Spring 2013 - Westminster Chapter - Maryland Society Sons of the

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Spring 2013

The Westminster Associator A Quarterly Newsletter of the Westminster Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution Proudly Serving Carroll County, Maryland, Chapter Established 9 March 1985 C h a p t e r

S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F I N T E R E S T :

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Chapter Wins at State Level

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Some Vacant Positions Filled

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Method to Assess Chapter Health Proposed; Working Group to develop Action Plan

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President’s Message

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State Challenge Met

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Chapter to March in Westminster Memorial Day Parade

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High School Seniors to be Honored

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Chapter holds Annual Spring Dinner/Business Meeting

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How are we Doing?

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Compatriots Volunteer for Vacant Positions

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Getting to Know Your Compatriots

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Reminders

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Carroll County resident Robert Crumbaugh, an Eagle Scout withTroop 9 (Emory United Methodist Church, Upperco, MD) received the State Eagle Scout Award at the MDSSAR George Washington Luncheon on 23 February 2013 at the Towson Golf and Country Club. During the meeting, he read his winning essay “More than Common Sense” (an abridged verShown Left to right: MDSSAR President Lou Raborg, Thomas sion of his Knight Essay Crumbaugh, Eagle Scout Robert Crumbaugh, Kathleen Crumbaugh, submission) . He will rep- NSSAR Eagle Scout Chairman Jon Street, MDSSAR 1VP Pat Warner resent our state at the Golf and Country Club. During the meetNational level during the NSSAR Coning, he read his winning essay “More gress in July. He’ll be competing for an award of $8,000 (runner up gets $4,000 than Common Sense” (an abridged verand the second runner up $2,000). Car- sion of his Knight Essay submission) . He will represent our state at the Nationroll County resident Robert Crumbaugh, an Eagle Scout with Troop 9 (Emory Unit- al level during the NSSAR Congress in July. He’ll be competing for an award of ed Methodist Church, Upperco, MD) re$8,000 (runner up gets $4,000 and the ceived the State Eagle Scout Award at the MDSSAR George Washington Lunch- second runner up $2,000). eon on 23 February 2013 at the Towson S t a t e

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This year’s MDSSAR Annual Meeting will be held 13 April 2013 at Grey Rock Mansion, 400 Grey Rock Rd., Pikesville, MD 21208. The birthplace of Revolutionary patriot, John Eagar Howard, the site has been used before by MDSSAR for meetings, and is always a pleasant and enjoyable location for our events. Considering its close location, all our chapter’s Compatriots are urged to attend. Registration form is included. Let the Contact know by 1 Apr, even by phone ,if you are going.

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P r e s i d e n t ’ s M e s s a g e Greetings to my fellow compatriots To those of you who we were not at the last meeting at Buttersburg Inn, we missed you. We realize that there are many reasons for not being there, however we missed you. We had the privilege of meeting and hearing from our . essayist He placed second in state competition. He also entered the Eagle Scout competiDr. Cecil M. tion and is the state winner. He is Massie, Sr. in competition on the national level. We also presented to Art Petrucelli his Military service medal. If there are members who were in the Armed Forces and have received your medal we need to know about it so that you can be recognized. Jake Yingling agreed to assume the responsibility of Flag Chairman. If you know of individuals who fly the U.S. flag daily in an acceptable manner please let Jake know of this. It appears that the lady who has provided the convertible for the Memorial Day Parade has changed vehicles and we no longer have a convertible for those who cannot walk the distance. If you either have a convertible or know of someone who does, please see if they will assist us. We will have a wreath to be placed at the monument. We lost seven members for non-payment of dues. Please encourage all the members that you know to pay their dues. They can be reinstates. Dr. Charles Wolf, one of our newest members, is moving to the Houston area. He was our chaplain. I will soon be contacting you for assistance in presenting the Outstanding Citizenship Awards to the graduating seniors in the county. Be on the lookout for individuals who should be recognized for their outstanding contributions in our community. If you know of any DAR members, they probably have a brother, a husband, or son{s} all of whom could join our chapter very easily. Seek them out and encourage them to join us. Congratulations to James Engler on his nomination for 3rd vice president of the Maryland Society SAR. I hope you have an enjoyable spring and that your observance of Easter is worthwhile. Regards, Cecil

