Daughters of the American Revolution Award Winners

Creator

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Identifier

20037147

Description

Clipping: "1945 Junior High Citizenship Award Winners Announced. Winners of the 1945 citizenship awards, given by the three Fort Worth chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution to two outstanding students of each of the city's junior high schools, were announced Wednesday. The presentations are made each spring by the organization at programs in the schools. This year's winners, their schools and the DAR chapter making the awards are: Jeanette Cole and Jimmy Bass, Rosemont; Arlene Lisman and Garnett Ryon, Ernest Parker; Marilyn Brachman and John Halter, McLean; Elmo Reeves and Georgia Mae Cloud, Handley; Dan Wall and Myrtle Mayner, Diamond Hill; Wanda Wilks, Lena Pope Home; J. W. Renfro and Pat Lucas, P. P. Elder, and Dick McKess and Ruth Butts, Meadowbrook, all Mary Isham Keith Chapter. James Fritts and Maxine Buchanan, Amon Carter Riverside, and Berney Williams and Ann Tidball, W. C. Stripling, Fort Worth Chapter. Diane Sweatman and Harry Rosenstein, E. M. Daggett, and Beverly Sone and Ronald Nelson, William James, Six Flags Chapter. The Mary Isham Keith Chapter also presented awards to a representative of the Fort Worth Boys Club, C. W. Bynum, and the winner in an essay contest on 'Americanism,' Kenneth Mathis, of William James Junior High School." Published Star-Telegram Eve. May 23, 1945. Four of the D.A.R. award winners are (left to right): Jeanette Cole, Arlene Lisman, Marilyn Brachman and John Halter. Jeanette is wearing a linen shirtwaist dress with cotton eyelet and bric-a-brac trim, along with a pearl necklace and eyeglasses. Arlene is wearing a finely-checked dress with the skirt gathered at the waist, a cinched waist, and a loose bodice with gathered ruffled sleeve and neckline and bows. Marilyn is wearing a plaid-like dress with a dark-contrast bodice and pocket slits, and a cloth decoration on the yoke. John is dressed in a dress shirt, houndstooth blazer and dark suit pants. All four winners are wearing their D.A.R. pins.

Archival Date

1945-05-10

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-620

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Awards; Dresses; Cole, Jeanette; Lisman, Arlene; Brachman, Marilyn; Halter, John; Daughters of the American Revolution; DAR; Eyelet