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Greetings Amelia Island Daughters,This year I am turning Christmas upside-
down. I am tired of the commercialism that has taken over our society. It has moved us away from the true reason that we celebrate this holiday. Here, at the end of this year, I am promoting the first two objects in the DAR motto: God and Home. Love of family, love of friends, thanking God for all, is my goal for this season. Our eternity began at the manger. And you, my Sister Daughters, are my special blessing. I hope you be able to join in ourAmelia Island DAR Holiday Celebration
Sunday, December 9th from 6 to 8 at the home of Jane Philips, 1641 Philips Manor Road. Bring an hors d’oeuvres, a desert or a bottle of wine to share. HODARS and significant others are welcome. RSVP to Amy Schnell at 556-3486 or [email protected].
For our Fun-Raising at the party, we will have Carolyne’s Pick a Prize to support The Florida Project of rebuilding the taxi ramp at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. (Don’t ever forget: we need to take care of our magnificent buildings!) If you would like to participate, your tax deductible check can be sent to AIDAR, PO Box 16664, Fernandina Beach, FL 32035. Your donation can go towards a drawing for baskets at the holiday celebration. You do not need to be present to win a basket. $50.00 gives you 10 voices and $100.00 gives you 20 voices. Send your basket choices with your check if you won’t be at the party. And, not to worry, tickets will be on hand at the party!
Check out the exciting prizes Carolyne has collected...
BASKET 1; CHOCOLATE LOVERS: Chocolate Tower from Harbor Sweets, the handmade Chocolates of Salem, MA; Holiday cocoa mug; Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa Gift Pack; $10.00 Peterbrook Gift Certificate; Chocolate treats!
BASKET 2: STATE REGENT’S RECIPE: Florida State Cookbook; Fixins’ for Donna Cullen’s Black Russian Cake; Christmas apron and holiday pot holders; Two nine-inch cake pans and a decorative cake server; $20.00 Sliders Seaside Grill Gift Certificate!
BASKET 3: NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS: 2012 Official White House Ornament; Santa decorator pillow and framed Santa picture; 4 Blue moon and stars mugs with sugar and creamer set; $25.00 Doo Wops Diner Certificate!
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31
Amelia Island ChapterDaughters of the American Revolution
December 2012 NewsletterVolume 20, Number 4
BASKET 4: PAMPERED LADY: “Nothin To Do and All Night To Do It” Signed and numbered print by Bonnie Jackson Fehling (Framed); Handbag and neck scarf handmade by Janet Lukaszewicz; Hand Lotion, Pedicure set; $25.00 Merle Norman Certificate; 4 Amelia Island Museum of History Passes; Lovely martini glass!
BASKET 5: GARDEN LOVERS: Rabbit’s Paw plant; Vintage book: Houseplants and Indoor Gardening; Three frog Welcome ceramic piece; Miniature book Flower Fairies of the Garden; $20.00 Pepper’s Mexican Grill Gift Certificate; Two garden tools and more!
BASKET 6: TEA TIME: Two signed and framed tea cup prints; Two embroidered tea cup tea towels; Book, The Tea House on Mulberry Street; An Eleanor Roosevelt phrase printed and signed; Collectable tea pot; Collection of tea bags with glass cup and saucer; Ms. Carolyn’s Coconut Cake Gift Certificate!
BASKET 7: DECORATE FOR THE HOLIDAY: Vintage table cloth with 6 napkins in Christmas motif; Two Anne Moller signed angel prints; Ceramic bell; Four mugs designed by Jane Brookshaw, Made in Scotland; $50.00 Robinson’s Jewelry Store Certificate!
BASKET 8: HOLIDAY CHEER; Bottle of Champagne with Sleigh bottle holder; Hot toddy mug, signed with recipe on bottom; Collectable Old Mr. Boston Official Bartender’s Guide; Two crystal stemmed wine glasses; Vintage measuring beaker; Six wine charms; $100.00 Bar Zin Restaurant Certificate!
