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The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America

in the State of Georgia

DIRECTORY 2010 - 2011

REPORT OF THE HISTORIAN 2009-2010

Headquarters:

The Andrew Low House

329 Abercorn Street

Savannah, GA 31401-4634

www.andrewlowhouse.com

Office: (912) 233-1828

FAX: (912) 233-9239

Museum House: (912) 233-6854

NOTE:

Starting in 2010 all data for The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia is now

available on the Georgia Society’s WEB Site. Please use the “RESOURCE Page” that

follows to see the types of data available and the organization of the Georgia Society’s and

the National WEB Sites. User ID’s and Passwords are noted for each Web Site on the

Resource page. If you do not have access to the internet, please try to find a friend to print

out the information desired or contact Stephen Bohlin or Laura Dixon at (912-233-1828).

Mission Statement

The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America actively promotes our national

heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects.



2010-2011 DIRECTORY & 2009-2010 HISTORIAN’S REPORT

Resource List Georgia Society’s Website (www.nscdaga.org)

“Members” tab User ID: gadame Password: 1893

“Members” tab

Annual Meeting

Lists of the Board of Governors, Town Committee Chairmen, and staff with photos

Roster by Town Committee

Bylaws

Procedure Manual

Forms

For Proposing Candidates

Forms for Changes in Membership (Retiring, Resigning, Changing Names, Death of a

Member)

Form for Supplemental Line

Order Forms for Cemetery Markers and Georgia Flower Pin

Previous Chatters

Georgia Historian’s Report

Board Calendar

Ways to Give

New Member Orientation

Treasurer’s Corner outlining our financial policies, Town Committee financial reporting, etc.

National Website (www.nscda.org)

“Members” tab or “Register of Ancestors” tab

User ID: dame Password: badge “Members” tab

Corporate Society Directory (names and addresses for officers of other societies)

National Board List with Photos

Newsletters and Historians’ reports from other societies

History of the National Society (Whence our Name)

Treasurer’s Corner has information on insurance, fund raising, strategic plans and forms for

check requests, trip expenses, Town Committee financial reporting, etc.

“Register of Ancestors” tab:

Approved Ancestor Database

Eligibility Lists for the Colonial States

Approved Bibliographies for the Colonial States

Registrar’s Manual

IDDL Database Search (Index of Documented Descendants’ Lineage)

Forms for ordering pins, insignia and membership certificates

Forms for Candidates to fill out their White Lineage Papers

Transfer Forms, Courtesy Membership Form

If you do not have access to the internet, please try to find a friend to print out the information or contact

Stephen Bohlin or Laura Dixon at (912-233-1828).

http://www.nscdaga.org/

http://www.nscda.org/




Article II of the Constitution

“The objects of this Society shall be to collect and preserve manuscripts, traditions, relics and

mementos of bygone days: to preserve and restore buildings connected with the early history of our

country; to educate our fellow citizens and ourselves in our country’s history and thus diffuse

healthful and intelligent information concerning the past; to create a popular interest in our

Colonial history; to stimulate a spirit of true patriotism and a genuine love of country; and to

impress upon the young the sacred obligation of honoring the memory of those heroic ancestors

whose ability, valor, sufferings and achievements are beyond all praise.”

Salute to the Flag

To the Glory of God and in grateful remembrance of those, our ancestors, who through evil report

and loss of fortune, through suffering and death, maintained stout hearts and laid the foundation of

our country, we, The national Society of The Colonial Dames of America, pledge our loyal and

affectionate allegiance to the flag.

Board of Governors’ Calendar 2010 – 2011 2010 April 20-22 Annual Meeting Albany

July 21-22 Executive Committee Meeting Lake Lanier

Legacy Lodge

September 22-23 Round Table Madison

Combined Finance/Executive Committee

Town Committee Chairmen

Nominating

October 16-17 Biennial Council Washington, DC

November 10-11 Board of Governors’ Meeting Savannah

(Historical Activities & Patriotic Service Rep’s invited)

Furnishings

Finance

Endowment

2011 January 12-13 Executive Committee Meeting Henderson Village

February 9-10 Board of Governors’ Meeting Savannah

Grants

Finance

Nominating

Acceptability

Endowment

Furnishings

April 24 Easter

April 26-28 Annual Meeting Savannah

September 21-22 Round Table Marietta

Combined Finance/Executive Committee

Town Committee Chairmen

Nominating




2010-2011 BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Honorary National Mrs. Robert Vincent Martin, Jr. Julia

and State President Route 3, Box 485-A, Savannah 31406-9801 (912) 355-0399

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Elected Officers, Managers, 2 Appointed Members at Large & Ex Officio Members)

President Mrs. Albert Carlyle Espy III Jane

(2009-2011) 222 East Liberty Street, Savannah 31401-4402 (912) 233-5572

Cell: (912) 655-2118

E-Mail: [email protected]

First Vice-President Mrs. Charles Waring Barrow Janet

(2008-2012) 9152 Ferguson Avenue, Savannah 31406-6324 (912) 355-0127

Cell: (912) 429-0103

E-mail: [email protected]

Area Vice-Presidents Mrs. Carr Glover Dodson Katherine (2008-2011) 1168 Jackson Springs Road, Macon 31211-1435 (478) 745-7186


(2009-2012) Mrs. Peter George Gantsoudes Lillian

3200 Rockingham Dr NW, Atlanta 30327-1237 (404) 352-5258


(2010-2013) Mrs. Clarence Victor Beadles III Deryl

11 Cherokee Road, Moultrie 31768-6501 (229) 985-3886

FAX: (229) 890-6050

E -Mail: [email protected]

Recording Secretary Mrs. Benjamin Scott Rich Peggy

(2008-2011) 1135 Gordon Avenue, Thomasville 31792-7440 (229) 228-1609

Cell: (229) 224-0424


Corresponding Secretary Mrs. George Cornelius Clark Katharine

(2009-2011) P. O. Box 667, Dublin 31040-0667 Phone & FAX: (478) 272-3035

Cell: (478) 278-4114


Roster Secretary Mrs. Lawrence Daniel Devoe Anne

(2010-2013) 3569 Pebble Beach Dr., Augusta 30907-9085 (706) 860-8161

FAX: (706) 854-1413


Treasurer Mrs. Henry Dana Stevens IV Mary Lee

(2009-2011) 1 Old South Lane, Savannah 31411-2802 (912) 598-8427

Cell: (912) 656-2254

FAX: (912) 598-9383


Registrar Mrs. Oscar Emerson Ham, Jr. Mary

(2009-2011) 9000 Ferguson Avenue, Savannah 31406-6361 (912) 352-3913

Cell: (912) 663-2336

FAX: (912) 352-2238


mailto:[email protected]













ALH Endowment Fund Mrs. Richard Dudley Williams Connie

34 East 51st Street, Savannah 31405-2139 (912) 236-1245

FAX: (912) 238-4837

Cell: (912) 441-0572


Parliamentarian Miss Barbara Bunn Vereen Barbara

(2008-2011) 1146 South Main, Moultrie 31768-5441 (229) 985-4054

Office Phone & FAX: (229) 985-8978

Office: (800) 841-8677


Member at Large Mrs. Adams DeLeon Little, Jr. Sybil

(2009-2010) 874 Greymont Circle, N. W., Marietta 30064-1326 (770) 428-0240


Member at Large Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton Gena

(2009-2010) 619 Linton Road, Sandersville 31082-1244 (478) 552-2944

FAX: (478) 552-2454

Cell: (404) 281-2483


EX-OFFICIO Andrew Low House Mrs. Samuel Zemurray III Pat

Chairman One Lattimore Place, Savannah 31405-2161 (912) 234-7430

FAX (912) 234-7434

Cell: (912) 547-0245


Immediate Past Mrs. Henry duBignon Howard Louise President 5 Marsh Drive, Savannah 31410-3415 (912) 897-3219

(2009-2011) FAX: (912) 897-6533


SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS Annual Giving Fund Mrs. Clarence Victor Beadles III Deryl

11 Cherokee Road, Moultrie 31768-6501 (229) 985-3886

FAX: (229) 890-6050


Assistant Registrar/ Mrs. Clifton Maurice Culberson, Jr. Anne

Genealogist for 978 Winall Down Road, NE, Atlanta 30319-1142 (404) 262-7294

Associate States Cell: (678) 592-8494


Assistant Treasurer Mrs. John Eugene Marshall Nan

(2010-2012) 15 Mulberry Bluff Drive, Savannah 31406-3270 (912) 355-7326


Genealogists Mrs. Bennett Howard Daniel Cathy

for Ancestral Lines 136 Cordell Road, NE, Milledgeville 31061-7742 (478) 452-3039

Cell: (478) 454-6441


Mrs. Frank Owen Evans, Jr. Beverly Anne

220 E Montgomery St., Milledgeville 31061-3533 (478) 452-5167 Mrs. Frank Owen Evans, Jr. Beverly Anne

Cell: (478) 456-7194
















Mrs. Archibald Little Griffin Lee

3310 Plantation Drive, Valdosta 31605-1008 (229) 242-8075

Cell: (229) 563-2760

FAX: (229) 671-1090


Mrs. Richard Tillman Jones Sally

105 Sunset Ct., Carrollton 30117-4165 (770) 836-0683

Cell: (770) 537-7239


Mrs. John Price Reehling Marjie

757 St. Andrew Drive, Macon 31210-4733 (478) 757-1274


Mrs. John Thomas Seeds Sally

2258 Vinings Cove, SE, Smyrna 30080-4691 (770) 434-4720

Cell: (404) 408-3259


Mrs. Revenal Elmo Winge Bunny

P.O. Box 824, Waycross 31502-0824 (912) 283-4639

Email: [email protected]

Genealogist Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton Gena

for Supplemental Lines 619 Linton Road, Sandersville 31082-1244 (478) 552-2944

FAX: (478) 552-2454


Historian Mrs. Vernon Nathaniel Hansford Frances

P. O. Box 244, Lexington 30648-0244 (706) 743-7520

Cell: (706) 482-8079


Ways and Means Mrs. William Stephen Bowen, Jr. Deborah

412 Woodlawn Terrace, Blackshear 31516-2742 (912) 449-6767

Office: (888) 287-1200

FAX: (912) 449-8166

Cell: 1 (912) 223-6701


CHAIRMEN OF NATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES Historical Activities Mrs. Kendrick Ware Mattox, Jr. Polly

201 Gordon St., La Grange 30240-2615 (706) 884-4105

FAX: (706) 845-8715

Cell: (706) 302-7541


Patriotic Service Mrs. Walter Thomas Moody III Mary

1115 Oakcliff Road, Macon 31211-1329 (478) 743-4897

FAX: (478) 746-2003

Cell: (478) 361-8822


Museum Properties Mrs. Samuel Zemurray III Pat

One Lattimore Place, Savannah 31405-2161 (912) 234-7430

FAX: (912) 234-7434

Cell: (912) 658-0679
















REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF NATIONAL HISTORIC

PROPERTIES Lady of Dumbarton Mrs. William Bryan Hardegree, Jr. Eleanor

House Board 1906 Leonard St Apt 5, Columbus 31906-1488 (706) 327-8439

(2009-2015) FAX: (706) 320-9456


Regent of Gunston Hall Mrs. Phillip Jewett Markert Carolyn

(2007-2012) 6648 Sweetwater Point, Flowery Branch 30542-3863 (770) 967-7832

*Phone & FAX (call before FAXing)

Cell: (770) 309-4926


Regent at Large of Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton Gena

Gunston Hall 619 Linton Road, Sandersville 31082-1244 (478) 552-2944

(2009-2015) FAX: (478) 552-2454


Associate Trustee Mrs. Marvin Sparks Singletary Henrietta

Friends of Sulgrave Manor 608 North Ingleside Drive, Albany 31707-3708 (229) 439-8773

(2009-2015) E-Mail: [email protected]

CHAIRMEN OF GEORGIA STANDING COMMITTEES Acceptability Mrs. Charles Waring Barrow Janet

9152 Ferguson Avenue, Savannah 31406-6324 (912) 355-0127

Cell: (912) 429-0103


Andrew Low House Mrs. Samuel Zemurray III Pat

One Lattimore Place, Savannah 31405-2161 (912) 234-7430

FAX: (912) 234-7434

Cell: (912) 658-0679


ALH Endowment Fund Mrs. Richard Dudley Williams Connie

34 East 51st Street, Savannah 31405-2139 (912) 236-1245

FAX: (912) 238-4837


Ancestor Eligibility Mrs. Oscar Emerson Ham, Jr. Mary

9000 Ferguson Avenue, Savannah 31406-6361 (912) 352-3913

Cell: (912) 663-2336

FAX: (912) 352-2238


Archivist/Librarian Mrs. William Henry Mayo Jane

1331 Brightwood Drive, Savannah 31406-2011 (912) 355-5159


Bylaws Mrs. Peter George Gantsoudes Lillian

3200 Rockingham Dr NW, Atlanta 30327-1237 (404) 352-5258


“Chatter” Editor Mrs. Bruce Lee Case Leila

101 West Furlow Street, Americus 31709-4109 (229) 924-4363

Office: (229) 924-6935, Ext. 7682


Bus. E-Mail: [email protected]
















Finance Mrs. Henry Dana Stevens IV Mary Lee

1 Old South Lane, Savannah 31411-2802 (912) 598-8427

Cell: (912) 656-2254

FAX: (912) 598-9383


Friends of ALH Mrs. Daniel Howard Bradley Judy

230 E 45th Street, Savannah 31405-2216 (912) 232-7636

FAX: (912) 238-0317


Mrs. Robert Train, Jr. Julia

485-C Beaulieu Ave., Savannah 31406-9801 (912) 354-1983

Cell: (912) 704-4169


Nominating Mrs. John McKay Sheftall Lucy

The Cedars, 2039 13th Street, Columbus 31906-1953 (706) 322-3434

Cell: (706) 289-7855


Roll of Honor Mrs. Pawling Schryver Steward Helen

300 Bull Street, Apt. 704, Savannah 31401-4347 (912) 236-8904

Cell: (404) 788-2007

NC: (828) 787-1951


SPECIAL COMMITTEES Georgia Historical Mrs. Gordon Burns Smith Anna

Society Liaison 126 West Taylor Street, Savannah 31401-4915 (912) 234-8919

FAX: (912) 233-2543


Hospitality/Lodging Miss Barbara Bunn Vereen Barbara

1146 South Main, Moultrie 31768-5441 (229) 985-4054

Office Phone & FAX: (229) 985-8978

Office: (800) 841-8677

E-Mail: [email protected] Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton Gena

Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton Gena

619 Linton Road, Sandersville 31082-1244 (478) 552-2944

FAX: (478) 552-2454


Mrs. Jerry Probst Nusloch Caroline

7 Priory Road, Savannah 31411-1726 (912) 598-0142

FAX: (912) 598-8844


The Andrew Low House 329 Abercorn Street

Savannah, Georgia 31401

Office: (912) 233-1828; FAX: (912) 233-9239; Museum House: (912) 233-6854

Director, Andrew Low House: Stephen Bohlin – [email protected]

Director, Marketing, Development and Human Resources: Laura Clements Dixon –

[email protected]

Manager, Museum Store: Kathy Holton Carter - [email protected]















TOWN COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN 2010-2011

Officers of Town Chairmen’s Committee

Chairman – Mrs. Lowry Weyman Hunt, Jr.

