2024 ANNUAL REPORT
THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House
Contribution Highlights 2023–2024
2,662+ number of gifts received $367 average donation per Dame
$879,092
total contributions and grants 10% of Dames participated 16% were new donors 84% were repeat donors
Dear Friends,
March 12, 2025
As Dames, we are women connecting yesterday with today. We are entrusted with history’s future and we should be proud of the work we do in that regard. Our recognition and support of those who have defended our nation has continued to increase through our participation with the Veterans History Project and America’s VetDogs. We will soon recognize 50 years of introducing the next generation to the importance of civics through the Congressional Essay Contest. For nearly 100 years Dames have supported the studies of Native Americans through the American Indian Medical Scholarships. In addition, Great American Treasures represents the largest alliance of support for historic properties in the US aside from the federal government. These are some of the most visible things that Dames do, but there is so much more happening on the ground in our Corporate Societies across the country. Having a national organization is essential to coordinating these efforts and maximizing their impact.
Among our accomplishments this fiscal year:
• Revised the NSCDA mission statement to speak more plainly about what we do: Women opening doors to America’s history through preservation, education and service to inspire a shared love of country.
• Developed and approved our first unified strategic plan to ensure that the NSCDA, as a membership organization, and our National Headquarters at Dumbarton House are working in tandem to fulfill all areas of our mission.
• Introduced a new governance structure which elevates our mission to the highest level and elected our first Vice President for Mission Initiatives.
• Implemented the Founding Females Initiative and made significant progress toward our goal of having 250 qualified female ancestors on the Register of Ancestors by July 4, 2026.
• Held the first NSCDA National Conference open to all Dames in St. Louis, MO.
• Launched a new website to better present our work to the public and connect our members.
It is a privilege to be able to thank all those who recognize the importance of what the NSCDA does and have contributed over the past year. We are also especially grateful for the support of those outside of our membership. To our members who give, your gifts are crucial. While dues are critical to our operations, they comprise less than 30% of the revenue needed to maintain our National Headquarters and to provide the services that both further our mission and support our members. Contributions allow us to connect our members to facilitate relationships and maximize our mission work. Relying on contributions for such a significant portion of our revenue means that we must continue to validate what we do. Thank you to all who felt we hit the mark in 2024.
Mary Heyward Mundy
Katherine Taylor Cammack NSCDA National President NSCDA Honorary President
Financial Overview
Fiscal Year 2024 | September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024
Operating Revenue
Contributions remain the largest source of revenue, followed by membership dues. Programs, meetings and rentals accounted for the bulk of additional revenue. Additional support was provided by Board-approved withdrawals from restricted and endowment funds.
(32%)
$151,615 (6%)
$16,778 (1%)
The NSCDA audited financial statement is available by request from National Headquarters Dumbarton House.
Operating Expenses
A significant drop in grant funding and decrease in revenue overall resulted in a deficit this fiscal year. Expenditures continued to cover administration, educational and public programming, historical preservation, exhibition development, curatorial research, collection care and facility maintenance.
Depreciation & Amortization
$299,631 (11%)
Printing, Postage, Marketing
$73,746 (3%)
Repairs, Maintenance, Insurance, Utilities
$295,141 (10%)
Meetings, Conferences, Travel
$211,735 (8%)
Scholarships & Programs
$334,700 (12%)
$2,755,602
Salaries & Benefits
$1,020,302 (37%)
Contractors
$530,347 (19%)
Serving all 43 Corporate Societies
The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America has embarked on a transformative journey in fiscal year 2024, strategically reimagining how we fulfill our historic mission while expanding our reach and relevance. Through thoughtful governance restructuring as well as mission refinement and innovative initiatives, we have laid the groundwork for greater organizational cohesion and public engagement. Our first-ever National Conference and our refreshed digital presence reflect our commitment to nurturing deeper connections within our membership and with the broader public. As we look ahead, these accomplishments position us to more effectively preserve America’s history and inspire a shared appreciation for our nation’s heritage.
New Mission
After an extensive process, the NSCDA revised its mission statement to speak more plainly about what we do: Women opening doors to America’s history through preservation, education and service to inspire a shared love of country.
Strategic Planning
A comprehensive process resulted in our first unified strategic plan. This new plan ensures that the NSCDA, as a membership organization, and our National Headquarters at Dumbarton House are working in tandem to fulfill all areas of our mission.
Governance Structure
After carefully considered deliberations, the NSCDA revamped its governance structure. The new approach elevates our mission to the highest level and provides our first Vice President for Mission Initiatives.
Founding Females Initiative
Co-chairs Molly Carey and Lisa Liles implemented the Founding Females Initiative and made significant progress towards our goal of having 250 qualified female ancestors on the Register of Ancestors by July 4, 2026.
National Conference
The Missouri Dames welcomed 227 attendees to the first NSCDA National Conference in St. Louis, MO. Open to all Dames, the conference weekend from October 22 through October 24, 2023 was packed with social occasions and opportunities to learn about topics connected to the NSCDA mission and operations.
Website
National Headquarters at Dumbarton House launched a refreshed website to better present our work to the public and connect our members.
�� www.nscda.org
Mission Outreach
• Veterans History Project
• Oral History, NSCDA
• Lecture Series, Food for Thought
• America’s VetDogs
• Naturalization Programs
• America’s 250th Celebrating Together
The Dames promoted patriotism through service and strategic partnerships. Mission Outreach spurred member engagement with preservation, education and military service support initiatives.
Key national projects included: recording veterans’ narratives for the Library of Congress, sending valentines to WWII veterans, offering scholarly lectures, sponsoring service dogs for veterans with trauma and welcoming new citizens through naturalization programs. Dames conducted a timely Covid Impact Survey for the NSCDA Archives that included oral histories throughout the Regions.
As America’s 250th anniversary approaches in 2026, the NSCDA will document and archive celebration activities across all Societies to preserve for future generations our national celebration of heritage.
Scholarships, Grants and Awards
• American Heritage Awards
• American Indian Medical Scholarships
• Congressional Essay Contest & Seminar
• Lamar Awards
• Museum Alliance Grant Awards
• NSCDA Award for Preserving History’s Future
• Virginia Stuart Cobb Award for Generosity and Purpose
Our newest award, the American Heritage Awards, promoted patriotism and American heritage through community programs and projects. Over $18,000 in donations was given to non-profits in FL, OH, NE and RI in 2024.
With our American Indian Medical Scholarships, we supported 14 college students and helped them to reach their dream of working in the medical profession in their communities.
To support our educational mission through the Congressional Essay Contest, we sent over 50 high school scholars to Washington for a four-day seminar to better understand our form of government.
The Museum Alliance Grant Fund supports our museum sites across the country and recently awarded $25,000 to three Great American Treasures (GAT) properties.
