The Stars and Bars ~ also known as The
Daughters' Flag
Miss Ann King
President's Message
Ladies,
With the Division Convention over, it is now time to move on to other
up-coming events and projects. The next will be the General Convention.
Continue to make your reservations for November 5-9 by the deadline of
October 4. You do not have to stay the entire convention. Call the Beau
Rivage Casino and Resort in Biloxi at 1-888-383-7037 and specify the UDC
General Convention.
The following are to be received by October 15: Ticket reservations to
Jane Riemann, Convention Treasurer and Convention Registration ($10.00) to
Susan Masters, Credentials Chairman. Registration at convention hotel is
$20.00. (separate checks and mailings). Suggestion: bring the chain or other
name tag holder that can be worn as "necklace" to General Convention.
General supplies a "pin-on" name tag--doesn't supply a means of hanging the
name tag around one's neck.
Included in the Chapter President Packet at the Division Convention were
the General Bylaw proposals. If you are going to the General Convention,
you will need to get your chapter president to make you a copy so that you
may study them in order to be knowledgeable when you vote. They are also
posted on the UDC Website: http://www.hqudc.org/
Also in this Packet was the General Call. Some of the forms were in the
UDC Magazine, but a very important document sent to each chapter president is
the Credentials Form, which, like our Division one, must list all the
chapter delegates and be sent in on time, October 15. If this is not done,
even though you may have sent in your own registration form, you will not be
considered a delegate and will have to sit in the back of the room instead
of with the Division during voting, and will not be able to cast a vote. I
know this from experience.
Each chapter president is also instructed in the General Call to send a
copy of her General Credentials Form to the Division President for her to
bring with her to the Convention, so please do not forget to send this to me.
I am hoping a great many of you will be coming to this convenient site in
our sister state of Mississippi. I would like to know who all is coming
as I have Alabama Ribbons for you to wear on your name badge and want to be
sure to bring enough with me.
Begin planning ahead to attend the CofC Christmas in the South program at
Mountain Creek on December 12. Long-term planners will be interested to know
that the Division CofC Convention will be June 12 in Huntsville, and the
CofC General Convention will be conveniently held in Decatur, Georgia,
July 28-31, with a day-trip to Stone Mountain in the works.
Regional meetings will be held as follows: Southern at Greenville on
January 16; Northern at Decatur on January 23; and Central at Birmingham on
January 30.
Many of the District Directors have already set their District Meeting
dates, with places to be announced later, as follows: Bankhead on February 20;
General Henry D. Clayton on February 27; Joe Wheeler on March 6; Mobile on
March 20; and Nathan Bedford Forrest on March 27. The weekend of March 13 will
be General Spring Board in Richmond, and the Jefferson Guard District will
meet in conjunction with the Central Regional on January 30.
You may now begin to book your 2010 Division Convention reservations at
the rate of $100 per night at the Lake Guntersville State Park Lodge,
September 16-18, 2010. Call 1-800-548-4553. Don’t wait until the block is
gone as some of you did this year.
Continue to order your Division History Books, now available for $40, with
the check made out to Alabama Division Treasurer. You will be able to pick
yours up at the Regional Meetings. If you wish yours to be mailed, include an
additional check for $5 but made out to Glendora James. The order form is on
the Division web site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aludc/
Prizes will be offered for the chapter ordering the most books in toto, and the
chapter ordering the most books on a percentage basis.
The order blanks for the new Division Yearbook and Minutes are now available
on the Division Website. Remember that everyone on the Executive Board is required
to purchase one, which includes chapter presidents. Chapter treasurers also
need the form therein, but certainly anyone interested in the Division should
purchase her own. Again this year, we will not order extras, so get your chapter
or individual orders in to Division Recording Secretary Barbara McCamish. Most
reports are now due or even late to Betty Zeitz. Please get these in.
It is hoped that more of you will offer Division Prizes this year. Get the
Prize Form from the Division Website and send it to Lucy Willis, 3501 Fox
Hollow Lane, Birmingham 35226, with your prize money. Note that it must be at
least $15 per prize, made out to Alabama Division Treasurer.
If you missed the Division Convention, you need to be aware of new projects. O
One is the sale of a DVD, created by Sherry Clayton of Etowah #1620, with all
proceeds going to Division projects. To be used as a public relations and
recruiting tool, the twenty-minute DVD takes each objective of the UDC and
shows members participating in each of them, with stirring Confederate music
playing in the background. It was previewed by the officers and the President
General, all of whom were impressed by it. It sells for $15, postage included.
Those I had at the Convention were snapped up and I have had orders from other
Divisions as well. Send your checks made out to Alabama Division Treasurer to
me at 3801 Jackson Blvd., Birmingham 35213.
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To accommodate those who wish Division news without all the chatter back
and forth, a new email forum has been created for us by Deborah Bass-Frazier
which will only have Division, Chapter, and General non-personal announcements.
