History of the Society of Sons of the Revolution

A Century of Service (continued)

Pennsylvania Society Publications

From time to time, our Society has published printed matter under its own imprint. Such items have varied from an issue for a particular occasion to works of durable nature for long life and influence. Among the earliest and perhaps the rarest is a "Souvenir of the Seventh Annual Celebration of the Evacuation Day" at "Pennypacker's Mills, June 17, 1899" -- a colored map of the Schuylkill from Collegeville to Philadelphia showing roads, ferries and homes as they were at the time of the Revolution. In 1898, the Society published a Decennial Register and may have published other books and pamphlets during its first decade. In 1903, having restored the tomb of Captain Gustavus Conyngham in St. Peter's Churchyard, an illustrated monologue on his services in the cause of American independence was published, written by the then chairman of the Board of Managers. In 1913 there appeared by order of the Board, The Standards, Flags and Banners of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, containing eighteen color plates plus descriptive text. In 1948, the Society published American and French Flags of the Revolution, from the pen of Frank Earle Schermerhorn, a former captain of the Color Guard.

Three recent publications are of the highest quality. The first, The American Revolution in the Delaware Valley, appeared upon commission by the Society, was published in the Bicentennial year as part of our special program, and was introduced by its author, Edward S. Gifford, Jr., in his 1976 address to our annual meeting. Nine hundred copies have been distributed to colleges and libraries.

The second, Standards and Colors of the American Revolution, resulted from the learned and expert enlargement of the Society's earlier flag books by its historian, Edward W. Richardson. After sponsorship jointly by the Society, the Color Guard, and the University of Pennsylvania Press, this elegant authoritative volume made its appearance in 1982 and has received wide distribution.

In 1990, in celebration of a century of patriotic service, the Society published its Centennial Register: 1888 - 1988. The Centennial Register was principally the work of its editor, Mark Frazier Lloyd, then the Society's Registrar, who developed the content and managed the production of the 994-page volume under the direction of the Centennial Celebration Committee, chaired by Mark Cleveland Tobin, then a senior Vice-President of the Society. Jefferson Monroe Moak, II served as associate editor of the Centennial Register and shortly after its publication he was admitted to membership in the Society. In addition to documenting the history and current position of the Society and its Color Guard, the Centennial Register presented an alphabetical roster of 5,594 members of the Society -- every man admitted to membership from the date of the Society's inception to 31 December 1988 -- and a corresponding alphabetical roster of the 3,457 ancestors whose patriotic service in promoting the cause of the American Revolution had conferred upon their descendants eligibility for membership in the Sons of the Revolution. The Centennial Register therefore became the authoritative reference tool for the Society's current members and for advancing the growth of Society membership. The Centennial Register has been distributed to more than 350 libraries and historical repositories throughout the United States. It has also served as a model for other state societies in the General Society, its format virtually copied by similar centennial publications emanating from the California, Alabama and Virginia Societies. Current plans of the Pennsylvania Society call for the database, which underlay the production of the register, to be updated and made available through the Internet.

In many ways, the Centennial Register represents the end of an era. It was the last large publication authored, edited and published solely by the Society. Since 1990, the Society has instead moved in the direction of support for historical and patriotic publications, rather than distributing them on our own. In that same year, Society President Charles Vansant Esler directed a gift to Cliveden of the National Trust for Historic Preservation to purchase hardware and software appropriate for desktop publishing. Four years later, Thomas J. McGuire completed and Cliveden published, The Surprise of Germantown, or the Battle of Cliveden, October 4^th, 1777, 150 copies of which the Society purchased and distributed free of charge to libraries and historical repositories in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

In his first year of office, Society President Mark Cleveland Tobin initiated the City of Philadelphia Archives historical editing project. Again, the Society provided the funding and acted as Treasurer for a join project which was supported by no fewer that fifteen other hereditary and cultural organizations. On behalf of this joint committee, the Society engaged a consulting project archivist who was supervised by the City Archivist. The Society also purchased the computer hardware and software on which, between 1992 and 1995, several important 17th. and 18th. century City Archives collections were organized, arranged and indexed. The Society and the Color Guard then, on their own, supported the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in publishing two historical books, Guide to the Mortgages of the General Loan Office of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1724 - 1756 (published in 1995) and Guide to Records of the Sale of Commonwealth Property in the County of Philadelphia, 1780 - 1798 (published in 1996). The Society then distributed 200 copies of both books free to libraries and historical repositories throughout the tri-state area.

