Three community groups meet and benefit students from Arkansas School for the Deaf
The National Society of New England Women Diamond Colony, the Arkansas Branch Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims and the Arkansas Society Daughters of Founders & Patriots of America held their semiannual triad meeting recently and collected shoe boxes for the students at Arkansas School for the Deaf.
“ASD is a state-run public school in Little Rock serving deaf and hearing-impaired students through residential, day school, and part-time enrollment programs. The school offers preschool through high school. Students who cannot commute every day live at the facility. Some of these students are from impoverished families,” a news release said.
“ASD is the only school of its kind in Arkansas and serves as the center for Deaf Education throughout the state. Founded in 1850, ASD is not only one of the state’s oldest schools, but the oldest school for the deaf west of the Mississippi River. The curriculum is state-mandated and provides individualized education to students. Each year the triad societies welcome the residential student with a shoe box filled with gifts,” it said.
Membership in NEW is open to women who can prove lineal descent from a man or woman born in New England prior to the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, or in Nassau or Suffolk County, Long Island, prior to 1700.
Membership in Pilgrims requires proof in lineal descent from a pilgrim. The term pilgrim denotes any immigrant who settled before 1700 within the territory which became the 48 contiguous states.
Membership in DFPA is limited to women who can prove lineal descent in an unbroken paternal line of either the applicant’s father or mother, going back to a founder who arrived in one of the Colonies between May 13, 1607, and May 13, 1687, and in this unbroken line, an intermediate patriot ancestor who assisted in establishing American independence during the Revolutionary Period.
Email Linda Vandenberg White at geniedar1@yahoo. com for more information.