Chapter Meetings

Our chapter meets on the third Monday evening of the month unless otherwise noted.  To be respectful of different comfort levels post-COVID, we offer hybrid meetings.

* In-person Capacity is capped at 20 members;

* For in person - please RSVP before the meeting; and

* Virtual meeting participation is offered to members, associate members, prospective members and special guests. Please contact the chapter regent for more information.

The Chapter’s Executive Board reserves the right to modify these regulations. We thank you in advance for understanding and complying!

For more details, please contact our chapter regent at: JohnAlexanderNSDAR@gmail.com   or 571-982-9633

                        2023-2024 PROGRAM CALENDAR

Monday, September 18th

Program: Putting Women Innovators on the Map of Recognition

Speaker: Jane Plitt, Founder, National Center of Women's Innovations

Monday, October 16th

Program: Exploring Historic Woodlawn Plantation

Speaker: Shawn Halifax, Executive Director & Amanda Roper, Program Director

Saturday, October 28th

Chapter Service Project - contact the chapter for details

Monday, November 13th*
Program: More Than Money: How to Read Colonial Ledgers & What They Tell Us about the Past
Speaker: Molly Kerr, Founding Director, History Revealed, Inc.
*Date moved due to Thanksgiving holiday

Saturday, December 2nd
Scottish Walk Christmas Parade, Old Town Alexandria

Saturday, December 16th
Wreaths Across America

Saturday, January 6th, 2024*
Chapter Holiday Party: A Twelfth Night Celebration
Featuring Colonial-Era Treats and Libations
Contact the chapter for location

*Pending chapter vote to move date

Monday, January 15th* Daytime meeting - 11am
Program: 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
Speaker: Tracy J. Gillespie, History Educator, NOVA Parks

Monday, February 19th* Daytime meeting - 11am
Program: None - Parade Day!
Chapter marches in the George Washington Birthday Parade following the brief business meeting

Monday, March 18th
Program: Following the Frenchman
Speaker: Julien Icher, Founder, The Lafayette Trail

Monday, April 15th
Program: The US Army Celebrates America 250
Speaker: Sara Bowen, Museum Specialist, National Museum of the US Army

Saturday, May 18th*
Chapter birthday celebration: TBD

As the bicentennial celebration of the United States' 200th birthday swept across the country in the 1970s, the ladies of the John Alexander Chapter, NSDAR, came up with the idea of creating and selling a patriotic scarf to raise funds for historic preservation projects to honor their American Revolutionary War ancestors. The blue and white silk scarves were a hit  and thousands were sold far and wide!

Complimentary scarves were sent to several VIPs as gifts, including in 1972, to Mrs. Betty Ford, the First Lady of the United States, and to Mrs. Jinks Holton, the First Lady of Virginia.

If you have a bicentennial scarf, inherited a scarf from your mother or grandmother, or remember them being worn by ladies in and around the Washington, D.C., metro area in the 1970s, we would love to hear from you.