THE NAPLES C RIER - PAGE 1 - MARCH 2011 THE NAPLES SINCE 1975 NAPLES CHAPTER N.S.S.A.R. NEWSLETTER MARCH 2011 Fly Your Flag Fly Your Flag Any day you wish, but especially on Patriots Day, 4/18/11 (3rd Monday in April); Armed Forces Day (3rd Satur- day in May), 5/21/11; Memorial Day (last Monday in May and half staff until noon) 5/30/11; Flag Day, 6/14/11; In- dependence Day, 7/4/11; Labor Day, 9/5/11; Constitution Day, 9/17/11; Columbus Day (2nd Monday in October), 10/10/11; Veterans Day 11/11/11; and such other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States. Charter Day Celebration Charter Day Celebration Dinner, Friday March 4th Dinner, Friday March 4th This year the Naples Chapter NSSAR will cele- brate its 38th Anniversary with a DINNER, on Fri- day, March 4th at the Country Club of Naples. The celebration will feature Gerald E. Meeks, President Florida State Society SAR, as the principal speaker. The 6:30 PM dinner will be preceded by a cash bar at 6 PM and posting of the colors by the Color Guard of the Bernardo de Galvez Camp #13 (Naples) under command of compatriot Donald E. Cahill. A choice of two entrées will be prime rib with snow peas and twice baked potato/with salad or chicken piccata with saffron rice and broccoli shallots/with salad. Dessert will be strawberry cheesecake. Please send your reservation request and payment to: W. Richard Hazen, Treasurer, 2011 Gulfshore Blvd. N. #52, Naples, FL 34102-4632 Email: [email protected]________ Prime Rib dinner @ $35. = _____________ ________ Chicken Piccata @ $32. = _____________ Remitted _____________ Your name _______________________________________________ Guest names ____________________________________________________________________________ Please send your reservation and payment to be received by Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Florida Society SAR Winter Board of Managers Meeting The Rumbaugh Oration Contest was a highlight of the Winter BOM Meeting held in Kissimmee on January 28th and 29th. Three contestants competed for 1st Place and the opportunity to compete in the finals at the Na- (Continued on page 3) Rumbaugh
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THE NAPLES CRIER - PAGE 1 - MARCH 2011
THE NAPLES
SINCE 1975 NAPLES CHAPTER N.S.S.A.R. NEWSLETTER MARCH 2011
Fly Your FlagFly Your Flag Any day you wish, but especially on Patriots Day, 4/18/11 (3rd Monday in April); Armed Forces Day (3rd Satur-
day in May), 5/21/11; Memorial Day (last Monday in May and half staff until noon) 5/30/11; Flag Day, 6/14/11; In-dependence Day, 7/4/11; Labor Day, 9/5/11; Constitution Day, 9/17/11; Columbus Day (2nd Monday in October), 10/10/11; Veterans Day 11/11/11; and such other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States.
Charter Day CelebrationCharter Day Celebration Dinner, Friday March 4thDinner, Friday March 4th
This year the Naples Chapter NSSAR will cele-
brate its 38th Anniversary with a DINNER, on Fri-
day, March 4th at the Country Club of Naples.
The celebration will feature Gerald
E. Meeks, President Florida State
Society SAR, as the principal
speaker.
The 6:30 PM dinner will be preceded
by a cash bar at 6 PM and posting of
the colors by the Color Guard of the
Bernardo de Galvez Camp #13
(Naples) under command of compatriot Donald E.
Cahill.
A choice of two entrées will be prime rib with snow
peas and twice baked potato/with salad or chicken
piccata with saffron rice and broccoli shallots/with
salad. Dessert will be strawberry cheesecake.
Please send your reservation request and payment to: W. Richard Hazen, Treasurer,
2011 Gulfshore Blvd. N. #52, Naples, FL 34102-4632
placed third. The contest was held during the after-
noon; however, contestants and com-
patriots had to await the judges‟ deci-
sion which was announced by Rum-baugh Committee Chairman Randy Moody at the evening
Banquet.
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Next Meeting: Dinner, March 4, 2011
Are You SmarterAre You Smarter
Than a 5th Grader?Than a 5th Grader?
The Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781, took place in
the latter part of the Southern Campaign of the Ameri-
can Revolution and of the Revolution itself. It became known as the turning point of the war in the South, part
of a chain of events leading to Patriot victory at York-
town The Cowpens victory was won over crack British
regular army and brought together strong armies and
leaders who made their mark on history.
The Americanism Committee is pleased to announce a National Americanism Poster Contest. This new contest
will be directed at students in the 4th or 5th grades, de-
pending on which grade year the American Revolution is taught in their educational system. The National Soci-
ety Elementary School Poster Contest will stimulate in-
terest in American History in support of the Fourth or
Fifth Grade Curriculum. The topic for the Poster Con-test will be set by the Americanism Committee at each
Spring Trustees‟ Meeting for the upcoming fall school
year. The contest will be judged at the National Con-gress each year.
