Mar 19

Mar 19 DAR Announces 2018 Local High School Good Citizen Award Winners

DAR Announces 2018 Local High School Good Citizen Award Winners

Jackson-Madison Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) announced the 2018 DAR Good Citizen Award winners at the DAR Patriotic Tea held on March 15, 2018. Four high schools in the Jackson area participated by selecting their school’s DAR Good Citizen. The winning students, their family members, and school counselors were guests of honor at the DAR Patriotic Tea.

The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of dependability (which includes truthfulness, loyalty, and punctuality); service (which includes cooperation, courtesy, and consideration of others); leadership (which includes personality, self-control, and ability to assume responsibility); and patriotism (which includes unselfish interest in family, school, community, and nation) to an outstanding degree. To be eligible to compete for scholarship money, each school’s DAR Good Citizen must write a timed essay on a subject announced at the beginning of the timed session.

Susan Anderson, a senior at Madison Academic High School, won the Jackson-Madison Chapter’s essay contest. The essay title was “Our American Heritage and our Responsibility for Preserving It.” The focus question of her essay was “How has America advanced the cause of freedom in the rest of the world?” Her winning essay was submitted to the DAR Chickasaw District for judging.

In addition to Ms. Anderson, the other 2018 DAR Good Citizen Winners are Alayna Todd from Trinity Christian School; Laura Pruitt from North Side High School; and Conitra Morton from South Side High School. Each school winner was presented $100, a lapel pin, award certificate, and wallet award card. Ms. Anderson, winner of the essay contest, was awarded an additional $100 prize by Jackson-Madison Chapter. Prize money provided by the chapter was augmented by benefactor Milton J. Smylie, Jr.

DAR Good Citizen Committee Chair Marianna Warmath-Lewis, said, “The winners of the 2018 DAR Good Citizen Award are all outstanding students. The selection committee was most impressed with their stellar academic and volunteer activities. We are proud of all of them and wish them well in their future endeavors.”

DAR is known as the largest women’s patriotic organization in the United States and has over 185,000 members with 3000 chapters in 50 states and 11 foreign countries. The Jackson-Madison Chapter, chartered in 1901, is one of the oldest chapters in the state. For more information about membership in DAR, contact chapter regent, Beth Bates at 731-427-0465 or batesb@aol.com, or visit the chapter website at www.tndar.org/~jacksonmadison.