Duties of Chapter Historians
Marla Suter, State Historian
Each chapter is encouraged to submit a nominee for
the Iowa History Teacher of the Year award.
Nomination forms are on the website as fillable
and printable, thus friendly to complete and
submit.
Please be sure a copy of the Duties of Chapter
Historian reaches the Historian of your chapter.
The list of duties is as follows:
Duties of Chapter Historians
- Read and study “Duties of Every
Officer.”
- Maintain historical and biographical
papers of the chapter, using acid free
paper and materials whenever possible, in
the form of scrapbooks, yearbooks, and
narrative history brought up to date
periodically.
- May serve as American History Chairman.
- Chapters must obtain permission from the
Office of the Historian General to mark
the graves of Revolutionary War
soldiers/patriots, their wives, and
daughters and to place all historical
markers. Application forms are available
from the Office of the Historian General.
Report markings to that office.
- Encourage chapter members to nominate a
qualified candidate for the DAR History
Award Medal and for the Outstanding
Teacher of American History.
- Chapters are authorized to verify
membership and request forms for marking
members’ graves. Forms may be found online
or in the National Information Packet.
- Information regarding donations of
material or money to the: Americana
Collection the NSDAR Archives; the Special
Collection Pertaining to NSDAR History; or
the DAR Historian Research Library may be
obtained from the archival staff in the
Office of the Historian General.
All necessary forms are on the members.dar.org
website. Please notify this officer of any
requests with which you may need assistance.
Marla
Suter
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