Education
Albemarle Chapter, NSDAR, Education Programs
Locally, we support the DAR Good Citizens awards given to senior high school students at local high schools who possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities. Additionally, they can choose to participate in an essay contest which can lead to scholarships at the national level.
Constitution Week
Constitution Week is September 17-23 and is celebrated by exhibiting posters in local libraries and providing pocket-size U.S. Constitution booklets. In October each year, we hold a National Defense Luncheon with other local DAR chapters to honor our men and women in uniform.
Forgotten Patriots
Since the mid-1980s, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has supported a project to identify the names of African Americans, Native Americans, and individuals of mixed heritage who supported the American struggle for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
In April 2008, DAR published “Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War,” an 874-page expansion of the 200-page publication.
DAR Schools
Our chapter supports NSDAR schools with our boxtop program. Learn more here. The chapter sent money and requested items to their relief fund of the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky after it sustained severe damage from a flood in 2022.