Activities

Columbine is a very active chapter. These are a few of our projects:

  • We support Wreaths Across America by purchasing and laying wreaths on veterans’ graves at Fort Logan National Cemetery
  • We participate in commemorative events such as the Highlands Ranch 4th of July Parade, Flag Day, Constitution Day, and Veterans Day
  • We volunteer at historic Schweiger Ranch, Lone Tree’s unique 1874 homestead
  • We ensure that local cities recognize Constitution Day September 17 by providing proclamations to be read at city council meetings
  • We present a JROTC Medal to an outstanding JROTC student annually
  • We participate in Naturalization Ceremonies where we congratulate new citizens.
  • We placed a marker for victims of the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu Pandemic at Fairmount Cemetery and also obtained a grant for saving the grave of Emily Griffith, historic Denver educator. We placed an America250 marker in the Littleton Cemetery.
  • We participate in historic re-enactments of Colonial times
  • We participated in DAR Day of Service by baking cookies for police in Lone Tree, Greenwood Village, and Highlands Ranch. We gave treat bags to firefighters at South Metro Fire Stations in Highlands Ranch and Lone Tree.
  • We collected books for the Boys and Girls Clubs and Koelbel Library.
  • We support students with books at the Cedarwood Christian Academy.
  • We donated a Trex bench to Ben Franklin Academy.
  • We presented the Women in American History Award to Tweet Kimball at Cherokee Ranch and to Dr. Loretta Ford, founder of the Nurse Practitioner program at the University of Colorado in 1971.
  • We presented the DAR Americanism Medal to Jimmy and Linda Yip of the Nathan Yip Foundation for generously supporting education in rural Colorado schools.
  • We presented a three-part genealogy workshop at the Highlands Ranch Senior Center.

Columbine Chapter is our home chapter, but we embrace friends and Daughters in other Colorado chapters and maintain the camaraderie and friendships many of us have developed among NSDAR chapters nationwide. Above all else, we are Daughters of the American Revolution, honoring our rich patriotic heritage and the freedoms for which our patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.

For more information about the goals of the NSDAR and membership, please visit our National Society website. For Information regarding Columbine Chapter, please contact the chapter regent.