Send an email to Tonnia Maddox at Tonnia@uab.edu or to Deborah at
aladivinfo@gmail.com asking to be subscribed to the Alabama Division Information
(AlaDivInfo) Group. Then when you want to post something yourself, send the
request to any Division officer who will put it onto the new forum. Anyone
wishing to reply will send a personal email to you, which will not appear on
the forum.
Another project is the Flag Preservation project, with Mary Norman as chairman,
the purpose of which is to begin the long-term task of saving from deterioration
the Confederate flags housed in the Alabama State Archives. Six were chosen by
the Archivist for us to start with, and each chapter is encouraged to choose one
and begin raising money to preserve it. Money will be sent to the Chairman at
the end of the year, to be presented to the Archives to be placed in each
individual flag’s fund. Look for the information with color pictures and forms
to be on the Division Website soon. Prizes will be offered for chapters raising
the most money.
Let us go forward together-- attend the meetings and events convenient to
you and participate in UDC projects and do not dwell on what is past. “All our
strength is in our union, all our weakness in our discord; Therefore, let us w
ork together.”
In UDC love,
Ann
Defense Fund Rules
Money contributed is non-refundable.
Use of funds will be at the discretion of the Division Executive Committee
It is advised that if monies from this fund are to be used as a reward to aid in the capture and conviction of vandals
to Confederate monuments, markers, etc. on State property, that the Division offer the money to the State by asking them to match the
funds.
This fund can only be dissolved by a majority vote of the Alabama Daughters at any annual Division Convention.
Each new administration Executive Committee needs to approve or disapprove the use of the $499.99 if needed.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING REPORTS FOR DIVISION YEARBOOK AND MINUTES 2010-11
Please file these instructions in your Yearbook/Minutes for future reference!
Please send reports BY E-MAIL if at all possible!! If you can't do it yourself,
pershaps a family member or friend could help. E-mailed reports are promptly acknowledged, so
that you know they have been received; and no mailed copy is necessary. Typed or
handwritten reports sent by mail must be retyped by committee to put on computer.
SEND ALL REPORTS to the Committee Chariman (NOT to Recording Secretary!):
Betty Zeitz: yodelvalleyfarm@msn.com
P. O. Box 245, Shelby, AL 35143 ph. 205-669-6745
GUIDELINES
Each Division Officer, Chapter President or Chapter, District Director, Division Committee Chair must purchase a copy of the Division Yearbook and Minutes.
Narrative reports limited to 325 words, unless authorized to be longer.
Computer format:
1. Microsoft Word preferred for attachements, or copy and past into body of e-mail.
2. Times New Roman #10 font.
3. Indent paragraphs 3 spaces; do not double space between paragraphs.
4. Single space narrative in lower case (not all caps).
5. Single space between end of report and submitting person's name.
6. Refer to last year's report os a similar report in previous Yearbook and Minutes for example.
7. The proper format for listing officers is:
Barbara R. McCamish (Mrs. Van).........................Recording Secretary
26082 Chatelaine Rd.
Elberta, AL 36430...................................251-987-1687
E-mail: mccam@gulftel.com
DEADLINES (See front of Yearbook and Minutes)
May In election years, Chapter and Districts submit new slate of officers
1 Aug Narrative Chatper reports due from Chapter Presidents
20 Aug Narrative District reports due from District Directors
31 Aug Narrative Committee reports due from Division Committee Chairmen; Division
Chaplain sends list of deceased members, also Special Written Memorials
Adjournment of Division Convention: Narrative reports of Division Officers, some committees
that finalize repor at Convention; minutes of Granddaughter and Officers Clubs.
Division Historian provides Scrapbook, Yearbook, and District winners; and with
Division Treasurer provides list of Student, Member, and Chapter winners.
CORRECTIONS AND CHANGES
When you receive your new Division Yearbook and Minutes, please take time to verify that
all information regarding your chapter/committee is accurate. Send any corrections, and
changes as they arise, to the Committee Chairman (Betty Zeitz) listed previously.
ELIGIBILITY
Admission to the United Daughters of the Confederacy is through invitation through a local chapter.
Women sixteen and over who are lineal or collateral blood descendants of women and men who honorably served in the Army,
Navy, or Civil Service of the Confederate States of America, or gave Material Aid to the Cause. Collateral ancestors are uncles
or aunts, great-uncles or aunts,great-great uncles or aunts, etc. Cousins are not considered as a collateral ancestor.
No applicant whose ancestor took the Oath of Allegiance before April 9, 1865, is eligible unless further proof of service
nullifying the Oath is available.
After being invited to join a chapter, applicants are given a Worksheet for preparing the necessary documentation for
the formal Application. Applicants shall furnish acceptable documented proof to accompany an application. All applications must
be on the Official UDC Application forms and bear the endorsement of two chapter members who personally know the applicant.
Membership applications are kept as permanent records in the UDC Memorial Building in Richmond, Virginia.
Visit the General UDC Homepage
IN
GOD WE TRUST