BASKET 9: GOLFER’S WINE AND CHEESE: Arnold Palmer collector’s mug; Golf club five piece bar set; Cheese keeper with 4 seahorse serving knives and a Paris cutting board; $25.00 Elizabeth’s Certificate; Amelia River Golf Package for 4; Golf Club of Amelia Golf Package for 2; Fernandina Beach Golf Club Package for 4; Women’s golf print (framed)
BASKET 10: THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Handmade wooden angel; Crystal decorator drum; Book To Our Children’s Children; Snowflake stocking holder and gold stocking; Three priceless authentic Hummel angels from the 1980’s playing instruments by Goebel!
American HeritageRules for entering Fiber Art categories have
changed since last year. Please read these changes on the NSDAR Member’s Website under American Heritage Committee. Mainly, commercially made patterns or purchased kits containing the pattern, thread and cloth are not advised to be entered, as they will be receiving the fewer points toward placing in the competition compared to projects made with original patterns, materials, and fabrics. Also, please include this information in detail in the required short essay that accompanies your entry form. The chapter already has a short story, a fiber art project, metal craft, and a poem entered in this year’s competitions. Please do think about entering one of the many categories offered.
Literacy PromotionAs you purchase holidays gifts for family and
friends, please consider a book to promote the joy of reading. Read holiday stories and poems to young children such as the poem, The Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore, books as How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss, The Nutcracker by Stephanie Spinner, Chanukah Lights by Michael Rosen, or the Birth of Jesus from the Bible.
Promoting literacy doesn’t necessary mean that you have to be a professional teacher or donate dozens of books to a library. Literacy is promoted by reading one word at a time, turning one page at time, and helping one person at a time.
Compass Rose Society LuncheonGloria Toomey will be hosting the Compass
Rose Society Luncheon on Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at her home on 22 Red Maple Road, Amelia Island Plantation, Fernandina Beach. Special guest will be FSSDAR Regent Donna Cullen. Please RSVP for the luncheon by January 11th.
The purpose of this luncheon is to raise funds for the Florida Project, "The Florida Drive." The D Street Taxi Ramp at Constitution Hall will be resurfaced and will be renamed the Florida Drive, as the members in the Florida State Society of Daughters of the Revolution are providing the funding for this improvement.
Reservations can be made with a $35 check made payment FSSDAR and mailed to Gloria Toomey, 22 Red Maple, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034.
Remembering the Deployed During the Holidays
At this time of year, you may want to send a card to deployed military personnel. The Red Cross has sponsored a program to help with this. “Holiday Mail for Heroes” is accepting card until December 7th. The mailing address is Holiday Mail for Heroes, PO Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456
Project PatriotPlease clip and sort manufacturers coupons
into food and nonfood stacks, then bring to the
meeting or leave at Emma Leeper’s Island Treasures on Centre Street. This year there will be a rotation of military bases receiving the coupons. The Coupons for Commissaries Cochairmen are Roxie Kulczynski and Ruth Ellis
Veteran’s Day Parade
Second Vice Regent Carol Elefterion organized the chapter’s entry in the parade on Centre Street in Fernandina Beach. What a great attendance! A dozen members including Junior Members and C.A.R. represented the chapter in one convertible, two Jeeps, and an island hopper in this year’s parade.
Linda Davis and her Flagler College friends Georgia Taylor and Garrison Belk rode in a patriotic decorated
Jeep in the parade.
Revolutionary War Patriot Amos Latham’s Grave Marking
Posing with the Color Guard from Kings Bay Submarine Base are members of the Vaughan-Latham
Children of the American Revolution: Camille Schnell, Caroline Pierce, Sarah Perkins, Addie
Bishop, Aislin Alexander, and Landon Alexander. The children laid a long-stemmed American Roses on
Amos Latham’s grave as part of the service.