Thoughout the past decade, the Society and the Color Guard, have both contributed support to the Biographical Dictionary of Early Pennsylvania Legislators, volume one of which was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1992 and volume two in 1997. In 1998, the Society and Color Guard voted to increase their support of the Early Pennsylvania Legislators project, as volume three will contain the biographies of many statesmen who became leaders in the Revolutionary War and eligible ancestors for our members.

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Awards and Honors Earned by the Society

The Society's variety of responsible and affirmative activities have made it known as a body of doers and have earned for it a series of General Society awards over the past quarter century. The General Society has presented its highest honor, the Trent Trophy, to Pennsylvania at the Triennials of 1976, 1982, and 1994. Pennsylvania took the Travelling Banner Award, which recognizes the state society with the greatest increase in membership, at the Triennials of 1976 and 1982. Pennsylvania has also been the recipient of the Sons of Liberty Award, bestowed for substantial support of General Society programs for the preservation of principles formulated in the establishment of our country. At the 1997 Triennial, the General Society's awards committee declared the Pennsylvania Society once again the leader in the point totals for the Trent Trophy, but ineligible, under the rules, to take the Trophy for successive three-year terms. Pennsylvania therefore aims to take the award again in 2000.

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Patriotic Activities

Throughout its history, the Society has demonstrated leadership on public policy issues which cut to the core of American values. The two most sustained efforts have been devoted, one the one hand, to combating the spread of Communist doctrine and on the other, to promoting patriotism through the development of a national system of historic parks. As early as the 1930s, the Society adopted and distributed numerous resolutions condemning Communism and warning of its threat to our nation. For fifty years the subject was vigorously pursued through the dissemination of educational literature chosen by an American Heritage Committee and approved by the Board of Managers. The leadership of the Pennsylvania Society soon resulted in the creation of a similar program by the General Society.

Simultaneously, under the leadership of Society President Edwin Owen Lewis, civic-minded Philadelphians advanced the cause of establishing a national historic park centered on Independence Square. They envisioned a great open space where all Americans, indeed, all peoples inspired by American values, could gather and celebrate the principles of freedom of conscience, opportunity for all, government by representative democracy, and law by an independent judiciary. In 1948 these local leaders were successful, as Philadelphia Congressman Hardie Scott introduced enabling legislation which President Truman signed into law that same year.

A quarter century later, preparations for a national observance of the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and American independence brought a fresh infusion of Federal funds to Philadelphia's historica sites. Again the Sons of the Revolution were in the forefront. Pennsylvania Society member Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr., then U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, was the principal architect of the work. Independence National Historical Park was dramatically expanded towards the Delaware River and a great Visitors Center constructed. Scott was also successful in obtaining appropriations of hundreds of millions of dollars for the purchase of land and establishment of National Park Service educational facilities at Valley Forge. As described above, the Pennsylvania Society has subsequently been very active in the educational programs of Valley Forge National Historical Park.

Beginning in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the activities of the American Heritage Committee have been re-directed towards seeking out and supporting patriotic public celebrations and historical publications as envisioned by the founders of the Society.

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Waynesborough

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Special Projects

Acquisitions and gifts for our educational objectives have become another function carried out through committee action. A Special Projects committee was first appointed in 1963 and was made permanent in the following year. Its first project was the furnishing of the court-martial room in the Bake House at Valley Forge, opened by formal ceremony in 1966. In 1968, the Society and the Color Guard shared in the restoration of the Parry House in New Hope. In 1976 came the furnishing of a bedroom at Harriton in Bryn Mawr. The early 1980s saw the furnishing of General Varnum's quarters at Valley Forge. With this and the revision of the Society's film, "Valley Forge, A Winter Encampment," the Friends of Valley Forge presented to the Society its Friend of the Year award at a formal reception in 1984. In the following year, the committee completed the furnishing of the library in Waynesborough, the home of General Wayne.

