Hello NCSCAR members! I started off this year with a bang by attending the CAR National Convention in Washington D.C.. Here, I met up with old friends, and made many new ones! It was very exciting to be sworn in as the North Carolina State President at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s homestead. Shortly after returning home, I brought greetings to the North Carolina DAR State Conference, and told them all about my project. My next adventure brought me to Jacksonville, Florida for a week-long pre-board meeting. It was an honor to meet many other members of the national board, and work with them to create the skits and costumes and props for all the 9 regional meetings to come. Skit rehearsals ran late every night, and it was a blast! That was followed by the Southeast Regional conference where I got to know the other 4 State Vice Presidents from the Southeast region. Once I got home, I attended the North Carolina CAR senior state board meeting, where the annual state budget was prepared. After that, it was travel time again, this time to Washington D.C. for the Eastern Regional meeting. Once again I dressed up and performed in the skits, and had a blast the whole time! After that, I returned home to attend a Halifax Resolves S.A.R. meeting, to tell them all about my 2018-2019 state presidents project, “Helping Our Veterans Heal.” “Helping Our Veterans Heal” aims to fund the adoption, care, and training of three service dogs to give to veterans in need within North Carolina. Please look for more information later on in this issue.
I’m very excited about this upcoming year!
We had a great Summer Workshop, Picnic, and board meeting which you can read about elsewhere in this issue. We are very excited about winter board on November 3rd, and the next state conference on March 22. Put those on your calendar now! Throughout the year, I also hope to visit as many of you as I can during your local society meetings, as well as meetings of D.A.R, S.A.R, and S.R. chapter.
I am confident that this will be an amazing year for all of the Societies in our state. I thoroughly encourage all of you to participate fully in your Society as well as State meetings! I hope you all will support me and my project this year.
All the best,
Daisy Dolicker
State President