Chapter History
Chapter History
Thirty-two members and guests attended the organizational meeting of Governor Thomas Ford Chapter, NSDAR held at Hick's Cafe in Roberts, IL. Mrs. Albert G. Peters of Chicago, State Chair of Organization of Chapters, presided and announced there were already 18 members of this new chapter and expressed gratitude to other chapters from which some of these members transferred.
Mrs. Arthur Arends, Organizing Regent of the chapter, was presented and introduced the following officers: Vice Regent - Mrs. Howard Stuckey
Recording Secretary - Mrs. Wm. G. Raudabaugh
Treasurer - Mrs. Elbert Sawyer
Chaplain - Mrs. Walter Arends
Registrar - Mrs. Clarence Dowse
Additional officers were elected at their next meeting in February, 1960:
Corresponding Secretary - Mrs. William Sherfey
Historian - Mrs. William DuSold
Librarian - Mrs. W. H. Crandall Sr
The Regent appointed Mrs. H. H. Chamberlain as Program Chair and Mrs. John Gallahue as Social Chair.
Mrs. Peters gave a brief history of Thomas Ford, Eighth governor of Illinois, for whom the Chapter was named and read the purpose of DAR. She read the names of nineteen women whose signatures were placed on the Charter. It was decided that the Charter would be held open for one year for the benefit of prospective members whose records were not yet completed.
The charter members as of February 1, 1961, were as follows:
Arends, Bertha Kewley
Arends, Margery Stuckey
Arends, Maxine Bever
Babb, Muriel Abbie
Benson, Lula McLaughlin
Chamberlain, Sara Hodges
Chambers, Dorothy Montelius
Cooper, Florence Irene Kenny
Corkill, Nelrose Isabel
Crandall, Flossie Morris
Crandall, Carole Jean
Day, Lucile Cary
Dowse, Ida Kerr
DuSold, Grace Alberta Cranston
Gallahue, Leota Mansberger
Gebhardt, Mae Foster
Harford, Margery Peregrine
Hill, Sarah Bridges
Horin, Genevieve Rohrer
Hunt, Mabel Dunnan
Johnson, Bessie Miner
Johnson, Laura Peregrine
Keiper, Mary Cunnington
Kelly, Sydney Marie Kenney
Kramer, Sybil Mershon
Marks, Martha Edith Hickok
McKee, Virginia Smith
McKinney, Lucille Ebel
Middleton, Sibyl Hoover
Mies, Gertrude Elva Francis
Moore, Helen Granger
Raudabaugh, Mary Ruth Cline
Reitz, Sarah Mae Kenney
Richter, Beverly Lorraine Buckman
Ryan, Edna Ferne Kenney
Sawyer, Ethel Gilmore
Seng, Nancy Jeannette Kenward
Sharp, Faye Lucille Sharp
Sherfey, Donna Mies
Shoemaker, Clara Hammerlund
Smith, Arlene Benson
Squires, Oma Foster
Stuckey, Erma Fitzgerald
Wilson, Lilla Snedaker
Woodward, Myrtle Hammerlund
Wright, Blanche Foster