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At the spring chapter meeting, the membership present voted to approve a donation for the new Washington Memorial to be erected in Hagerstown. This was in response to the challenge by MDSSAR President Lou Raborg to all SAR chapters in the state to donate $100 towards defraying the costs involved with the statue’s design , fabrication and installation. We join at least 7 chapters who have taken up the challenge. The project, which the City of Hagerstown started planning in 2011, is to be a 7 foot statue depicting George Washington, c. 1755. The statue, with a four to five foot tall boulder as its base, is to be placed in front of the Washington County Circuit Court building. At a cost of about $68,000, about $30,000 has been raised from City and County budgets, with more sought from private sources. C h a p t e r t o M a r c h i n W e s t m i n s t e r M e m o r i a l D a y P a r a d e Memorial Day is just around the corner, and the chapter again plans to be marching in the parade in Westminster. Plans are still being made, but based on past years, we can expect to meet on Monroe Ave. in Westminster at 9:30 on Memorial Day. This year, Compatriot Jake Yingling is donating the cost of the wreath we place at the cemetery. If anyone has a convertible they’d be willing to lend for our march, please contact Bill Hiatt at 410-8768023. We’d like to see a big turnout , so we encourage all our Compatriots to attend, and we hope to see you there! H i g h S c h o o l S e n i o r s t o b e H o n o r e d Continuing our Chapter's tradition, we will be awarding Bronze Good Citizenship Awards to a senior at each of the high schools in Carroll County. The presentation of each award is done at the annual Senior Awards Ceremony held at each school. These usually happen in the first week in June, and often there are several ceremonies on the same evening. We need Compatriots to volunteer to present the awards. When Dr. Massie calls, please consider agreeing to make one or more of these presentations.

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Eleven Compatriots plus guests attended our chapter’s annual Spring Dinner and Business meeting on 14 March 2013 at the Buttersburg Inn in Union Bridge, Md. Robert Crumbaugh, Eagle Scout and North Carroll High School senior, winner of the George S. and Stella M. Knight Essay program for the Westminster Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, was the guest speaker. His essay, entitled “More Than Common Sense”, provided insight into the actions and influence of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” and how Paine helped the majority of the colonists realize what was occurring and how to fix the problems of government. The essay program is designed to give sophomore, junior and senior students an opportunity to explore events that shaped American history. Conducted at the Chapter, State Society and National Society levels, the student must submit an original essay with topics based on original research that deal with an event, person, philosophy or ideal associated with the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, or the framing of the United States Constitution. A number of topics were discussed at the business portion of our meeting. Topics included upcoming plans for Memorial Day, The MDSSAR Challenge to contribute to the George Washington statue fund, and a discussion on how we can measure our chapter’s

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health and improve it. All these topics are to be found in articles in this newsletter. Upon conclusion of the business meeting, Charles Hedges, the awards and medals chairman, presented Art Petruccelli the war service medal with the “war on terrorism” service bar in recognition of his military service

Charlie Hedges is shown presenting the War Service Medal to Art Petruccelli

Attendees of our Spring Dinner/Business Meeting!

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H o w a r e w e D o i n g ? B y J a m e s F . E n g l e r , S r . How are we doing? It’s such a simple question, with a range of answers. For some of us, so early in the year, the answer might be related to our weight and attempts to reduce it. In business, there are typically a wide range of metrics, financial and otherwise, which try to address the question. In our own chapter meetings, we hear the regular report of our financial well-being, but how about our overall health as a chapter? Certainly one way many of us jump to first is the size of our chapter: are we growing or shrinking in size? Using information on our chapter membership and rosters since 1995, I came up with an estimate (see chart, below). In our early ears, many chapter members had dual memberships, with other chapters as their true homes. While I don’t have exact information on when they dropped from our chapter, they did within a few years, from comments our chapter president, Dr. Cecil Massie, has made. We started getting new members from our earliest years and with the exception of a time in the early 2000s, continued to grow. How are we doing at attracting and retaining membership, or getting lapsed Compatriots to rejoin? Indeed, the Winter issue of SAR Magazine has a message from the President General on the top-

