Norwich bulletin., 1909-04-21
EASTERN CONN. D. A. R. CHAPTERS
What Work They Have Done Told in State Regents Re-
port Submitted to National Congress.

| been along similar lines of previous
years On Memorial day Is graves of
revolutionary soldiers-23 more than
| last year-were marked with flags and
wreaths An effort is being made to
secure a sufficient sum for the cree
ton of memorial gates at the entrance
to the ancient cemetery in that local.
| ity.
About SIS have been expended on the
Wolf Den property for roadway repairs
and for a new flag to float over the
den. The public library has, as usual,
been remembered with papers and
magazines and new supplies of Liter
airy Art club pictures are hung there
each month.
Faith Trumbull chapter of Norwich
During the year this chapter has added
$311 to it's fund for a memorial foun-
tain which is to be presented to the
city of Norwich a few months hence,
on the 250th anniversary of the found
ing of the city. John c. Calhoun, the
distinguished South Carolina states
man. once said he had seen the time
when The members of congress born or
educated in Connecticut lacked but Eve
of being a majority. Faith Trumbull
chapter wishes it understood that Nor
witch is a distinctly famous section of
Connecticut and offers the following
as proof Of the truth of its statement:
i puI JIColQGbAo VI lIC Ol4LCu
Willard Fillmore, u, S. Grant James
Garfield and Grover Cleveland--were
descendants Of founders Of Norwich.
The number of college presidents who
descended from Norwich founders are
too numerous to mention. but among
them were DR.. Fitch, first president of
Williams college; Or. Backus, first
president of Hamilton college; DR.. Gill
man, first president of Johns Hopkins
college; also Dr. Dwight, president of
Yale university,-all Of whom were
born in Norwich-and Dr. Garfield the
present president of Williams college,
traces his early ancestry back to the
Rose of New England. If it were not
for a superiority of haughtiness in the
shape of hatpins, we would all take off
our hats and salute Faith Trumbull
The next best thing 10 do is to remind
Faith" that we expect her to live up
to her antecedent reputation and her
present privileges by becoming the
most famous chapter in the state. of
Connecticut.
Fanny Ledyard chapter of Mystic.
This chapter has given $50 to the Con-
tinental hall fund, $25 towards a
sch larship at the Suffield academy. SO
to the Southern Educational associa-
ton for the education of illiterate
whites. 1t has also responded gener-
ously to an appeal for useful articles
to be used in the industrial depart
meut Of certain southern schools. 1t
instituted a $40 prize for patriotic es-
says from public school pupils and
gave towards the Fanny Crosby and
Hartford bridge funds. The chapter
regent was a delegate to the Hartford
convention on child labor and one of
it's members has compiled an article
for a forthcoming book on Historic
Groton."
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Killingly. This chapter has given $50
towards the support Of boy at the
Suff1eld academy, and books have been
purchased and presented to the public
library. On Memorial day the chapter
deccrates the graves of Revolutionary
soldiers, and it had a prominent part
in the exercises incident to the recent
bicentennial of the town of Killingly
Lucretia Slap chapter of New Lon
don. This chapter has given $40
scholarship to Berea college in Ken
lucky, also two scholarships of $50
each to Maryville college, a box of
clothing and other useful articles val
ued at about $50 was sent to the
chapters protege at the latter college.
In June, 1908. the chapter placed a
bronze tablet upon the Buckley High
school building in New London; an
iron fence costing So has been placed
along one side of the famous Ancient
list Burying Ground"
Mrs. Kinney closes her rather
lengthy report as follows
after fourteen years of active SER
vice, the close of the eighteenth Con-
tinental congress will also bring to
close my official career as state regent
of the Connecticut D. A. r. Once
more 7 desire to emphasize my abiding
faith in the principles of the National
society, D. A. r. 1t mas a distinct and
very unique mission to perform, and it
is a mission which calls for nigh Ideals
and a spirit of self abnegatiOn if it is
10 accomplish the plans and purposes
of its founders. shall take with me
into the privacy Of a sheltered life the
happy memory of many sweet and gra-
cioUs friendships with Daughters from
Maine to California, and I leave to a
valued successor a united and narn1o-
NOUS constituency whose superb rec
ord for faithful, unselfish, enthusiastic
and uplifting efforts for the highest
and best interests of home and coun-
try can never be told in words, but
whose influences for good will be felt
for decades to come in our fine old
Constitution State"