Secretary – Mrs. Robert Gene Parks

Albany Mrs. Lon Edwin Hudson Leslie

3709 Trumpington Lane, Albany 31721-2000 (229) 883-7668

E-Mail: [email protected](w) or [email protected](h)

Americus Mrs. Robert Gene Parks Kathy

167 Parkers Mill Creek Road, Americus 31719-8337 (229) 928-0481

Cell: (229) 942-6632


Athens Mrs. James Daniel Blitch III Dottie

275 Red Oak Trail, Athens 30606-1367 (706) 549-9207

Cell: (706) 338-5777

NC: (828) 743-2175


Atlanta Mrs. Clarence Ferrell Nolan III Marian

127 Mt. Calvary Road, Marietta 30064-1926 (770) 590-7054


Augusta Mrs. Joe David Christian, Jr. Ann Claiborne

4 Indian Creek Road, Augusta 30909-3749 (706) 733-3841

Cell: (706) 373-4643


Brunswick Mrs. Charles Edward Thwaite III Betsy

177 West Commons Drive, St. Simons Island, 31522-9790

(912) 634-8295

Cell: (912) 484-5820


Columbus Mrs. John McKay Sheftall Lucy

The Cedars, 2039 13th Street, Columbus 31906-1953 (706) 322-3434

Cell: (706) 289-7855


Macon Mrs. John Price Reehling Marjie

757 St. Andrew Drive, Macon 31210-4733 (478) 757-1274


Madison Mrs. Lowry Weyman Hunt, Jr. Lyn

P.O. Box 633, Madison 30650-0633 (706) 342-2767

Cell: (706) 474-1097; Work: (706) 342-2229; FAX: (706) 343-0140


Marietta Mrs. James Zachariah Pressley, Jr. Adrian

218 Church St. NW, Marietta 30060-1604 (770) 428-4856

Cell: (770) 337-5345


Milledgeville Mrs. Thomas Edwin Kingery Martha Marian

231 South Wilkinson Street, Milledgeville 31061-3315 (478) 452-1589

Cell: (478) 456-3051


mailto:[email protected](w)

mailto:[email protected](h)










Moultrie Mrs. Jack Cutts Smith, Jr. Mary Ann

61 Lower Meigs Road, Moultrie 31768-6542 (229) 985-8934

Cell: (229) 891-1357


Rome Mrs. Edward West Hine, Jr. Linda

139 Shoals Ferry Road SE, Rome 30161-9000 (706) 234-8061

Cell: (706) 233-1876


Savannah Mrs. William Theodore Moore, Jr. Jane

268 Bradley Point Road, Savannah 31410-3404 (912) 897-1144

Cell: (912) 658-2812


Thomasville Ms. Suzanne Vereen Suzanne

805 S. Broad, #15, Thomasville 31792-6160 (229) 236-6166

Cell: (229) 891-1881


Valdosta Mrs. James Harrison Gray, Jr. Mary

2410 South Forty Road, Valdosta 31602-1637 (229) 241-1813

Cell: (229) 506-0711

Waycross Mrs. Charles Knox Wainright Harriette

1500 St. Mary’s Dr., Waycross 31501-5022 (912) 283-5775








ROLL OF HONOR Mrs. William Washington Gordon* Mrs. Walter Charlton Hartridge

Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar* Mrs. Alva Wallace Barrett, Jr*

Mrs. William Langhorn Wilson* Mrs. Calder Willingham Payne*

Mrs. Joseph John Wilder* Mrs. Samuel Noble Roberts

Mrs. Peter Wiltberger Meldrim* Mrs. Hunter McGuire Clay*

Mrs. William Washington Gordon, Jr* Mrs. Shelby Myrick, .Ir.

Mrs. Clarence Gordon Anderson, Jr * Mrs. James Dickson Maddox

Mrs. Craig Barrow* Mrs. Henry Derriel Green

Mrs. John Francis Bransford* Mrs. Joseph Warrcn Stilwcll, Jr.*

Mrs. Eugenia Marion .Iohnston* Mrs. Lloyd Langston Summer, Jr.

Mrs. Georgc Winship* Mrs. Francis Daly Smith*

Mrs. Thomas Pinckney Waring* Mrs. Jack Cutts Smith

Mrs. Adam Leopold Alexander* Mrs. William Graham Ponder

Mrs. William Walter Douglas* Mrs. Archibald Lovett Morris

Mrs. Malcolm Roderick Maclean* Mrs. James Longstreet Sibley Jennings*

Miss Mary Wright Wayne* Mrs. Bernard Neeson Neal

Mrs. Charles Rembert Marshall* Mrs. William Lee Wood, Jr.

Mrs. George Cuthbert Heyward, Jr.* Mrs. Howard Jackson Morrison, Jr.

Mrs. Richard Willis Heard* Mrs. Bruce Farquhar Macrae

Mrs. Leo Jackson Allen* Miss Barbara Bunn Vereen

Mrs. Malcolm Nassau Fleming* Mrs. Elyea DuPree Carswell, Jr.

Mrs. Robert Joseph Carmichael* Mrs. Henry duBignon Howard

Mrs. Robert Vincent Martin, Jr.* Mrs. Pawling Schryvcr Steward

Mrs. William Jerome Vereen Mrs. Harlan McKinney Starr, .Ir.

Mrs. Allen Willis Daughtry* Mrs. Benjamin Alexander Oxnard, Jr.

Mrs. Shelby Myrick* Mrs. Hoyt Henry Whelchel, Jr.*

Mrs. William Leonard Erwin* Mrs. William Harbert Martin

Mrs. Homer Hecker Berger* Mrs. John Ely Simpson

Mrs. Joseph Elliott Bright* Mrs. Royce Augustine Hoyle

Mrs. M. Heyward Mingledorff* Mrs. William Bryan Hardegree, Jr.

Mrs. Edward Vason .Iones* Mrs. Gordon Burns Smith

Mrs. Albert Sidney Britt, Jr.* Mrs. William Stephen Bowen

Mrs. Lindsey Neill Bickerstaff* Mrs. Adams DeLeon Little, Jr.

Mrs. Waltcr Hartridge Strong* Mrs. James Tinsley Porter

Mrs. James Deny Burns* Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton

Mrs. Lonnie Dunlap Ferguson

Mrs. Francis Putney Wetherbee*

Mrs. Thomas Lyle Williams, Jr*

Mrs. Francis Willson Daily

Mrs. Julian Austin Space, Jr* * Deceased

To be named to the Roll of Honor by one's State Society is a distinct and special

honor given for service above and beyond the ordinary, for devotion and

outstanding leadership and for dedication to the ideals of the Colonial Dames. Each

of the names above has been engrossed on a parchment page in the beautiful dark

blue leather Roll of Honor book kept at our National Headquarters, Dumbarton

House. The Roll of Honor was started in 1941 as part of the Golden Jubilee

celebration. Because of World War II, the book was placed in the vault at

Dumbarton where it remained untouched until 1946.




GEORGIA DAMES PRESIDENTS

Mrs. William Washington Gordon, Jr. 1894-1899

Mrs. Joseph John Wilder 1899-1913

Mrs. William Langhorn Wilson 1913-1919

Mrs. Peter Wiltberger Meldrim 1919-1921

Mrs. William Washington Gordon, Jr. 1921-1923

Mrs. Clarence Gordon Anderson 1923-1929

Mrs. Craig Barrow 1929-1933

Mrs. Thomas Pinckney Waring 1933-1937

Mrs. Adam Leopold Alexander 1937-1939

Mrs. William Walter Douglas 1939-1941

Mrs. Shelby Myrick 1941-1944

Mrs. John Lottier Cabell 1944-1948

Mrs. Malcolm Roderick Maclean 1948-1951

Miss Mary Wright Wayne 1951-1957

Mrs. George Cuthbert Heyward, Jr. 1957-1961

Mrs. Robert Vincent Martin, Jr. 1961-1967

Mrs. Ralston Everett Mingledorff 1967-1971

Mrs. Albert Sidney Britt, Jr. 1971-1975

Mrs. Francis Willson Daily 1975-1981

Mrs. Hunter McGuire Clay 1981-1985

Mrs. Shelby Myrick, Jr. 1985-1989

Mrs. Archibald Lovett Morris 1989-1993

Mrs. Howard Jackson Morrison, Jr. 1993-1995

Mrs. Pawling Schryver Steward 1995-1999

Mrs. Benjamin Alexander Oxnard, Jr. 1999-2002

Miss Barbara Bunn Vereen 2002-2004

Mrs. Royce Augustine Hoyle 2004-2006

Mrs. Henry duBignon Howard 2006-2008

Mrs. Albert Carlyle Espy III 2009-2011




HISTORIAN’S REPORT 2009 – 2010

The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia sends greetings

to the National Officers and to the members of the State Societies. We acknowledge with

appreciation the reports and invitations received during the year.

With the outstanding leadership of Mrs. Albert Carlyle Espy, III, President of the Georgia

Society, the three main goals and objectives were met, and two were exceeded. The outgoing and

incoming members of the Board of Governors met in April 2009 at the Annual Meeting in

Macon. Members of the Executive Committee met in July at Lake Lanier and in January 2010 at

Henderson Village. The Board of Governors met at the Round Table in September at St. Simons

Island and in November and February in Savannah. The 115th Annual Meeting was held April

20-22 in Albany. Mrs. Albert Carlyle Espy, III continues serving as State President. Following

are the summaries of the annual reports presented or submitted in April.

PRESIDENT’S REPORT – 2010 (Mrs. Albert Carlyle Espy III)

Welcome to the 115th annual meeting of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of

America in the State of Georgia. During the past year, I have learned a lot about one of our most

distinguished members and I’d like to share some information on her.

This lady knew how to make a grand entrance. Shortly after she met her husband-to-be, he was

giving her a tour of the Yale campus where he was a student. They became separated in the Yale

library and, finding herself at the top of a grand stairway and spotting him at the foot, she hopped

on the banister and slid down just missing his arms, instead landing on his hat. It goes without

saying that “proper” young ladies in that era did not slide down banisters, but she did.

She had feet in both camps during the Civil War. Her husband was an officer in the Georgia

Hussars while her brothers served in the Union Army. Her uncle was the Union general in charge

at the fall of Fort Pulaski in Savannah in 1862. Surely this did not endear her to her Savannah

neighbors. She was a friend of Robert E. Lee and of William Tecumsah Sherman. She could

speak six foreign languages and could cuss fluently in all of those languages.

This is our very first president, Mrs. William Washington Gordon (Nelly Kinzie) who was

president from 1893-1899. Our first annual meeting with 44 members was held in her parlor in

1894. The parlor was redecorated in 1886 after a disastrous earthquake damaged the house and in

preparation for the marriage of her daughter, Juliette (better known as Daisy) to Mr. William

Mackey Low (better known as Willy), the son of our own Andrew Low. The second annual

meeting was also held in Nelly’s parlor. The third and fourth annual meetings were held in the

home of her daughter, Daisy, which we now call the Andrew Low House.

One has to wonder what Nelly Gordon would think of our annual meeting today. Would she be

horrified that we are not wearing hats and gloves? Probably not. I think she would be delighted

at the care that we have taken with the Andrew Low House and would probably be astonished to

see that we have 1500 members from every nook and cranny of the state of Georgia.




We began the year with three main goals and objectives:

To pay off our $192,000 line of credit to Mellon Bank within five years ($40,000 per

year)

To improve communications internally and externally

To study adding a new Town Committee

To pay off our line of credit for the restoration of the Andrew Low House, we resurrected our

Ways and Means Committee, headed by Deborah Bowen, and they have been unbelievably

productive. They came up with the idea of a Colonial Dames tie for all of our husbands to wear.

To date, we have sold about 149 ties. We also had a silent auction at our Round Table meeting in

St. Simons. Every member of the Executive Committee contributed an item to sell and this

project earned close to $4,500. We are repeating this event here in Albany with items donated by

the rest of the Board of Governors. Connoisseur Tours led 44 lucky Dames on a fabulous trip to

the Hudson River Valley and each participant contributed $200 towards the Andrew Low House.

Deryl Beadles headed up our Annual Giving Fund and we especially need to thank the Moultrie

Town Committee and the Board of Governors for their 100% participation in this Fund. We had

such a good year, that we paid off $45,000 of our debt rather than just the $40,000 we had

planned to do. Our line of credit now stands at $147,000.

To improve internal communications we now have three issues of Chatter during the year and

Leila Case has done a superb job keeping us informed and entertained. We set up our website,

www.nscdaga.org, designed to provide a frugal way of sharing very dull information, like

bylaws and procedure manuals and exciting things like pictures of our members. In late May,

you will receive in the mail a brand new notebook that looks like the old one, but it is in an 8.5 X

11 inch format. The new notebooks will arrive with a membership roster and tabs for you to print

out bylaws, procedure manual and all sorts of forms, including a fill-in-the-blank proposal form.

Would those of you who have access to the internet please share your expertise with those who

don’t. At this point, we are in the process of refurbishing the Andrew Low House website, so

stay tuned. For external communications, we had a lovely article in the January-February issue of

Southern Lady magazine. We also had a professional photograph taken of the Andrew Low

House to be used for rack cards and other advertising opportunities.

We investigated the idea of forming a new Town Committee in the Gainesville area and decided

that we don’t have enough members in the area at this time.

This has been a year of awards. In October we received a Historic Preservation Award from

Historic Savannah Foundation for the conservation work we have done on the Andrew Low

House. The Georgia Trust has just awarded us an Excellence in Preservation award and we have

just received a grant from the Garden Club of Georgia to help with the renovations to the garden.

This has been a year of publications. Ten years ago, the Waycross Town Committee decided that

a study of the Lott Cemetery, the oldest in the Waycross area, would be a great opportunity to

learn about many of the people who built and inhabited Waycross, Ware County and the

surrounding area. For ten years they have gathered pictures and descriptions of each grave

marker, recording names, dates and epitaphs, culminating in the book, Historic Lott Cemetery.





They also had the cemetery placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Madison

Town Committee funded the catalogue for The Many Faces of Madison: A History of Portrait

Painting in the Piedmont, an exhibit of historic portraits curated by the Madison-Morgan

Cultural Center as part of Madison’s Bicentennial Celebration. By the way, Waycross and

Madison are two of our smaller town committees, with 36 and 40 members respectively, and this

shows what even a small group can do! Finally, the Athens Town Committee has published

Dames for Dummies, important facts you should know about Colonial Dames.

Along the way, we have had a lot of fun. In September, the Macon Town Committee once again

hosted the Workshops for Historical Activities, Patriotic Service, and Gunston Hall Reps. There

was also a workshop for Orientation and one for Town Committee Treasurers. Although we will

be taking a one year break from the workshops this coming year, we will be inviting Historical

Activity and Patriotic Service reps to attend our Board meeting in November.

The Brunswick Town Committee entertained us royally at the Round Table on St. Simons Island.

The Americus Town Committee celebrated their 70th

anniversary by dressing in vintage attire;

Mrs. William Washington Gordon would have been right at home.

All of our town committees continue to work on Patriotic Service and Historical Activities and

you will hear more about them from our chairman of Patriotic Service and Historical Activities.

Atlanta and Marietta Dames presented Governor Sonny Perdue with a proclamation for Bill of

Rights Day.

The most famous visitor that we have had this past year was Robert Redford. He used the parlors

of the Andrew Low House for one day of filming a Civil War era story about the conspiracy to

murder President Lincoln. Although the filming was only for one day, that doesn’t begin to tell

the story of the work involved to make this happen. All the “smalls” needed to be packed up and

hidden away, furniture needed to be carefully moved, draperies taken down, light switches and

electrical outlets covered up and electrical fixtures replaced by candlesticks. Then, when the

filming was all over, we had to reverse the whole process. The filming brought us $10,000 which

we were able to use to repaint the dining room, butler’s pantry and library and to clean the

draperies and repair the venetian blinds. Once again, this sounds very simple but it involves

totally dismantling the rooms and putting them back together again. Our Furnishings Chairman,

Jane Mayo, and our Andrew Low House Chairman, Pat Zemurray, have really had a busy year.

In closing, it has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with so many talented Dames during the

past year! Thank you for giving me the opportunity.

REPORTS OF OFFICERS

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT AND ACCEPTABILITY (Mrs. Charles Waring Barrow) - As

First-vice chairman, I attended the Executive, Board, Round Table, finance and Andrew Low

House Committee meetings, and also served as Chairman of the Acceptability Committee.

At the September 2009 Round Table, held by the Brunswick Town Committee in St. Simons




Island, all Town Committee Chairmen were given Admission of Candidates packets, which

included the year’s schedule of the Acceptability Committee, information on admissions and

proposal blanks with specific examples to follow. I reminded the Town Chairman that the forms

were also available on line.

The State Acceptability Committee met February 10, 2010 at the Andrew Low House. Town

Committee Chairmen from Milledgeville, Moultrie, Rome, Savannah, and Thomasville reviewed

and approved the proposal forms which were presented to the Board of Governors the next day.

Sixty Three (63) were accepted as candidates for membership in NSCDA-Georgia by the Board

of Governors. A copy of these proposals was given to the Registrar and the Corresponding

Secretary.

RECORDING SECRETARY (Mrs. Benjamin Scott Rich) – All minutes of the Executive

Committee Meetings, the Finance Committee Meetings, the Board of Governors’ Meetings and

the Annual Meeting were transcribed and distributed in a timely manner. Corrections were made

to the permanent copies. Significant motions for 2009-2010 were updated.

Significant Motions:

9-23-2009 - The Elevator Fund has a balance of $790. Motion was made to move these

funds to the General Fund to help pay off the debt to Mellon for the handicapped

bathroom in the downstairs of the ALH. Motion approved Fin/Ex

The Conservation Account has a balance of $506. Motion was made to close the

Conservation Account and pay the balance to Mellon for the ALH debt. Motion

approved Fin/Ex

Approximately $36,000 has been raised by the Annual Giving Fund. Motion was made

to send the balance from the AGF to Mellon immediately. Motion approved Fin/Ex

Motion was made to present to the Board of Governors as a recommendation from the

Finance/Executive Committee that we accept $7500 for 1 day of filming at the ALH by

American Film Company for the movie “Conspirator”. Motion approved with 2

negative votes cast. Fin/Ex

9-24-2009 - The Recommendation of the Fin/Ex Committee concerning the filming at

the ALH was approved with a majority of those present voting in the affirmative. BOG

2-11-2010 - The following Standing Rules changes were approved by the Board of

Governors:

Contracts – Any contract involving more than $1,000 between the Georgia Society and

another business organization must have the approval of the Executive Committee before

being signed as effective. DELETE: Any such All contracts must be signed by the

President and the Treasurer, or by their authorized representatives.




