The New Hampshire State Organization Daughters of the American Revolution are proud to honor 58 high school seniors for being selected as their high schools’ DAR Good Citizen for 2020-2021.
The DAR Good Citizen program and scholarship contest, created in 1934, is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. Students selected for this award must have the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism.
Patrick Quinn from Hopkinton Middle High School in Hopkinton was selected as the male New Hampshire DAR Good Citizen. Quinn was sponsored by the Mercy Hathaway White Chapter.
Zoey Cormicon from Spaulding High School in Rochester was selected as the female New Hampshire DAR Good Citizen. Cormicon was sponsored by the Mary Torr Chapter.
Both Cormicon and Quinn’s application have moved on to the Northeast Division competition.
Other local students were Jacob Blake of Bishop Brady High School, Brooke Biehl of Bow High School, Elizabeth Guilotte of Franklin High School, Sarah Bodien of Merrimack Valley High School, Sophia Brasley of Pembroke Academy, Amber Johnson of Pittsfield Middle/High School, Oliva Noni of Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, Annabelle Eisenmann of Gilford High School, Jason Keysar of Interlakes, Aiden Eldridge of Laconia High School, and Madison Gilbert of Winnisquam.
The Buntin-Rumford-Webster Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will sponsor a Humanities to Go program on April 13 at 7 p.m. by Zoom (virtually). The speaker is Jo Radner, who received her PhD from Harvard University.
Radner spent 31 years as a professor at American University in Washington, D.C. There she taught literature, folklore, women’s studies, American studies, Celtic studies, and storytelling. She has published books and articles in all those fields, and is now writing a book titled Performing the Paper: Rural Self-Improvement in Northern New England, about a 19th-century village tradition of creating and performing handwritten literary newspapers. She will give a talk on “Family Stories: How and Why to Remember and Tell Them.”
Telling personal and family stories is fun – and much more. Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children the self-knowledge to carry them through hard times. Knowledge of family history has even been linked to better teen behavior and mental health. Radner shares foolproof ways to mine memories and interview relatives for meaningful stories. The public is invited to attend.
The link for the Zoom meeting is us02web.zoom.us/j/87822043339? pwd= Q2hvS3I4QTN1OFFud2 lOcG5tUTg2QT09.
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is the largest women’s service organization in the United States. DAR is dedicated to promoting education, historic preservation and patriotism. We are proud to support education with initiatives in the schools such as literacy promotion, Community Classroom initiatives, Classroom grants, essay contests at 5-8 grade and high school levels, and annual Good Citizen selection and recognition from the area high school senior classes. For further information about these programs, please contact Chapter Regent, Kathleen Sternenberg, at kas@sternenberglaw.com.
The Belknap Mill’s third and final concert of the 2021 Bell & Brick Virtual Coffeehouse Concert series is pleased to welcome Green Heron on March 25 at 6:30 p.m. Ensuring a high-quality musical experience we are pleased to be working with The Greenhouse Recording Studio and NH Music Collective. You can livestream this concert on the Belknap Mill’s Facebook Page and YouTube channel. The music of Green Heron stretches across the entire folk landscape. Old-time, folk, bluegrass, country, Irish and blues music are all represented as the band brings the back porch to the stage.
Featuring Betsy Heron on fiddle, banjo and vocals, and Scott Heron on guitar, banjo and vocals, the duo has been sharing stages together since 2016. With two albums to their name, the two songwriters weave the contemporary with the traditional and deliver high-energy live performances.
Visit greenheronmusic.com to learn more. Wayfarer Coffee Roasters and Hermit Woods Winery will offer special concert promotions the day of and during the show that will be available through the following weekend. The code for this special offer will be streamed during the concert.
For more information, contact Tara Shore at operations@belknapmill.org.
The H. L. Turner Group, an architecture, engineering, and building science firm based in Concord, is pleased to announce the establishment of The Turner Group Scholarship, which will support and empower New Hampshire’s high school seniors to pursue secondary degrees in architecture and engineering.
The firm will award one $1,000 scholarship to a senior enrolled in an architecture program and one $1,000 scholarship to a senior enrolled in an engineering program beginning in the fall 2021 semester.
The Turner Group strives to foster excellence among tomorrow’s architects and engineers, and hopes that this scholarship will further enhance our efforts to assist New Hampshire’s most promising youth pursuing careers in those fields.
Several members of our firm have graduated from, taught and/or presented guest lectures at educational institutions such as NHTI, the University of New Hampshire and other institutions of higher learning, and the team is excited to be able to give back to the next generation through the establishment of this scholarship.
Recipients will be announced in late April of each academic year. The link to apply is https://bit.ly/3lhQl7c.