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Tent Projects & Programs - 2010
Full Year
August 2010
- Special guest was Department President Nancy Chotkey. She brought a U.S. flag hand-made afghan to show, which she is selling voices for as her Department project, with proceeds going to benefit the DUVCW museum & headquarters in Springfield, IL.
- Wilma Norton gave an update on her work registering Arkansas Civil War veteran’s burials with the SUVCW Grave Registration Project. Sherrie Ferguson has registered all but a couple of our Tent ancestors with the SUVCW Grave Registration Project.
- Donations were collected for the USO Phone Card program for a donation in the fall.
- Socks and shirts were collected for a donation to the Claremore Veterans Home to be given in November on Veteran’s Day weekend. If you have a donation you can drop them off for Jae Jaeger at the Tulsa Genealogy Center (Tulsa City County Library) at 29th and Harvard, near the Village Inn.
- Jae Jaeger presented a slide show and report of the 120th DUVCW National Convention. The new DUV Library building and Memorial Brick Garden were dedicated during the convention.
May 2010
- Jae Jaeger attended a Naturalization ceremony for nearly forty persons, held in the Centennial School in Broken Arrow.
- Members of Tent #19 attended the Memorial Day program at Rose Hill Cemetery in Tulsa, OK and a wreath was presented on behalf of the DUVCW.
- One member also attended the 3rd Annual Memorial Day program 31 May 2010 sponsored by the Gandy-Brown VFW Post 4588 & Auxiliary, at the Hill Crest Memorial Park in Haughton, LA.
- Carol Cox gave an update of her work with VAVS. She has 65 hours of volunteer service to date.
- Wilma Norton has been working to register Arkansas Civil War veteran’s burials with the SUVCW Grave Registration Project. Jae Jaeger is researching OK CW veteran burials in OK.
- Our Tent continues to gather info to register our Tent Ancestors with the SUVCW Grave Registration Project.
- Members brought some socks and shirts for Veterans in Claremore. Additional items will be collected in August and November, to provide a holiday gift box.
- Donations were collected for the USO Phone Card program for a donation in the fall.
- Jae presented a brief program about a special program of Active Military, providing a handout and description of the USNS Comfort.
- Carol Cox continued part 2 of her February program from a past The Smithsonian issue about President Lincoln from those who knew him.
February 2010
- Carol Cox reported about her credentialing and assignment as a VAVS representative for DUV, and specifically, for Tent #19. Although meetings and coordination occurs in Muskogee, Carol is assigned for volunteer hours at the downtown Tulsa Veterans Service office. They could really use more volunteers. Presently she works in the coffee room that is near the Outpatient waiting room. She will also be attending meetings in Muskogee for the Reps and Deputies.
- Carol Cox gave a program, part 1, from a past The Smithsonian issue about President Lincoln from those who knew him. There were quotes by persons of the era that could reflect about his humor and his ability to indirectly negotiate a new “attitude” by those who worked with him.
- Members donated funds to the following National projects:
- President’s Project for the Parlor
- Library of 507 South Walnut
- Academies, VAVS, GAR, and duvs scholarship funds
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Tent Projects & Programs - 2009
Full Year
November 2009
- Members prepared Thanksgiving cards to be sent to the 21 Real Daughters.
- Jae Jaeger presented Aaron Copeland’s Lincoln Portrait.
- Members collected money for USO active military phone cards project.
- Members collected socks and t-shirts to donate to the Claremore Veterans Home.
August 2009
- Carol Cox presented Photojournalism in the Civil War with biographical information about Union photographers.
- Members collected money for USO active military phone cards project.
- Tent donated money for the new National Headquarters Library & Research Center.
May 2009
- Members participated in Lincoln vs. McClellan, the 1864 Presidential Campaign, and re-elected President Abraham Lincoln.
- Jae Jaeger reported on her April trip to Springfield, IL for Lincoln’s Memorial Week.
- Members collected 48 pairs of socks for the Blue Star Mothers (Tulsa) project Socks for soldiers.
- Members collected money for USO active military phone cards project.
February 2009
- Carol Cox presented Eye of the Storm A Civil War Odyssey about Private Robert Knox Sneden’s illustrated journal of experience during the Civil War.
- Jae Jaeger handed out a booklet showing Tulsa memorials erected and contributed to by the DAR, and includes the GAR memorial, a Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil war project, in Rose Hill Cemetery which Tent #19 contributed to along with several area heritage groups.
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Tent Projects & Programs - 2008
Full Year
November 2008
- Members collected money for USO active military phone cards project.
- Shirle Williams presented a history of Tent #19 complete with her scrapbook and pictures.
August 2008
- Members collected donations to be sent to the Dept. President’s project, Quilts of Valor.
- Peggy Blodgett presented the program, about Civil War Nurse Sarah Hanford Brown, her great-grandmother.
May 2008
- Members collected toiletries and gift items for the ladies in the Claremore Veterans Home and made a trip out to present those to them.
February 2008
- Hugh C. Keen II, Civil War author, presented “Mosby’s Strategies against the Union”.
- Members collected donations to be sent to the Dept. President’s project, Quilts of Valor.
- Tent donated funds to the SUVCW GAR marker in Rose Hill Cemetery.
- Jae presented large cards DUV hymn cards she came across for all to see. They were printed before the “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance which was interesting.
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Tent Projects & Programs - 2007
Full Year
- Claremore Veterans Home
- Veterans Deployed Overseas
November 2007
- Donna Talley presented a program about Veteran’s Day.
- Members donated to the Dept. President’s project, Quilts of Valor.
- Members brought candies, gum, packaged food items and other treats and toiletries for a shipment to active military staff at Garrison Support Command, Al Asad, Anbar Province, Iraq.
- Jae Jaeger presented and read a one page “original language” document of Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Emancipation.
August 2007
- Carol Cox gave a short presentation on the Dept. President’s project Quilts of Valor.
- Members donated to the Dept. President’s project, Quilts of Valor.
- Carol Cox gave a very informative program about Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses Grant.
May 2007
- Members donated to the Dept. President’s project, Songs for Soldiers.
- Jae Jaeger presented “Springfield, Home of Lincoln and the DUV Headquarters and Museum”.
February 2007
- Gifts and “Valentine Bags” were brought for the women residents of the Claremore Veteran’s Center.
- Members donated to the Dept. President’s project, Songs for Soldiers.
- Carol Cox presented “Quaker Guns, and Other Civil War Deceptions”. It was an instructional and interesting topic.
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