Dues and Fees: Supplemental Line Fee = $50.00

The Registrar shall notify each DELETE: member candidate within ten days of

DELETE: her election final approval of her lineage papers and, at the same time, send

her a bill for Initiation fee, Registration fee, National Per Capita Tax and State dues, all

of which are paid to the Registrar. When payment is made, the Registrar shall DELETE:

send the certificate of membership to the new member issue the new member her

registration number, send her a certificate of membership and notify her Town

Chairman.

2-11-2010 - The Executive Committee recommends that the next Workshops be held in

September of 2011. The recommendation was approved by a vote of 23 for and 11

against with 8 abstentions. BOG

The Finance Committee recommends that funds from the 2010 AGF be used again for

debt reduction. Approved BOG

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY (Mrs. George Cornelius Clark) - The following

correspondence was prepared and handled for the Georgia Society (April 2009 to March 2010)

Sympathy Notes - 24 notes for 17 deaths

Invitations to become a Candidate for Membership - 63

Welcome Notes to Courtesy Members - 3

Acknowledgements & Notifications (77) for 41 gifts in

honor of, or in memory of, to the following funds:

The Andrew Low House - 7

ALH Endowment Fund - 4

ALH Augusta Room- 8

Friends of the Andrew Low House - 3

The Andrew Low House Garden - 1

The Annual Giving Fund - 18

Board of Governors Meeting Notices and Response Cards

(Past President, Roll of Honor, and Furnishings Committee members are invited to February and

November Board Meetings)

Round Table - 52

November - 64

February – 65

ROSTER SECRETARY (Mrs. Jerry Probst Nusloch) - On March 31, 2009 the Georgia Society

was composed of 1,487 members. Membership on March 3, 2010 was comprised of 1 Honorary

member, 63 Retired members and 1,503 Regular members. There are 25 Courtesy members.

TREASURER (Mrs. Henry Dana Stevens, IV) - Unaudited, year end March 31, 2010 financial

statements, including the Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Activities of All Funding




Sources and the Statement of Revenue and Expenses Budget vs. Actual were distributed at the

Annual Meeting in Albany.

On March 31, 2010, the unaudited total net assets of the Georgia Society were $1,467,643.33. It

is noted that this figure has not been adjusted for the town committee bank account reports that

are in transit. State controlled checking and savings accounts total $1,098,627.28, which

include an Endowment Fund of $868,731.66.

Current liabilities include credit card and payroll taxes payable and the Mellon Bank line of

credit, which is $146,927.34. The line of credit has been reduced over $100,000 in the past year.

Prior year audit reports are available at the Andrew Low House.

REGISTRAR (Mrs. Oscar Emerson Ham, Jr.) - This report covers the period 1 APRIL 2009 –

31 MARCH 2010.

NEW MEMBERS:

1. Battle, Mrs. Calvin William GA-4782 06/23/2009

2. Berry, Mrs. Emmett Reaves GA-4777 04/17/2009

3. Beutel, Mrs. Richard Armstrong GA-4801 09/24/2009

4. Blalock, Mrs. Andy Edwin GA-4786 09/28/2009

5. Boardman, Mrs. Braye Camden GA-4811 01/15/2010

6. Bost III, Mrs. William Lewis GA-4827 03/11/2010

7. Brock III, Mrs. Lethco Howard GA-4803 09/24/2009

8. Brown, Mrs. Robert Moore GA-4833 03/19/2010

9. Brown, Mrs. Owen Stuart GA-4789 09/24/2009

10. Byrd, Mrs. Dwight Edwin GA-4792 09/24/2009

11. Calhoun, Jr., Mrs. Jesse Paul GA-4790 09/24/2009

12. Cann, Jr., Mrs. James Ferris GA-4812 01/15/2010

13. Claypool IV, Mrs. John Rowan GA-4809 12/07/2009

14. Conger, Jr., Mrs. Preston DeWitt GA-4788 09/24/2009

15. Cordell, Jr., Mrs. Howard Lindsey GA-4774 04/09/2009

16. Crawford, Mrs. Keith GA-4832 03/19/2010

17. Culver, Mrs. Edwin Haupt GA-4800 09/24/2009

18. Deal, Jr., Mrs. James Derrell GA-4773 04/09/2009

19. Deavours, Ms. Deanne GA-4780 05/13/2009

20. Dollar, Mrs. Terry Baxter GA-4825 03/02/2010

21. Dowd, Jr., Mrs. Arthur Stedman GA-4795 09/24/2009

22. Duggan, Mrs. Carlton Stanley GA-4779 05/01/2009

23. Elder, Mrs. Michael John GA-4836 03/30/2010

24. Flowers, Mrs. Robert Walker GA-4808 12/07/2009

25. Followill, Mrs. Thomas Council GA-4804 11/10/2009

26. Francis IV, Mrs. Elias Lee GA-4821 02/19/2010

27. Gill, Mrs. John Paul GA-4805 11/14/2009

28. Hanger, IV, Mrs. James Edward GA-4820 02/19/2010

29. Hendricks, Mrs. Nathan VanMeter GA-4822 02/26/2010




30. Houseman, Miss Laura Ashley GA-4781 05/21/2009

31. Ingram III, Mrs. George Conley GA-4815 01/27/2010

32. Johnson, Mrs. Mark David GA-4814 01/09/2010

33. Kelly, Ms. Kappy Stewart GA-4793 09/24/2009

34. Kinslow, Mrs. Melvin Tyner GA-4797 09/24/2009

35. Klein, Mrs. Christopher Evans GA-4813 01/09/2010

36. Langdale III, Mrs. William Pope GA-4776 04/16/2009

37. Long, Mrs. Guy Hewell GA-4775 04/14/2009

38. McGrew, Mrs. Raymond Maxwell GA-4818 02/17/2010

39. Netzinger, Mrs. Jeffrey Kirk GA-4798 01/02/2010

40. Nichols, Mrs. Paul Stellgis GA-4829 03/19/2010

41. Odegard, Mrs. Derek Michael GA-4806 12/07/2009

42. Offen, Mrs. Scott Winfield GA-4794 09/24/2009

43. Redkevitch, Mrs. Zenon GA-4799 01/02/2010

44. Schroder, Mrs. Michael Hilliard GA-4823 03/01/2010

45. Simmerson, Mrs. Charles Marion GA-4828 03/11/2010

46. Steedman, Mrs. Arthur Hutchinson GA-4778 04/17/2009

47. Stubbs, Mrs. William Michael GA-4802 09/24/2009

48. Sullivan, Mrs. Thomas Lackland GA-4807 12/07/2009

49. Taylor, Mrs. Donald Reamey GA-4824 03/01/2010

50. Thomas, Mrs. Burton Acker GA-4791 09/24/2009

51. Thompson, Mrs. Robert LeGrande GA-4834 03/29/2010

52. Townsley, Mrs. Peter Alan GA-4772 04/09/2009

53. Victor III, Mrs. Jules GA-4783 08/20/2009

54. Waller, Ms. Kathryn Johnson GA-4835 03/29/2010

55. Wheeler, Mrs. Jane Bradley GA-4796 09/24/2009

56. Whiddon, Jr, Mrs. Alton Jeffferson GA-4831 03/19/2010

57. Wilkin, Jr., Mrs. Robert Eager GA-4784 08/31/2009

REINSTATEMENTS:

TRANSFERS IN:

1. Bain, Mrs. Barrett Feighner GA-2239 12/21/2009

2. Lindgren, Mrs. Robert Jones GA-4826 03/10/2010

3. Muse, Mrs. Edward Bruce GA-4810 VA-6639A 1/15/2010

4. Pridgeon, Mrs. John Mark GA-4830 03/19/2010

5. Waller, Ms. Marsena Loring GA-4785 09/03/2009

6. Wilkinson, Jr, Mrs. Hugh Miller GA-4819 02/19/2010

TRANSFERS OUT:

1. Brand, Mrs. Robert Andrew GA-4761 03/10/2010

2. Dowd, Jr., Mrs. Arthur Stedman GA-4795 02/18/2010

3. Dupuy, Mrs. Benjamin Arnold GA-4735 04/24/2009

4. Jennings, Mrs. Horace Smith GA-4428 03/31/2010

5. Laws, Mrs. Robert Eugene GA-4013 TX-1878 1/9/2010




RESIGNATIONS:

1. Barfield, Mrs. Gary Douglas GA-4268 05/22/2009

2. Barrett, Mrs. William Hale GA-1660 01/26/2010

3. Bowers, Ms. Effie Campbell GA-2430 03/01/2010

4. Cleesattle, Mrs. Donald Alfred GA-2453 08/10/2009

5. DeLong, Mrs. Richard Franklin GA-4171 11/16/2009

6. Frickel, Mrs. Peter George GA-2699 12/30/2009

7. Gongaware, Mrs. Robert David GA-3065 05/22/2009

8. Hartman III, Mrs. John Blair GA-4355 AL-1819 3/1/2010

9. King, Jr., Mrs. Joe Tom GA-2213 03/31/2010

10. Lamb, Mrs. Donald Wayne GA-2611 03/10/2010

11. Larsen, Mrs. John Allen GA-4093 11/13/2009

12. Muse, Miss Wilma Tucker GA-2037 03/31/2010

13. Ogie, Mrs. William Michael GA-3011 03/01/2010

14. Parker, Miss Helen Claudia GA-2589 03/17/2010

15. Porter, Ms. Laura Passailaigue GA-4225 03/01/2010

16. Saling, Jr., Mrs. William Leonard GA-2698 08/06/2009

17. White, Mrs. Louise Logan Barfield GA-2286 03/15/2010

18. Winship, Mrs. Blanton Cortelyou GA-3033 10/16/2009

DEATHS:

1. Abrams, Mrs. Jean Beutell GA-2071 06/19/2009

2. Acuff, Sr., Mrs. Edward Blackburn GA-1949 01/29/2010

3. Bearden, Mrs. George Nolan GA-3068 11/11/2009

4. Carswell, Jr., Mrs. James Joseph GA-2597 08/18/2009

5. Davis, Jr., Mrs. Felton GA-3001 06/29/2009

6. Haskell, Mrs. Benjamin Guion GA-1620 12/30/2009

7. Hicks, Mrs. Charles Roby GA-2282 02/07/2010

8. Hill, Mrs. Raymond Dunlap GA-1764 06/14/2009

9. Izlar III, Mrs. William Henry GA-4445 08/29/2009

10. Lott, Miss Aileen Williams GA-2896 10/22/2009

11. MacGregor, Mrs. Gordon Morris GA-2144 07/10/2009

12. Maner, Jr., Mrs. Edwin Napoleon GA-2618 05/04/2009

13. Mason, Sr., Mrs. William Minor GA-1813 04/25/2009

14. Mayo, Mrs. Frank McGee GA-1566 12/11/2009

15. McCullough, Mrs. David Nymrod GA-4102 12/12/2009

16. Murphey, Mrs. Lee Boswell GA-4482 02/24/2010

17. Napier, Mrs. Joseph Hamilton GA-1468 04/13/2009

18. Shepherd, Mrs. Bailey Alexander GA-2068 08/04/2009

19. Smith, Mrs. Edward Devereux GA-1657 06/19/2009

20. Tunnell II, Mrs. Spencer GA-4422 02/27/2010

DROPPED:

1. GA-1661

2. GA-2753

3. GA-4245




4. GA-2745

5. GA-4685

6. GA-1844

SUPPLEMENTAL LINES (16):

2750 Mrs. Justin Marshall Nicholson (Virginia Adelaide Carswell), Seventh in descent from Jeremiah Glenn (c1809) of Virginia

Eighth in descent from Henry Blagrave (c.1715-1781) of Virginia

4071 Mrs. Larry Callaway Williams (Yeardley Eustis Smith), Sixth in descent from Isaac Smith (1734-1813) of Northampton, VA

4291 Mrs. Charles Lovell George (Patricia Withers Wilson): Eleventh in descent from Thomas Batte (c.1634-1690) of Henrico, VA

Twelfth in descent from Frances Eppes (1690-1759) of Prince George Co., VA

Eleventh in descent from John Stith (1638-1694) of Charles City Co., VA

Eleventh in descent from Lancelot Bathurst (1646-1705) of New Kent Co., VA

Eleventh in descent from Major Peter Jones (c1657- c1687) of Charles City Co., VA

2337 Mrs. Richard Tillman Jones (Sally Cook Fokes): Ninth in descent from John Lewis of

VA, Eighth in descent from Thomas Lewis of VA

2712 Mrs. Frederick Erskine Link (Lucy Lewis Fokes): Ninth in descent from John Lewis

of VA, Eighth in descent from Thomas Lewis of VA

4726 Mrs. Cary Jay Willis (Catherine Grace Aderhold): Ninth in descent from John Lewis

of VA, Eighth in descent from Thomas Lewis of VA

2525 Mrs. John Elligton Godard (Mildred Pennington Fokes): Ninth in descent from John

Lewis of VA, Eighth in descent from Thomas Lewis of VA

TOTAL: MEMBERSHIP: 4/1/2009 1489

+ 57 New

+ 0 Reinstatements

+ 6 Transfers In

- 5 Transfers Out

- 18 Resignations

- 20 Deaths

- 6 Dropped

MEMBERSHIP: 4/1/2010 1503

ASSISTANT REGISTRAR (Mrs. Clifton Maurice Culberson, Jr.) - On April 1, 2009, fifty-five

(55) welcoming letters with enclosures were mailed to the 2009 candidates. The candidates were

mailed the name of their Verifying Genealogist and Blue Worksheets with instructions for

completion. Candidates were sent a list of professional genealogists, request form for a relative’s

lineage papers, candidate’s check sheet, the Candidate’s Timetable and an enclosure entitled,

“What are Your Responsibilities as a Dame”.

Twelve (12) lineage papers were read and approved.




STATE PARLIAMENTARIAN (Miss Barbara Bunn Vereen) – I attended all meetings required

or called. No significant disputes arose to decipher or mediate. The Town Committee Chairmen

have been asked to update and republish their Standing Rules and to send me a copy of these

updates. Many of the Town Chairmen have called me to verify that their rules are not

contradictory to the State or National Rules. Hopefully this updating will be complete by the end

of this next year.

ANDREW LOW HOUSE ENDOWMENT FUND (Mrs. Richard Dudley Williams) - The

Andrew Low House Endowment Committee met twice in the past year. Hong Tsun Simon, our

BNY Mellon account executive, met with us in April and in November. We had a much better

year than in 2008-2009. Assets on date April 17, 2009 were $708,710 with an estimated income

of $20,164 and a 2.8% return. Assets as of April 19, 2010, were $884, 825 with an estimated

income of $21,353 and a 2.4% return. We still have a 60% Equity and 40% Fixed Income basic

composition for our investments. Our annualized return is 3.06% which lagged the S & P’s

return of 3.52%. This was mainly because we kept a good bit of cash for a while last year trying

to see where the market was going. Mrs. Simon said this was their fault, but they were being

very conservative with our portfolio. Mellon has recently added some investment in International

and Emerging Markets investments to help our yield. They are still keeping us in a very

conservative allocation. Our loan with Mellon was paid down $100,072.66 this past year with

which they are very pleased. Our loan balance is now $146,927.34.

HISTORIAN (Mrs. Vernon Nathaniel Hansford) – Annual reports of officers and committee

chairmen were received, compiled and distributed on line in the Historian’s Report. A larger

format for the Roster and binder was printed and sent to all society members.

GENEALOGISTS FOR ANCESTRAL LINES (Mrs. Bennett Howard Daniel; Mrs. Lawrence

Daniel Devoe; Mrs. Frank Owen Evans, Jr; Mrs. Archibald L. Griffin; Mrs. John Price Reehling;

Mrs. Revenal E. Winge) – Forty-one (41) papers have been read and approved.

GENEALOGISTS FOR SUPPLEMENTAL LINES (Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton) –

Fourteen (14) Supplemental Lines have been read and approved this year.

HOSPITALITY (Mrs. Jerry Probst Nusloch, Chairman: Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton, Co-

Chairman) - The Hospitality Committee is responsible for making lodging arrangements,

securing the best possible hotel rates, and for making dinner plans and reservations for the

evening meal prior to the Board of Governors Meetings.

All arrangements have been made for the Executive Committee to meet again at Legacy Lodge,

Lake Lanier, July 21-22, 2010.

This year we successfully negotiated a lower room rate at the Desoto Hilton Hotel. This rate is

guaranteed through 2011.




We planned a lovely dinner at The Chatham Club in November following the annual Friends

Reception. In February, we enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and dinner at Soho. Approximately sixty

Board Members and guests attended each dinner.

CHAIRMEN OF NATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES REPORTS

HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES (Mrs. Kendrick Ware Mattox, Jr.) - This has been a very

productive year for Historical Activities. We started the year with our annual workshop in

Macon. It was very well attended. Each of the seventeen Town Committees was represented

plus one Town Chairman came. It was a great workshop in that we all shared with one another

what projects were being done. This was especially helpful for the ladies who were new to this

position.

