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Texas Society Daughters Ol Shavano Chapter |
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Ol' Shavano Chapter is the third of five DAR chapters
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| The Ol' Shavano Settlement, from which this chapter takes its name, was the first day stage stop traveling north on the Old Spanish Trail out of San Antonio. At a bend in Leon Creek was the stagecoach stop and where the Shavano Indians wintered. | |||||||
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| Chapter meetings are monthly September thru' May. The greater metro San Antonio chapters sponsor three combined luncheons each year: in September commemorating the Constitution of the United States; in February celebrating both George Washington's Birthday as well as American History Month and in June honoring Flag Day. | |||||||
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| Chapter members are active volunteers in the community. They teach English as a second language; do volunteer work in schools, libraries and hospitals, including the Audie Murphy VA Hospital and the National Park Service Historic Missions Trail. Members make walker bags for the patients at the VA Hospital and participated as volunteers in the 20th National Veterans Wheelchair Games held in San Antonio. Some members have worked on a data entry project for the National Park Service as well as various computer projects for DAR on the national and state levels. Currently, members are doing data input for the San Antonio Public Library cemetery inventory online project. Members participate in the Alamo Pilgrimage during Fiesta Week and in the Siege of Bexar memorial ceremony as well as attend memorial services at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery on Memorial Day, the 4th of July and Veterans' Day. Each year the Chapter donates Texas history books to our public schools and promotes school activities associated with American History, Constitution Week, Junior American Citizens, the DAR Good Citizen contest and High School ROTC awards for outstanding students. Each year, the chapter contributes to a community conservation project. Chapter members have registered six Spanish American War nurses in the Women in Military Service to America Memorial computer registry (click for photos of the Memorial), supported DAR schools, the DAR Library, DAR Junior Membership, Children of the American Revolution and the renovation of Constitution Hall (click for photos) with the purchase of a chair for the concert hall. The Chapter is participating in the TSDAR Project to locate, repair and rededicate the Old San Antonio Road highway markers (click for additional information). | |||||||
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of the American Revolution.
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last edit 21 August 2004 |
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