ic, addressing the four Rs: recruit, retain, reconnect, reinstate. It could be said that an active chapter is more likely to be successful in all four Rs. The question then becomes, “how do we determine how active we are?” There is a way that we could track our non-financial well-being: the President’s Cup. The Cup is the combination of two awards: the Americanism Award and the President General’s Streamer. The former covers a set of activities related to activity in the community (publicity in print and broadcasting, speakers bureau, multimedia distribution, youth programs, public service programs, scholarship grants, veteran support, observances/ceremonies, grave markings of patriots, medals/certificates awarded non-members) and the streamer those activities related to service to the SAR (CAR/DAR support, compatriot grave marking, medals/certificates awarded members, national society service, membership, attendance at state/regional/national meetings, SAR contributions). Both are covered in a single spreadsheet, and provide points for each of the different activities, and many of these points are given based on membership attendence. The file’s contents thus take what is generally a qualitative assess-

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ment of health and turn it into quantitative values. For the engineers, scientists, accountants and just plain numbers-friendly out there, a specific value is a very comforting thing: it allows for a direct comparison, with where we have been as a chapter, and where we are now in comparison to other chapters of our size. As an exercise, I tried to chart our values, using the current version of the spreadsheet (revised 7 Mar 2012), for each year since we were chartered in 1985. This has been a little bit of a challenge, since I have not been involved in the chapter the entire time, but with the help of our Chapter officers and notes I took at the MDSSAR archives, I’ve come up with a rough estimate. So how are we doing? I’ve normalized the number of points by coming up with a model of what we could be doing, considering our size and local situation (I even assumed only a 20% participation rate by our Compatriots in different events, which seems about the level that has actually occurred). Based on that, we’ve been generally earning about half the points we could be making for our service to SAR (president’s Banner), but our numbers in service to the community remain low, seem to be dropping off, and are the bigger contributor to the overall score. Now, some of the topic areas in the spreadsheet may not be ones we want to address, but there are some that maybe we should be considering. These charts were presented at our March 2013 Business Meeting. A lot of very good ideas were brought up on specific things that could be done. I’m looking for volunteers interested in pulling together a plan of what we should be doing and how to get there, to be presented at our August Dinner/Business Meeting. C o m p a t r i o t s

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As mentioned in our Winter issue, NSSAR is partnering with Ancestry.com in Operation Reach, which is geared to increase overall membership in SAR by sending messages to Ancestry.com clients who may have patriot ancestors. Each MDSSAR chapter has been asked to identify an Ambassador, who will field responses forwarded to the chapter and help them to connect with the chapter’s Registrar. The messages are expected to go out to Ancestry.com clients in VA, MD, and DC in the March/April timeframe. Compatriot Art Petruccelli has volunteered to serve as our chapter Ambassador. Compatriot Jake Yingling volunteered at our March meeting to serve as Acting Chairman for the Flag Certificate Committee. If you see someone who is regularly displaying the American flag correctly, let Jake know. Contact him at 170 Willis St., Westminster, MD 21157.

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This feature is an attempt to help our membership get to know one another and our backgrounds. We hope to have a mix of new and current members’ biographies in each issue