The national projects are still a large part of what we are about. The Ancestor Bibliography

Register (ABR) was begun in Florida as a state project in 1997 and became a national project in

2000. The purpose of this is to create a public central listing of published resources by and about

our colonial ancestors and their descendants. The Brunswick Town Committee has just

completed two forms; The Madison Town Committee is going to have a workshop to complete

their forms; the Thomasville Town Committee is working toward 100% completion; the

Waycross Town Committee, with the help of Julie Tomlinson, has completed twenty-nine

forms. These completed forms are then sent to Nancy Parrott, our state consultant, who in turn

sends them to our national consultant.

Inventories of American Paintings executed by artists born before 1914 and sculpture is another

of our national projects. The purpose of this is to discover as many historically “lost” works as

possible and return them to record alongside their comprehensive National Index of American

art. This project is in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. The

Madison Town Committee has submitted thirty-three forms of paintings and one form for a

sculpture. These forms have all been sent to the Smithsonian Institute.

Oral history is another one of our national projects. The purpose of this is to document the

original and authentic details of family and community life, thus reconstructing the social fabric

and folklore of the past. Also, it seeks to record current events for future recall. The Augusta

Town Committee in conjunction with Historic Augusta has just produced a video on Woodrow

Wilson, an Augusta resident during his childhood. The Brunswick Town Committee has just

completed four such videos of some of their elderly and Roll of Honor members; the Waycross

Town Committee has also made a DVD of the celebration and tour that was held in their historic

Lott Cemetery. The Savannah Town Committee partnered with the Georgia Women of

Achievement to produce and present a video about the life of Nina Anderson Pape. Ms. Pape

started the Pape School, which later became the Savannah Country Day School. She also worked

with her cousin Julliette Gordon Low to establish the Girl Scouts of America.




The care of cemeteries continues to be a popular project for many of the town committees. The

Athens Town Committee has just completed the Flagpole Plaza at the historic Oconee Hill

Cemetery and a bronze plaque mounted on granite has been erected. The Atlanta Town

Committee is very involved with the clean-up of the historic Oakland Cemetery. It was badly

damaged in a tornado that struck in March 2008; the Rome Town Committee received a state

grant which they matched and have just given to the Myrtle Hill Cemetery for the Sexton House;

the Augusta Town Committee along with Historic Augusta sponsored and participated in a

presentation “Walking with the Spirits” which was held in Magnolia Cemetery celebrating the

memory of Historic Augustinians; the Waycross Town Committee has published a book about

their historic Lott Cemetery, for which they received a state grant, and a plaque has been placed

at the entrance denoting that it is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Rome Town Committee is working on the permanent placement of a statue of Admiral John

Towers, the Father of Aviation, who was born in Rome.

The Marietta Town Committee is working hard to update their town committee history.

All of our seventeen town committees are very active in their communities. All are doing their

part to keep the history of our great nation alive.

And now our state grants. This program was started in 2000 and since that time we have awarded

$63,750.00. It is a wonderful program in that the town committee requesting a grant has to match

the request, insuring they will put their all into their project. This year we have had four

applications for grants. I am pleased to say they have all been awarded.

Americus Town Committee for:

The Drummer Boy Civil War Museum

$1,500

Augusta Town Committee for:

The History of Woodrow Wilson:

America and the British Isles

$1,500

Columbus Town Committee for:

National Infantry Museum Summer Camp

$1,500

Milledgeville Town Committee for:

Child’s Room at the Brown-Stetson-Sanford House

$1,000

That makes a total of $5,500 which brings the total amount we have given away to $69,250. A

lot of wonderful and worthwhile things have been accomplished with that money.




The workshop has been postponed until September 2011. However, the Town Committee

Historical Activities reps will meet in Savannah during the November Board of Governors’

Meeting.

PATRIOTIC SERVICE (Mrs. Walter Thomas Moody, lll) - The Georgia Patriotic Service

Representatives have had a busy year. They have participated in all areas of this committee, with

the most emphasis on the Congressional Essay Contest and Service to the Military.

American History and Preservation Scholarships

Mrs. James Pressley of Marietta reports that with the combined efforts of The Georgia Trust for

Historic Preservation and The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia, two winners

of The Colonial Dames History and Historic Preservation Scholarships have been named.

They are:

History

Raffi Andonian, who is a graduate student at the University of Georgia, is pursuing a Masters in

History, Nonprofit Organizations and Historic Preservation. Raffi has worked on Historical

Interpretative programs for the National Park Service at both Gettysburg and Richmond National

Parks. He also had an internship at Bednar State College in PA and was the editor of “Georgia

Landscape”. He is a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of History at UGA.

Historic Preservation

Joy Melton will receive her Masters in Historic Preservation from Georgia State in May of 2011.

She was chosen to be the Tuskegee Institute’s Architectural Student of the Year. Joy is presently

serving as an intern at the Historic Preservation division of the Georgia Dept. of Natural

Resources. At present, she is primarily interested in preservation and restoration of schools and

churches in Georgia.

Congressional Essay Contest

Mrs. Paul Hutchinson, Jr. announced that six Town Committees participated in the Essay

contest: Albany, Americus, Columbus, Milledgeville, Savannah and Waycross. There were 17

schools contacted and 121 essays were written. We even had an independent entry from

information gotten from our web site. The three (3) State winners have been announced and one

Dames Scholar:

1. Zachariah Wagner, Waycross, GA., Waycross Town Committee

2. Heather Houston, Leesburg, GA., Albany Town Committee

3. Davidson Goldsmith, Albany, GA., Albany Town Committee

4. Thomas Hulme, Savannah, GA., Savannah Town Committee, Dames Scholar

American Indian Nurse Scholarship Fund From each representative reporting, we had fourteen (14) contributors to the American Indian

Nurse Scholarship Fund. They are: Albany, Americus, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus,

Macon, Madison, Marietta, Milledgeville, Moultrie, Rome, Thomasville, and Waycross. The

total contribution is $2,265.00.




Flag Program

There are seven (7) Town Committees that have responded to the National Flag Foundations gift

of the VHS Flag Videos. Because of this, Americus, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Macon,

Milledgeville and Waycross have been involved with either the Young Patriot or the Parade of

Flags project, and are seeing that their schools and libraries have copies. Athens had a Red,

White and Blue luncheon, celebrating Flag month. All their members received information on

the proper respect for our flag. This information was also sent to the editors of the Athens Banner

Herald. Waycoss continues with collecting old worn flags and then delivering them to the DAV

for proper disposal. I think this is a worthy project for each Town Committee.

Citizenship and Service to Military

Every Town Committee in Georgia participated in this program. Savannah and Brunswick are

involved in the Naturalization Ceremonies. They with others are “the welcoming committee” for

new citizens of our country. These ceremonies are quite moving and not to be missed, if you

have an opportunity to attend one.

Each Town Committee has some program to remember and honor our Veterans and Servicemen.

All sorts of gift boxes, stuffed socks and stockings, and reading materials have been gathered and

either sent overseas or taken to our Veterans hospitals. There are some Town Committees who

have a new way of doing some things. Athens joined with a local carwash to collect items for

our troops, and through this joint effort they collected 400 lbs. Macon found out they can send

twice as many boxes, because they had the USO pack and mail them. Augusta is unique as it

has the only Active Duty Rehabilitation Unit located with a Veterans Administration facility.

The Augusta Dames have gotten school children interested in this Rehab Unit and each month

artwork and cards of encouragement are sent to the wounded soldiers. The Dames are also

involved in Fisher House, which provides a place for families of wounded warriors to stay.

On Veterans Day, a wreath was placed on the Tomb of the Known Soldier at Myrtle Hill

Cemetery. This is an annual project for the Rome Town Committee. The students at Darlington

School in Rome used their My Place Project in connection to Service to the Military. They

painted cigar boxes to send the soldiers so they could keep all their letters and cards, and in

addition, they collected Beanie Babies and other small stuffed animals for the troops to distribute

among the Afghan children.

“My Place”

“My Place” is a project for elementary school children in grades four through six promoting

patriotism through a creative outlet. Mrs. Bruce Lee Case, My Place chairman, reports there

were four (4) entries this year and they are judged by a group outside of the Dames on creativity,

originality and adherence to theme.

First Place: ($400.00) Brown Elementary School, Smyrna, GA., submitted by Marietta Town

Committee.

Second Place: ($300.00) Darlington Middle School, Rome, GA., submitted by Rome Town

Committee

Third Place: ($200.00) St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Macon, GA., submitted by Macon Town

Committee

Fourth Place: Hull-Sanford Elementary School, Hull, GA., submitted by Athens Town

Committee




Macon Workshop

We had a well attended and highly productive Workshop in Macon in September. Fifteen (15)

Town Committees were represented in the Patriotic Service Workshop. There will be no

Workshop this year, but instead, each Patriotic Service Representative will be invited to

Savannah for the November Board Meeting and we will have a short organizational meeting

while you are there.

WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE (Mrs. William Stephen Bowen, Jr.) - Because of one

of the goals of the 2008 Five-Year Planning Committee and the direction of the State President,

the State Ways and Means Committee was reactivated in April of 2009. Great progress has been

made this year. Accolades go to the Ways and Means Committee for their time, expertise, hard

work, and dedication.

Georgia Society Tie

The creation of the official Georgia Society men’s necktie, a product that was developed from

idea to market, began in the summer of 2009. The vendor, Brown and Church was chosen, and

afterwards the design, colors, and packaging were decided upon. The tie was introduced at the

Round Table in St. Simons Island with the delivery of ties in late October. Ties were sold at the

Region III Meeting in Wilmington, N.C. and at all Board of Governors’ meetings during the

year.

I am very proud to announce that the men’s necktie as of April the first has made a profit of

$3,101.44. We have paid $6,128.62 for all expenses and have sold 149 ties. Since all expenses

of the tie have been paid, the remaining tie monies will be clear profit for the Dames. After the

entire stock of 299 has been sold, approximately $12,000.00 should be realized.

The Society has definitely arrived in high tech style when the first membership blast email ad for

a Valentine tie was sent to 962 Dames’ email addresses. Also, a tie email ad was sent to

encourage Easter sales.

A photograph with necktie information and order form is spotlighted on the NSCDA–GA

website (www.nscdaga.org - click on Museum Store). Dames Dispatch, our national newsletter,

will include a tie article in the spring issue. In the very near future, the general necktie

information will be printed on the NSCDA national website under the heading of “Recent

News”.

A special thank you goes to Janet Barrow, Marcia Cook, and Laura Reid for their guidance and

support on this huge project!!!

Silent Auction

This past July at the summer Executive Committee Meeting, the decision was made that Ways

and Means Committee would spear-head a silent auction at the 2009 Round Table. Lillian

Gantsoudes became the chairman and her year-end report is as follows: For the trial run, the

executive committee of the Georgia Board of Governors was asked to donate the auction items

and the goal was to raise $2,000. All sixteen members of the Executive Committee

overwhelmingly supported the silent auction with 100% participation. Through their generosity,

more than 50 items were donated. The items included weekends at the beach and mountain

cottages, glass and pottery decorative accessories, food baskets, jewelry and scarves, plants and

lots of beautiful handmade items. The handmade items which included evening purses,





needlepoint, and hand knit items, sold the fastest. The bidding was short and brisk bringing in

approximately $4,250.

Due to the success of this auction, the Ways and Means Committee, with Lillian again as the

chair is planning another auction during the Annual Meeting in Albany. This time, the seventeen

town committees will donate items to help raise funds for our society.

Annual Giving Fund (AGF)

An Annual Giving Fund (AGF) was established under the guidance of Deryl Beadles. She

reports the following activity occurred during the 2009-2010 Annual Giving Fund appeal.

For the second year an appeal letter was written, approved and sent with the state’s

annual dues statement to approximately 1,493 members. The combining of these two

letters in mailing saves the society $641.99 in postage.

23.8% of the membership (355 donors) contributed $44,471.00 toward the reduction of

the debt of the Andrew Low House renovation. The results of the recent two appeals

raised close to $100,000 leaving a balance of $159,000 owed to the Bank of New York

Mellon.

141 hand-written thank you notes were sent to members who gave $100 or more.

In appreciation of the Board of Governors’ 100% participation to the AGF, individual

“treat” bags of homemade cookies were given out at the November meeting.

In acknowledgment and appreciation of the Moultrie Town Committee’s 100%

participation to the AGF for the second consecutive year, the members were invited to be

Deryl’s guests at a special February luncheon in her home.

An AGF update was written for the 2009 summer issue and a half-page ad was placed in

the winter 2010 issue of Chatter.

Reports were made to the Board of Governors at appropriate times.

ALH Endowment Connie Williams, Chairman of the Endowment Committee and other giving which includes

deferred giving, bequests, stocks, and gifts of life insurance continues her research on other gift

giving ideas.

As of February 2010, the Endowment Account balance was $808,760 with an estimated income

for the year of $21,284. Year to date, the account is up 12%. The current balance on the line of

credit at Mellon is $156,927.34. Connie will update the endowment information in her April

Annual Report.

Chatter

Many thanks go to Mrs. Bruce Case (Leila), Chatter Editor, for consistently making sure that in

each issue the Ways and Means Committee projects were represented. In the fall issue of

Chatter, the new necktie was highlighted. More user-friendly forms have been created for the

Cemetery Markers and for the Memorial and In Honor gifts which also have been printed in

Chatter. A list of Memorials and In Honor gifts was published this year as well as the

contributors for the Annual Giving Fund (AGF). Many items from the Andrew Low House Gift

Shop have been focused on with photos and information. During the year, many articles written

by Ways and Means Chairmen have been featured in Chatter.




Georgia Society Scarf

The first meeting of the Ways and Means Scarf Committee was held after the February Board of

Governors Meeting at the Andrew Low House. We will be looking for some months at vendors,

manufacturers, and artists. The next step will be deciding on a design, colors, size, packaging,

marketing, and etc. The Scarf Committee will meet again on April 9, 2010 at the ALH in

Savannah.

Summary

In summary, Ways and Means reports were given at the Board of Governors Meeting at the

Round Table in St. Simons Island and at the Savannah November and February meetings. To

keep the W&M Committee informed, emails were sent and a general meeting was held on

February 11 in Savannah.

REPORTS OF REPRESENTATIVES TO BOARDS OF NATIONAL HISTORIC

PROPERTIES LADY OF DUMBARTON HOUSE BOARD (Mrs. William Bryan Hardegree, Jr.) –

Dumbarton House was an exciting place to be in 2009. Plans for an Herb Garden in our East

Park were begun including medicinal, culinary and aromatic herbs and used in Federal Period

Washington. The Fran, Have You Supplied the Table? Foods, Service, Etiquette in the Federal

Era exhibition highlighted many rarely seen artifacts in our Collection. A number of Collection

acquisitions were made, through purchase and gift this year including significant Nourse family

artifacts such as a sack-back Windsor chair, the original sketch for the “Quaker Farmer Chinese

export porcelain, a mahogany clothes press, a pier mirror and an American pine shipping crate.

As Georgia Lady of the Dumbarton House Board, I attended the Annual Meeting in Washington

in September 2009. I gave oral reports at State Board meetings and have kept Town Committee

representatives informed through reports for their meetings. I mailed solicitation letters mailed to

Georgia Dames in early January, encouraging each member to contribute to the Dumbarton

House Friends Fund. We all need to be reminded that this is “Our House” our National

Headquarters and each gift helps make possible the incredible programs at our house each year.

REGENT OF GUNSTON HALL (Mrs. Phillip Jewett Markert) - The highlight of the year was

the opportunity for The Georgia Society to gain a second representative on the Board of Regents

of Gunston Hall Plantation. Beginning in October of 2009, Gena Tarbutton, Mrs. Hugh

McMaster Tarbutton, became a Regent-at-Large. I am so pleased to have her expert support!

Gena will attend the October and April Regent meetings in Virginia with me and will assist with

the Town Committee Representatives in Georgia.

In September, the Gunston Hall Workshop was held in Macon and thirteen people attended.

Representatives from Albany, Americus, Athens, Atlanta, Columbus, Macon, Rome, Savannah,

Valdosta, and Waycross joined me, Gena Tarbutton and Former Regent Elizabeth Neal to share

ways to communicate the importance of Gunston Hall and George Mason.




As author of America’s first Bill of Rights, recognition of George Mason’s contribution to our

country is an annual focus of Town Committee Representatives. In December, Atlanta Gunston

Hall Representatives, Betty Hall and Jean Lyon, along with Atlanta Town Committee Chairman,

Marian Nolan and I were honored to meet with Governor Sonny Perdue at the State Capitol and

obtain a proclamation declaring December 15th,

Bill of Rights Day. A photo of the event

appeared in the Atlanta Journal’s Northside Neighbor newspaper.