The Society views its role to provide the seed money to get local participation in ambitious projects started. To this end, in 1994 the Society provided an initial gift to the American Revolution Patriot's Fund. This fund has worked with the Mayor's office and Congress to secure funding for the restoration of Washington Square in Philadelphia, the location of a tomb of the Unknowns where over 2,000 Revolutionary War soldiers were buried in mass graves. This project, estimated to cost nearly $3,500,000, should complete in the year 2000 and has had the active participation of several members of the Board of Managers.

In 1997, a seed money grant was provided to the Paoli Battlefield committee that is seeking to preserve this battleground in Chester County. Again, this initial grant has helped the fledgling committee gain recognition and has helped them recruit other foundations to assist in the cause of preserving our national heritage dating from the Revolutionary War.

A unique acquisition was that in 1978 of the gold medal awarded by Congress to Anthony Wayne for his recapture of the impregnable Stony Point on the Hudson in 1779 at the expense of British Colonel Henry Johnson. It was placed on display at the United States Mint in Philadelphia on July 15, 1979, exactly two hundred years after the dead-of-night exploit by drawn bayonet.

Supplementing purchases, many worthy gifts have been made by the Society through the years, typified by such objectives as the restoration of the Jefferson House at Seventh and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin's home in London, and the Society's pew at Valley Forge Chapel; as well as the preservation of Waynesborough as a national monument, restoration of the Statue of Liberty, and support of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Moland House in Bucks County, and Fort Mifflin historical societies and the Brandywine Battlefield Museum.

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Independence Day - Let Freedom Ring Celebration

An important public service which has become national in scope and interest over the last twenty-nine years, has been a well-planned July 4 program at Independence Hall and Washington Square. Known as "Operation Patriotism" when it was instituted in 1969, it is now the "Bell Ringing Ceremony" because it involves the tapping of the Liberty Bell by a Descendant of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the broadcast nationally of the ringing of the Tower Bell. As a rededication to the American principles and to a revival of patriotism, it signals the simultaneous ringing of bells throughout the land by pre-arrangement. From Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the Society received the George Washington Honor Medal Award for this event, as presented in 1969 and again in 1970. In 1992, the celebration on Independence Mall was expanded to include the ceremonial wreath laying at the Washington Square Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldiers. Both these commemorative events continue to this day.

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Society and Color Guard Insignia, with Society Rosette

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Our Future

Our Society has never been one which is self-executing along the simple lines of a social club. True, its members have arranged and attended many pleasant occasions. But we are also strongly patriotic and public-service minded in purpose. Looking to the future, formulation of a constructive patriotic policy may call upon us for our finest work in the face of many evidences of the downgrading of respect for American institutions. The concept of nationalism, once a new strengthening development growing from local and colonial divergences, may acquire unwholesome connotations when not wisely applied in a shrinking world. However, in recent times, it may fall to our Society to remind the people of this nation that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, because the agents of tyranny have not gone to sleep simply because the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were adopted as the charter of this great nation.

Fortunately, we do not find ourselves poor in personal or material resources for carrying the Society into the future. Many members, both through the years and very recently, have been material benefactors in generous measure; and our roster will surely continue to list many persons of civic consciousness, drive, and unselfish dedication to American ideals. But making the most of our opportunities will require constant new approaches as in the past.

Again, the very fabric of the Society provides the setting for a unique combination of historical emphasis and civic activity. Today the history of our origins as a nation is ever increasingly a vital and up-to-the-minute subject, deeply interwoven with a conscious appreciation of the liberties won by hard toil and lives and with a determination to preserve and strengthen them. As our members continue in tried paths and develop new ones by devoted effort, applying our original purposes to the new challenges appearing in each generation, so will the Society's future be secure and its influence increase. Its birth was a response to strong feelings. May their strength continue to be translated into helpful action! Public service, patriotism, and fellowship will supply the key to the future.