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Born in Aspers, PA (1930), Jake grew up in Gettysburg, Born in 1927 in Lowesville PA. After graduating from GetVirginia, Cecil was raised tysburg High School and havon a nearby farm. He grading saved up his money from uated from Fleetwood High odd jobs, he started at East School in 1944. He attendStroudburg (PA) University in ed Virginia Polytechnic in 1948 but soon thereafter the fall of 1944 before jointransferred to Gettysburg Coling the US Navy and servlege and graduated (1952) ing on Guam. He mustered with a B. A. in history. He then out of the Navy in 1946 at took a job teaching in Manthe rank of third class petchester, MD before turning to ty officer and returned to a job selling textbooks. Jake then ran for and served as Virginia Polytechnic, graduating (1950) with a Bacha Carroll County representative in the Maryland House of elor of Science in Agricultural Education. He Delegates (1963-1972) and then as Assistant Secretary earned a Master of Science (1957) from Virginia for the Maryland Department of Economic and Commu- Polytechnic. He attended several graduate schools, nity Development. He also has served in a number of including Western Maryland College (Westminster, state and local government roles. Jake was owner and Md.), University of Georgia (Athens Ga.), Ohio State president of Westminster Hardware and Plumbing, retir- University (Columbus ,Ohio) and the University of ing in 1997. Jake served in the boards of a number pri- Maryland (College Park, Md.), earning from the latvate organizations, including being a director for Regal ter a Ph.D.(1979). Bank & Trust (and chairman of its Carroll Co. Advisory Cecil served as vocational agriculture teachBoard), Taneytown Bank & Trist Co., Monocacy er and FFA advisor in Virginia (1950-1957) before Bancshares, Inc., and Chairman of the Board for TBT moving to Carroll County, Md. He served in these Investments, Inc. of Wilmington, Del, retiring from most same roles at Elmer Wolfe, Taneytown and Francis Scott Key High Schools (1957-1969). At the Univerof these boards in 1997. He has long been involved in numerous civic and com- sity of Maryland (College Park, Md), he taught farm munity organizations, including: past president, Carroll mechanics, power and machinery, and machines Co. Historical Society; former president and member of operation (1969-1990) before retiring. During his teaching career he was: a life member of the Marythe Board of Visitors, Maryland School for the Deaf; land Agriculture Teachers Association (MATA), servboard of trustees, St. joseph Hospital, Towson; past president, Kiwanis Club. He has been honored numer- ing as secretary, treasurer, vice president and president; a member Maryland Vocational Teachers Asous times for his services by many organizations. He is a member of numerous fraternal organizations, sociation; a member American Vocational Associaincluding SAR. Jake joined the SAR and our chapter in tion, a life member Maryland FFA affiliate and the National FFA. Association. For his many efforts, he 1993 and was our chapter ‘s vice president (19942002). He joined through his ancestor, George Weikert, received numerous awards from farming organizations. Cecil also served as: Member of Board of DiCaptain of the Militia, 3rd. Company, York Co., PA. rectors of Carroll County Agriculture Center (8 Jake’s autobiography, A Man From the Palatinate, goes into more detail of his life than we can do justice to years); Member of Board of Governors of Carroll in this article. Jake has donated his life’s papers to Get- County Farm Museum (6 years); and currently is a member of education committee for Hoff Barn, part tysburg College, which bestowed the Distinguished of County Farm Museum. Alumni Award on him in 2000. Cecil has been a member of Lions Club InHe and his wife Genevieve have two sons and five ternational since 1956. He has held numerous grandchildren. leadership offices in the local club and district levels

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including District Governor for District 22W. He has been a Lion’s fund-raising regional chair for two international campaigns to eliminate blindness. Cecil is also a VFW Life Member and member of the American Legion. He also served as a Cubmaster and Scoutmaster for the pack and troop charted by the United Methodist Church in Westminster. He has held numerous roles in the Sons of the American Revolution since he joined in 1985 through the service of his ancestor, Charles Massie (SGT in CAPT Gaskins Company, 5th Virginia Battalion). He was the Organizing President of our Chapter and has served since that time as our president. In addition, he served at the state level as MDSSAR vice president, as president (1998-1999) and as a National trustee of NSSAR, as well as serving as chair of various committees at the state and national SAR levels. Besides SAR activity, he is a life member, 1812 Society, serving on its board of directors (10 years), and a member of the St. Andrews Society. Cecil and his wife Virginia have two sons and two grandsons.

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R e m i n d e r s .Electronic Edition. Paper copies of The Westminster Associator go out to members for whom we have no email address; electronic copies (viewable using the freely downloaded Adobe Acrobat™) are sent to the rest of our chapter members. If you have a new or changed e-mail address, please let President Massie and VP Engler know (contact information on the back) , as sending electronically will save our chapter the cost of printing and postage. Articles Needed. Are there any items you’d like to share with the rest of the chapter? If so, contact Compatriot Engler for inclusion in the next issue of The Westminster Associator. Photos and Memories Needed. Anyone with photos of or information on past events, please contact Compatriot Engler at 410.781.6622. His goal is to have a complete chapter photo history on our website (see our website’s “Chapter History” page for progress on this project). Website Updated. The Chapter website has been updated to include recent chapter activities. Check us out at http://westminster.marylandsar.org/index.html. If you see anything to change or add, contact the webmaster. Bios Needed. Know your Compatriots! This makes the second issue in which we’ve run short bios on current members. The feature only works, though, if Compatriots provide a biography. So please send your paragraph bio and a current picture to [email protected], or send to Jim Engler at 2038 Red River Rd., Sykesville, MD, 21784. Volunteers Needed for Activities Working Group. As mentioned in this issue, we’re looking for volunteers who would come up with a plan for improving our chapter activities. The working group will meet of the next few months and report out at our next Chapter meeting in August.