A picture of the Mayor of Waycross signing a proclamation included local Town Committee

members, Gay Darden, Rai Duane and Kaye Pendley, and appeared in the Waycross Journal-

Herald. Representatives submitted or encouraged other newspaper articles about Bill of Right’s

Day and they appeared in the Americus Times Recorder, Americus’ Sumpter News, the

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, and the Thomasville-Times Enterprise.

Poster displays on Gunston Hall and George Mason, prepared by representatives, were set up

around Bill of Rights Day in the Moultrie Library, the Rome/Floyd County Regional Library, the

SunTrust Bank in downtown Rome, a fifth grade classroom in Albany’s Deerfield Windsor

school, the Lake Blackshear Regional Library near Americus and Atlanta’s Vinings Branch of

the Cobb County Library. In Albany and Savannah, Gunston Hall representatives spoke to 5th

grade students about George Mason and presented them with flags and copies of the Bill of

Rights.

Savannah and Americus Town Committee representatives passed the Mason jar to collect

contributions by Town Committee members and in Madison a Gunston Hall scarf was auctioned.

All representatives reminded Town Committee members to fly their flags on December 15th

and

encouraged them to become Friends of Gunston Hall.

ASSOCIATE TRUSTEE, FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR (Mrs. Marvin Sparks

Singletary) - Sulgrave Manor is the ancestral home of George Washington. It is the first house

museum of the Colonial Dames. Our history of financial support and our shared history of

Sulgrave Manor and its descendants dates from 1921, when The National Society of The

Colonial Dames of America adopted the perpetual “maintenance and preservation” of the Manor

as their first “national” project. What a privilege we have to continue financially supporting this

invaluable part of our history.

Sulgrave Day will be on May 30, 2010. The celebration will begin with a service at The Church

of St. James the Less, Sulgrave. The Washington’s coat of arms is on display there, crafted out

of Elizabethan stained glass. A tour of Sulgrave Manor will follow along with a celebratory

lunch. Four trips have been planned around Sulgrave Day to enhance each visitor’s experience.

In September 2009 correspondence was sent to all Sulgrave Representatives and Town

Committee Chairmen detailing the trips planned around Sulgrave Day. Four educational and

enjoyable trips were arranged. There was an enthusiastic response to the trips. The first trip,

Venice and the Dalmatian Coast will be a 10-day trip with seven days aboard a new yacht sailing




through beautiful, historic Europe from May 18–27. The next trip, Sulgrave Interlude—

“Glorious Gardens”, is from May 27–31, and includes an exclusive private visit to HRH, the

Prince of Wales garden at Highgrove. The third trip, England’s Enchanting Countryside, will

visit the birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stonehenge, and many other places of interest with

the chance to enjoy spectacular scenery along the way from May 31, through June 7. The final

trip planned, A New Exploration of Ireland—Tour of Ulster America, will take guests to natural

wonders, inspiring and ancient sites and visit castles and cottages from May 31, through June 8.

In February 2010 letters were mailed to the homes of each of the 1538 members of The National

Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Georgia. The letter reminded us of the great historical

value of Sulgrave Manor and our privilege to continue to support the perpetual “maintenance and

preservation” of the Manor as our first “national” project. What a tremendous response there

was to that appeal. Over $5000.00 was donated to this very worthy cause by Georgia Dames.

We eagerly look forward to the completion of the documentary The Washingtons of Sulgrave

Manor. It will highlight the Washington family and their life in England.

REPORTS OF CHAIRMEN OF GEORGIA STANDING COMMITTEES

ANDREW LOW HOUSE (Mrs. Samuel Zemurray, III) - The Georgia Society was honored

twice in the past year for outstanding preservation work accomplished during our Andrew Low

House Conservation Project.

The Historic Savannah Foundation presented us an award In Grateful Recognition of

Outstanding Accomplishment in Preservation and Protection of Savannah’s Distinctive

Heritage, also recognizing our restoration architect, Kenneth Spriggs, and project contractor, J.T.

Turner Construction.

The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation followed suit two weeks ago when it presented us its

“Award for Excellence in Preservation” at its annual meeting and “Ramble” in Rome, Georgia.

Louise and Harry Howard and Ken Spriggs were there to receive the honors.

With the Conservation Project completed, the ALH Committee focused on the garden. Plantings

had been lost when the rear wall in the courtyard was rebuilt for safety reasons. Shrubs were

showing the wear-and-tear of a year of construction.

Through the generosity of the Friends of the ALH chaired by Judy Bradley, we engaged the

Southern garden historian and landscape architect, Jim Cothran, of Robert & Company of

Atlanta. His task: to develop a historic landscapes plan using plants and planting schemes

appropriate to the ante-bellum South and the period and history of the house. This was especially

important in the front garden, one of the few original garden plans still existing in Savannah and

in Georgia, and, as Jim pointed out, the only one he has ever seen with its unique hourglass

design. Jim and his staff conducted months of research, reviewing our files at headquarters and

our archives at the Georgia Historical Society. They surveyed the papers of the noted Savannah

garden historian Clermont Lee, and visited the original garden at the Battersby-Hartridge House,




across Charlton Street. In late December, we received a 30-page document detailing the history

of the ALH garden and recommendations for further interpretation.

Under the direction of Garden Chairmen Holly Symmes Montford and Caroline Nusloch, our

gardener, George Wilson, has planted four Sago Palms in the front beds. By the moats, George

installed yaupon hollies, bordered by historic trailing violets donated by Savannah Dame Alice

Van Trease from her personal garden.

Funding for the Garden Project already has been generous. Thus far, it includes

$6,000 from the Savannah Town Committee for planting,

$5,000 from the Columbus Town Committee for a fountain

in the rear courtyard against the back wall,

$500 given by the Georgia Society of Colonial Wars, also for the

fountain area,

$20,000 redirected by the Thomasville Town Committee from funds

remaining from its Bathing Room project,

$ 2,065 donated in memory of Susan Stribling Howkins,

$2,500 given in honor of Hugh Golson by a family member, and

$1,000 donated by a benefactor through Friends.

The biggest financial challenge lies in relaying and leveling the stonework in the rear courtyard.

This was scheduled originally as part of the Conservation Project, but was delayed for budgetary

concerns. Now the committee is anxious to accomplish this project for safety reasons.

In January, we applied for a Garden Club of Georgia grant, thanks to the suggestion of Catherine

Dodson, and we hope to be successful in that. Of course, we continue to appreciate the Athens

and Albany town committees for funding the Spring and Fall seasonal plantings, which are

hugely enjoyed by members and visitors alike.

In addition to Robert Redford and his film crew, we’ve hosted some interesting groups, including

the World Presidents’ Association Women’s Symposium, brought to us by Georgia Society

member Rosalie Morris. We hosted an evening tour and garden dessert party as part of the 75th

Annual Tour of Homes, which also featured us on its 2010 promotional poster.

This year’s visitors had new things to see, as The Furnishings Committee, chaired by Jane Mayo,

has added several new pieces.

These include-----

An 1810 Philadelphia gaming table purchased by the Furnishings Committee for Andrew

Low’s library. Its unusual form is documented in Furniture Treasury, Volume I, by

Wallace Nutting and in Frances Collard’s book, Regency Furniture.

An American mahogany mirror, ca. 1830,

A 19th

century washbowl and pitcher with classical motif,

A cornice board painted in an early style by Virginia artist Gary Robertson,




And a creamware chamber pot

(All purchased by the Thomasville Town Committee for the Bathing Room).

The Augusta Town Committee freshened the Children’s Room by having all window treatments

and bed linens professionally cleaned by David Galusha in Atlanta. The Rome Town Committee

repaired the brass inkwell in Andrew Low’s Library. Reproductions of fruit indigenous to early

Georgia now grace our dining room table, purchased from Williamsburg and donated by Betty

Hahn.

Georgia Society members continue to support the Andrew Low House, our garden and our fine

collection with your contributions, your ideas and energy, your wisdom and creativity. And we

have such fun doing it. Thank you for all you do.

FRIENDS OF THE ANDREW LOW HOUSE (Mrs. Daniel Howard Bradley, Sr.) - It is my

pleasure to report that Friends of the Andrew Low House had a record year. We received

$21,870.00 in gifts from old Friends, new Friends, Supporters, Patrons and Benefactors. (See

report below). This success came as a result of a combination of strategy and energy, dedication

and good fortune!

I would like to thank the immediate past Friends Chairman and Co-Chairman for their support

and patience in answering all my questions, as well as my faithful committee - Mrs. Robert

Train, Co-Chairman; Mrs. Sam Inglesby, Secretary; and Mrs. F. Willson Daily, Advisor; for

their diligent work, advice and perseverance. I would like to thank all of you who have joined,

renewed or contributed, because it goes without saying that our success depended on your

support. Without a doubt, one of the main factors in the success of Friends of the Andrew Low

House for 2009-2010 has been due to the efficiency and untiring work of Laura Dixon.

We, the Committee, put our heads together to see what we could do to increase our revenue. We

organized categories of recipients and increased our numbers of solicitation letters. We created

new stationery and reply cards and reached out to a number of Dames who had shown interest in

or contributed to Friends, but were not members. This increased investment in postage and

printing brought a great return in the number of gifts we received. As I am very happy to report

these wonderful results to you, I am even happier to report what Friends has been able to do for

the Andrew Low House because of these gifts. Among our contributions, we have given $4,419

plus $1,000 (transferred as the result of a gift from Mr. Ronald Kane, requested for the garden)

for a total of $5,419 for the re-designing of the garden, and $1,162.50 for Capital Improvements.

We purchased a Bose sound system for our State Headquarters, and entertained all the members

of Friends at a Cocktail Party to express our most sincere thanks for making it all possible.

In the fall, Friends received a gift of two exquisite gilt wood mirrors, appraised at $25,000 and

$30,000, respectively, from Mr. Ronald Kane, of New York. They were given in memory of his

friend and colleague, Mr. Edward Vason Jones, and in honor of our wonderful Mrs. F. Willson

Daily (Alice). These mirrors will be formally deeded to the Andrew Low House at the Annual

Meeting in Albany, Georgia, in April, 2010. Mrs. Daily received standing ovations at the

Furnishings Committee meeting and the February Board Meeting when this honor was

announced.




Below is an outline of our schedule for 2009:

In July, we met to organize our strategy, decide what and how much stationery we needed to

have printed, and brainstorm how we could reach more people.

In August, we composed letters, including information on how the gifts from Friends were used

to maintain and furnish the Andrew Low House and any special information about contributors,

etc. The letters were put into five categories:

1. old Friends

2. new Georgia Society members

3. Honorary Members (who have contributed $5,000)

4. Board Members, ALH reps, Town Committee chairs

5. Those who sent gifts to the ALH, but were not members.

We bought good stock for letters and envelopes, counted and reprinted enclosure cards

and envelopes, counted and reprinted acknowledgement note paper, organized the printing of the

invitation to the cocktail party. We gathered and included full names for the envelopes, but first

names for the letters to make them more personal.

In September, we sent a worksheet of addresses to Pressworks. They addressed the envelopes.

Laura Dixon put the first names on all of the letters. Since the names on the envelopes and letters

were different, we had to carefully check each one before stuffing. This required astounding

efficiency, patience and good humor from the Committee and Laura. The letters were all mailed

the first week of September. Long reply cards were enclosed in the envelopes. Invitations to the

cocktail party and Board dinner were printed.

In October, when responses came in, acknowledgement notes (including tax information) were

sent with a “thank you”, and invitations to the cocktail party were enclosed. As the money came

in, Laura compiled a list by date so that the donors could be thanked chronologically and nobody

would be overlooked. (In December a final list of Friends was compiled alphabetically for our

records.) Mrs. Train and Mrs. Inglesby acknowledged and thanked 142 members for making our

year a tremendous success. Those ladies were wonderful, and they should be applauded! ONLY

members of Friends are invited to the cocktail party.

In November, at the Board Meeting and at the Town Committee Meeting, we rested on our

laurels and enjoyed announcing the results of the Friends campaign!!! It should be noted that

donations came in through November and December, keeping the Committee busy

acknowledging donations and welcoming new Friends.

Total Memberships, April 1, 2009 – February 8, 2010: 142

102 Friends have Renewed, for a total of $5,920 (includes gifts totaling $820).

31 New Friends have joined at $250, for a total of $7,750.

4 have joined as Supporters;

4 as Patrons;

1 as Benefactor;




for a total of $8,200 (includes a gift of $200).

(14 Friends included additional gifts with their dues.)

Income: $21,870.00 dues and gifts

** Expenses: ($8,749.72) see below

(845.54) Board & Committees Friends Projects

(4,419.21) Garden Redesign

(1,162.50) Capital Improvements - Misc Restoration

(1,410.00) Museum – Conservation, Repairs, Misc

(94.20) Office & Supplies

(818.27) Postage & Printing

Net: $ 13,120.28

* * Expenses per Friends P & L dated 03/25/2010

ANDREW LOW HOUSE ARCHIVIST/LIBRARIAN REPORT – (Mrs. William Henry

Mayo)

Additions to the Members’ Library

Historic Lott Cemetery; by The Waycross Town Committee Of The National Society of

The Colonial Dames of America In the State of Georgia, 2009

Information of Interest Concerning the Whitefield Memorial Chapel; Issued by The

Georgia Society of The Colonial Dames of America, 1948

In Grateful Remembrance, Biographies of our Ancestors; The National Society of The

Colonial Dames of America In the State of Alabama; Southern Life Publishing Service,

LLC, 2008

Augusta, Georgia 1800, The NSCDA in the State of Georgia; Presented at the Sixty-sixth

Annual Meeting, April 19th

~ 20th

, 1961, Augusta, Georgia, Terence Battey, Editor and

Arranger, Chairman Historical Activities, Augusta Town Committee 1959 ~ 1961, Fifth

Printing 1966

A History of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America 1891 to 2007; by

Diane Curtis, Printed in the USA by Stark Printing Company, 2007

Thackeray’s Letters to an American Family, With original drawings by Thackeray; New

York, The Century Company, 1904

George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights; Carla R. Heymsfeld/Joan W. Lewis, Patriotic

Education Incorporated, Virginia

George Mason, The Man Who Didn’t Sign; Helen Hill Miller; 1987; The Board of

Regents of Gunston Hall

Two Centuries of Augusta, A Sketch; by Mary G. Smith Cumming, 1929

Georgia Infirmary; Chartered December Twenty-fourth 1832; Organizational Meeting,

January 15th

, 1833; Review Printing Company, Savannah, Georgia

The Agency House at Fort Winnebago; Louise Phelps Kellogg, Research Associate, State

Historical Society of Wisconsin (Concerning the Kinzies), no date




Address of Hon. Walter G. Charlton; At the dedication of the memorial to mark The

Landing of Oglethorpe, 12th

February 1733, Presented by The Georgia Society of

Colonial Dames, April 21, 1906

The Making of Georgia, Oglethorpe; Two addresses delivered by Hon. Walter Glasco

Charlton of Savannah, Georgia, no date

The following gifts to the Andrew Low House Library were donated through the generosity of

Mrs. Samuel Zemurray, III

Savannah; Whip Morrison Triplett, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006

Savannah in 88 Pictures, Self-guided Tours; Lisa D. Hoff, Everbest Printing Company,

No date

Savannah Squares; Robert J. Hill, II, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2004

Historic Savannah, A Photographic Collection; 2007

Savannah, Souvenir Guide Book; No date

Savannah, A City of History and Beauty; 2007

Savannah, A Romantic View; John Hinde Curteich; 2001, All Squares, Forts, Riverfront

Here’s Savannah; Susan Albu and Elizabeth Arndt

Gates of Savannah; Merana Cadorette,

NOMINATING COMMITTEE (Mrs. Walter Thomas Moody, lll) - The offices of Area Vice

President and Roster Secretary were filled by this Committee and included in the following slate

for 2009-2010.

Officers

President Mrs. Albert Carlyle Espy, lll (Jane) Savannah

1st Vice President Mrs. Charles Waring Barrow (Janet) Savannah

Recording Sec. Mrs. Benjamin Scott Rich (Peggy) Thomasville

Corresponding Sec. Mrs. George Cornelius Clark (Katharine) Brunswick

Treasurer Mrs. Henry Dana Stevens, lV (Mary Lee) Savannah

Registrar Mrs. Oscar Emerson Ham, Jr. (Mary) Savannah

Managers

Area Vice President Mrs. Clarence Victor Beadles, lll (Deryl) Moultrie

Roster Secretary Mrs. Lawrence Daniel Devoe (Anne) Augusta

BYLAWS (Mrs. Peter George Gantsoudes) - In July 2009 the Executive Committee discussed the

question of quorums and quotas. While quorums are addressed in the State Bylaws, quotas are

not addressed on a State level. Quotas are individual to each Town Committee and should be

addressed in each Town Committee’s Standing Rules.

The Executive Committee proposed that the Bylaws Committee take the lead in:

1. having all Town Chairmen review/update their Standing Rules, and

2. discuss with the Town Chairmen possibly changing the required quorum for Town

Committee meetings from 1/3 of members.