Museum Alliance
• Great American Treasures
• Collections
• Sampler Survey
Supporting projects:
• GAT Book Development
• Great American Travelers Auction
• Historic Hotels of America
• American Cruise Lines
The Museum Alliance provided ongoing support to Corporate Societies to aid in preserving historic properties. Since 1897, when the New York Society established Van Cortlandt House Museum, the NSCDA has maintained an exceptional legacy of historic preservation nationwide. With Great American Treasures, we celebrated a formidable portfolio of over 70 historic homes and collections of artifacts across the country, ensuring these cultural landmarks and their kaleidoscopic narratives remained accessible for future generations to experience and appreciate.
Key innovative national projects supporting the Museum Alliance included: the Great American Treasures book development, Great American Travelers Auction, Historic Hotels of America and the American Cruise Lines travel program.
Member Engagement
• 65th Biennial Council Planning
• Ages of Dumbarton Series by Peter Waddell
• Celebration 250! Scarf
• Dames Socials
• Founding Females 250 by 250
• Membership Drive
• National Conference 2023
• Website Refresh
• Young Dames DC trip
The Dames engagement initiatives flourished nationwide through programming designed to strengthen connections across generations. Our federation of Corporate Societies engaged through regional events, development workshops and mentor opportunities. We established stronger organizational cohesion and enhanced public engagement.
Our digital presence grew to impressive levels with virtual gatherings and interactive webinars featuring headquarters staff and inspiring presenters. Dames continued to demonstrate exceptional commitment to advancing the NSCDA mission through their expertise, participation and philanthropic support.
Newly Designed: Celebration 250! Scarf
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of our nation, the NSCDA has created an extraordinary piece of wearable art, the Celebration 250! scarf. Designed by internationally renowned fashion designer and fine artist Marisol Deluna, the Celebration 250! scarf marks the year of this important milestone and tells the stories of our 50 states, with each represented by symbols bordering the scarf. The scarf’s intricate design reflects an America of many parts that function as a collective whole. Unfurling flags anchor the four compass points and symbolize the journeys Americans took across our great nation to create new communities where many of the preserved NSCDA Great American Treasures can be found.
The silk scarf is 42” square with hand-sewn rolled edges. Pre-orders can be made on the nscda.org website. The scarves are $250 each (tax and shipping included) with $100 of each purchase donated to the NSCDA Annual Appeal.
In 1928, the NSCDA searched for an early Federal house in Washington, DC to serve as its National Headquarters, and to “worthily illustrate the character and objects of the Society.” The NSCDA identified Dumbarton House as the appropriate purchase, and this museum continues to be owned and stewarded by our members. The NSCDA established a National Archives and Museum Collection to illustrate the Society’s mission of preservation and history education for the public.
Dumbarton House Fund for the Future
The Dumbarton House Fund for the Future was established in 2001 to ensure that our historic treasure is preserved and maintained for future generations. This quasi-endowment fund serves as a “savings account” for Dumbarton House, our National Headquarters and the only property owned by the NSCDA.
We owe thanks to the foresight of the Ladies of the Dumbarton House Board for recommending the establishment of this fund. And we thank you, our members, for your continuing love for and support of Dumbarton House.
Curating Authenticity: Dumbarton House’s Expanded Federal Narrative
2024 saw the completion of the Dining Room restoration, thanks to a grant from the Richard C. Von Hess Foundation and support from the Dumbarton House Fund for the Future. A light blue was chosen for the walls, based on Joseph Nourse’s wallpaper records. The items in this room were placed based on research of period household inventories of the Nourses and of other comparable houses in the area. Because Dumbarton House has about eight period rooms’ worth of items from throughout the Federal Era, research of these inventories helped to determine which items would be best placed in the room.
Additionally, as Dumbarton House has expanded its interpretive window to the full Federal Period,1799–1830, the art on the walls was chosen to hark back to occupants of the house, both the Nourses and others who lived in the house later in the period.
Dumbarton House Highlights
Dumbarton House offers our members tools to carry out our mission through best practices in preservation, education and collections management. The assets of the NSCDA headquarters provide each Corporate Society with resources to assist their properties, programs and collections. Dumbarton House also serves as a living history classroom for Washingtonarea students and adults.
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September
• DC Dames Lecture
• Dumbarton House Board Meeting
• Food for Thought Lecture
• Girl Scout Program
• Vetoga, Yoga for Veterans
• Weddings (4)
October
• Alexandria Town Committee Meeting
• DC Dames Lectures (2)
• Dumbarton @ Dusk
• Girl Scout Program
• Jamestowne Society & Alexandria Town Committee Event
• National Conference
• Weddings (3)
November
• DC Dames Oral History Video Recordings
• Friday Morning Music Club
• Girl Scout Programs (2)
• Makers Market
• School Tour
December
• DC Dames Holiday Boutique & Tea
• Girl Scout Programs (2)
• Homeschool History Day
January
• DC Dames Board Meeting
• Food for Thought Lecture
February
• Dining Room Installation
• Young Dames Dinner at Dumbarton House
March
• DC Dames Lecture
• DC Preservation League Visit
• Dining Room Installation
• Food for Thought Lecture
• Friday Morning Music Club
• Girl Scout Programs (2)
• School Tour
April
• DC Dames Lecture
• Dumbarton House Board Meeting
• Girl Scout Programs (2)
• Homeschool History Day
May
• DC Dames Annual Meeting
• Friday Morning Music Club
• Georgetown Garden Club Annual Meeting
• Weddings (4)
June
• American Cruise Lines Webinar
• Archeology in the Community Day
• Congressional Essay Students onsite during Seminar in DC
• Picnic Theatre Company Performances (2)
• Weddings (4)
July
• Jane Austen Film Festival
• Rental Event
• Rental Event 2 0 2 4
• Vetoga, Yoga for Veterans
August
• Founding Family Day
• Jane Austen Film Festival
Upcoming Release: Great American Treasures Book Launch
Discover the NSCDA’s collection of historic places that illuminate a rich diversity of people who lived, worked and established themselves in America from the Colonial period through settlement of the American West. Great American Treasures: Women Preserving History Since 1891 will be released in the summer of 2025 as part of the NSCDA’s celebration of the semiquincentennial, our nation’s 250th birthday. Written by women, including several Dames, and featuring an impressive group of female historians, the publication features the range of dwellings, landscapes, collections and monuments that speak to the diversity of cultures, people and architecture in a growing nation—from the eastern seaboard to the western shores and from England’s Sulgrave Manor to the Mission Houses in Hawai’i. This publication provides readers with not only an understanding of more than a century of the NSCDA’s preservation efforts, but also a window into the power of historic places to connect us to our past. The approximately 200-page hardcover book is richly illustrated with new color photography as well as historic images from the NSCDA Archives.
Key supporters of the book include the Martin Family, Katherine Taylor Cammack, the Georgia Society, the South Carolina Society and contributions from Dames across America.
