Mary Ann Pond Call

Providing Education• DAR Good Citizens

• Outstanding Teacher Award

• Literacy Challenge Committee– Recently delivered over 200 wish list items to the Brown County Literacy Council.

• ROTC Medal Award– First ROTC award was presented in 1969 to Cadet Lt. Col. David Allen Reiser of New Holstein

• Children of the American Revolution– The Jean Nicolet Chapter has sponsored the “La Baye” C.A.R. group since 1978.

• American Indians– Assisted American Indians with financial and scholarship aid since 1936.

• Junior American Citizens

• Chemawa Indian School– Chemawa Indian School, located in the Willamette Valley, Salem, Oregon, is the oldest continuously

operating boarding school in the country – two Indian schools nationwide supported by the NSDAR.

• DAR Schools– Support two DAR owned and operated schools – Kate Duncan Smith School and Tamassee DAR

School.

– Provide financial support to four DAR sponsored schools, namely: Berry College, Crossnore School,Hillside School, and Hindman Settlement School.

• DAR Scholarships– Established in May 1978 as a memorial to the memory of Mary McCrary, Jean Nicolet Chapter regent

from 1956 to 1958.

Promoting Patriotism• War Relief Service

• DAR Service for Veterans

• DAR Project Patriot

• Valley Forge Bell Tower

• Americanism and Flag of the United States of America

• Tercentennial Celebration: Arrival of Jean Nicolet

• Chapter Programs

• Lineage Workshops

Naturalization Ceremony

Mrs. Marion Campshure, Mrs. Ralph Hopfensperger, C.A.R. John Brandt - State Vice

President C.A.R, Mrs. Jean Nawrocki - past regent, Mrs. Hope Niedling - State Regent,

and Mrs. Ruth Zolper - Regent

Heritage Festival Parade(July 4, 1984 - 350 anniversary of Jean Nicolet landing at Red Banks)

The Essay Contest

was first offered in

1908

Florence Goedjen,

Rachel Binder,

Dixie Tubbs

(1969)

American Essay Contest

Pictured next to the replica of the Liberty Bell are Lynne Corbeille, chairman of the DAR

display; Dawn Kotlarz, past chapter Regent; Pam Miller, Jean Nicolet Chapter Regent;

Florence West, WSDAR State Musician; Beverly West, Wisconsin State Regent; Nancy

Burns, Junior American Citizens Committee Chairman; and Alice Byrnes, WSDAR

Second Vice Regent and member of the Color Guard for the celebration.

Liberty Bell Project

Dedication Ceremony

Dedication Ceremony

Brown County Veterans’ Memorial

Lynne Corbeille, Melodie Illgen,

Sarah Rohloff, Roberta Brand, Pamela Miller

DAR members from Appleton and Jean Nicolet Chapters served in the color guard

and welcomed the new citizens at the July 2, 2004 citizenship ceremony.

Pictured left to right are: Roberta Brand, Alice Byrnes, Geneva Reitmeier, Carolyn

Regier, Pam Miller, Florence Goedjen, Mary Howden, and Sarah Rohloff.

Washington’s Birthday Tea

Mrs. Blesch, Mrs. Killian Ansorge-Regent, Mrs. Otto Straubel

Mrs. James Armstrong, Mrs. F.N. Trowbridge, Mrs. F.B. Seymour

Mary Fisk Simpson Newton

in Blesch Home

100th Annual Regent’s Report• Celebrating our DAR heritage, increasing chapter membership and community outreach have been the focus of Jean Nicolet

Chapter programs and projects this year.

• Chapter centennial celebration.

• Submitted the paper-work to mark the grave of Revolutionary War Daughter Mary Ann Pond Call, who was the mother of oneof our charter members.

• Inducted seven new members into Jean Nicolet Chapter, welcomed one transfer, and reinstated one former member.

• There are currently five applications pending in Washington, and we are actively working with six other prospective members.

• Chapter programs included a celebration of Constitution Week, a program about our DAR Founding Mothers, a screening of theNSDAR Memorial Continental Hall video, a display of information about Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery andobservances of the anniversaries of the Victory at Yorktown, Blackstock Battlefield and Cowpens National Battlefield. We alsosponsored a DAR Awards Tea, where we honored our chapter essay winners and DAR Good Citizens.

• Major chapter projects included establishing a chapter Daughters Helping Daughters fund, making a chapter donation to thePresident General’s Project, sending art and craft supplies to students at Chemawa Indian School, continuing our chaptersupport for the Surgeons’ Quarters Museum, sponsoring a student for an NSDAR Scholarship, supporting our DAR Schools,participating in DAR Project Patriot by sending holiday cards, collecting clothing, DVDs and CDs for patients at LandstuhlHospital, and mailing phone cards to family members and friends who are on active duty in Iraq, and collecting stamps forDisabled Veterans. The chapter sent a check to the DAR Library to purchase a book from their wish list. Chapter members areactively involved with La Baye Society C.A.R. programs and projects. We present ROTC medals to qualified candidates in areacolleges and universities. We communicate with chapter members via a chapter news-letter. Volunteer Information SpecialistCommittee chairperson Pam Khraibut is developing a new chapter web site to enhance our chapter presence online. Mary AnnHarding and Pam Khraibut are participating in the DAR Genealogy Preservation Committee Descendants Project, building adatabase of the lineages found on the application papers.