It was acknowledged that each Town Committee has individual rights and the hope was that this

review would help them protect that individuality. By the end of the year, with few exceptions,

each Town Committee updated their Standing Rules. Copies of all Standing Rules should be on

file with the Parliamentarian.

A survey of membership # vs. meeting attendance # showed that most Town Committee’s draw

enough members at meetings to have a quorum at 1/3 of members. The smaller Town

Committee’s noted that they liked 1/3 because anything less would be too few to make a

decision. For those Town Committees that have a problem getting a quorum, the suggestion was

made that they do all voting at the January meeting (elections of officers, passing the budget,

candidate selection, etc.). No change will be made to the Bylaws to change the required quorum

for Town Committee meetings.

Several Amendments to the Bylaws and Standing Rules were approved by the Executive

Committee and the Board of Governors as follows:

Proposed additions are in italics. Proposed deletions will be struck through.

State Bylaws: Article III, Membership, Section F. Classification of Membership

Associate Member: A member of a Non-Colonial State whose qualifying ancestor was a

Georgian prior to 1750 rendered his service in Georgia.

Discussion: Several years ago The National Society decided that the 1750 date qualification for

a qualifying ancestor was not a valid requirement.

State Bylaws: Article III, Membership, Section F. Classification of Membership

Guest Member: A member of one Georgia Town Committee, whose residence is the location of

another Georgia Town Committee; she may be extended all the privileges of the latter Town

Committee except those of voting, proposing or endorsing candidates for membership, and

holding office.

Retired Member: A member, in good standing, who is physically unable to attend meetings,

and/or who is unable financially to meet the obligation of membership. She shall continue to

enjoy all the privileges of membership except those of voting, proposing or endorsing candidates

for membership, and holding office.

Courtesy Member: A member in good standing of another State Society who lives in Georgia.

Upon request from the President of her State Society to the President of the Georgia Society,

courtesy membership in the Georgia Society shall be extended. She shall enjoy all the privileges

of membership extended by her Georgia Town Committee except those of voting, proposing or

endorsing candidates for membership, and holding office. Request for change in membership

must be made to the Registrar before April 1.




Discussion: Problems in the selection process occurred when members, who may not vote, were

proposing/endorsing candidates.

State Bylaws: Article III, Membership, Section E. Admission of Members, Paragraph 1.

Section c.

FINAL ELECTION OF CANDIDATES AND ADMISSION PROCESS

Third paragraph

Upon a candidate’s successful completion of her lineage papers and notification by the

Registrar of their acceptance by the Board of Governors, she shall remit to the Registrar the

prescribed Initiation fee, the Registration fee, State dues and National Per Capita Tax. She will

then be sent her number and become a registered member of the Georgia Society.

State Bylaws: Article V. Duties of Officers and Managers

Section H. Registrar (Officer)

Second paragraph

The Registrar shall notify each member candidate within ten days of her election final approval

of her lineage papers and, at the same time, send her a bill for Initiation fee, Registration fee,

National Per Capita Tax and State dues, all of which are paid to the Registrar. When payment is

made, the Registrar shall send the certificate of membership to the new member issue the new

member her registration number, send her a certificate of membership and notify her Town

Chairman.

Discussion: Does the State need a second vote on candidates after their papers have been

approved? According to The National Society, Election of Candidates and the Admission

Process is a State’s Rights Issue, and Board approval of a candidate’s lineage papers already

approved by the Verifying Genealogist is unnecessary “rubber-stamping” of membership.

Standing Rule

DUES AND FEES: AMOUNTS TO BE PAID (as of 2010):

Supplemental Line Fee = $50.00

Discussion: We currently charge $5 for each supplemental line and its costs us about $50 to

have it scanned.

Standing Rule

Contracts – Any contract involving more than $1,000 between the Georgia Society and another

business organization must have the approval of the Executive Committee before being signed as

effective. Any such All contracts must be signed by the President and the Treasurer, or by their

authorized representatives.




Discussion: Due to the increasing number of smaller contracts that the Georgia Society must

sign, it seems unreasonable to have the entire Executive Committee approve all contracts. It is

recommended that the State Standing Rules need to be reworded to set a monetary limit on

contracts that must be approved by the Executive Committee.

The new Bylaw and Standing Rules revisions are available on the web site.

CHATTER (Mrs. Bruce Lee Case, Editor) - Chatter, the official newsletter of the Georgia

Society, was published three times during the 2009-2010 fiscal year of the Georgia

Society/NSCDA. The summer 2009 issue had 20 pages; the fall 2009 issue had 24 pages, and the

winter 2010 edition 20 pages. The purpose of Chatter is to keep members informed about the

many projects, events, and news of this Society. During the 2009-2010 fiscal year a big effort

was put forth in Chatter to keep members of the Georgia Society updated on the financial needs

and status of the importance of giving to various Dames projects and programs on a state and

national level. Appreciation lists of donors in several categories were published, news about the

Andrew Low House, Georgia Society Headquarters and Museum House located in Savannah, the

completion of the Low House Conservation project and the recently formed Ways and Means

Committee and its innovative fundraising projects. Chatter continues to report news from the

Georgia Society’s 17 Town Committees and the effort members are putting forth to continue the

mission of actively promoting historic education, patriotic service and educational projects.

ROLL OF HONOR (Mrs. Pawling Schryver Steward) – The Roll of Honor Committee has

selected two new members to the National Roll of Honor from Georgia for their devotion,

outstanding leadership, and dedication to the ideals of our National Society. The two new

members are Mrs. James Tinsley Porter and Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton.

Their names will be added to the Georgia page in the National Roll of Honor Book which is kept

at our National Headquarters, Dumbarton House, in Washington, D.C., and to the Georgia

plaque at the Andrew Low House.

TOWN COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN REPORTS

ALBANY TOWN COMMITTEE (Ms. Laura Lark Ledbetter) - The Albany Town Committee

is composed of 83 members; 61 resident; 14 non-resident; 8 retired; 1 guest.

Three meetings were held during the year.

May 2009 - 34 attending at the Thronateeska Heritage Center. The speaker was Tommy Gregors,

Executive Director of Thronateeska Heritage Center. He talked about the Museum and the new

Discovery Center and Wetherbee Planetarium. Old Dames' "Great American Treasures" were

sold at discount. A tour of the Discovery Center and a show at the Planetarium followed.

November 2009 - 40 attending at the Doublegate Country Club. A presentation entitled, "Dames

Through the Decades, 1891-1901" was shown. It showed the purpose and achievements of

Colonial Dames through the years, with an emphasis on acquisition of historic houses and sites

and support of our troops, flag projects and scholarships. Many members commented about how




fascinating the presentation was all that we have to be proud of and that we continue to need to

be reminded of our heritage and efforts.

January 2010 - 37 members attending at the Doublegate Country Club. Voting meeting and

luncheon. Three new candidates were voted in and the new slate of officers was approved. The

candidates were approved at the state level in February and all have accepted.

The Albany Town Committee focused on the 115th Annual Meeting (to be hosted here in April

2010) committee formation and planning. An Executive Committee meeting was held in March.

Committee sign-ups were done at regular meetings. Committees and plans were firmed up in

2009. Mrs. James Porter Watkins Jr. is chairman and Mrs. Samual Leon Strickland is co-

chairman. The committees assisted Leila Case, Chatter editor, with publicity about events.

Two new members were admitted. Financial contributions to our museum properties, including

the Andrew Low House pansy fund, and the Indian Nurse Fund continued and members were

informed of activities at these museums. Members were encouraged to financially support these

properties. Deerfield-Windsor School participated in the annual national essay contest. The top

ten essays were mailed to the State Patriotic Chairman for state judging. Copies of the Bill of

Rights and biographies of George Mason were provided to all fifth graders at DWS after they

studied the Bill of Rights and viewed the Dames DVD about George Mason and Gunston Hall.

An exhibit using Bill of Rights and George Mason materials was displayed in the fifth grade

history classroom at DWS. "Albany on the Flint", a hardbound history of Albany from 1836 to

1936, continues to sell.

AMERICUS TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Robert Gene Parks) - As of March 25, 2010, the

Americus Town Committee consists of 53 resident members, 3 non-resident members, 6 retired

members for a total of 62 members.

Three meetings were held for the year in May, November and January. The January meeting

was unique and special occasion as we celebrated the completion of the 70th

year as a Town

Committee.

Our members, including all officers and committee members, contributed approximately 3000

hours of personal time to the NSCDA of Georgia this year. Mrs. James Rogers Buchanan (Jean)

reported at our January meeting a bank balance of $6824.65 with checks to be written for

contributions to the state level for projects totaling $500 as well as any expenses related to the

town committee operations.

The Americus Town Committee is experiencing a revival of spirit in many ways. Always

mindful of the Dames mission of historic preservation, patriotism, and education, our

membership is becoming more active. The Historical Activities and Patriotic Service

committees are developing ways to involve the new members and enhance programs.

The programs this year related to patriotism and keeping history alive. In May, Part I was a

program on Flag etiquette, historical flag facts, patriotic holidays and proper use of the flag given




by the town chairman, Mrs. Robert Gene Parks (Kathy). Part II was presented at the November

Meeting and was the Parade of Historical Flags of America and the history of each flag also

presented by the town chair. These small tabletop flags have been purchased for the town

committee, and a program is being developed for our schools. Our plan is to have these school

visits scheduled soon.

In March 15, 1939, the Americus Town Committee began, and so we found it most appropriate

that for the January meeting, we would celebrate our town committees 70th

birthday. Our guest

speaker was Mrs. James Hill Wylie (Betty Ann Gatewood,) a professional storyteller and

Americus Dame. She recounted stories told by our members of memories they have had being in

the Dames. Our members came dressed in clothing from various periods throughout the Town

Committee history. Mrs. Parks read the original minutes of March 15, 1939 of the first town

meeting. A celebration lunch completed the meeting and birthday cake was served to highlight

the affair.

On this special recognition of our town history, two of the Americus Dames were recognized for

their years of service and devotion to the Americus Town Committee. Mrs. Martha Marshall

Dykes and Mrs. Angie Fitts Marshall were given plaques and the Georgia state pin of our

society, the Altamaha Franklinia, to recognize that they have been members for 65 and 60 years

respectively.

The Americus Town Committee annually places Christmas wreaths on the gates of both

entrances at Oak Grove. The Dames Centennial Sundial that was originally placed in the mini

park across from the historic Windsor Hotel was relocated to Rees Park and can be seen in the

beautifully re-landscaped park that was devastated by the March 3, 2007 tornado.

The NSCDA-GA grant of $1,800 was presented by Mrs. Gregory Allman Austin (Karen) and

Ms. Mary Virginia Crisp (Jenny) to the Andersonville Guild for the restoration efforts of the

Drummer Boy Museum in Andersonville, GA. This museum houses one of the most extensive

collections of Civil War memorabilia in the country.

We are working on updating our town history realizing that we are missing minutes of

approximately10 years and have asked assistance from the NSCDA-GA historian to help locate

old copies that were submitted. To date these have not been located.

Patriotic Service representative, Mrs. Robert Ledbetter (Georgia) submitted 8 essays written by

students at Southland Academy for the Washington Workshops 2009-2010 essay contest for high

school juniors and seniors.

Sarah Cobb Elementary School was presented their award for first place in the My Place

competition of 2008-09 last May. The students and teacher of the class were entertained by Mrs.

Robert Ledbetter (Georgia), Mrs. Bruce Lee Case (Leila), and Mrs. Robert Gene Parks (Kathy)




with a Patriotic Pizza Party. Each student was given an American flag to display at home to

encourage patriotism and love of country.

The Americus Town Committee purchased three sets of the Flag Program offered by the

National Flag Organization for students. Libby Crenshaw, 4th

& 5th

grade Social Studies teacher

at Southland Academy plans to use the program that was given to her by our town committee

and also participate in the Young Patriots Program. The other two sets are to be gifted to the

Sumter County Schools.

Mrs. William Shelton Harris (Ann) provided information at each meeting on Dumbarton. Her

reports insure that our members are well informed about the state of Dumbarton and educational

programs offered there each year.

Mrs. Bruce Lee Case (Leila) reported for the Andrew Low House representatives this year and

kept the town committee abreast of restoration efforts and happenings in the state headquarters.

We had 38% of our town committee gave $1259 in donations to the Annual Giving Fund.

Several members of the Americus TC will be taking a fieldtrip in April 2010 led by Mrs. Henry

Phillip Jones, Jr. (Ruth) to tour the Andrew Low House and Savannah.

Gunston Hall Representatives Mrs. Lamar Myers (Jane) and Mrs. James D. Ray (Becky)

promote Gunston Hall. The local newspaper published information about Bill of Rights Day and

George Mason. And during the months of December and January information concerning

Gunston Hall, George Mason and Bill of Rights Day, Dec. 15th

, was displayed at Lake

Blackshear Regional Library by Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Ray.

Mrs. George Edward Pope (JoAnn) has also kept us informed on Sulgrave Manor trips and

general information.

ATHENS TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. James Daniel Blitch, III) - Since assuming the position

of Town Chair in April of 2009, our Committee has had two meetings. Our membership is

composed of 90 members (Regular 70; Retired 6; Courtesy 1; Guest 1; Non-resident 12).

For the October meeting we went to the historic Oconee Hill Cemetery and met inside the

recently renovated Sexton’s House where many of the rooms had been furnished by Athens

Dames and their families. Forty-four members attended. It was especially nice to meet at

Oconee Hill as our Town Committee had obtained a grant for placing a historical marker and

permanent flag pole at the entrance to the cemetery. The marker is to commemorate those who

served our country in the armed services. A bench is to be added later and a dedication ceremony

is planned for Memorial Day.

In December, Beth Johnston, our Patriotic Services Chair, sent out information on the internet

requesting gifts for our over-seas troops. She discovered that a local car wash would send

appropriate gifts that we brought to them and bear the expenses involved. Over 4, 000 pounds

were mailed.




Our January meeting was held at The Athens Country Club. Fifty-one members attended. We

had a business meeting, followed by voting on new members, and then a delightful program

given by Irene Cordell, a new Dame in Athens. She told us how Union Point was founded and

how her great grandmother (Mariah Virginia Collier Hart) ran a hospital there during the Civil

War in that small town. Mariah and her group of 14 ladies ran three shifts a day caring for

soldiers and feeding them. They served over 1.6 million meals to these men. There is a well

documented diary (a copy of which Irene brought with her) about these events.

We ended our meeting with a fun Q&A session using questions from our Dames for Dummies

book (a small booklet of quick facts about our organization).

ATLANTA TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Clarence Ferrell Nolan, III) - The Atlanta Committee

membership totals 279; (Resident 242; New Members 12: Transfers 3; Non-Resident 16; Guest

6).

Three meetings were held:

May 2009 - 76 attended at the Atlanta History Center where the directory and Historian’s Report

were distributed. The speaker was Boyce Ansley on Mt. Vernon.

October 2009 - 62 attended at Canterbury Court where the directory and Historian’s Report were

distributed, 50 boxes were picked up to be sent to soldiers in Iraq and candidate proposal forms

were distributed. The slide show and lecture were presented by Nancy Bland about her home in

Murray County, GA, Carter’s Quarter.

January 2010 - 92 attended at the Piedmont Driving Club where the directory, Historian’s Report

and white papers were distributed. A voting meeting was followed by a lovely luncheon. 19

candidates were selected for membership.

In early October of 2009 we had a joint party with the Sons of Colonial Wars at the Piedmont

Driving Club where we enjoyed a lecture on Colonial paintings by the curator of the

Birmingham Museum of Art. This was a memorable evening of festivity with a very

entertaining speaker who inspired us all to delve deeper into our historical roots.

A high point during the past year was our bus trip to Nancy and Jim Bland’s Carter’s Quarter in

Murray County. It was late October, 2009 when about 50 ladies boarded the buses for the scenic

trip to the farm which is the original home of a Cherokee Indian, dating back to the 1830’s. It has

been in Nancy’s family since then and is a treasure. Not only did the Blands give us a tour of the

house, the lovely grounds including outbuildings and the family cemetery, but they served us a

most delicious lunch. New friends were made and a wonderful time was enjoyed by all. My goal

as Town Chairman is to provide interesting opportunities for us Dames to gather together and

become a cohesive unit of history and fun-loving ladies. This field trip accomplished that goal.




Patriotic Service and Historical Activities representatives attended the Macon Workshop and

have been busy with the Boxes for Soldiers project, as well as encouraging the donation of white

papers to the Atlanta History Center and involvement in Oakland Cemetery.

A Bill of Rights Day Proclamation was signed by Gov. Perdue at the State Capitol in early

December with 4 Dames attending, including our State Regent to Gunston Hall. Our Sulgrave

Manor representative did a fine job of promoting trips to England to coincide with Dames Day

with one trip organized by an Atlanta Dame. A New Members’ Coffee was held March 26 where

our new members, transfer and courtesy members were given an orientation by the board

members attending, each giving a brief overview of their position within the Dames. At the

January meeting 19 candidates were selected for membership, so we are continuing to attract

ladies who want to be a part of this outstanding organization. Our Newsletter is sent out 3 times a

year, keeping us abreast of all local and state Dames events.

