Chapter Activities and Projects
La Jolla Chapter, NSDAR
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"We want a society founded on service." - Eugenia Washington, DAR Founder |
In the La Jolla Chapter of DAR we have a vibrant and active group of women who make a difference in our community, everyday! DAR boasts thousands of service hours every year. We are excited to share some of the projects we work on!
Always sharing our love for History, Patriotism, and education!
Chapter activities
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Other events
Boston Tea Party Reenactment (Dec. 2023)
December 16, 2023, the La Jolla Chapter participated in a Reenactment of the Boston Tea Party, at Bayfront Park, Chula Vista, CA.
See more photos from this event:
- Reenactment of the Boston Tea Party in Chula Vista
- Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
Wreaths Across America La Jolla Patriots Remembrance Tree (April 2022)
At the April Tea, members voted to adopt a Remembrance Tree in the new "CSSDAR Grove Within the Grove" at Wreaths Across America's Tip Land in Maine, one of the first such trees among CSSDAR chapters. Dog tags honoring our 104 Revolutionary War Patriot Ancestors will hang on it as a living memorial, with more added as new members join. Every three years the tree is tipped, and those branches help make wreaths placed on veterans' graves each December — linking our patriots to today's veterans.
Shelter to Soldier (2022)
Shelter to Soldier™ is a CA 501c3 nonprofit organization that adopts dogs from local shelters and trains them to become psychiatric service dogs for post-9/11 veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress (PTS), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Military Sexual Trauma (MST).
The Chemawa Indian School (2021)
The Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon, remained the oldest continuously operating off-reservation boarding school in the U.S. (founded 1880), serving Native American students in grades 9-12. Promoted by the American Indians Committee, D.A.R. provided scholarships for students as well as sewn masks to allow for groups gatherings.
Supported the San Diego Food Bank (2020)
The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in San Diego County. Last year, the Food Bank distributed over 50 million pounds of food, and the Food Bank serves, on average, 400,000 people per month in San Diego County.
Monumental National D.A.R. Projects
Madonna of the Trails
The Madonna of the Trail is a series of 12 identical pioneer mother statues commissioned in the late 1920s by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) to honor the courage and faith of women who helped settle the American West.
A national project that is continuously supported by the chapter is the work to establish the Old Trails Road as a great National Memorial Highway. In 1911, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution established a national committee known as the National Old Trails Road Committee whose work was to erect monuments in each of the 12 states through which the National Old Trails Road passes.
Created by sculptor August Leimbach and funded by contributions, the Madonna of the Trail monuments were intended to provide a symbol of the courage and faith of the women whose strength and love aided so greatly in conquering the wilderness and establishing permanent homes.
The Madonna of the Trail is a pioneer woman clasping her baby with her young son clinging to her skirts. This is typical of the work undertaken by the National Society.
The California Madonna of the Trails Marker is the western-most statue, dedicated on February 1, 1929.
Want to know more about our amazing work? Look at our National and State Websites here:
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
California State Society Daughters of the American Revolution