Patriotism
During Constitution Week, four mayors rang bells and signed proclamations.
Members provide Veterans Day recognition via wreaths and flags for area and DAR dignitaries.
Education
DAR Good Citizens were entertained at our March chapter reception.
A member shows off her nationally-winning Constitution Week poster to be provided to local schools.
Community Service
Members clean gravestones of the Lura Frances Davis (William) Law family, recognizing the importance of one of the 12 founding members of the Chief Senachwine Chapter's predecessor chapter in Henry – the Christopher Lobingier Chapter (1910-1968).
A Chief Senachwine member presents nearly 300 toiletries to the manager of the Outreach/Facilities of Freedom House, a residential and support facility for those undergoing domestic violence.
Chapter News
A member shared a colonial foods buffet with members to illustrate her Constitution Week program, "Cooking Up a New Nation: Colonial Foods and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution."
Members wear yellow ribbons to commemorate Covid victims and the pandemic.
Textile Chair of the Marshall County Historical Museum, regaled members with "What Is Under There?" regarding the use/non-use of undergarments over the centuries.
Burial Place Of
Senachwine
Potawatami Indian Chief
“Resistance to the aggression of the whites is useless. War is wicked and must result in our ruin. Therefore, let us submit to our fate, return not evil for evil, as this would offend the Great Spirit, and bring ruin upon us.
- extract from his speech to Black Hawk June 1830 at Indian village