A representative of the National Art Education Associa-
tion (NAEA) will be invited to participate in the poster
judging. This year‟s topic is The Battle of Cowpens.
Each elementary school‟s winning poster will be pre-
sented for judging by compatriots attending the Naples
Chapter‟s April luncheon. The winning poster at the chapter level will then be judged at the Florida State
level at the Spring (May) Board of Management Meet-
ing in Kissimmee with the winning poster then going to the National Society for judging at the National Con-
gress in Winston-Salem this summer.
In a coming issue of The Naples Crier, information on
this significant battle will be presented.
2011 Spring Board of Management2011 Spring Board of Management Florida Society SAR, May 13th, 14th and 15thFlorida Society SAR, May 13th, 14th and 15th
This is a reminder that the Annual Spring meeting of the
Florida State Society will be held at the RAMADA PLAZA
HOTEL-INN GATEWAY, 7470 Highway 192 West (Exit
64B off I-4) Kissimmee, FL 34747.
The Friday luncheon features recognition of patriots in our community. The Friday evening Awards Banquet honors
the outgoing officers; and, the Saturday Banquet introduces
the incoming officers and their installation.
I recommend, if you are unable to attend other quarterly
State meetings, you should not miss this annual event.
Meeting old friends and new from across Florida is exciting and the Color Guard tops the events with its color and
pomp.
For further information, log onto flssar.org or contact Roy
Richardson. Harris Tucker, John McCullough or Don Ca-
hill. We look forward to having you join us and our wives
this May for a wonderful weekend.
Braden Causey,
wearing the 1st place
medall ion, wi th
R a n d y M o o d y , Chairman of the
Rumbaugh Oration
Committee.
Hannah Stimson with Randy
Moody, Chairman of the Rum-
baugh Oration Committee.
Tristan Stimson with Randy
Moody, Chairman of the
Rumbaugh Oration Commit-
tee. Posting of the Colors at the January 28, 2011 Board of Man-
agement Banquet, Kissimmee, Florida.
THE NAPLES CRIER - PAGE 4 - MARCH 2011
(Continued from previous column) Henry 2010 2010 -- 2011 Naples Chapter Meetings2011 Naples Chapter Meetings
Next Meeting: Dinner, March 4, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011: 38th
CHARTER DAY celebration, 5:30
PM Social, 6:30 PM Dinner, Coun-
try Club of Naples. Guest Speaker:
FLSSAR President Gerald E. Meeks.
Thursday, April 7, 2011: Chapter
Meeting, 11:30 Social, noon Lunch-
eon, Country Club of Naples.
Speaker: Patrick Bottiger, Ph.D., As-
sistant Professor of History, Florida
Gulf Coast University; Subject: Shift
from what historians call the First
Party System into the Second Party System.
Thursday, May 5, 2011: Chapter Meeting, 11:30 Fel-
lowship, noon Luncheon, Country Club of Naples.
Election and installation of officers for 2011-2012.
Speaker to be announced.
Patrick Henry, Virginia House of Burgesses
Born: May 29, 1736
Birthplace: Hanover County, Virginia
Education: (Lawyer, Politician)
Work: Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765; Admitted to the Bar of the General
Court in Virginia, 1769; Elected to the Conti-
nental Congress, 1774; Virginia Militia
Leader, 1775; Governor of Virginia, 1776-
1778, 1784.
Died: June 6, 1799
"Radical," is a title that few men can wear with ease. The
name Patrick Henry, during the revolution and for some
time after, was synonymous with that word in the minds of colonists and Empire alike. Henry's reputation as a pas-
sionate and fiery orator exceeded even that of Samuel Ad-
ams. His Stamp Act Resolutions were, arguably, the first
shot fired in the Revolutionary War. Patrick Henry's personality was a curious antidote to the
stern honor of Washington, the refined logic of Jefferson,
and the well-tempered industry of Franklin. Young Henry was an idler and by many accounts a derelict; though eve-
ryone knew he was bright, he simply would not lift a fin-
ger except to his own pleasure. By the age of 10, his fam-
ily knew that he would not be a farmer, and tried instead to train him toward academe. He would not apply himself
to studies either. At age 21 his father set him up in a busi-
ness that he bankrupted shortly thereafter. Finally the gen-eral public disgust in Hanover and pressure from his
young family (he had married at the age of eighteen)
caused him to study for six weeks and take the bar exam,
which he passed, and begin work as a lawyer. In 1764 he moved to Louisa county, Virginia, where, as a
lawyer, he argued in defense of broad voting rights
(suffrage) before the House of Burgesses. The following year he was elected to the House and soon became its
leading radical member. It was that year that he proposed
the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions. Few members of the Burgesses, as aristocratic a group of legislators as existed
in the colonies, would argue openly for defiance of Gr.