AUGUSTA TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Joe David Christian, Jr.) - The Augusta Committee

membership totals 126; resident 101; non-resident 21; retired 4.

Three meetings were held this year:

May 2009 - Spring Meeting with 52 members in attendance. Mrs. Devoe reported on the annual

meeting held in Macon where the Augusta Town Committee was awarded a check for $1500

towards a Historical Activities Grant for Historic Augusta. This grant will support the

digitization of papers of Judge and Mrs. Joseph Lamar at the University of Georgia library. We

were also awarded a check for $750 toward the Cottage Cemetery Project. Our Town Committee

will match these two amounts. Ten members were recognized for having been in the Colonial

Dames for 50 years or more.

November 2009 - Fall Meeting with 52 members in attendance.

The Orientation chairman reported about the workshop she and three other Dames attended in

Macon and also introduced three new members.

Reports were given by the following chairmen:

Historical Activities and the Andrew Low Furnishings

Sulgrave Manor

Woodrow Wilson House

Our speaker was, Laurie Ott, the Executive Director of the CSRA Wounded Warrior Care

Project. She presented information about the project which benefits service members returning

from Iraq and Afghanistan. She also talked about the two Fisher Houses which are housing

facilities where families of wounded service personnel can stay while their loved ones are being

rehabilitated.

January 2010 - Winter Voting Meeting with 64 in attendance.

Reports were given by the following chairmen:

Historical Activities

Dumbarton House

Sulgrave Manor




Patriotic Activities

Six proposals were read and voted on for membership. Mrs. Albert Metzel introduced the

program which was a video that she and others made in 1995 entitled Achievements of the

Augusta Town Committee of the Colonial Dames as Reflected in Augusta’s Heritage.

Special Projects

A. We continued our support of the Augusta Room at the Andrew Low House with

$100 donation each in memory of 4 members we lost this year and in honor of our

outgoing town chairman. We also made our annual donations to all the Dame

properties, the History Scholarship and Indian Nurse Funds.

B. Obtained a Proclamation from the Mayor of City of Augusta in recognition of Bill

of Rights Day and supplied information for an editorial published in the Augusta

Chronicle about Bill of Rights Day.

C. Applied for a State Matching Grant for Historic Augusta to research the

American, Irish, and British heritage of President Woodrow Wilson. The

digitization of Judge and Mrs. Lamar’s papers in the UGA library collection for

which we were awarded a grant last year has been completed. These may be

viewed at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/lamar_search.html.

D. Had the curtains, bedspreads, dust ruffles and mosquito netting in the Children’s

Room at the Andrew Low House cleaned professionally by a firm in Atlanta. This

was funded by contributions made during the years to the room in honor of

Augusta Town Committee members.

E. Replaced the gnome and planted seasonal flowers around the

Colonial Dames sun dial.

F. Contributed and participated in Historic Augusta’s “Walk with

The Spirits Event.”

G. Contributed to the printing of the invitations for the ground

breaking ceremony for the new Fisher House.

BRUNSWICK TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Charles Edward Thwaite, III) - The Brunswick

Town Committee currently has 60 members; 43 resident members; 11 non-resident members; 2

courtesy members and 4 retired members.

The Brunswick Town Committee had three (3) meetings this year.

In May 2009, the year began with a luncheon at the home of Mrs. Herbert P. Ladds on Sea

Island. Plans for the 75th

Annual Round Table on St. Simons Island in September were shared

with the membership. The Town Committee was notified of the acceptance of two new

members.

In September 2009, the Brunswick Town Committee hosted a successful Round Table. Over 75

Dames and husbands attended. Committee meetings, a trolley tour to Christ Church and Fort

Frederica, and a tea at Marsh’s Edge preceded cocktails at the Ocean Forest home of Mr. and

Mrs. Albert McCaffrey. Following, we had a silent auction and dinner at Sea Palms highlighted

by a talk by Mary Green Burdell on Fort Frederica. The next day a productive Board of

Governors Meeting and a farewell luncheon at the Clubhouse of Frederica Township closed out

the agenda.




In November 2009, Spalding Nix who is from Atlanta and an expert on Southern Art and History

fascinated the membership with a presentation at the home of Mrs. John Spencer Harrison Aiken.

We received pictures and thank you notes from Dames all over the State for our Round Table

hospitality and we circulated them among the group at the meeting.

In January 2010, at our annual business meeting, the membership was updated on Town

Committee activities. We received and acted upon one candidate proposed for membership.

Two Ancestor Bibliographies were completed this year. Four oral history interviews were taken

from special Dames and these were recorded on DVD’s. Our local historical markers were

found to be in excellent shape throughout the Golden Isles. In April, 20 new citizens were

welcomed with a talk about the Dames from Mrs. William S. Burdell and each new citizen was

given a gold dollar coin. Mrs. Wayne R. Knittel, Patriotic Service Chairman, brought her 6th

grade class from Glynn Middle School to witness the Naturalization Ceremony.

COLUMBUS TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. John McKay Sheftall) - The Columbus Town

Committee has 153 active members of which 133 are resident and 20 are non-resident members.

We have 10 retired members and 1 courtesy member.

The Columbus Town Committee held three Town Committee meetings between April 2009 and

March 2010. Attendance at these meetings was:

May 21 - 28

October 15 - 40

January 21- 54

The May meeting was held at the Rankin House, the Historic Columbus Foundation

headquarters, and we enjoyed a talk by their Executive Director Elizabeth Barker.

The October Meeting was held at the newly opened National Infantry Museum, and members

enjoyed and special guided tour and luncheon.

The January meeting was held at the Country Club of Columbus. In addtion to voting and

approving a budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, we had a great talk from our own Lady of

Dumbarton, Mrs. William Bryan Hardegree, Jr. and were very pleased to hear about the exciting

new programs there.

Throughout the year all of our Committee chairs worked very hard. Historical Activities has

applied for a $1500 matching grant to fund a new project to support an exciting new education

project at the National Infantry Museum. Our Patriotic Service Chairman worked hard to collect

essays for the Congressional Essay Contest. Financial support continued for Dumbarton House,

Gunston Hall, Sulgrave Manor, and the Indian Nurse Fund. We also were pleased to fund a

special one-time Andrew Low House project for a fountain in the garden. The Town

Committee’s special local project was to continue its contribution toward interior refurbishing at

the Rankin House.

We published three issues of our newsletter to keep members informed of state and local matters

pertinent to the Dames. We went green with minutes and financial statements being included in

the newsletter instead of being passed out at meetings.




MACON TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. John Price Reehling) - The Macon Town Committee

Membership totals 113; resident 93; retired 2; non-resident 18. Five candidates accepted the

invitation to complete membership papers.

Four Town Committee Meetings were held this year.

May 2009 - 32 members in attendance. Tea at the Sidney Lanier Cottage.

November 2009 - 50 members in attendance. Brunch at the Brickyard.

The program was presented by Wimberly Treadwell and Chris Haddaway discussing Friend’s of

the Trail and New Town Macon.

January 2010 - 54 members in attendance. Voting Meeting at the home of Isabelle Sullivan.

February 2010 - 30 members in attendance. Coffee at the Cannonball House.

The program was presented by Josh Rogers, Executive director of Historic Macon explaining

Homes on the National Register.

The Macon Town Committee published the local roster, standing rules and calendar with

hostesses. The Newsletter continues to be published prior to each meeting and distributed to

members. Patriotic Service took essay information to local high schools. St. Joseph Academy

entered the My Place Project. The Oglethorpe Marker was moved to Fort Hawkins. Four books

were presented to the Genealogical and Historic room at the Washington Memorial Library.

In December a Bill of Rights day program was shared at Rosa Taylor grammar school. Museum

properties chairman kept members informed of events at the various properties and encouraged

individual contributions. The Macon Town Committee donates to all museum properties and the

Andrew Low House endowment fund.

MADISON TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Lowrey Weyman Hunt, Jr.) - The Madison Town

Committee has a total membership of 40; 34 regular members, 4 nonresident members and 2

retired members. There were no transfers, resignations or deaths. Two new members were

welcomed in 2009. No new candidates were proposed this year. There is one current candidate

who asked for and received an extension.

The Town Committee regular meetings were on the third Thursdays of October, January and

March. There was one called meeting in May 2009 and there were two work sessions.

At the May 2009 called meeting, we approved funding a catalog for The Many Faces of

Madison: A History of Portrait Painting in the Piedmont, which was an exhibit of historic

portraits curated by the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center as part of Madison’s Bicentennial

Celebration. There were 12 members in attendance.

New Standing Rules developed during the two work sessions were presented and discussed at the

October meeting which had 20 members in attendance.

The Standing Rules discussed at the October meeting were approved at the January meeting

where there were 20 members in attendance. At that meeting, a Gunston Hall scarf donated by

Town Committee member Mrs. John Henry Cheatham (Leila Barnes) was auctioned by silent bid

as a fundraiser for the Town Committee.




There were 21 members at the March meeting where Mrs. James Thomas Tippett (Jane

Hightower), the Town Committee’s Gunston Hall representative, announced that she had made a

gift to Gunston Hall in honor of the Madison Town Committee.

Five members attended the Dames Workshop in Macon. A contribution was made to support

Madison, A Classic Southern Town, a book on Madison’s historic homes published in

conjunction with Madison’s Bicentennial Celebration. Annual contributions were made to the

American Indian Nurse Fund, Gunston Hall, Sulgrave Manor, Dumbarton House, the Andrew

Low House, the Andrew Low House Endowment and the Annual Giving Fund. The Historical

Activities Chair added 33 works from the Cultural Center’s portrait exhibit to the Smithsonian’s

Inventory of American Paintings. The Town Committee continued to maintain the plantings in

the urn which we had donated to the Cultural Center.

MARIETTA TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. William Burns Dunaway) - The Marietta Town

Committee has 44 members; 38 resident; 4 courtesy; 2 Guest.

The Marietta Town Committee had three (3) Meetings this year

May 2009 Luncheon at home of Carolyn Corley. 11 members, 3 guests

Film of the Andrew Low House shown

Oct. 2009 Business meeting at home of Dot Dunaway. Patriotic Service

speaker on Iraq War with 20 members attending, 1 guest,

1 courtesy. Vote on Standing Rules: membership raised to 42, age

cap remains 70, officer duties elaborated. Brunch followed.

Jan. 2010 Business meeting at home of Patricia George started with

brunch. 23 members and 1 guest present. Officers elected:

Adrian Pressley-Town Chm; Pam Kuester-Corres Sec. Voting

for one candidate.

PROJECTS

The historical marker for the Georgia Military Academy (burned by northern troops during the

Civil War) is waiting to be placed.

Nine Supplemental Lines have been added to the Register of Ancestors by Patricia George.

The Centennial Committee continues to collect biographies of members, to interview (some with

video) long standing members whose histories in dames stretch over several generations.

The last two of eight sabres were donated to the Marietta High School ROTC program by the

Marietta Town Committee. Awards for leadership and scholarship were presented to ROTC

students. Gift items were taken to the Veterans Hospital. Brown Elementary in Cobb County

was awarded 2nd

place for the My Place competition.

The representatives of Dumbarton House, Gunston Hall, Sulgrave Manor and the Andrew Low

House reported regularly on the operations, events and monetary needs of these properties.

Allocations of $50 each were made for Dumbarton House, Gunston Hall, Sulgrave Manor and

Andrew Low House. Allocations were also made ($50 each) to the Indian Nurse Fund and to the

Scholarship Funds.




MILLEDGEVILLE TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Thomas Edwin Kingery) - The Milledgeville

Town Committee has a membership totaling 41: Resident 26; Non Resident 12; Retired 3.

Four meetings were held during the year.

October 2009

Home of Mrs. Frank Owen Evans, members present: 18

Annual donations approved for Andrew Low House, Dumbarton House, Gunston Hall, Sulgrave

Manor, History Scholarship, Indian Nurse Scholarship and Georgia’s Old Capitol Museum

Society. A letter was read from the Friends of Baldwin County Cemeteries thanking us for our

help on their grant request. Also read was a letter from Eleanor Hardegree giving us information

on Dumbarton House. Kathe Fuller made a request for Dames to volunteer at the Old Capitol

Museum.

November 2009

Home of Mrs. Thomas Edwin Kingery, members present: 17

Report from Sulgrave Manor representative giving us information on upcoming trips. Report on

the filming of The Conspirator at the Andrew Low House. The rental of the house for several

scenes of the movie netted $10,000.00. A new Georgia Society tie was passed around.

Members were given information on our new state website. At the close of the meeting a

reminder of the duties and responsibilities of being a Dame was read.

January 2010

Home of Mrs. Thomas Edwin Kingery, members present: 20

Our annual voting meeting was held after the reading of Mrs. Orr’s letter.

Ballots of twenty (20) members were cast for two (2) proposed candidates.

February 2010

The meeting was at Lockerly Hall, members present: 23

After welcoming members and guest the meeting was opened. Nathan and KayDee Mathews,

noted Georgia genealogists, were introduced and Mr. Mathews gave a most interesting and

informative presentation on Internet Genealogy. A lively question and answer session followed.

A brief business meeting was held. A report was given by Mrs. Russell Walden stating that we

presented fifty (50) Christmas bags to our local veterans in the Georgia War Veterans’ Home.

Our Town Committee also purchased flag videos to give to local elementary schools.

PROJECTS - The Milledgeville Town Committee and its members continue to support the Old

Capitol Museum Society. The Children’s Bedroom in the Brown Stetson Sanford House, a part

of the Museum, is furnished by our Town Committee. Many Dames offer individual support and

their time and talents as docents and volunteers for other historic and cultural organizations

including, Lockerly Hall and Arboretum; Friends of Baldwin County Cemeteries, especially

Memory Hill cemetery; and Convention and Visitors Bureau Trolley Tours.

MOULTRIE TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Clarence Victor Beadles, III) - We welcomed three

new members during the year, maintaining our total membership at 43, and published a




newspaper with meeting notices, articles and pictures to keep our town committee energized and

informed.

For the second consecutive year the Moultrie Town Committee had 100% participation in the

Annual Giving Fund appeal, bringing their total contribution to $23,075 for the restoration debt

of the Andrew Low House. For the February 2010 meeting, in appreciation for their support, the

members of the town committee were invited for a special luncheon at my home. In November,

January and May, we met in the parlor of the First Presbyterian Church, with refreshments

following.

Members are supporting several on-going programs by collecting books, magazines and supplies

such as laundry detergent, personal hygiene products, crossword puzzles and clothing items for

our Veterans Hospital and active soldiers. We sent cards to our troops via the “Let’s Say

Thanks” program. Under the leadership of Carolyn Chastain and Mary Ann Smith, refreshments

were served during an “Honoring Our Veterans” reception held at the Moultrie-Colquitt County

Library. At Christmas we joined with the Thomasville Town Committee to donate more than 59

decorated stockings filled with useful items, 18 knit caps and 8 lap robes for the Veterans

Hospital in Lake City, Florida. In recognition of Bill of Rights Day, Susan Newton set up a

display in the public library showing pertinent information about George Mason, Gunston Hall

and the Bill of Rights. We also sent financial donations to Dumbarton House, Andrew Low

House, Gunston Hall, Indian Nurse Fund, Sulgrave Manor and the Museum of Colquitt County

History.

ROME TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Edward West Hine, Jr.) - The Rome Town Committee

currently has 44 Members as of March 2010: 36 Active Members; 4 Retired Members; 5 Non-

Resident Members.

The Rome Town Committee had four (4) meetings this year.

May 2009 - Spring Cocktail Buffet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Hunter.

Husbands were invited and attendance was excellent.

October 2009 - Coosa Country Club

Seventeen members present, business meeting, lunch followed.

January 2010 - Mrs. Howard Lowden’s Home

Seventeen member’s present, voting meeting and no lunch.

March 2010 – Coosa Country Club

Twenty members present, business meeting, program about the ALH given by Nancy Smith and

lunch followed

Financial Support for National and State Projects

The Rome Town Committee allocated $100.00 for our three National Homes and our State

Headquarters; The Andrew Low House $40.00, Dumbarton $30.00, Gunston Hall $20.00, and

Sulgrave Manor $10.00. A gift of $50.00 is also given to the Indian Nurse Fund.




Local Memberships Include:

Rome Area Heritage $40.00

RACA $50.00

Friends of the Library $25.00

Chieftains Museum $35.00

Rome Area History Museum $30.00

Georgia Trust $55.00

Veteran’s Wreath $40.00

Library Book $35.00

Essay Winner $50.00

President’s Fund $20.00

Matching Contribution for Myrtle Hill /Oak Hill Memorial Assoc. $2,000

Reports of Rome Town Committee Representatives

Historical Activities: The Rome Town Committee received a $2,000 grant which was matched

by the RTC. A $4000 check was given to the Myrtle Hill Association for the refurbishing of the

Sexton House at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, Georgia. The current project is participation in

the permanent placement of the statue of John Towers, Father of Aviation, who was from Rome,

Georgia.

