Lucia Pizarro Receives DAR Good Citizen Award
The New Jersey Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NJDAR) recently announced that their Good Citizen Award and Scholarship would be presented to Lucia Pizarro, a senior at Cranford High School.
The high school senior selected must have the qualities of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. The scholarship portion of the program consists of two parts. The student must describe how they have tried to manifest the qualities of a good citizen and secondly must write an essay on a topic chosen by the National Society. This year the topic was titled “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It.” The focus question was “You and your peers are our nation’s leaders of tomorrow. How would you energize America’s youth to fully engage as effective citizens? Why is that important?”
The Crane’s Ford chapter congratulates Lucia Pizarro for being chosen as the NJDAR winner; our chapter has been sponsoring the Good Citizen Award since 1950. The National Society has been awarding the Good Citizen Scholarship for 86 years.
The DAR, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Washington DC, 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 for children. Currently there are 185,000 members and 3,000 chapters nationwide. There are chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and countries overseas. The Crane’s Ford chapter was founded in 1944; New Jersey has 26 chapters. DAR membership is open to any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American Independence.
If you think you have a Patriot of the American Revolution in your family please visit DAR.org for more information.