To Table of Contents

A Century of Service (continued)

Pennsylvania Society Publications

From time to time, our Society has published printed matter under its own imprint. Such items have varied from an issue for a particular occasion to works of durable nature for long life and influence. Among the earliest and perhaps the rarest is a "Souvenir of the Seventh Annual Celebration of the Evacuation Day" at "Pennypacker's Mills, June 17, 1899" -- a colored map of the Schuylkill from Collegeville to Philadelphia showing roads, ferries and homes as they were at the time of the Revolution. In 1898, the Society published a Decennial Register and may have published other books and pamphlets during its first decade. In 1903, having restored the tomb of Captain Gustavus Conyngham in St. Peter's Churchyard, an illustrated monologue on his services in the cause of American independence was published, written by the then chairman of the Board of Managers. In 1913 there appeared by order of the Board, The Standards, Flags and Banners of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, containing eighteen color plates plus descriptive text. In 1948, the Society published American and French Flags of the Revolution, from the pen of Frank Earle Schermerhorn, a former captain of the Color Guard.

Three recent publications are of the highest quality. The first, The American Revolution in the Delaware Valley, appeared upon commission by the Society, was published in the Bicentennial year as part of our special program, and was introduced by its author, Edward S. Gifford, Jr., in his 1976 address to our annual meeting. Nine hundred copies have been distributed to colleges and libraries.

The second, Standards and Colors of the American Revolution, resulted from the learned and expert enlargement of the Society's earlier flag books by its historian, Edward W. Richardson. After sponsorship jointly by the Society, the Color Guard, and the University of Pennsylvania Press, this elegant authoritative volume made its appearance in 1982 and has received wide distribution.

In 1990, in celebration of a century of patriotic service, the Society published its Centennial Register: 1888 - 1988. The Centennial Register was principally the work of its editor, Mark Frazier Lloyd, then the Society's Registrar, who developed the content and managed the production of the 994-page volume under the direction of the Centennial Celebration Committee, chaired by Mark Cleveland Tobin, then a senior Vice-President of the Society. Jefferson Monroe Moak, II served as associate editor of the Centennial Register and shortly after its publication he was admitted to membership in the Society. In addition to documenting the history and current position of the Society and its Color Guard, the Centennial Register presented an alphabetical roster of 5,594 members of the Society -- every man admitted to membership from the date of the Society's inception to 31 December 1988 -- and a corresponding alphabetical roster of the 3,457 ancestors whose patriotic service in promoting the cause of the American Revolution had conferred upon their descendants eligibility for membership in the Sons of the Revolution. The Centennial Register therefore became the authoritative reference tool for the Society's current members and for advancing the growth of Society membership. The Centennial Register has been distributed to more than 350 libraries and historical repositories throughout the United States. It has also served as a model for other state societies in the General Society, its format virtually copied by similar centennial publications emanating from the California, Alabama and Virginia Societies. Current plans of the Pennsylvania Society call for the database, which underlay the production of the register, to be updated and made available through the Internet.

In many ways, the Centennial Register represents the end of an era. It was the last large publication authored, edited and published solely by the Society. Since 1990, the Society has instead moved in the direction of support for historical and patriotic publications, rather than distributing them on our own. In that same year, Society President Charles Vansant Esler directed a gift to Cliveden of the National Trust for Historic Preservation to purchase hardware and software appropriate for desktop publishing. Four years later, Thomas J. McGuire completed and Cliveden published, The Surprise of Germantown, or the Battle of Cliveden, October 4^th, 1777, 150 copies of which the Society purchased and distributed free of charge to libraries and historical repositories in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

In his first year of office, Society President Mark Cleveland Tobin initiated the City of Philadelphia Archives historical editing project. Again, the Society provided the funding and acted as Treasurer for a join project which was supported by no fewer that fifteen other hereditary and cultural organizations. On behalf of this joint committee, the Society engaged a consulting project archivist who was supervised by the City Archivist. The Society also purchased the computer hardware and software on which, between 1992 and 1995, several important 17th. and 18th. century City Archives collections were organized, arranged and indexed. The Society and the Color Guard then, on their own, supported the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in publishing two historical books, Guide to the Mortgages of the General Loan Office of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1724 - 1756 (published in 1995) and Guide to Records of the Sale of Commonwealth Property in the County of Philadelphia, 1780 - 1798 (published in 1996). The Society then distributed 200 copies of both books free to libraries and historical repositories throughout the tri-state area.

