Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-11-12

September IL. 1915, y est9t lished by
cooperation a scholarship in the State
Normal School, entered as the scholar
ship Mis-. William Woodward, Jr., by
the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter
of New York City. and Maryland ID. A.
r. The Mcrdecai Gist Chapter is the
guardian of this scholarship. and this
Chapter has given TO the one aalf of its
income to the support Of this scholar
ship, not only for this year. but for the
years TO come. The Anne Arundel
Chapter, whose creation and bringing
TO perfection, was, by the thought and
living hand of Mrs. William Woodward.
Vice-Regent of the Mary Washington
Colonial Chapter. of New York City
There is no name in Anne Arundel
county or Prince George county that
stands out in church and college for
the great benefits given as Mr.. and
Mrs. William Woodward. In this
scholarship we have a graduate for
1916. Virginia Wilson Duke, of Calvert
county, a direct descendant of Govern
or Leonard Calvert. Governor Thomas
Green, Thomas Allen and Richard
Duke, whose name she bears, who
came in on the Ark and Dove" 10
Maryland. 1884, with a long line OF
Revolutionary soldiers and the day
she graduates she wiz receive the ID.
A. r. insignia as a member of the
Chapter formed in honor OF those
scholarships The Col Alexander Som
ervell Chapter, of Calvert county the
organizing Regent Miss Jennie Duke,
is present today, and we have the
promise of large Chapter
Do you not see what we are doing
through our scholarships? We are,
indeed sending out the ''hame of sa-
cred love-" which, we are told. will
"kindle ours" DO you not think the
girl training in st. Mary's Seminary
for the State Normal School, Septem-
Der, 1916, will carry the spark to Wor-
cester county? We are using our
young girls, not only as the building
block i'm our great movement of patrot-
ic education, but also as the living
spark in the awakening of patriotism
in the counties of Maryland. l believe
wherever scholarship is entered
that girl will. by her own personality,
establish a Chapter of the d. A. r. a
Chapter is forming in Charles county,
and one is forming in Prince Georges
county, and the seed is already plant
ed in Worcester county.
AS your chairman of the Francis
Key Scholarship" I attended the COM
mencement at st. Mary's Seminary in
Charlotte Hall In the autumn, leaf
let, such as friends of a college are
usually sent, came to me. / had been
so busy with the Daughters and girls.
did not know boy to whom l could
send it, so the thought came: Il will
send il to a member of the Baltimore
Chapter and editor of the Evening
Capital, or Maryland Gazette, our first
newspaper in Maryland, established
1927, asking that paper TO publish it as
a stray shot, and where do you think
it lodged? In Erie, Pa, and today
Admiral Asa Walkers nephew is en-
rolled as a member of Charlotte Hall,
and is the fruit of your Francis Scott
Key Scholarship, and this is the re-
turn to you Maryland Daughters of the
American Revolution for the first year
of your Francis Scott Key Scholar
ship in st. Mary's Seminary, built as
a monument in commemoration of the
birth of the State of Maryland, 1884,
one of Maryland's most beautiful mon
uments and, by far, the most useful.