Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-11-12
D. A. R. SCHOLARSHIP
WHAT IT IS DOING
Educational Work Established in
St. Mary's Seminary.
FRANCIS SCOTTKEY SCHOLARSHIP
Noble Work BY Noble Women Results
in Great Good Along Educational
Lines.


That the Daughters of the American
Revolution can do something better
than exploiting blue blood and ances-
try,and putting themselves to the front
as lineal descendants of this and that
Revolutionary hero. is emphasized in
the good work being done along educa-
tional lines by a number of noble wo-
men, whoa year or so ago, established
a scholarship in st. Mary's Seminary.
The idea was conceived by Mrs. Geo.
w. Hodges, of this city, who worked
energetically for the Francis Scott
Key Scholarship" and whose interest
ing report was recently read at the
Eleventh Annual State Conference, d.
A. r.. in Baltimore, as follows:
The Madame State Regent, Maryland
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, in Convention Assembled, and
Honored Guests:
Just year ago | left you laughing
over the unpacking of a trunk, full,
brim full of Chapter gifts and personal
gifts for our Francis Scott Key Sem
mary" Today, we will unpack the
treasure box, made possibility
through our scholarship, and if you do
not laugh, it will me as nanny says,
because de tears of gladness is we'll
ed up from de heart into yo' eyes, and
is overilowed down your cheeks"
November 5, 1914, we left Grace lee
Thompson doing we'll as our repre-
sentative in st. Mary's Seminary. On
January 3, 1915, Grace Lee Thompson
gave an illustration of that old song
we used TO sing, "Love walks in the
busy streets as well as in the Lane"
for on a busy street at Leonardtown.
on her way to st. Mary's Seminary. she
walked into the Methodist parsonage.
and was married. She writes later to
a schoolmate: "I have the best hus-
band in the world" We trust the
sentiment expressed may hold through
life, as we know the seed planted in
st. Mary's Seminary will never be lost.
This was our first appointee,and we
had no waiting list as now.
Knowing the situation, the dignity OF
the Seminary and the dignity of the
Francis Scott Key Scholarship.
knew we must have q girl at once
holding a position in StMary's county
that could le Questioned by none. So
over the phone l asked Mrs. Loler,
who reported, as one of our honorary
members of the Francis Scott Key
Scholarship" can l have Eelanor? l
knew Mrs. Mad1cx had her eye on FL
eanor. knew Eleanor had a sister,
Janice, IN the Seminary. who, in one
short year, and made a record. There
fore, / requested. would Mrs. Loker
phone, and if acceptable to Mrs. Mad
dox, as principal, and to Mr.. Marshall
Dent as chairman of the board OF
trustees,how soon could she enter Ell
eanor? She replied Janice was dress
ing to return, and she could send FL
eanor with her.
We did not lose one hour. We had
no vacant chair to talk over, no vacant
space in the school-room or domitory.
But we did have a very, very home
sick little girl, and with the home
sickness formed the idea 81 will never
measure up tow hat the Maryland D.A.
r. will expect of me-" SO Eleanor
writes: Mother, want to be yours
and fathers little girl. Janice will
exchange with me and Will he the
Francis Scott Key Representatives. 1
was consulted and thought It wisest
and hest to leave this to Mrs. Maddox,
father and mother, and the two girls
before passing on. viii state that FL
eanor is now at Chapel Hill, y. g, de-
lighted with school, and the seed plant
ed in St. Mary's Seminary is bringing
forth fruit.
What did we gain, as a society, by
this exchange? a full year in St.
Marv's Seminary. and Janice Combs
I,oker. at Is years of age, is stu
dent. ambitious to be first in her class.
blessed with a rare mind, and mark
ed musical talent. and her reports are
. iov to any mothers heart. She VIII,
Cod willing, graduate in 1917. ard
what has been oru return as STATE
from our scholarship? The largest
Chapter of the ID. A. r. ever organized
in MARYLAND. And we have had our
chance in the naming OF this Cnpater
70 appreciation of history written on
the settlement of Maryland.
The Holy See ct Rome sent to
MARYLAND a historian to write his
tory of the founding of this State, He
was given to read all literature per-
tanning 10 our early settlement. The
historian, after careful study, returned
to Rome, reporting: MY mission has
been filed in the writing of The Cron-
icles of Maryland, by Dr. James Wal
tor Thomas" So our Major William
Thomas Chapter today has as its hon
orary historian the accepted historian
Al Rome. as in the United States Of
America, and The Chronicles OF
MARYLAND" is the handbook of the
Major William Thomas Chapter.
we hope the November board VIII
give sixty members to this new Chap
ter. The great Southern Maryland So
ciety will cooperate with the iull half
pay for the Francis Scott Key scholar