Legacy Circle
The Legacy Circle recognizes donors whose gifts will provide for the Dames of the future. We invite you to support the NSCDA by making a planned gift through wills, trusts or beneficiary designations. Such generosity helps to ensure the long-term sustainability of the NSCDA and its commitment to American history education, historic preservation and patriotic service.
Legacy Circle Members
Candy Ainsworth
Rebecca Alford
Jodie Allen
Katy Amling
Helen Arnold
Sandi Atkinson
Connie Baldwin *
Kristine Bartley
Meg Beasley *
Mary Bohls
Jane Boylin
Karen Buckley
Barbara Callahan *
Katherine Cammack
Stuart Cobb
Malinda Coleman *
Sally Congdon
Lucinda Conger
Catherine Cooper
Arrington Cox
Jeri Crawford
Anna Duff
Melissa Eason *
Anna Ehlert
Mary Fields
Liz Forman
Maureen Gibbons
Caroline Goedhart
Lynn Goldsmith *
Mary Gordon
Janie Grantham
Philip Heeth Grantham
Laura Gray
Betsy Greene
Priscilla Grew
Kendie Hartman *
Mary Flagg Haugh
Dorinda Hawkins *
Carrie Hawley *
Carla Haynes-Clowe *
Sarah Heatwole
Mary Hickok
Holly Hunt *
Lyn Hunt
Mimi Hurst
Christine Jones
Virginia Keller *
Ashley Lawrence
Stanzi Lucy *
LuAn McGinnis *
Susan McNulty
Marcy Moody
Mary Mundy
Brenda Nardi *
Suzanne Nicholson
Anne Nimick
Rachel O’Dwyer *
Jean Perkins *
Mona-Tate Powell
Bonnie Reilly
Dora Rogers
Jessica Schmidt
Peggy Shaver
Sally Smith *
Sally Smyser
Frances Smyth *
Karen Stetler
Edith Stickney
Lisa Street *
Muffy Stuart
Bobsie Swift *
Wendy Tackett *
Louise Tausché
Sue Tempero
Susan Walker
Isabel Wallop
Linda White
Caro Williams *
Barbara Wright
Kathleen Wu *
The NSCDA gratefully acknowledges these Legacy Circle bequests: Mary Benning, Louise Buonassisi, Nena Dahling, Julia Grehan, Alice Markham, Jane Newman, Susan Park, Vida Ruppe and Miriam Sellgren.
* New Members in Fiscal Year 2024 | September 1, 2023 — August 31, 2024
Profile
Mary Cochran Bohls
Texas Society, Legacy Circle Member
By Rowena Houghton Dasch, Executive Director, Neill-Cochran House Museum
November 11, 1926 was an auspicious day. The United States had only months earlier officially recognized the end of World War I, codified November 11, Armistice Day, as a national holiday and Mary Jewell Cochran was born.
While there are coincidences in life, I see nothing coincidental about Mary’s entry into the world on the first truly national Armistice Day. She exemplifies all the best qualities of a Colonial Dame who is passionate about historic preservation, education and patriotic service. Her belief in the honor of being an American, and the patriotism her heritage demands of her, is paramount. Indeed, former Dumbarton House Board Chair Janie Grantham recalls:
When Dumbarton House celebrated its 75th anniversary of opening the museum to the public, she not only attended, she also led the singing of the National Anthem at the opening dinner — accompanied on the piano by Anna Duff!
Mary was born in Austin, TX. At the time, her parents lived at her grandmother Bessie Cochran’s home at 2310 San Gabriel Street that just happens to be one of the jewels of 19th-century Texas Greek Revival architecture. Thanks to her Aunt Frankie Cochran Hill’s vision and to the commitment of the Texas Society, today it is the NeillCochran House Museum. For over 60 years, Mary has worked to ensure the preservation of the historic site. Her efforts, alongside the staff and board, have ensured that we have the resources we need (including orchestrating a major gift of family furnishings) to be able to share with our visitors a broad narrative of Austin and American history. We would not be the vibrant cultural and historic center we are today without her.
Portrait of Mary Cochran Bohls by Kay Polk (2009)
Mary is a proud fifth-generation Texan and UT alum (hook em!). After completing her undergraduate degree, Mary passed the CPA exam on her first sitting and went to work as an accountant. Always ready for adventure, Mary spent several years in New York City before returning to Austin to marry Everett Dayton Bohls. She went on to manage the accounting for the Bohls family office for over 40 years while raising three wonderful children.
Mary’s passion for lifelong learning and appetite for adventure are infectious. This appetite for adventure (and maybe a bit of mischievousness) sent her sailing down the banister of her family home not just as a child but as a nonagenarian. Anna Duff recalls visiting Austin while NSCDA President:
… I was driven from the Texas Society Annual Meeting in Beaumont with Mary to Austin. She took me to the Neill-Cochran House, her family home, and at age 92 was ready to slide down the banister … Others who were there said no, while I said, “not on my watch!”
Thankfully, she backed off!
I’m one who has seen Mary slide down the banister many times. She also was quick to
hop onto the swing we installed on the front lawn in the same spot as one she had used as a child. At 98 years young, she participates in a weekly online Spanish class and will soon return to piano lessons. Mary has been an intrepid traveler — circumnavigating the globe to commemorate her 90th birthday!
Mary has shared her gifts with the NSCDA regularly and generously. She served on the National Board as Assistant Treasurer and then Treasurer (1990–1998). She also was the Assistant Treasurer and then Treasurer of the Friends of Sulgrave Manor (2001–2007) and remembers with relish her four visits to Sulgrave Manor. In Texas, Mary served as President (1988–1990) and retired just last year as the Roll of Honor Chair. Of course, she has joined the NSCDA Legacy Circle. She puts its importance perfectly:
I joined the Legacy Circle because I wanted to help ensure that the NSCDA was around for my grandchildren, and their grandchildren. The Neill-Cochran House Museum also should be kept for future generations so they too can enjoy and appreciate the beautiful house, grounds and their history.
Neill-Cochran House Museum façade Austin, TX (2023)
Mary swinging from the same branch of the Cedar Elm she used to swing from as a child (2016)
Honor Roll of Donors
Fiscal Year 2024 | September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024
First Ladies Society
We express our deepest gratitude to our generous supporters for their extraordinary commitment and belief in ensuring our continued national focus on historic preservation, education and patriotic service.
First Ladies Society | $10,000 or more
The First Ladies Society honors donors who support the mission of the NSCDA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House through annual contributions of $10,000 or more.
Joan Fortune
Priscilla Grew •
Alice Markham • †
Frances McGuire
Eileen Moody
Anita Pope
Bet Snyder
Edith Stickney •
Susan Walker •
Kakie Yelverton
Bridges Trust
Connoisseurs Tours
Society of Colonial Wars
Stock Yards Bank & Trust
Richard C. Von Hess Foundation
NSCDA in the District of Columbia
NSCDA in Georgia
NSCDA in GA, Rome TC
NSCDA in Illinois
NSCDA in South Carolina
• Legacy circLe MeMber † DeceaseD
Martha Washington Society
Martha Washington Society | $5,000 to $9,999
The Martha Washington Society honors donors who support the mission of the NSCDA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House through annual contributions of $5,000 to $9,999.
