Arrowhead Valley Chapter held their annual DAR Good Citizen Award program on February 8, 2019. This year’s program featured students from Redlands East Valley High School, Yucaipa High School, Redlands High School, and Citrus Valley High School. Program Chair Lisa Long introduced this year’s award winners, Laverne Clerk, Jakob Fermanian, Yulissa Navarro and Nicolas Ryan Duke. Each of the four Good Citizen Award winners read their essays on the topic “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility to Preserve It. What New Challenges Will We Face?” Following their presentations, Long presented each student with a NSDAR Good Citizens Pin, Certificate, wallet card and a monetary gift from Arrowhead Valley Chapter NSDAR.
The DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest was created in 1934 and is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. These accomplished students represent diverse talents and interests from community activities to athletics, and possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism; they are selected by their teachers and peers.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR or DAR) is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children. Members are all lineal descendants of those who supported the cause of independence in the Revolutionary War. Arrowhead Valley Chapter NSDAR counts among its members those who work or live in the Inland Empire. To learn more about membership and the work of today's DAR, visit www.DAR.org