Dine-and-Discover Meetings and Events
Our meeting date is the last Wednesday of the month. Special event dates will be announced. RSVPs are due by noon on the Monday prior to each meeting as online registration automatically closes at that time. If registration is closed and you find you can attend, please contact Mary Abshier to check on seating availability.
Below is a menu of programs that are sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite. Join HFCW’s meetings where lifetime learners gather. Be a part of our long history of sharing wit and wisdom with HFCW members and their guests since 1974.
Questions? Contact Mary Abshier at marketing@hfcw.org or 281-923-9241
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It’s Not Your Grandmother’s DAR
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Come learn about the largest volunteer community service organization in the world, owned and run by women.
With more than 120 years of tradition, over 930,000 members admitted since its founding, a vast array of service work, a historic National Headquarters building with extraordinary collections, and countless activities taking place locally, nationally, and globally, there is much to discover about the Daughters of the American Revolution. Founded in 1890 with the simple mission of promoting historic preservation, education, and patriotism, these timeless, overarching principles keep the DAR strong and vitally relevant in this ever-changing world.
A nonprofit, nonpolitical volunteer women’s service organization, DAR promotes patriotism, preserves American history, and secures America’s future through better education. You’ll learn what more than 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters across the world know about today’s DAR: https://www.dar.org/.
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Mary ‘Anthony’ Long Startz, a native of Pensacola, Florida, has lived in Houston for more than thirty-five years. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Randolph Macon Woman’s College, now Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Her business career was in human resources working in retail and manufacturing with her last position as director of human resources for Lamons Gasket Company. Currently in semi-retirement she has a human resources consulting firm and spends her free time conducting research in Spanish documents, writing, and volunteering. She holds both GPHR and SHRM-SPC certifications.
A thirty-year member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), she is currently Regent of Houston’s Lady Washington Chapter and serves as National Vice-Chair lineage research – Spanish Task Force. She is also the Texas State Chair for the Spanish Task Force—a Vice-Chair of the State Lineage Research team. In these roles, she educates DAR membership and the public about Spain’s support during the American Revolution and how to join DAR on a Spanish Patriot. Her book The Papers of Joaquin Ortega is the go-to resource for all Joaquin Ortega descendants wanting to join DAR. She has published articles in numerous in journals and genealogical publications. She Privately published Our Boys in Khaki WWI letters of Private Fred Richman 1918–1919. Anthony is a member of the Order of Granaderos y Damas de Gálvez working to promote the history of Spain’s role in the American Revolution. As a board member of this organization, she serves as National Secretary and Deputy Governor of the Houston chapter. Anthony is a member of the Hispanic Genealogical Society of Houston, Daughters of the American Colonists, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars, and National Society United Daughters of 1812. Anthony has two children who descend from eleven Galvez soldiers or civil servants. Her daughter Marion, is a member of the Kinninick Chapter in Colorado Springs. Her son William, a member of the Alexander Hodge SAR Chapter, and wife Elizabeth, a Chicago Chapter DAR member, live in Chicago. |
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to marketing@hfcw.org.