Katy Amling •
Katherine Taylor Cammack •
Jerry Chappell
Catherine Cooper •
Patricia Freeman
Priscilla Lawson
Elaine Martin
Walker Martin
Jean Perkins •
Lee Scott
Robin Staak
Julia Train
Leila Trismen
Evelyn Turner
Maxine Wallin
NSCDA in Alabama
NSCDA in Connecticut
NSCD in New York
NSCDA in North Carolina
NSCDA in Oregon
NSCDA in Pennsylvania
NSCDA in PA, Allegheny TC
• Legacy circLe MeMber
Abigail Adams Society | $2,500 to $4,999
The Abigail Adams Society honors donors who support the mission of the NSCDA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House through annual contributions of $2,500 to $4,999.
Caprice Baun
Llewellyn Bensfield
Priscilla Brewster
Linda Condit
Anna Duff •
Betsy Greene •
Bethe Hagopian
Elizabeth Holt
Alyce Hoskins
Alison Jager
Virginia King
Susan McCarthy
Julia Moody
Bonnie Reilly •
Dora Rogers •
Nancy Smith
Elinor Vaughter
Isabel Wallop •
Katherine Wellford
Maude Williams
Texas Instruments Foundation
NSCDA in California
NSCDA in FL, Palm Beach TC
NSCDA in Iowa
NSCDA in Louisiana
NSCDA in LA, Shreveport TC
NSCDA in Maryland
NSCDA in Michigan
NSCDA in Texas
NSCDA in Virginia
NSCDA National Young Dames
Trip 2024
• Legacy circLe MeMber
Dolley Madison Society
Candy Ainsworth •
Jodie Allen •
Milbrey Andrews
Pridie Ariail
Helen Arnold •
Elizabeth Barr
Susan Beard
Meg Beasley •
Sara Becker
Jane Boylin •
Rebecca Bromley
Henrietta Burke
Margaret Burrows-Getz
Carol Cadou
Amélie Cagle
Molly Carey
Mamie Case
Alice Coles
Jane Colonno
Katherine Daughtridge
Virginia Davis
Amy Dewey
Ruth Donohugh
Marta Dunetz
Tania Evans
Sara Ann Felton
Elizabeth Field
Elizabeth Fritz
Jane Gaillard
Mia Glickman
Margaret Goodman
Ann Graham
Julia Gregory
Dolley Madison Society | $1,000 to $2,499
The Dolley Madison Society honors donors who support the mission of the NSCDA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House through annual contributions of $1,000 to $2,499.
Susan Gundlach
Margaret Hamilton
Mary Flagg Haugh •
Emmet Haywood
Therese Hillyer
Anne Horstman
Joan Howell
Madeleine Hughes
Kathleen Hurdle
Alice Hyland
Lucy Jackson
Tempe Javitz
Avery Jenkins
Marion Jones
Molly Joy
Jane Kearns
Pauline Keinath
Sally Kernan
Frances Ladd
Frances Lewis
Louise Livinghouse
Catherine Lorie
Christy Love
Judith Mack
Marion MacRae
Ellen Martin
Lydia Matthews
Shirley McCrary
Flowerree McDonough
Jean McGinnis
Marianna McLean
Amanda McNabb
Anne McNear
Patricia Meyers
Mary Heyward Mundy •
Brenda Nardi •
Nancy Nicholson
Cecily Nisbet
Sandra Noecker
Sarah Ollison
Jane Pappas
Kathleen Petit
Mona-Tate Powell •
Nancy Quarles
Millicent Reynolds
Carol Shepard
Kathleen Shuster
Elizabeth Siskron
Bobsie Swift •
Kathleen Taylor
Martha Tolles
Olivia Walker
Salome Walton
Jacqueline Westfall
Margaret Whitaker
Lisa White
Caro Williams •
Mary Jane Woodward
Kate Zabriskie
The Daugette Family Foundation
Delaware Community Foundation
Dudley and Constance P. Godfrey Foundation, Inc.
Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation
NSCDA in AL, Montgomery TC
NSCDA in CA, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Barbara TC
NSCDA in Colorado
NSCDA in Delaware
NSCDA in GA, Albany TC
NSCDA in GA, Atlanta TC
NSCDA in Indiana
NSCDA in Minnesota
NSCDA in New Jersey
NSCDA in NC, Wake County TC
NSCDA in Oklahoma
NSCDA in Tennessee
NSCDA in VA, Alexandria TC
NSCDA in VA, Rappahannock TC
NSCDA in Wyoming
• Legacy circLe MeMber
Patriot Society | $500 to $999
The Patriot Society honors donors who support the mission of the NSCDA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House through annual contributions of $500 to $999.
Linda Adelson
Priscilla Baker
Jean Ann Blackwell-Miller
Ellen Boomer
Angelyn Bridges
Beatrice Britton
Noydena Brix
Rebecca Bromley
Laura Bucholz
Julia Buyck
Annlynn Byrd
Mary Campbell
Betsy Carr
Sally Congdon •
Cydney Crampton
Marian Danse
Elizabeth Dawson
Amy Dickinson
Nancy Dorr
Brian Draper
Susan Dunnavan
Elizabeth Duss
Kimberly Flowers
Caress Garten
Lynn Goldsmith •
Priscilla Growney
Kendie Hartman •
Aileen Hatcher
Carol Howell
Susan Izard
Susan Johnson
Sally Kellogg
Mildred Kitchell
Jane Malarkey
Edith Moore
Amy Morel
Karen Morrison
Anne Myers
Wendy Napoli
Virginia Nicholson
Caroline Parkinson
Diana Parsons
Gay Pasley
Patricia Paul
Quindaro Paul
Courtney Pelley
Peri Pepmueller
Douglas Perry
Haden Pickel
Harriet Port
Margaret Rich
Mary Sattler
Anne Saucier
Ellen Schreiber
Claire Spaht
Harriet Stephens
Mary Olive Stephens
Katharine Stoner
Elise Trulaske
Susanne Tyler
Deanne Violich
Katherine Waddell
Julia Wills
Dixie Wilson
Avery Woods
Elizabeth Yntema
Charlottesville Area
Community Foundation
Huie-Dellmon Trust
Jamestowne Society (WNV Company)
Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192
NSCDA in CA, San Diego TC
NSCDA in FL, Naples TC
NSCDA in MD, Eastern Shore TC
NSCDA in Ohio
NSCDA in West Virginia
• Legacy circLe MeMber
Colonist Society | $200 to $499
The Colonist Society honors donors who support the mission of the NSCDA and National Headquarters Dumbarton House through annual contributions of $200 to $499.