A special “thank you” to all who made this event possible: Historian Cindy Glenn for submitting the application to NSDAR, and for planning and organizing the ceremony; Chris Belcher for “putting some meat on Amos' bones” in his presentation; Amos’ descendant Helen Sintes for historical background and speaking, Georgia State Society Senior Vice President James E. Stallings, Sr, for bringing greetings and wreaths while dressed as a patriot from the Revolutionary War; Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base Color Guard; FSSDAR Amy Schnell and the Organizing Vaughan-Latham Society C.A.R.for dressing in Revolutionary era outfits and bring roses for Amos; Dr. Richard Blocker; Nobel Monument Company for affixing the plaque; Oxley-Heard Funeral Home for supplying the chairs; Riley Hall for bringing and returning the chairs and directing traffic; FSSDAR Historian Dawn Lemongello and FSSDAR Membership
Chairman Bobbie Schofield and their families for traveling so far to attend; Regent Jane Collins, First Vice Regent Marie Santry, Second Vice Regent Carol Elefterion, Chaplain Courtney Fassbender, Treasurer Pat Baker, The Flag of the United States of America Chairman Ruth Reader, for being part of the program. Jane Collins for designing the program; Dolly Buck for permission to use her Lighthouse painting in the program; Alice LeGrand, Nelda Austin, Anita Lay and Rumsey Young for hosting the reception, Carolyne James-Rudd for bringing a lovely cake with the image of the lighthouse on it; and the many ladies who brought food for the reception. And to all the family and chapter members who turned out on a most unFlorida-like blustery day. We were all there to honor Amos Latham and his service to his country and his community.
L to R seated: James E. Stallings GASSAR; Helen Sintes; Chris Belcher; Cindy Glenn; behind : Chaplain
Courtney Fassbender, Second Vice Regent Carol Elefterian, Vice Regent Marie Santry & at the
podium: Regent Jane Collins.
Regent Jane Philips Collins is overjoyed with the Grave Marking Service, which honored Amos Latham for his contribution to the American Revolution. Now three patriot’s graves located in Nassau County have been marked by our chapter! It is our promise to them
that we will never forget.
After the service, a reception was held at the Amelia Island Museum. A table of members: Claudia Naugle,
Nelda Austin, Linda Davis, Julia Nowlin, Roxie Kulczynski and Ruth Ellis.
NOVEMBER MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
New Members Andrea Welker Alexander, Suzanne Welker and Katherine Neely Lanier pose after the Welcome ritual with Regent Jane Collins, Registrar Dianne Parfitt and Chaplain Courtney Fassbender. The chapter accepted as transfer-in member Janet “Jan” Mace Hawkins and new prospective members, Claudiemae Mills Speed and Laura Leigh Schucker Brown.
Wreaths Across America motto is, “Then, Now, and Forever – Let’s Make It Personal”. Wreaths Across American Co-Chairmen Linda Davis and Roxie Kulczynski presented a check for $2,525 for 168 wreaths to Ralph Terreault, represent of WAA at the Jacksonville National Cemetery. Our check put them over their goal needed for a wreath for every grave at the cemetery! Besides helping with sponsoring the wreaths, chapter members are welcome to participate the Wreath-laying Service, which will be December 15th at 11:45 a.m. Please call Linda Davis to arrange to carpool for this event.
Our chapter has three military personnel widows, whose beloved were laid to rest at Jacksonville National Cemetery: Jean Gaissert, Jean Dietterich and Claudine Nunez Newton.
Regent Jane Collins and First Vice Regent Marie Santry pose with our November Guest Speaker, Retired Admiral Gene Kendall, who spoke about how a negative occurrence can change your life’s
path for the better an other insights from his lifetime of service.
Service for Veterans Chairman Sherry Harrell posed with Retired Admiral Gene Kendall. Jean Gaissert, Audrey Newman and Vicki Callan conducted the Half & Half donation for the Veteran’s Domiciliary in Lake City. Sherry Harrell plans to take a car full of
goodies there in early December. The winner of the Half and Half for $65.00 was Nancy Sturges.
Thank you goes to the Veterans Month November meeting hostesses Roxie Kulczynski and Ruth Ellis.
Regent Jane P. Collins was endorsed for the office of FSSDAR State Curator by the chapter. Our chapter will next come together in December at our Christmas Party.