Thoughout the past decade, the Society and the Color Guard, have both contributed support to the Biographical Dictionary of Early Pennsylvania Legislators, volume one of which was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1992 and volume two in 1997. In 1998, the Society and Color Guard voted to increase their support of the Early Pennsylvania Legislators project, as volume three will contain the biographies of many statesmen who became leaders in the Revolutionary War and eligible ancestors for our members.

To Table of Contents

Awards and Honors Earned by the Society

The Society's variety of responsible and affirmative activities have made it known as a body of doers and have earned for it a series of General Society awards over the past quarter century. The General Society has presented its highest honor, the Trent Trophy, to Pennsylvania at the Triennials of 1976, 1982, and 1994. Pennsylvania took the Travelling Banner Award, which recognizes the state society with the greatest increase in membership, at the Triennials of 1976 and 1982. Pennsylvania has also been the recipient of the Sons of Liberty Award, bestowed for substantial support of General Society programs for the preservation of principles formulated in the establishment of our country. At the 1997 Triennial, the General Society's awards committee declared the Pennsylvania Society once again the leader in the point totals for the Trent Trophy, but ineligible, under the rules, to take the Trophy for successive three-year terms. Pennsylvania therefore aims to take the award again in 2000.

To Table of Contents

Patriotic Activities

Throughout its history, the Society has demonstrated leadership on public policy issues which cut to the core of American values. The two most sustained efforts have been devoted, one the one hand, to combating the spread of Communist doctrine and on the other, to promoting patriotism through the development of a national system of historic parks. As early as the 1930s, the Society adopted and distributed numerous resolutions condemning Communism and warning of its threat to our nation. For fifty years the subject was vigorously pursued through the dissemination of educational literature chosen by an American Heritage Committee and approved by the Board of Managers. The leadership of the Pennsylvania Society soon resulted in the creation of a similar program by the General Society.

Simultaneously, under the leadership of Society President Edwin Owen Lewis, civic-minded Philadelphians advanced the cause of establishing a national historic park centered on Independence Square. They envisioned a great open space where all Americans, indeed, all peoples inspired by American values, could gather and celebrate the principles of freedom of conscience, opportunity for all, government by representative democracy, and law by an independent judiciary. In 1948 these local leaders were successful, as Philadelphia Congressman Hardie Scott introduced enabling legislation which President Truman signed into law that same year.

A quarter century later, preparations for a national observance of the bicentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and American independence brought a fresh infusion of Federal funds to Philadelphia's historica sites. Again the Sons of the Revolution were in the forefront. Pennsylvania Society member Hugh Doggett Scott, Jr., then U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, was the principal architect of the work. Independence National Historical Park was dramatically expanded towards the Delaware River and a great Visitors Center constructed. Scott was also successful in obtaining appropriations of hundreds of millions of dollars for the purchase of land and establishment of National Park Service educational facilities at Valley Forge. As described above, the Pennsylvania Society has subsequently been very active in the educational programs of Valley Forge National Historical Park.

Beginning in 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the activities of the American Heritage Committee have been re-directed towards seeking out and supporting patriotic public celebrations and historical publications as envisioned by the founders of the Society.

To Table of Contents

Waynesborough

Click on picture for larger view and more infomation

Special Projects

Acquisitions and gifts for our educational objectives have become another function carried out through committee action. A Special Projects committee was first appointed in 1963 and was made permanent in the following year. Its first project was the furnishing of the court-martial room in the Bake House at Valley Forge, opened by formal ceremony in 1966. In 1968, the Society and the Color Guard shared in the restoration of the Parry House in New Hope. In 1976 came the furnishing of a bedroom at Harriton in Bryn Mawr. The early 1980s saw the furnishing of General Varnum's quarters at Valley Forge. With this and the revision of the Society's film, "Valley Forge, A Winter Encampment," the Friends of Valley Forge presented to the Society its Friend of the Year award at a formal reception in 1984. In the following year, the committee completed the furnishing of the library in Waynesborough, the home of General Wayne.