Sophia Ackerly
Marilee Ahalt
Edith Rasmussen Ahern
Susan Anderson
DeArmond Arbogast
Agnes Asman
Cort Atkinson
Eden Baber
Mary Bainbridge
Ellen Baldwin
Connie Baldwin •
Janet Barb
Karla Benton
Nancy Berchem
Anne Berkeley
Susan Billipp
Nancy Bishop
Susan Bluhm
Victoria Borden
Eleanore Boyse
Gwendolen Bryant
Louise Calhoun
Carla Carstens Herr
Elizabeth Cate
Nancy Chaffe
Kathryn Chamberlain
Meg Charbonnet
Nancy Chesnutt
Ann Christian
Marion Christoph
Laura Clark
Gwinneth Clarkson
Kathryn Clary
Melissa Clements
Stuart Cobb •
Marcia Congdon
Mary Connelly
Haidee Courson
Karen Crossland
Ann Czerner
Eulalie Davis
Catherine Davis
Paula DeLaney
Judith Deriso
Jennifer Drayton
Jane Emerson
Julia Failey
Judith Farrell
Anne Farrington
Milbourne Finley
Ann Flowerree
Liz Forman •
Barbara Freeman
Ann Frierson
Jeanne Goodwin
Patricia Gotfredson
Carol Gould
Margaret Graddy
Janie Grantham •
Donna Haas
Rosa Halbert
Betty Hall
Mary Ham
Mary Haskell
Bayanne Hauhart
Harriet Heacock
Sarah Heatwole •
Marilyn Helmholz
Anne Hendrix
Judith Herdeg
Mary Hickok •
Jane Hinson
Elizabeth Hobbs
Linda Holt
Jeanette Hoopes
Elizabeth Horkan
Josephine Hotson
Ruth Huss
Claire Jenkins
Susan Jensen
Alice Jepson
Linda Jergens
Barbara Johnston
Christine Jones •
Catherine Jones
Stuart Carter Jones
Cindy Kaul
Lynn Keith
Virginia Keller •
Donna Kendall
Sarah Kish
Marion Koontz
Jane Lahey
Letty Lauffer
Sherri Lee
Lisa Liles
Margaret Lindley
Stanzi Lucy •
Emily Lyons
Christine MacDonald
Adalyn Mains
Elizabeth Manley
Helen Marshall
Mavin Martin
Julia Martin
Peggy McBryde
Elizabeth McMillen
Catharine Mebane
Mary Meyers
Jayne Middleton
Dorothy Miller
Jane Moore
Marjorie Nichols
Betsy Nottingham
Cynthia O'Brien
Diana Olney
Elsie Owens
Virginia Page
Wendy Pangburn
Karen Parker
Lynn Parli
Virginia Pascoe
Judith Perinchief
Slocumb Perry
Carroll Phelps
Sallie Philips
Sara Postma
Ann Potter
Gwynne Potts
Nancy Poynor
Dorothy Pratt
Mary Prendergast
Mary Prince
Lynn Ramsey
Martha Rankin
Jane Ray
Alice Reynolds
Joanne Riddick
Laura Roberts
Beth Robinson
Theodosia Roddy
Francie Root
Helen Rorimer
Elizabeth Ross
Ann Rouse
Ann Saurman
Katherine Saville
Catherine Schmoker
Sandra Schneider
Nancy Schultz
Sally Schulz
Lee Scott
Shelah Scott
Mary Shenk
Lucy Shepard
Jean Sherrill
Anne Silbernagel
Henry Silliman
Dean Smith
Marian Smith
Frances Smyth •
Elizabeth Stadler
Frances Stearns
Connie Stone
Ann Strub
Christine Sudell
Jane Sullivan
Susan Sund
Violette Sutton
Gertrude Taylor
Cynthia Temple
Mary Turner
Judith Villard
Cynthia Wallin
Joan Walther
Mary Waples
Margery Warren
Sandra Webster
Cara Whelan
Patricia White
Linda White •
Gladys Whitney
Mary Wieler
Roxanne Wiley
Katherine Williams
Katharine Winston
Mary Ann Wirts
Sara Withington
Susan Wynne
Caroline Yeilding
Avis Yount
Jean Zerges
Rodney and Barbara Burwell
Family Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
Tuthill Square Foundation
NSCDA in AL, Birmingham TC
NSCDA in AL, Mobile TC
NSCDA in AL,
Tennessee Valley TC
NSCDA in AL, Tuscaloosa TC
NSCDA in Arkansas
NSCDA in Florida
NSCDA in FL, Miami TC
NSCDA in FL, Orlando TC
NSCDA in FL, Pensacola TC
NSCDA in FL, Tampa TC
NSCDA in GA, Americus TC
NSCDA in GA, Athens TC
NSCDA in GA, Augusta TC
NSCDA in GA, Macon TC
NSCDA in GA, Madison TC
NSCDA in GA, Savannah TC
NSCDA in GA, Thomasville TC
NSCDA in Hawai'i
NSCDA in Kentucky
NSCDA in LA, Alexandria TC
NSCDA in LA, Baton Rouge TC
NSCDA in LA, Monroe TC
NSCDA in Massachusetts
NSCDA in Mississippi
NSCDA in Missouri
NSCDA in Nebraska
NSCDA in New Hampshire
NSCDA in Rhode Island
NSCDA in SC, Columbia TC
NSCDA in SC, Lowcountry TC
NSCDA in SC, Spartanburg TC
NSCDA in TX, Dallas TC
NSCDA in TX, San Antonio TC
NSCDA in VA, Blue Ridge TC
NSCDA in Vermont
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Memorials
Gifts were made in memory of the following individuals:
Florence Adams by Anne Howe McNear
Cassandra Wright Ahrens by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Elizabeth Edwards Alexander by Caro Williams
Jane Carlton Anderson by Virginia Davis
Dolores Kennedy Barnes by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Emile Barrow by Wendy Napoli
Cristy Coors Beasley by Coors Girls
Jan Beebe by Helen Woodbridge
Hazlehurst Smith Beezer by Mary Boulware Campbell
Mrs. Clinton Berry by Margaret Lowder
Ashley Counce Bloodworth by Tia Nolan Roddy
Lillian Boney by Emmett Boney Haywood
Jean Turner Brewer by Susan McMillan
Margaret Cannon Boyce Brown by Margaret Dreesman, Jane Hart, Diana Morehouse, Fredda Bonifield Murff, Lee Scott and Susan Spruance
Edith Radford Brown by Nancy Brown Meade
Louise Buonassisi by Sandra Blynn
Elizabeth Van Campen Caldwell by Duncan Sawyer
Susan Campbell by Kathryn Campbell and Marjorie Nichols
Barbara Carman by Sally LeFeber
Dolores Cassidy by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Jerry Perry Chappell by Bruce Chappell
Emilie Kyle Chenault by Christie Chenault Gonzalez
Sarah Cheshire by Sally Habermeyer
Elizabeth Claypoole by Elizabeth Holland
Elizabeth Colt by Mary Young
Sue Burr Cook by Sue Cook Powell
Jeanne Parham Coors by Coors Girls
Anna Cellarius Cortright by Betsy Wilson
Mary Black Bolles Davis by Catherine Russell Davis
Meepsie Dougherty by Mimi Hurst and Lisa Liles
Elizabeth Dunnavan by Susan Dunnavan
Kelso Alsop Everett by Brian Boswell Draper