Britain. Henry argued with remarkable eloquence and fer-
vor in favor of the five acts, which by most accounts amounted to a treason against the mother country. In 1774
he represented Virginia in the First Continental Congress
where he continued in the role of firebrand. At the out-break of the revolution, he returned to his native state and
lead militia in defense of Virginia's gunpowder store,
when the royal Governor spirited it aboard a British ship. Henry forced the Governor Lord Dunmore to pay for the
powder at fair price.
In 1776, Henry was elected Governor of Virginia. He was
re-elected for three terms and then succeeded by Thomas Jefferson. He was again elected to the office in 1784. Pat-
rick Henry was a strong critic of the constitution proposed
in 1787. He was in favor of the strongest possible govern-ment for the individual states, and a weak federal govern-
ment. He was also very critical of the fact that the conven-
tion was conducted in secret.
President Washington appointed him Secretary of State in 1795, but Henry declined the office. In 1799, President
Adams appointed him envoy to France, but failing health
required him to decline this office too. He died on June 6, 1799 at age of 63.
(Continued in next column) Henry
The Essential Wisdom of the Founding FathersThe Essential Wisdom of the Founding Fathers
I am often concerned for you and our dear babes, sur-
rounded, as you are, by people who are too timorous and
too much susceptible of alarms. Many fears and jealous-ies and imaginary dangers will be suggested to you, but I
hope you will not be impressed by them. In case of real
danger, of which you cannot fail to have previous intima-
tions, fly to the woods with our children.
-John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, May 2, 1774
THE NAPLES CRIER - PAGE 5 - MARCH 2011
Next Meeting: Dinner, March 4, 2011
Meetings of InterestMeetings of Interest
Big Cypress Chapter, DAR, February 18, 2011; 6 PM
dinner; Country Club of Naples. Program: “An Historical Portrayal of the President‟s Wives”. Speaker Marilyn Fer-
guson.
The Genealogical Society of Collier County meets
March 8, 2011, the second Tuesday of the month at The
Spend 5 nights / 6 days at the Arizona Biltmore during the 2012 Congress
"On The House"!!
Tickets have been printed and are ready to sell for just $20 each. The drawing will be during the 2011 Congress. We will not be mailing individual tickets but if your chapter / society would like to purchase a block of 10 or 20 tickets collectively for your members please contact me for delivery.
For further information contact: Mike Jones: [email protected] Arizona Society – Palo Verde Chapter 2012 Congress Planning Committee Chairman
5 Nights/6 Days for $20, July 7 to 11, 20125 Nights/6 Days for $20, July 7 to 11, 2012
at Phoenix Biltmoreat Phoenix Biltmore
For the 122st Annual NSSAR CongressFor the 122st Annual NSSAR Congress
Raffle tickets ($20 each) will not be sold individu-
ally; rather they will be sold in packets of 10 or 20.
Therefore, it is suggested that the Naples Chapter
“take individual orders”. If there is sufficient inter-
est, the chapter will combine the requests and send a
group order to the Arizona Society.
PLEASE note the drawing takes place at the 121st
Congress at Winston-Salem, NC, this year July 9-13,
2011.
Contact 1st VP Harris Tucker with any questions you
Awards: John L. McCullough Ceremonies: John L. McCullough Membership Data Base: Charles T. Sweeney Color Guard: Donald B. Cahill Eagle Scout Program: Donald B. Cahill Email: I. Harris Tucker and Charles T. Sweeney Law Enforcement: Edward T. Ferguson Membership: W. Richard Hazen Newsletter Editor: I. Harris Tucker JROTC: John L. McCullough Sunshine: Charles E. Cortright Webmaster: I. Harris Tucker Member Directory Editor: Charles T. Sweeney
2011 Gulfshore Blvd. N. #52, Naples, FL 34102-4632 (239) 430-3634
Assistant Treasurer: Charles T. Sweeney
Chaplain: Charles E. Cortright
Registrar: Chase J. Brooke
Historian: Donald B. Cahill
Sergeant-at-Arms: John L. McCullough
Active Past Presidents of the Naples Chapter NSSAR
1978-1979 Dennis R. White 1989-1990 Ralph Norman Cramer, Sr. 1991-1992 W. John Chesney, Jr. 1993-1994 Andrew Barry Crook Nicholls III 1997-1998 John Anson Smith 1998-1999 Dr. Philip Edwin Ballou 2000-2001 James Madison McGarity III 2002-2003 Charles Edgar Ransom, Jr. 2004-2005 James Bennett Applegate, Sr. 2006-2007 Donald Barton Cahill 2007-2009 John Logan McCullough 2009 Samuel O. Cahill
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The Essential Wisdom of the Founding FathersThe Essential Wisdom of the Founding Fathers
Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me in this ap-
pointment, yet I feel great distress from a consciousness that my
abilities and military experience may not be equal to the exten-
sive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I
will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I
posses in their service and for the support of the glorious cause.
I beg they will accept my most cordial thanks for this distin-
guished testimony of their approbation. But lest some unlucky
event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may
be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day
declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. As to pay, sir, I beg leave to
assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have
tempted me to accept this arduous employment [at the expense of
my domestic ease and happiness] I do not wish to make any