Patriotic Service: Activities for this year included: The Rome Town Committee participated in

the Veteran’s Day Ceremony by placing a wreath on the tomb of the Known Soldiers at Myrtle

Hill Cemetery. Members of RTC brought socks filled with supplies that were sent to the

Veteran’s Hospital. The final activity was participating in the “My Place” project. Darlington

Middle School assisted with this project, and their goal was to reach out to the Delta Company

serving in Afghanistan.

Dumbarton House: Nancy Johnson, Rome Representative, reports that The Georgia Dames were

the highest givers toward the Dumbarton House restoration. These gifts helped with chimney,

roof and balcony repairs.

Sulgrave Manor: G. Grant, Rome Representative, reports that May 30th

is Sulgrave Day and

several trips around this date are being planned.

Gunston Hall: Patti Barron, Rome Representative, celebrated the Bill of Rights Day in a most

impressive way. There was a four week display in the Floyd County Library with pertinent

information about George Mason, Gunston Hall and most importantly, The Bill of Rights. A

smaller display was set up in a lobby of a local bank. Also, The Bill of Rights Day was

publicized on the radio, the local television station, and in the local newspaper.

SAVANNAH TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. William Theodore Moore, Jr.)

The Savannah Town Committee had 208 Members in 2009 and 211 Members in 2010.

Two meetings of the Savannah Town Committee were held during the year.

October 2009 -Our First Meeting was held at the DeRenne Library at Wormsloe. We were so

fortunate to be the guest of Diana and Craig Barrow for our meeting and reception at their

beloved Wormsloe home. The presentation Craig Barrow gave on the formation of the




Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History was of special interest. Our hospitality committee

provided us with delicious refreshments and the opportunity to visit with all 68 Dames in

attendance.

January 2010 - The Second Meeting was held at the Oglethorpe Club. This voting meeting drew

exactly 70 members, a quorum. Proposals for new members were presented, selected and ten

were approved at the State February Board Meeting. (All ten candidates accepted with pleasure.)

Our program was presented by the Historical Activities Committee Chairman, Terry Pindar. The

Savannah Town Committee is proud to have partnered with the Georgia Women of Achievement

to produce and present a video production that celebrates the life and achievements of Nina

Anderson Pape. Ms. Pape’s accomplishments as a visionary educator and her establishment of

The Pape School, a school that later evolved into the Savannah Country Day School, and her

efforts in working with her cousin Juliette Gordon Low in forming the Girl Scouts of America

are remarkable. We are proud we can bring Ms. Pape’s life to a wider audience when it airs on

Georgia Public Broadcasting. The video was viewed at our meeting and it can be seen by going

to www.georgiawomen.org/ and click on page 4 under Honorees. Another high point of this

meeting was a cute story about Gunston Hall, as told by Jane Pressly, after which she passed the

“Mason” jar and collected enough to send a $200 donation to the Hall from STC. Afterwards we

enjoyed a lovely reception.

Throughout the year the Patriotic Service Chairman, Connie Cann, and her committee attended

two Naturalization Ceremonies at the Savannah Federal Court House to welcome over 20 new

citizens, July 20th

and December 8, 2009. A picture is taken and given to each new citizen then

a reception is held in their honor. Also, committee members visited twelve schools to introduce

the essay contest – they received five essays from the schools.

The Savannah Society of Colonial Wars and the Savannah Town Committee will soon join to

have an Annual Spring Picnic usually held on the bluff at a member’s waterfront home. It’s a

delightful outing for all.

As 2011 Host for the Annual Meeting we are already making plans for something old, something

new, something blue and Azaleas all around. Swan Seiler will make it special for all of us as

2011 Chairman.

The May Annual Picnic is planned for May 20, 2010 at the Yacht Club. The Club’s calming

views of moss draped oaks, sparkling river and shiny Yachts will be another great setting for our

gathering. New members and 50 year members and retiring Board members will be honored.

Our speaker will be Mr. James Harden. Jim is currently working on a guide for the ALH and

will enlighten us with findings we do not know or have forgotten.

THOMASVILLE TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Allen Elijah Lockerman, III) - The

Thomasville Town Committee currently has 39 resident members; 6 non-resident members; 1

courtesy member, 2 guest members; 1 retired member and 4 candidates.

Four Thomasville Town Committee Meetings were held this year.

In May 2009 we met at the home of Mrs. Max Franklin Beverly (Charnie). Present were 23

members, 1 courtesy member and 2 guest members. It was announced that the Time Travelers

Camp would be held at the Thomas County Historical Society in June and members were

encouraged to volunteer.

http://www.georgiawomen.org/




In November 2009 we met at the home of Mrs. Paul Dean Gurley (Dale). We had a speaker Mr.

Brent Runyon, the Executive Director of Landmarks, of Thomasville. Brent spoke on the subject

of the cemeteries in Thomasville and their history. He had interesting facts on people buried

there and spoke of the work done in recent months by Thomas University students. Connie

Middleton our Candidates Helper updated us on our candidates and their progress. Socks filled

by members were delivered to a veterans Hospital for Christmas.

In January 2010, we had a brief meeting at the home of Mrs. Charles Wilson McKinnon for the

purpose of voting on candidates proposed for this year. We had two candidates and both were

approved.

Our February meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Scott Rich (Peggy). We had 20

members present. Everyone was encouraged to attend the Annual Meeting in Albany this April.

Peggy Rich announced that the ALH was given $10,000 for the use of the house to make the

movie “The Conspirators”. She also gave an updated report on the funding we set aside for the

Bathing Room at the ALH. It was decided that we would re-designate $20,000.00 for the garden

project that is currently being done at the house.

VALDOSTA TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Robert B. Burnette) - The Valdosta Town

Committee has 59 members; 49 Resident; 9 Non-resident; 1 Retired.

Three meetings were held this year with the following numbers of members in attendance; May

2009 15; December 2009 20; February 2010 21.

The Valdosta Town Committee began the year by sending representatives to the Macon

workshop. Two members attended the Round Table in St. Simons.

Our fall meeting was held at the Valdosta Country Club. We took stockings to the VA Hospital

in Lake City, Florida. We did not receive entries to the essay contest this year.

One of our members assisted the Lake Park, Georgia Historical Society with the publication of a

newsletter documenting past events in that area.

Our February meeting was also held at the Valdosta Country Club. We had a presentation on

Thomas Jefferson with two members showing that they were direct descendants of Jefferson.

We also showed a DVD that is being shown at the new Visitors Center at Monticello.

We plan to collect articles for our troops and have them sent from Moody Air Force Base. These

articles will be collected at our May meeting.

WAYCROSS TOWN COMMITTEE (Mrs. Charles Knox Wainright) - The Waycross

Committee Members as of March 2010 totaled 37; 25 Active Members; 4 Retired Members; 8

Non-Resident Members.

The Waycross Committee met five times during the year:




May 21, 2009 - Regular Luncheon Meeting; 18 Active members and 3 Non-Resident Members

present.

July 30, 2009 – Called Meeting: 16 Active Members and 2 Non-resident Members present.

November 19, 2009 - Regular Luncheon Meeting; 20 Active members and 3 Non-Resident

Members present.

January 19, 2010 – Voting Meeting: 16 Active Members and 3 Non-resident Members present.

February 18, 2010 - Regular Luncheon Meeting; 25 Active members and 2 Non-Resident

Members present.

Waycross Town Committee had 16 members attending the Annual Meeting in Macon, several

members attended the September Workshop and four attended Round Table on St. Simons

Island.

Historical Activities: Anna Fesperman and Margie Blythe-Poland serve as Chairs of this

committee. Grant Funds are being used to refurbish our 1870 parlor at the Okefenokee Heritage

Center. Stephen Bohlin has served as a consultant for this project. Lott Cemetery now is listed

on National Register of Historical Places thanks to the work of the Waycross Town Committee.

The Town Committee placed a plaque at the entrance gates denoting this. Also, our book

Historic Lott Cemetery is available for purchase. We have sold 236 books plus 41 (total 277)

purchased by a grant from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation. The books purchased by them will be

placed in libraries across Georgia and other states. The DVD of “Historic Lott Cemetery-

Celebration and Walking Tour” was made during the cemetery event hosted by the Waycross

Town Committee. Eleven books were donated by members of the Town Committee to libraries

and local citizens who were helpful with the project. Twenty-nine ABRs were submitted in the

2010 month of March.

Patriotic Service: Penn Clark serves as chair of this committee. Pens and playing cards were

delivered to the Disabled American Veterans office in Waycross for distribution. Nine essays

were selected from area schools for submission and sent to the state chairman. Tattered or worn

flags were collected at the February 2010 meeting and delivered to the DAV for proper disposal.

Ten additional Flag videos were ordered from the Nation Flag Foundation and delivered to area

schools.

Dumbarton House, Sulgrave Manor and Gunston Hall: Our museum properties chairmen kept

us informed of events at the properties, and encouraged personal financial support in Friends’

organizations. Over sixty percent supported the Annual Giving campaign to support the Andrew

Low House. The Waycross Town Committee also gave to our National Homes and the Native

American Fund. The Waycross Town Committee renewed its membership to the Okefenokee

Heritage Center.

Members were reminded of the Bill of Rights Day, December 15. A proclamation designating

Bill of Rights Day was made by our local Mayor. A picture of Waycross Town Committee

members and the Mayor of Waycross signing the proclamation was in the local paper.




MUSEUM PROPERTIES

DUMBARTON HOUSE HEADQUARTERS OF THE NSCDA

FEDERAL PERIOD MUSEUM HOUSE

2715 Q. Street N.W.

Washington, D.C. 2007-3071

(202)-337-0972 www.dumbartonhouse.org

Two guestrooms are available for Dames.

Call Miss Jenna Watson at the number

above to check availability.

Mrs. William Bryan Hardegree, Jr., Lady of Dumbarton House Board

Dumbarton House was probably begun in 1799 by Samuel Jackson and completed in 1805 by Joseph

Nourse, first Register of the Treasury. He sold the property in 1813 to Charles Carroll, who named it

Bellevue. Purchased by the National Society in 1928, it was restored to the Early Federal Period, renamed

and opened to the public in 1932. The elegant furnishings are of the Sheraton and Hepplewhite period of

1780-1815 and include pieces which belonged to Chief Justice John Marshall, General and Mrs. George

Washington and members of their family. The garden has been authentically restored. In 2006, the house

was awarded accreditation status by the American Association of Museums.

GUNSTON HALL PLANTATION HOME OF GEORGE MASON

10709 Gunston Road

Mason Neck, VA 22079

(703)-550-9220

www.gunstonhall.org

Mrs. Phillip Jewett Markert, Regent of Gunston Hall

Mrs. Hugh McMaster Tarbutton, Regent-at-Large, Gunston Hall

Gunston Hall (1755-1758), located in Fairfax County, Virginia, was the plantation house of George

Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the model for the Federal Bill of Rights. Owned by

the Commonwealth of Virginia, it is administered by a Board of Regents of The National Society of The

Colonial Dames of America made up of nominees from each State Society and appointed by the Governor

of Virginia. Gunston Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. The brick story-and-a-

half plantation house is typical of Georgian architecture. The hand carved interior woodwork is among the

finest of the Colonial Period. The 18th century gardens were restored by the Garden Club of Virginia and

are a highlight of this 555 acre plantation.

http://www.dumbartonhouse.org/

http://www.gunstonhall.org/




MUSEUM PROPERTIES

SULGRAVE MANOR ANCESTRAL HOME OF GEORGE WASHINGTON

Manor Road, Sulgrave, Nr. Banbury

Oxfordshire OX172SD, UK

www.sulgravemanor.org.uk

Mrs. Marvin Sparks Singletary, Associate Trustee, Friends of Sulgrave Manor

Sulgrave Manor was built about 1540 by Lawrence Washington, the great-great-great grandfather of

George Washington, on land acquired from Henry VIII. In 1914, a group of British subscribers purchased

it, restored it, and presented it to the people of Great Britain and the United States as a celebration of 100

years of peace between the two countries. In 1925, the NSCDA raised an endowment fund, the income of

which is used by the Sulgrave Manor Board for maintenance. Two members of the NSCDA serve on the

Sulgrave Manor Board. The Manor House contains treasures connected with the Washington family.

ANDREW LOW HOUSE

HEADQUARTERS OF THE NSCDA

IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA

329 Abercorn Street

Savannah, Ga. 31401

Museum and Group Reservations: (912)-233-6854

Headquarters Office: (912)-233-1828

www.andrewlowhouse.com

Mrs. Samuel Zemurray III, Andrew Low House Chairman

In 1847, Andrew Low, a wealthy cotton factor of Savannah, requested that John Norris of New York

design a house for him. The lot chosen was the southwest trust lot on Lafayette Square, the site of a

former jail. Built of brick covered with stucco, the house was designed with classical proportions. Visitors

to the house included General Robert E. Lee and William Makepeace Thackeray. Andrew’s son, William

Mackay Low, married Juliette Gordon, who founded the Girl Scouts of America in 1912. Juliette Gordon

Low was living in the house when she died in 1927. After her death, the property was purchased by the

National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia for use as its headquarters.

The museum houses a stellar collection of 19th century period furnishings, many of which came from the

Low, Mackay, Stiles and other Georgia families. A complete restoration of the house was finished in

2009.

Consult the property website to obtain information on current programs, days and hours for visitation, and for

ordering unique gifts from the Museum shops.




INSIGNIA

All members of the Georgia Society may own and wear the following:

** See Note Below Gold Filled 14 Carat Gold

BADGE $160.00 $975.00

COLONIAL STATE BAR $40.00 $375.00

ASSOCIATE STATE BAR $40.00 $300.00

RECOGNITION PIN $37.00 $250.00

PRESIDENT BAR $35.00 $225.00

MEMBER’S DISC $35.00 $200.00

DISC CHARM $60.00 $425.00

STATE PIN

GEORGIA-Flower $53.00 Call for Price

Options: NECK RIBBON…$20.00; RIBBON….$5.00 PER YARD

ENGRAVING CHARGE….75c PER LETTER

** FOR ALL ORDERS PLEASE, ADD $8.00 FOR SHIPPING/HANDLING and 7% TAX IF SHIPPED TO:

FL, GA, NC, NJ, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV.

Order forms are available from the Assistant Registrar and should be returned to her to be

forwarded through proper channels. Christmas orders must be in the Assistant Registrar’s hands by 15

October. All prices are subject to change without notice.

The Recognition Pin and the Georgia Society Pin may be worn at any time. The Badge may only

be worn at official “Dames” functions or when a member is representing the Colonial Dames at another

function. For more information and order forms contact:

Mrs. Clifton Maurice Culberson, Jr.

978 Winall Down Road

Atlanta, Ga. 30319-1142

Phone: 404-262-7294


The Pin of the Georgia Society represents the flower of a small tree discovered near the mouth of

the Altamaha River in 1765 by John and William Bartram. Returning to Philadelphia, the

Bartrams named the plant, Franklinia Altamaha, in honor of Benjamin Franklin and the river in

Georgia where the plant was found.





Official Cemetery Marker Order Form Ordered by

Name_______________________________________________________________________ Street_______________________________________________________________________

City________________________ State_________________Zip________________________

Ship to (if different than above address)

Name_______________________________________________________________________

Street_______________________________________________________________________

City_________________________State________________ Zip________________________

In Memory of ________________________________________________________________

Acknowledge to ______________________________________________________________ Street_______________________________________________________________________

City_________________________State________________Zip ________________________

Installed Location_____________________________________________________________

Address_____________________________________________________________________

City_________________________State________________Zip________________________

Number of Markers Ordered _______@$160.00 each (includes S & H and Lug mounts)

Amount Enclosed $___________

Make check payable to: NSCDA in Georgia

Send to: NSCDA Georgia Cemetery Marker

329 Abercorn Street


[email protected]

Tel: 912-233-1828

Fax: 912-233-9239

4" Diameter Bronze Markers

To be lug mounted on head or footstone

by your local monument company.

NEVER SEND ANYTHING VIA E-MAIL THAT CONTAINS YOUR

CREDIT CARD NUMBER

mailto:_______@$160.00





Memorial or Honor Gift

The enclosed gift of $__________________________________________________________

Is given in memory of _________________________________________________________

Is given in honor of____________________________________________________________

Please send an acknowledgement to:

Name: ______________________________________________________________________

Address _____________________________________________________________________

City_________________________State_________________ Zip _______________________

This gift is made by:

Name ______________________________________________________________________

Address ____________________________________________________________________

City_____________ ____________State_________________ Zip_______________________

The enclosed gift is for (please choose one):

__ The Annual Giving Fund (Board decides use of this fund annually)

__ The Andrew Low House Endowment Fund (Long-term growth)

__ The Andrew Low House (Current needs of house)

___ General fund

___ Garden

___ Designated for _________________________________

Please make your check payable to NSCDA-GA and mail this form with

your check to:

Director, NSCDA in Georgia

329 Abercom Street


Your contributions are appreciated

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