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Local Women Inducted into John James Audubon DAR Chapter
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Pictured are Geraldine Ryder, JJA DAR Regent, Yvonne Day, Sharon S. Naquin, Betty Jo Snellgrove, Registrar, and Carol Savoie, Treasure. Not pictured is Blair Naquin Green.
On September 21st, Central resident Sharon Smith Naquin, Ph.D. and her daughter, Blair Naquin Green were officially inducted as members of the John James Audubon Chapter of the DAR. Their patriot is François le jeune Broussard who was the fourth son of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil and Agnès Thibodeau. François le jeune Broussard was born probably at Petitcoudiac, France in c1746 and followed his parents into exile in present-day southeastern New Brunswick, and followed his widowed father into imprisonment in Nova Scotia and to Louisiana in 1764-65. François married Pélagie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Landry, at Attakaps in c1770. They settled on the lower Vermilion near present-day Milton, Lafayette Parish, were François served as a syndic. François died at his home on the Vermilion in May 1819.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded on October 11, 1890, during a time that was marked by a revival in patriotism and intense interest in the beginnings of the United States of America. Women felt the desire to express their patriotic feelings and were frustrated by their exclusion from men's organizations formed to perpetuate the memory of ancestors who fought to make this country free and independent. As a result, a group of pioneering women in the nation's capital formed their own organization and the Daughters of the American Revolution has carried the torch of patriotism ever since.
The objectives laid forth in the first meeting of the DAR have remained the same in over 100 years of active service to the nation. Those objectives are: Historical – to perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved American Independence; Educational – to carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell address to the American people, "to promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge, thus developing an enlightened public opinion…"; and Patriotic – to cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty.
The John James Audubon Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution was organized in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, in 1952 and was approved by NSDAR on January 16, 1954. Since its founding in 1890, DAR has admitted more than 800,000 members.
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