Mary Fenimore by Margaret Morris
Blair Wiley Fishwick by Ellen Blair Martin
Helen Louise Fitzgerald by H. Savery Rorimer
Elaine Floweree by Ann Flowerree
Ellen Gluek by Elizabeth Holt
Laura Turner Gowen by Louisa Malatos
Elizabeth Gray by Holly Gray
Julia Grehan by Susan Snodgrass Wynne
Elizabeth Turner Griggs by W. Jane Foster Willson
Margot Sullivan Grosvenor by Holly Grosvenor
Anne Heath Hardage by Sallie Philips
Elizabeth Hassell by Marion Bowden Harris
John Henry Hauberg by Fay Hauberg Page
Judith Herdeg by Emma Matheson Roe
Elise Mobley Hill by Marian Smith
Carol Franklin Holliday by Lisa Liles
Sallie Hicks Holt by Linda Holt
Miriam Adams Howe by Laura Howe Koh
Mrs. David E. Howe by Anne Howe McNear
Anne McIntosh Howe by Anne Howe McNear
Beverly Brown Howell by Vera Britton
Eugenia Inge by Lucy Harrison
Alice Howry James by Edyth James Wheeler
Elizabeth Johnson by Lucinda Pratt
Adrienne Henderson Johnson by Tempe Javitz
Grace Jones by Grace Ross
Peggy Karren by Julie Ann Johnson
Adrienne Farrell Kepper by Margot Berry
Marjorie Kinney by Roxanne Wiley
Duane Kline by Melissa Kline Clements
Louise Backus Knox by Louise Knox Livinghouse
Charles Winslow Lee by Elizabeth Lee
Cynthia Fuller Leigh by Cynthia Leigh
Reese Kenan Lewis by Mary Lee Sullivan
Bessie Smith Liedtke by Laura Liedtke Bucholz
Christine Gempp Love by Christy Love
Mrs. Sumter de Leon Lowry by NSCDA in FL, Tampa TC
Dora Jett Mabie by Jacqueline Humphrey
Virginia Mairs by Jane Halpin
Linda Mattingly by Mary Millard and Betsy Nottingham
Anne Leslie McCarthy by Jill McCarthy
Alice Loyall McCaw by Anne McCaw Smith
Mary Brumby McGehee by Paula DeLaney
Mary Mattis McLean by Marta Dunetz
Josephine Emerson Meek by Leslie Fitch
Marguerite Meister by Frances Meister
Frances Rutland Moore by Anne Moore Smith
Doris McRae Moore by Mary Ann Masters
Jane Leatherbury Newman by Laura Clark, Janie Grantham, Florence Ladd, Mimi Williams McAleer, Mary Gertrude Meriwether, Fran Morrissette, Kathryn and Jim Porter, Nancy Poynor, Anne Renfrow and Jane Williams
Alden Obering O’Brien by Alden O’Brien Haass
Virginia Parli by Lynn Parli
Mary Louise Philp by Catherine Philp Holtzclaw
Cornelia Pomeroy by Nancy Pomeroy Togar
Elizabeth Walters Reid by Elizabeth Smith
Elsie Rider by Elizabeth Holt
Elizabeth Roughton by Jane Kearns
Barbara Boyd Sauer by Ashley Oswalt
Anne Owens Seidel by Terry Mooney
Mary McLean Armfield Sherrill by Jean Sherrill
Mary Strawbridge Shipley by Edith Shipley Moore
Libby Shoulders by Sally Habermeyer
Ann Pryor Simms by John Simms
Laura Simpson by Nancy Schultz
Elizabeth Kepler Sivage by Betsy Clark
Alice Sloane by Barbara Sloane
Sallie Smith by Stuart Cobb
Isabella Williams Smith by Yvonne Collier Gwin
Mary Kay Snyder by Barbara Cook Barnes
Howard Kent Soper by Carroll Soper
Lucy Pierce Spruill by Susan Neal Watson
Sylvia Stamm by Carol Howell
Anna Stearns by Tibbie Field
Joan Stone by Connie Stone
Anna Estes Strawbridge by Edith Shipley Moore
Trudie Taylor by David Taylor
Ernestine Taylor by Jane Taylor Albright
Michael Gaulphe Thomas by Ann Stokes
Elizabeth Alexander Thomas by Caro Williams
Patricia Bouchelle Trice by Ellen Gray Lea
Lea Jablonsky Uhre by Anna Duff, Mimi Hurst and Susan Walker
Lucy Burwell Baskervill Van Pelt by Sallie Feild
Elizabeth Blakemore Vaughan by Louise Gray
Ruth Vordenbaumen by Nellwyn East
Margie West Waller by Susan Nading
Nancy Weston by Sara Stephens
Leonore Wetherill by Carol Gould
Susan Wilkinson by Harriet and Laura Stephens
Thomas Williams by Maude Williams
Luana Wilsey by Kathryn Lerch
Ann Sternberger Young by Lucinda Matthews
Josephine Espy Frank Zelov by Charenton Zelov Drake
Helen Hill Hopkins Zelov by Charenton Zelov Drake
Honoraria
Gifts were made in honor of the following individuals:
Candice Ainsworth by Peri Pepmueller
Frances Walker Altmaier by Priscilla du Pont
Anne Catherine Anderson by Mary Anderson
Katherine Armato by Agnes Asman
Joyce Artz by Phyllis Irby
Mary Bainbridge by Jeanne Goodwin
Meg Beasley by Flowerree McDonough
Sara Becker by Ursula Baxley
Margaret Benton by Joan Howell
Mary Beall Beverly by Theresa Brown
Dorothy Blitch by Ann Cox Strub
Katherine Graham Blount by Katherine Daughtridge
Jane Humphrey Bond by Catherine Wootten
Julia Boomer by Anne Milligan
Ellen Boomer by Anne Milligan
Jane Boylin by Anna Duff, Joyce Ey and Virginia George
Eleanore Boyse by Ellen Carstens Schreiber
Elizabeth Brady by Sara Withington
Jean Brown by Sophia Twichell
Veve Brown by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Elizabeth Burgess by Judith Lusk
Carol Cadou by NSCDA in TN, Memphis TC
Virginia Jean Cain by Janet Lempke Barb
Imogene Gay Calvert by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Katherine Taylor Cammack by Anna Duff, Marcy Moody, Virginia Nicholson and William and Margaret Whitaker
Molly Carey by Jacqueline Westfall
Gwinneth Ann Clarkson by Marta Dunetz
Stuart Cobb by Anna Duff, Mrs. Nathan Hendricks, III and Lucinda Wright
Sally Connelly by Mary Heyward Mundy
Louise Johnson Courts by Eloise McCain Hassell
David Cramer by Katherine Trudeau
Mary Bullock Demere by Anne Hendrix
Jennifer Drayton by Virginia White
Anna Duff by Elizabeth Finch and Brantley Knowles
Julia Luros Failey by Sue Tempero
Jessie Lackey Fennell by Cindy Darling Codell