• Through Community Outreach programs, Jean Nicolet Chapter has become more visible to area citizens. These activities havegenerated membership inquiries and have been wonderful public relations tools. Several members of the chapter have presentedprograms to area genealogical societies and women’s organizations. Two representatives from Jean Nicolet Chapter attended theVeteran’s Day ceremony sponsored by the Oneida Nation. Chapter members made a generous donation to the Brown CountyLiteracy Council, and our Literacy Challenge Committee Chairperson has enrolled in tutoring classes. The chapter donatedthree books to the Brown County Library this year – the DAR Patriot Index Millennium Edition, Revolutionary Soldiers Buriedin the State of Wisconsin and Revolutionary Wives and Daughters Buried in the State of Wisconsin, authored by WisconsinDaughter Nancy Lehman. A bibliography of Revolutionary War Service Research Resources available at the Brown CountyLibrary was compiled by the chapter and given to the Local History and Genealogy Department. Jean Nicolet Chapter donated$100.00 to the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay for their National History Day program. One of our chapter members isserving as a judge for this event.

Sherron Pamela Miller (615349)

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Chapter Regents 1906-1956• Mrs. Francis Lawton Dunham 1906-1913

• Mrs. Cornelia Dunlap Lyons 1913-1914

• Mrs. Sara Miller Wilcox 1914-1916

• Mrs. Margaret Towles Blesch 1916-1917

• Mrs. Cornelia Dunlap Lyons 1917-1918

• Mrs. Mary Kennedy Bowron 1918-1919

• Miss Sarah Elizabeth Smith 1919-1920

• Mrs. Margaret Thomas Branson 1920-1922

• Miss Edith Rachael Mathews 1922-1924 State Corresponding Secretary 1931-1934

• Mrs. Katherine Buzzelle Clark 1924-1926

• Mrs. Florence Plantz Gouchnaur 1927-

• Mrs. Katherine Buzzelle Clark 1927-

• Mrs. Gladys Stowe Minahan 1928-1930

• Mrs. Grace Gibson Hine 1930-1932

• Mrs. Mary Barber Prichard 1932-1934

• Mrs. Elsie Dunlap Richards 1934-1936

• Mrs. Margaret Thomas Branson 1936-1938 State Regent 1931-1934 >

• Mrs. Jessie Wilson Ansorge 1938-1940

• Mrs. Alice Henderson Straubel 1940-1942

• Miss Fredericka King Heath 1942-1944

• Miss Nan Workman 1944-1946

• Mrs. Eva Waggoner Blood 1946-1948

• Mrs. Arline Leffingwell Desnoyers 1948-1950

• Mrs. Eunice Mahn Craanen 1950-1954 State Registrar 1956-1958

• Mrs. Esther Jarman Thompson 1954-1956

Chapter Regents 1956-2006

• Mrs. Mary Palmer McCrary 1956-1958

• Mrs. Dorothy Haslam Lambeau 1958-1960

• Mrs. Virginia Scobey Trowbridge 1960-1962

• Mrs. Mildred Mills Clausen 1962-1965

• Mrs. Marjorie Gallagher Murphy 1965-1968

• Mrs. Rachel Johnson Binder 1968-1971

• Mrs. Alyce Fosdick Herrick 1971-1974 State Historian 1974-1977

• Mrs. Rachel Johnson Binder 1974-1977 State Historian 1971-1974

• Mrs. Frances Sizer Henkelmann 1977-1978 State Historian 1981-1983

• Mrs. Jean Kettring Nawrocki 1978-1984

• Mrs. Ruth Hart Zolper 1984-1986

• Mrs. Edna Davis Defenderfer 1986-1989

• Mrs. Marian Miller Campshure 1989-1992 State Recording Secretary 1993-1995

• Mrs. Dawn Marie Sizer Kotlarz 1992-1995

• Mrs. Shirley Roberts Boucher 1995-1997

• Mrs. Yvonne Clark Metivier 1997-1999

• Mrs. Dawn Marie Sizer Kotlarz 1999-2001 State Corresponding Sec. 1995-1995

State Vice Regent 1997-1999

• Ms. Sherron Pamela Miller 2001-2007 State Corresponding Sec. 2005-2007

State Vice Regent 2007-2009D

State Regent 2009-2011D

Menominee River Chapter Regents 1985-2010

• Mrs. Dawn Tiefert 1985-1989

• Mrs. Sue Jones 1989-1993

• Mrs. Dawn Tiefert 1993-1997

• Mrs. Sue Jones 1997-1999

• Mrs. Dawn Tiefert 1999-2002

• Mrs. Sue Jones 2002-2003

• Mrs. Dawn Tiefert 2003-2010

Chapter Regents 2007-2016• Ms. Mary Ann Harding 2007-2007

• Ms. Mary Kay Whitbeck Milquet 2007-2009 State Corresponding Sec. 2009-2011

• Mrs. Pamela Dashnaw Khraibut 2009-2012

• Mrs. Elizabeth Cardwell Wallner 2012-2015

• Mrs. Connie Leigh Wilson Grant 2015-