The Society views its role to provide the seed money to get local participation in ambitious projects started. To this end, in 1994 the Society provided an initial gift to the American Revolution Patriot's Fund. This fund has worked with the Mayor's office and Congress to secure funding for the restoration of Washington Square in Philadelphia, the location of a tomb of the Unknowns where over 2,000 Revolutionary War soldiers were buried in mass graves. This project, estimated to cost nearly $3,500,000, should complete in the year 2000 and has had the active participation of several members of the Board of Managers.

In 1997, a seed money grant was provided to the Paoli Battlefield committee that is seeking to preserve this battleground in Chester County. Again, this initial grant has helped the fledgling committee gain recognition and has helped them recruit other foundations to assist in the cause of preserving our national heritage dating from the Revolutionary War.

A unique acquisition was that in 1978 of the gold medal awarded by Congress to Anthony Wayne for his recapture of the impregnable Stony Point on the Hudson in 1779 at the expense of British Colonel Henry Johnson. It was placed on display at the United States Mint in Philadelphia on July 15, 1979, exactly two hundred years after the dead-of-night exploit by drawn bayonet.

Supplementing purchases, many worthy gifts have been made by the Society through the years, typified by such objectives as the restoration of the Jefferson House at Seventh and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin's home in London, and the Society's pew at Valley Forge Chapel; as well as the preservation of Waynesborough as a national monument, restoration of the Statue of Liberty, and support of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Moland House in Bucks County, and Fort Mifflin historical societies and the Brandywine Battlefield Museum.

To Table of Contents

Independence Day - Let Freedom Ring Celebration

An important public service which has become national in scope and interest over the last twenty-nine years, has been a well-planned July 4 program at Independence Hall and Washington Square. Known as "Operation Patriotism" when it was instituted in 1969, it is now the "Bell Ringing Ceremony" because it involves the tapping of the Liberty Bell by a Descendant of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the broadcast nationally of the ringing of the Tower Bell. As a rededication to the American principles and to a revival of patriotism, it signals the simultaneous ringing of bells throughout the land by pre-arrangement. From Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the Society received the George Washington Honor Medal Award for this event, as presented in 1969 and again in 1970. In 1992, the celebration on Independence Mall was expanded to include the ceremonial wreath laying at the Washington Square Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldiers. Both these commemorative events continue to this day.

To Table of Contents

Society and Color Guard Insignia, with Society Rosette

Click on picture for larger view and more infomation

Our Future

Our Society has never been one which is self-executing along the simple lines of a social club. True, its members have arranged and attended many pleasant occasions. But we are also strongly patriotic and public-service minded in purpose. Looking to the future, formulation of a constructive patriotic policy may call upon us for our finest work in the face of many evidences of the downgrading of respect for American institutions. The concept of nationalism, once a new strengthening development growing from local and colonial divergences, may acquire unwholesome connotations when not wisely applied in a shrinking world. However, in recent times, it may fall to our Society to remind the people of this nation that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, because the agents of tyranny have not gone to sleep simply because the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were adopted as the charter of this great nation.

Fortunately, we do not find ourselves poor in personal or material resources for carrying the Society into the future. Many members, both through the years and very recently, have been material benefactors in generous measure; and our roster will surely continue to list many persons of civic consciousness, drive, and unselfish dedication to American ideals. But making the most of our opportunities will require constant new approaches as in the past.

Again, the very fabric of the Society provides the setting for a unique combination of historical emphasis and civic activity. Today the history of our origins as a nation is ever increasingly a vital and up-to-the-minute subject, deeply interwoven with a conscious appreciation of the liberties won by hard toil and lives and with a determination to preserve and strengthen them. As our members continue in tried paths and develop new ones by devoted effort, applying our original purposes to the new challenges appearing in each generation, so will the Society's future be secure and its influence increase. Its birth was a response to strong feelings. May their strength continue to be translated into helpful action! Public service, patriotism, and fellowship will supply the key to the future.

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