Louann Hoover Feuille by Louann Sanders
Anne Perrin Flynn by Martha Mcleod
Victoria Ingraham Ford by Flo Bliss
Alice Monroe Gage by Catherine Henson
Jane Grantham by Anna Duff Stephanie Hockensmith and Ruthie Hoopes
Lynn Goldsmith by Jane Boylin
Saralee Clements Green by Jennifer Macdonald, Elizabeth Mazyck and Cheryl Winslow
Constance Haynesworth Grund by Marjory Badham
Avery Guszack by Bonnie Bew
Bethe Hagopian by Anna Duff
Beth Hansen by Brenda Nardi
Margaret Haramis by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Mary Nimocks Haugh by Fairley Bell Cook and Jennifer Haugh
Carla Haynes-Clowe by Ann Harder
Joan Benton Howell by Jean Ann Blackwell-Miller
Mary Leslie Huntley by Lee Webster
Jo Beth Hurt by Evelyn Mauldin
Barbara Irving by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Alice Irving by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Lucy Martin Jackson by Laura Clark
Christy James by Frances Burkham
Winston Jenkins by Mary Haskell
Christine Jones by Elizabeth Louis
Terry Elizabeth Keough by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Nancy Lorene Knudsen by Joyce Artz
Nettie Marie Koch by Linda Adelson
Anna Lee by Nancy Norwood
Suzanne Garner Leggett by Joan Poland
Lisa Liles by Joan Everitt
Elsie Taylor Logan by Agnes Asman and Rett Padgett
Patricia MacRae by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Evelyn Van Sant Mauldin by Curtis Flowers
Elizabeth McCallie by Jane Lupton and Flowerree McDonough
Shirley Dowling McCrary by Louise Greene
Stephen McLeod by Carol Bland Dolson
Ginny McTier by Katherine Ingle and Barbara Linville
Mary Yeates Meriwether by Stella Hillard Moore
Mary Whayne Miles by Mary Miles Prince
Katherine Millhouse by Carolyn Satterfield
Pheobe Ann Moore by Rebecca Moore
Kinney Moore by Judy Brown
Edith Shipley Moore by Anne Moore Smith
Diana Morehouse by Eleanor Petty
Ann Lowry Murphey by Betsy Snyder
Frances Murphy by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Mary Newsom by Scotty Steele
Suzanne Birks Nicholson by David and Beth Hamm, George and Nancy Nicholson and Harriet Dodd Port
Gertrude Notman by Mary Sisson
Elizabeth LeViness Nottingham by Catherine Kerkam
NSCDA in Hawai’i by Jean Kellerman
NSCDA in Missouri by Katherine Taylor Cammack
NSCDA Staff at Dumbarton House by Katherine Taylor Cammack
Caroline Nusloch by Anna Symon
Cynthia Ann O’Brien by Dawn Roberts and Barbara Ann Sloane
Sarah Stroud Ollison by Julia Boomer, Deborah Gillespie, Betsy Maitland, Harriet Dodd Port, Cynthia Semple, Carol Stephenson and Salome Walton
William Olney by Diana Olney
Jane Pappas by Louise Medaris, Amy Eady Spears and Muffy Dent Stuart
Peri Pepmueller by Tandy Thompson
Jean Perkins by Kelley Gambera, Nancy Robinson, Melinda Swift, Anne Tobey, Noren Ungaretti, Judith Urban, Catherine Webb and Sonya Wolsey-Paige
Jane Minvera Plumer by Georganna Francke
Sara Lynn Postma by Haidee Courson
Anne Randolph by Anna Duff
Jane Hain Ray by Anne Ray Silbernagel
Susanna Rice by Nancy Wolcott
Shelley Church Rodgers by Mia Martin Glickman
Dora Lewis Rogers by Sarah Congdon, Anna Duff, Elizabeth Hobbs and Muffy Dent Stuart
Caroline Ryan by Edith Williams
Kathryn Young Sawtelle by Ellen Hill
Anne Finlay Schenck by Susan Izard
Lee Scott by Shelah Scott
Starr Brown Sears by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Hugh Sherwood by Shereth Coble
Dorothy Shumate by Sandra Curtis
Pauline Sigman by Jo Anne Sherman
Nancy Sipp by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Julia Spalding by Caroline Hedrick
Emily Amason Sparrow by Anne Tidmore
Mary Hamilton Sprague by Mary Boice Read and Karla Horst Benton
Robin von Maur Staak by Amanda Reed Gordon Fletcher
Sylvia Stamm by Carol Stamm Howell
Catherine Stanton by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Edith Stickney by Elizabeth Barr, Katherine Taylor Cammack, Anna Duff, Mary Heyward Mundy, Rosemary Stieglitz, Jane Still and Francie Root
Martha Andrew Timothy by Margaret Jeffery
Susan Paige Trace by Phyllis Gagnon
Mary Stuart Travers by Mary Brown
Francita Stuart Ulmer by Linda Condit
Susan Woodward Walker by Anna Duff, Julia Gregory, Dorothy McLeod and Robert Walker
Cameron Perry Walker by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Isabel Wallop by Anna Duff
Katherine Forbes Wellford by Lucinda Gillespie and Elizabeth Keightley
Gina Whelan by Cara Whelan
Lisa White by Frances Ann Hansford, Lorill Haynes and Anne Horstman
Gladys Whitney by Mary Bea Gross, Abigail Howe, Anne Orsi and Elizabeth Butler Scott
Bethine Standart Whitney by Anna Warren
Charlotte Wickham by Stirling Cassidy Smith
Dixie Wilson by Jane Boylin
Cheryl Winslow by Saralee Green
Elizabeth Wilson Winterbone by Patricia Unruh
Kate Zabriskie by Molly Jordan Carey, Lynn Goldsmith and Francie Root
National Board
Members who served during fiscal year 2024
Executive Committee
Katherine Taylor Cammack, NC • National President
Ellen Boomer, DC
Vice President Region IV
Lisa White, GA
Vice President Region III
Caro Williams, CO •
Vice President Region I
Juanita Allen, HI
Joyce Artz, KS
Susan Betts, AR
Julia Boomer, MI
Eleanore Boyse, DC
Angelyn Bridges, SC
Elizabeth Bucholz, NE
Meg Charbonnet, LA
Laura Clark, AL
Catherine Cooper, GA •
Jeri Crawford, NV
Ann Fleming, KY
Anne Folkes, TX