Born in 1948 In Chesaco Park, Rosedale Md., Louis was raised there and moved to a 10 acre farm in Hampstead in 1975. He left school when he was 16 and graduated from high school while in the army. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1968 and served for 13 months in Viet Nam as part of the Signal Corp. Louis was honorably discharged from the army in Sept 1969 with a rank of Sp 4. He started drywall finishing at the age of 17, continued in that job after his tour of duty, and was a member of Painters Local #1. Over the years he worked for various contractors and retired in 2008. Louis does a lot of work on his old Chevrolet cars and particularly loves the 1950's Chevys. Louis is one of our newest members, joining SAR and our chapter in 2012 through the service of George Abel and John Stephan Abel ,his 5th and 6th great-grandfathers, respectively, who both served as Privates under CAPT Jacob Bieber (1776) and CAPT Michael Kauffelt's Co (1781) in York Co., Penn.. He and his wife Flora have two daughters and three Third Maryland Regimental Flag, aka Cowpens Flag (1781), is grandsons. held by the Maryland State Archives

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114 Virginia Dr Westminster, MD 21158 Phone: 410-848-4156 E-mail: [email protected] Chartered on 9 March 1985, the Westminster Chapter, SAR proudly serves Carroll County, Maryland. In keeping with the mission of SAR, our chapter seeks to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom through an appreciation for true patriotism, a respect for our national symbols, the value of American citizenship, and for the unifying force that has created, from the people of many nations, one nation and one people. We do this by perpetuating in our local community, among all age groups, the stories of patriotism, courage, sacrifice, tragedy, and triumph of the men who achieved the independence of the American people in the belief that these stories are universal ones of man's eternal struggle against tyranny, relevant to all time, and will inspire and strengthen each succeeding generation as it too is called upon to defend our freedoms on the battlefield and in our public institutions.

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13 April 2013 Grey Rock Mansion

Maryland State Society Sons of the American Revolution Annual Meeting

Pikesville, MD 27 May 2013 9:30 A. M.

The 146th Annual Westminster Memorial Day Parade

Monroe Ave., Westminster MD

June 2013

Awarding of Good Citizenship Medals to

Carroll County, MD High Schools

Graduating Seniors

Items in italics are state, regional or national SAR events, see the State site (accessible from our chapter’s “Links” page) for more information on these events.

MARYLAND SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Cordially invites you to attend the 124th Annual Meeting at the

Grey Rock Mansion 400 Grey Rock Rd Pikesville, Pikesville, MD 2120 21208 Saturday, April 13, 2013 Schedule: Continental Breakfast: 8:00am Freshly Baked Morning Pastries: Chocolate Croissants, Fruited & Cheese Danish, Mini Blueberry & Bran Muffins Assorted Bagels: Plain, Everything, & French Toast, Jellies, Jams, Butter & Cream Cheese Morning Beverages: Orange, Cranberry & Tomato Juice, Regular & Decaf Coffee, Traditional & Herbal Tea

Board Meeting: 8:30 – 11:30 am There will be a Flower Arranging Demonstration for the Ladies Buffett Luncheon: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Garden / Tossed Salad: Crisp Iceberg Lettuce with Vine Ripe Tomatoes, Sliced Cucumber & Croutons With Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing. Warm Rolls and Sweet Whipped Butter. Sliced Sirloin of Beef With Demi Glaze. Chicken Francaise Lightly Battered Sautéed with Chardonnay, Lemon & Butter. Oven Roasted New Potatoes with Fresh Herbs. Roasted Vegetable Medley. Dessert: Strawberry Shortcake. Beverages: Assorted Soft Drinks & Bottled Water.

Orations Contest Presentations, Awards Presentations, Installation of New Officers: 1:00 – 3:30 pm Please make checks payable to MDSSAR and send to Treasurer: Professor Barrett McKown, 3580 South River Terrace, Edgewater, MD 21037-3245.

RSVP: By April 1, 2013 Please indicate the number of meals required. Breakfast $12.00 ______ Lunch

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