Arlington DAR Chapter Collecting Donations for Local Charities
Published on July 22, 2022
By Office of Communication
Arlington-based, Lucretia Council Cochran Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is calling on Arlington residents to help donate and volunteer in their numerous charitable initiatives to help support the community, including a community classroom school supply drive, book donations to promote literacy, supplies for veteran’s gift bags and more.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is a non-profit, non-political, volunteer women's service organization dedicated to promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education. DAR members come from a variety of backgrounds and interests, but all share a common bond of having an ancestor who helped contribute to securing the independence of the United States of America.
DAR member Linda Finley said, “We are not a generation "waiting on the world to change." We are making a difference every day by sharing a common belief in the perpetuation of the NSDAR motto, God, Home and Country.”
There are several community service opportunities Arlington residents can participate in. First, DAR’s Community Classroom School Supply Drive is in full swing for school supplies to be delivered to children living at the Arlington Life Shelter and Grand Prairie schools. Below is a list of supplies that are needed. The drive will run through August 1.
- Baggies-sealable - quart and gallon size
- Boxes of tissue
- Colored pencils – 12 count boxes
- Composition notebooks - black marble 100 count
- Construction Paper – 9” X 12” assorted, 50 count
- Construction Paper - 9” X 12” Manila, 50 count
- Crayons – 24 count boxes
- Erasers – pink pearl
- Folders with Pockets and Brads – colors –RED/BLUE/Green/yellow
- Glue – sticks and white bottle glue 4 oz
- Hand Soap, liquid pump – 7.5 oz
- Highlighters – yellow markers-washable, wide tip, 8 count classic colors
- Notebook paper – WIDE RULE – 200 count
- Pencils - #2
- Pens- Red/Blue/Black
- Rulers- with metric AND inches
- Scissors-small sharp AND blunt 5”
- Spiral Composition notebooks-70 count
The women of the Arlington-based DAR Chapter are also collecting men and women's socks through October 5 for Veteran’s Gift Bags; individual prepackaged snacks, bottled drinks and cards of appreciation for first responders around the city during Community Service Appreciation Week, which is October 11; and book donations, which they donate to local Arlington and Grand Prairie schools, libraries, local outlets such as the Salvation Army and women's shelters, to promote adult literacy and involvement in literacy programs for children and adults. Book donations are accepted all year round. For questions, on how to donate items, contact the Arlington DAR Chapter regent at lcccregent26065@gmail.com. To keep up to date on how the public can donate and be involved in DAR community service opportunities follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ArlingtonDAR or visit their website at https://www.texasdar.org/chapters/LucretiaCouncilCochran/.
The Lucretia Council Cochran Chapter welcomes new members. Any woman, 18 years or older regardless of race, religion or ethnic background who can prove lineal bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence is eligible to join the DAR. If interested, you must provide documentation for each statement of birth, marriage, and death, as well as of the Revolutionary War service of your Patriot Ancestor. Lucretia Council Cochran Chapter, NSDAR has a registrar and many within the chapter who are willing and able to walk you through the process. A prospective member workshop is being planned in the month of October. For more information on this workshop please email lcccregent26065@gmail.com.