Margaret Freeman, NC
Phyllis Gagnon, NH
Charlotte Goering, OH
Carol Gould, MD
Hermine Granberry, MS
Ann Harder, TX
Mary Henderer, DE
Stephanie Hockensmith, VT
Irene Holmes, MO
Elizabeth Howard, FL
Holly Hunt, NY
Lyn Hunt, GA
Tita Hyland, CT
Betsey Hyman, RI
Charbra Jestin, CT
Lydia Kimball, MA
Kathryn Lerch, IN
Connie Lightbody, WA
Lisa Liles, IN
Lois Mackin, MN
Barbara Meyer, WI
Edith Stickney, FL • Vice President NHQ DH
Virginia Keller, OH Vice President Region II
Mary Heyward Mundy, SC • National Recording Secretary
Molly Carey, VA
National Corresponding Secretary
Susanna Meyer, WY
Jayne Middleton, LA
Marguerite Morrison, NY
Virginia Nicholson, GA
Laura Roberts, TN
Beth Robinson, MA
Liza Sackson, VA
Julia Sanford, TN
Julie Sarno, CA
Margaret Schutrumpf, ME
Elsie Smith, VT
Frances Smyth, NC
Ann Talcott, NJ
Meri Taylor, OR
Paige Trace, NH
Cappy Von Stroh, AZ
Kathy Walker, OK
Gina Whelan, PA
Anne Wilson, IA
Dixie Wilson, WV
Sally Wirts, PA
Sonya Wolsey-Paige, IL
Courtenay Wood, IL
Kate Zabriskie, MD
Thank you to the following board members whose terms expired during fiscal year 2024:
Marian Bliss, CA
Cardin Bradley, TN
Genevieve Brown, NY
Ginny Cain, IN
Jane Colonno, CO
Bethe Hagopian, MA National Treasurer
Francie Root, NY
National Assistant Treasurer
Lynn Goldsmith, WV
National Registrar
Sally Connelly, OH
National Historian
Elizabeth Donald, NC
Lagrange Gippe, FL
Freddie Hayes, IL
Miff Koltiska, WY †
Kinney Moore, OH
Marilyn Prado, NJ
Carol Schultz, AZ
Robin Staak, IA
Pat Wall, OR
National Parliamentarian
Leonora Branca, TX
National Archivist
Meg Beasley, TN •
Assistant Registrar
Gail Faherty, CT
Honorary Presidents
Stuart Cobb, AR •
Anna Duff, NY •
Hilary Gripekoven, OR
Marcy Moody, FL •
Nancy Nimick, PA •
Joan Wickersham, MA
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Dumbarton House Board
Members
who served during fiscal year 2024
Executive Committee
Edith Stickney, FL • Chair
Kate Zabriskie, MD Vice Chair
Sara Becker, VA Corresponding Secretary
Candy Ainsworth, OK • Recording Secretary
Marilee Ahalt, WA
Candy Ainsworth, OK •
Helen Arnold, FL •
Mary Bainbridge, CT
Sara Becker, VA
Ludy Biddle, VT
Susan Billip, TX
Barbara Burwell, MN
Gwinneth Clarkson, DC
Jennifer Drayton, MA
Jill Failey, IN
Priscilla Grew, NE •
Priscilla Growney, HI
Kendie Hartman, WY •
Mary Flagg Haugh, NC •
Sarah Heatwole, CA •
Mary Hickok, DE •
Joan Howell, AZ
Lucy Jackson, AL
Avery Jenkins, ME
Bethe Hagopian, MA
Treasurer
Isabel Wallop, WY •
Region I Representative
Jean Perkins, IL •
Region II Representative
Anne Horstman, GA
Region III Representative
Winston Jenkins, MS
Christine Jones, NY •
Elsie Logan, SC
Stanzi Lucy, CO •
Benjie Manley, MD
Flowerree McDonough, TN
Marjorie Nichols, OR
Cynthia O’Brien, IA
Sarah Ollison, MI
Janie Pappas, KY
Peri Pepmueller, MO
Jean Perkins, IL •
Mary Prendergast, NJ
Dora Rogers, PA •
Libby Siskron, LA
Mary Sprague, WI
Mary Waples, NH
Kit Wellford, WV
Lisa White, GA
Gladys Whitney, AR
Avery Jenkins, ME
Region IV Representative
Katherine Taylor Cammack, NC •
National President
Ex officio
Members at Large
Katy Amling FL •
Amy Dewey DC
Anne Horstman GA
Sally Kernan CT
Elizabeth King NC
Shirley McCrary AL
Frances McGuire OR
Susan Walker TN •
Isabel Wallop WY •
Ex Officio Members
Meg Beasley, TN
Katherine Cammack, NC
Catherine Cooper, GA
Bethe Hagopian, MA
Beth Robinson, MA
Carol Cadou, NSCDA Executive Director
Honorary Members
Louise Buonassisi †
Stuart Cobb, AR •
Janie Grantham, VT •
Ex Officio Past Chairs
Jodie Allen, SC •
Jane Boylin, WV •
Anna Duff, NY •
Janie Grantham, VT •
Nancy Nimick, PA •
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Support What Dames Do
Mission: Women opening doors to America’s history through preservation, education and service to inspire a shared love of country
Values: We are legacy-inspired, dedicated and visionary.
Giving & Purpose
Since 1891 the NSCDA has encouraged its members to support NSCDA projects, programs and places they are passionate about. Every gift of any size counts. Each one makes an impact and sustains our mission for the future.
Steady philanthropic support ensures continuation of key initiatives that are critical to our mission.
• Donations to NSCDA National Headquarters Dumbarton House Annual Appeal support annual operating expenses of the NSCDA and Dumbarton House along with ongoing preservation and education initiatives.
• Donations to Dumbarton House Fund for the Future ensure the preservation of Dumbarton House for the benefit of future generations. Dumbarton House is a 224-yearold building with gardens and historic collections and the only nationally owned NSCDA property.
Ways to Give
• Mail your gift to the NSCDA at 2715 Q Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
• Make your gift online at nscda.org/ support.
• Become a monthly donor to provide ongoing support we can count on. Your gift adds up, helping the NSCDA further its mission.
• Consider stock gifts, IRA charitable rollovers or non-probate assets.
• Include the NSCDA in your estate plan. Let us know if you do, so that we recognize your commitment as a member of the Legacy Circle.
Learn more at nscda.org/support or contact Director of Finance & Administration Edith Laurencin at 202-337-2288 (ext. 2221) or by email at edithlaurencin@nscda.org