C.A.R. NewsThe Vaughan-Latham Society C.A.R. will be
holding a yard sale in late February. Proceeds will be used to benefit the Society's organizing meeting (to be held in May) and the State President's Project. The Children are asking for items that you would normally donate to Goodwill or Barnabas for their venture. Please bring any items to the January and the February meetings for Amy Schnell to collect. Anything not sold at the yard sale will be donated to Barnabas unless otherwise specified. If you would like to help in a larger way, contact Amy for logistics.
The 2012-2013 Florida State Society Children of the American Revolution. President's Project is called "Rolling with the Brave." The 2013 National Veteran's Wheelchair Games will be held in Tampa this year in July. The F.S.C.A.R. is working to raise $13,000 for this worthy event.
A Neat StoryJane Philips will be signing copies of her
new book at the chapter holiday party and will donate profits to the Florida Project. If you would like to preorder a book, email [email protected].
Happy 94th Birthday Party For Ann Robas!
The chapter is honoring Ann Robas for her dedicated service to DAR on Christmas Eve from 1 -3 p.m. Please drop-in to say Happy Birthday and for punch and goodies. The address is 2161 South Fletcher Avenue. (Ann's home is located at the intersection of South Fletcher and "B" St. "B" St. dead ends with a yellow two-story house at the end. Ann's house is the pink house with white shingles on the left side of “B” St. Please comes in the back door, which means walk toward the yellow house and turn left into her driveway then up the steps)
Sunshine ReportHappy 90th birthday Jane Philips and
Happy 94th birthday to Ann Robas! Caregivers: Nelda Austin, Mary Tom Drew, Theresa Howie, Jean Mann; Health: Jane Turney, Marlene Young's sister Evelyn Nance.
Please remember these ladies with your thoughts, prayers, and cards. If you know of any situation that may need to be on our Sunshine Report, please notify Chaplain Courtney Fassbender or Regent Jane Collins.
December Birthdays 03 - Carolyn Toole04 - Ella Toland08 - Mary Louise French10 - Anne Barbanel13 - Sharon Pledger16 - Susan Walls19 - Gloria Toomey; Ashley Lynn Walls21 - Gloria Jones; Audry Newman24 - Ruth Ellis; Ann Robas27 - Julia Belcher28 - Paule Ann Ceci30 - Donna Moore
InsigniaDecember 7, 1941 will be remembered as “a
date which will live in infamy” as the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked at Pear Harbor by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan, thus beginning the Second World War.
NSDAR has a WWII Commemorative pin. NSDAR pins can be ordered at the Hamilton Jewelers website http://www.hamiltoninsignia.com
Please remember to wear your ribbon on the left side of your chest with the top of the ribbon resting near the shoulder seam.
American SpiritWith articles about fall foliage and
pumpkins, the Fall 2012 issue of the American Spirit Magazine was very colorful and interesting. The magazine is an award winning bimonthly publication of well-written stories of patriotism, history and genealogy. You can subscribe at a cost of $18 by calling 866 327-6242 or going online to the Members’ Website www.dar.org/americanspirit Fifi’s
The chapter is still receiving money from the account at Fifi’s Consignment Store on 8th Street on the island. This is part of our fundraising efforts. If you have nice, gently used, clothing and accessories please take them to Fifi’s and ask to have them credited the chapter’s account. With the holidays near, seasonal party clothes will be much desired for resale in the store. Check your closets and donate to us!
DAR WebsitesClick on to go to each one:Visit the Official DAR Facebook PageVisit the Official DAR YouTube ChannelNSDAR Members’ Web SiteNSDAR Public Web SiteFlorida State Society Public: www.FSSDAR.comMembers-only: www.FSSDAR.orgFlorida State ProjectAmelia Island Chapter: www.AmeliaIslandNSDAR.orgFacebook: Amelia Island NSDARFlorida Bulletin: http://fssdar.org/?page_id=27American Spirit and the Daughters Newsletter: www.dar.org/americanspirit.National Defender: www.members.dar.org/committees/defense/index.htm.
Newsletter CommitteeJane Philips Collins, Regent
[email protected]; 904-753-2211
Linda Ann Davis, [email protected]
Ann Fontaine, Official [email protected]
