DAR Announces 2021 Local High School Good Citizen Award Winners
DAR Announces 2021 Local High School Good Citizen Award Winners
Jackson-Madison Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) announced the 2021 DAR Good Citizen Award winners at the DAR Patriotic Tea held on March 16, 2017. Six high schools in the Jackson area participated by selecting their school’s DAR Good Citizen. The winning students, their family members, and school counselors were guests of honor at the DAR Patriotic Tea.
The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of dependability (which includes truthfulness, loyalty, and punctuality); service (which includes cooperation, courtesy, and consideration of others); leadership (which includes personality, self-control, and ability to assume responsibility); and patriotism (which includes unselfish interest in family, school, community, and nation) to an outstanding degree. To be eligible to compete for scholarship money, each school’s DAR Good Citizen must write a timed essay on a subject announced at the beginning of the timed session.
Marbry Castellaw, a senior at Trinity Christian Academy, won the Jackson-Madison Chapter’s essay contest. The essay title was “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It” The focus question of her essay was “How do the qualities of a good citizen (dependability, service, leadership and patriotism) help support our nation?” Her winning essay was submitted to the DAR Chickasaw District for judging.
In addition to Ms. Castellaw, the other 2021 DAR Good Citizen Winners are Grace Ferrell from South Side High School); Emma Isley from Madison Academic Magnet High School; Kayden Neal from Liberty Tech Magnet High School; Madison Pearson from North Side High School; and Jocelyn Nodurft from Early College High School. Each school winner was presented $120, a lapel pin, award certificate, and wallet award card. Ms. Castellaw, winner of the essay contest, was awarded an additional $180 prize by Jackson-Madison Chapter and benefactor Milton Smylie.
DAR Good Citizen Committee Chair Marianna Warmath-Lewis, said, “The winners of the 2021 DAR Good Citizen Award are all outstanding students. The selection committee was most impressed with their stellar academic and volunteer activities. We are proud of all of them and wish them well in their future endeavors.”
DAR is known as the largest women’s patriotic organization in the United States and has over 185,000 members with 3000 chapters in 50 states and 11 foreign countries. The Jackson-Madison Chapter, founded in 1901, is one of the oldest chapters in the state. For more information about membership in DAR, contact chapter regent, Beth Bates at 731-427-0465 or batesb@aol.com, or visit the chapter website at www.tndar.org/~jacksonmadison.
