter of this year ends and I reflect on the events of these past three months, I can certainly say that our chapter is a busy one and involved in many SAR activities. To begin the year, our annual banquet was a big suc-cess with almost seventy percent of our membership in atten-dance. Less than two weeks after our chapter’s banquet, the Georgia Society’s Banquet and Awards’ Luncheon was held in Duluth at which our chapter was well represented. During the luncheon, it was truly a great honor to step forward and accept the Distinguished Chapter Award on behalf of the Captain John Collins Chapter.
Following the GASSAR Banquet, sev-eral of our members attended and partici-pated in the Revolutionary Days’ Parade and the Kettle Creek Battleground Memo-rial Ceremony on February 11th in Wash-ington, Georgia. Amidst a crowd of ap-proximately three hundred and while the temperature was dropping and the wind whistling through those Georgia pines on top of War Hill, our own Everett Porter sang the National Anthem to begin the memorial ceremony. While the chilling temperature kept everyone shivering, the respect and honor exhibited during that ceremony was intense and reverent. As I reflect on these recent activities, I am in-spired by the patriotism that has been and is continually displayed by this chapter and I am so very honored to serve as your president.
Calling Post The chapter takes advan-tage of an automated calling service to remind members of meetings and notify them of important news. If you want your name added or deleted from this list, call or email Charlie Rhyne 770.955.4543 [email protected]
Collins Member News & Happenings
We held our first Board of Managers’ meeting this year on February 16th and had an awesome turnout of officers and committee chairs. Several issues were resolved and several of our compatriots
have stepped forward to take on new leadership responsi-bilities.
Lamon Smith will chair our Veterans Committee.
John Mattingly will chair our Welcome Commit-tee and our newly formed Education Committee.
Bill Coffeen will chair our Membership Committee.
The Cemetery & Patriot Grave Committee will be chaired by Lee Hulsey.
Lamar Cheatham will co-chair our Public Relations’ Committee.
Larry Guzy will serve as our Assistant Registrar.
Please join me in congratulating these and all our committee chairs. Without the leadership of our committee chairs and the participation of our membership, it would not have been possible to achieve our current status.
Wayne Brown, President
Wayne Brown
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PROCLAMATIONS
Members of the John Collins chapter were successful this year in obtaining Patriots Day Proclamations from three mu-nicipalities and the county. Kennesaw, Powder Springs and Marietta issued proclamations as well as Cobb County.
Wayne Brown and various Compatriots attended ceremo-nies where the proclamations were read.
Coordinating these proclamations with county and city offi-cials also maintains our contact with these governments to facilitate participation in other appropriate events.
Kennesaw and Acworth will be in the next Dispatch.
JROTC Presentations Curtis McWaters has been busy with the 10 JROTC presentation preparations. The schedule is as follows: • North Cobb and Harrison April 26 5:30 pm cafeteria, 7
pm auditorium, Bill Coffeen Presenter, Curtis McWaters Photographer
• Marietta April 26 7 pm Gym NEED: Presenter and pho-tographer
• Osborne JROTC April 27 6 pm auditorium NEED: Pre-senter, Curtis will take photos
• South Cobb April 30 6:30 pm Theatre, Allen Henson Pre-senter, NEEDS photo support
• Allatoona May 1st 6 pm cafeteria Jim Castle and Curtis McWaters
• Kennesaw May 8th 6:30 pm cafeteria Wayne Brown & Curtis McWaters
• Sprayberry May 12th 12N at Navy Lake site, NEED Pre-senter, photographer Curtis
• Pebblebrook May 15th 6:30 pm auditorium NEED Pre-senter and photographer
• Hillgrove no date yet NEED: Presenter and photographer
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Charles Switzer rand Rodney Pritchett both received Certificates for Perfect Attendance during the Feb-ruary meeting. Bill Teasley received his Perfect Attendance certificate in March.
John Mattingly has been receiving a lot of attention lately, receiving a Certificate of Appreciate in February for his service in set-ting up for Chapter meetings and being welcomed as a new member in March.
Perfect Attendance Certificates
A new tradition for the Collins Chapter
has been instituted by President Wayne
Brown to recognize those loyal members
who never miss a chapter meeting.
Curtis McWaters has long made it his goal to in-crease the number of flag certificates issued to rec-ognize patriotic display of the American Flag. At the March meeting he presented one to member Bill Teasley.
Collins Chapter Recognition
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CATAWBA VALLEY CHAPTER NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY
SONS OFTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Cordially invites you to participate in the 232nd Anniversary Commemoration of the
Battle of Ramsour's Mill
Saturday June 23, 2012 Lincolnton, N.C.
Hosted by the Lincoln County Historical Properties Commission and the Lincoln County Historical Association. Wreath Laying Ceremony will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Sat. JUNE 23rd
Motels in the area include Comfort Inn, tel. 704-732-0011 for discount, please Identify yourself as SAR, DAR, Colonial Dames, etc. Organizations and participants will be announced. To assure your unit's recognition in the program please furnish the following by May 30, 2010 to:
Editor: Larry T. Guzy 4531 Paper Mill Rd. Marietta, GA 30067-4025
Publisher: Wayne Brown 2062 Double Creek Dr. Powder Springs, GA 30127
Toiletries (but not small bar soap), magazines, blankets and books are needed at Veteran care facilities. Bring items to be donated to the chapter meetings and
report your visits to Vets and other activities.
Veteran & Americanism points can add up fast!
Chapter Website http://www.captainjohncollins.org
CAPTAIN JOHN COLLINS CHAPTER GEORGIA SOCIETY SONS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Chapter’s namesake, Captain John Collins’ headstone is at the Mars Hill cemetery in Acworth
Several Georgia Chap-ters have been involved for some time in welcom-ing new U.S. Citizens by participating in citizenship ceremonies.
The new citizens are appreciative of the wel-come they receive and in-trigued by the revolution-ary war uniforms present.
Several members of the Collins Chapter joined fellow compatri-ots from the Rome and Sons of Liberty chapters at the Federal Courthouse in Rome.
Sons were represented at the March 16th Naturalization Ceremony at the Rome Federal Courthouse. They included: Rev. Clyde Hampton, Chaplain, Rome Chapter; Wayne Brown, President, John Collins Chapter; Wayne Ellis, Sons of Liberty Chapter; Ed Walllraven, President, Rome Chapter; Terry Gibbs, Vice President, John Collins Chap-ter; Curtis McWaters, Northwest Vice President, Georgia Society SAR.
Welcoming
New Citizens
The Georgia Society Board of Managers meeting is scheduled for April 28th, in Barnesville, beginning at 10 a.m. Members do not need to be officers in order to attend and contribute to the man-agement of the state society. Regional Vice President Curtis McWaters customarily attends and can provide further information on this meeting to any member who may wish to attend.
Schools
David Martin has been coordinating with elementary schools to have their students enter the Poster contest. A presentation was made to several classes at Sope Creek Elementary School, for a total of about 120 students. A similar number were at the presentation at Kincaide. Larry Guzy assisted David in encourag-ing the students to participate by discussing the Revolutionary War in the South as part of their curriculum.
Students at Kincaid Elementary school listen to Compatriot Larry
