The Don José Verdugo Chapter, Daughters of the America Revolution, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, honored five local high school students recently with the organization’s prestigious Good Citizens Award. Students were selected by their respective schools for their outstanding qualities of service, leadership, dependability and patriotism.
Good Citizens Chairman Barbara Rogers introduced the students at a luncheon held in their honor and presented them with a DAR Certificate of Award; Good Citizen lapel pin; copy of the U.S. Constitution; DAR material and a monetary award.
During the presentation, each student introduced their parents and a school representative in attendance and spoke about their future plans and where they hope to attend college.
DAR, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a non-profit, non-political volunteer women’s service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history and is the largest women’s patriotic organization in the world. Any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution, is eligible for membership. To learn more go to www.dar.org or contact the Don José Verdugo Chapter at (818) 249-5472.