DAR names recipients of leadership, citizenship awards

The Old Three Notch Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 DAR Youth Leadership and Good Citizens Award winners.

The DAR Youth Leadership Medal is presented to a male or female student who exemplifies the qualities of honor, service, courage, leadership, and patriotism. The program is open to students in grades 5-11, and there may only be one medal awarded per grade per school.

The DAR Good Citizens Award, created in 1934, is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The award recognizes and rewards individuals who possess the qualities of dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism in their homes, schools, and communities. This program is only open to high-school seniors whose schools are accredited by their state board of education or a recognized accrediting organization such that a General Education Development (GED) test is not required to receive a high school diploma. Only one senior per year may be honored as a school’s DAR Good Citizen. United States citizenship is not required.

These students have been selected by their teachers and peers because they demonstrate these qualities to an outstanding degree.

The Good Citizens awards will be presented along with the Youth Leadership award. There will be a ceremony for all award recipients in the auditorium of Andalusia City Hall on Wednesday, April 16, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The Youth Leadership award winners will receive a pin and certificate. The Good Citizen award winners will receive a pin, a certificate, and a red, white, and blue cord to wear at graduation.

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR or NSDAR, is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in supporting the American Revolution. Founded in 1890, the non-profit group promotes patriotism and preserving American history. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of solders or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war.

Applicants for the organization must be at least 18 years of age and have a birth certificate stating that their gender is female. DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. The organization’s motto is “God, Home, and Country.”

Award recipients for 2024-2025 are as follows:

Andalusia — 5th Grade: Florene (Flora) Byars, 6th Grade: Adalyn Johnson, 7th Grade: Paisley Henderson, 8th Grade: Amos Bryan, 9th Grade: Sylvia Elizabeth King, 10th Grade: William Hunter Grimes, 11th Grade: Mia Elizabeth Baumgartner, 12th Grade: Xsiah Khamadi Walker

Fleeta — 5th Grade: Holt Norris, 6th Grade: Jaysa Jowers, 7th Grade: Lakita Lanier, 8th Grade: Tyler Xiong

Florala/W.S. Harlan — 5th Grade: Carsynn Burlison, 6th Grade: Noah Taylor, 7th Grade: Ivy June Kuulei Weber, 8th Grade: Cristian Zamora-Garcia, 9th Grade: Mason Matthew Bennett, 10th Grade: Christopher Matthew Taylor, 11th Grade: Jayla Ann Morrow, 12th Grade: Callie Jennorah Pybus

Opp — 5th Grade: Brooke Elisabeth Burgess, 6th Grade: Lexi Marie Brantley, 7th Grade: Jordyn Aleyah Rice, 8th Grade: Ava Danielle Mills, 9th Grade: Parker Burgess, 10th Grade: Emmy Harrison, 11th Grade: Saban Sasser, 12th Grade: Addison Moseley

Pleasant Home — 5th Grade: Ben Turman, 6th Grade: Maggie Gilford, 7th Grade: Porter Thomasson, 8th Grade: Maddie Kelley, 9th Grade: Amy Caoline Sansom, 10th Grade: Lily Adams, 11th Grade: Emma Grace Anderson, 12th Grade: Nathan Hobbs

Red Level — 5th Grade: Lauren Ryce, 6th Grade: ZyNilah Stoudemire, 7th Grade: Gracelyn Carter, 8th Grade: Blakeleigh Lee, 9th Grade: Anna Claire Gladwell, 10th Grade: Alyssa Lee, 11th Grade: Hunner Goleman, 12th Grade: Bailey Green

Straughn — 5th Grade: Maddison Stinson, 6th Grade: Blake Adams, 7th Grade: Brooke Mitchell, 8th Grade: Wyatt Lewis, 9th Grade: Sophie Geohagan, 10th Grade: Ellie Mooney, 11th Grade: Brenden Bartholomew, 12th Grade: Destiny Windham

With over 3,000 DAR chapters all across the United States, 14 women established the Old Three Notch chapter in Covington County in 1956. The oldest member joined the organization in 1960. Carol Ann-Mullins serves as the current regent (president) of the Old Three Notch chapter.

For more information visit dar.org or message the Andalusia DAR page on Facebook.