Founding Members

Adam Thoroughgood Chapter, NSDAR, Virginia Beach, Virginia

On May 5, 1956, at the inaugural meeting of the Adam Thoroughgood Chapter, Virginia Society, DAR, thirteen charter members witnessed the installation of the following officers: Regent Mrs. Norman K Browne, Vice Regent Mrs. J. Hubbard Davis, Secretary Mrs. Robert L. Long, Treasurer Mrs. William P. Carver, Registrar Miss Shirley Virginia Parrish, Historian Mrs. Henry H. Gooch III, Librarian Mrs. Marcel Y. Carpenter, and Chaplain Mrs. James Bolton Jr.            Ledger-Dispatch and Star, Mon., May 7, 1956

FIRST LADIES OF OUR CHAPTER

Charlotte Pilley Bolton          
Jeanette McElod Browne
Maxine Baxter Carpenter
Emmajane Gibson Carver
Lois Gail St. Clair Davis
Grace Lightfoot Everett
Virginia Bledsoe Goffigan
Frances Whitehead Gooch
Florian Frances Harrington
Virginia Cox Horner
Sara Helms Long
Shirley Virginia Parrish
Bessie O’Grady St. Clair