The DAR Micajah Pettaway Chapter met for the Silver Tea at the home of Toni Suiter’s daughter on Sunday, March 30.

After Chapter Regent Margaret Barnes led members in the U. S. flag pledge, Celia Baggett read the American Creed. Students receiving a Good Citizenship or Good Citizen award and their parents were welcomed.

Kathy Jones, Ccairman of the good citizenship program, explained some qualities of the fifth-grade winners are loyalty, punctuality, clean mind, service, honor, cooperation, unselfishness, kindness, individual responsibility, courage, leadership, honesty, good sportsmanship and patriotism.

Jones presented the following students with a DAR certificate:

Benvenue Elementary School, Hunter Cuthrell; G. W. Bulluck Elementary School, Caitlin Page; Englewood Elementary School, Shannon Rolfs; Faith Christian School, Zachary Bryant; D. S. Johnson School, Amber Crandall; Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School, Henry Love; Pope Elementary School, Shranell Arrington; Rocky Mount Academy, Colby Kirkpatrick; Swift Creek Elementary School, Corbin Griffin; and Williford Elementary School, Fatimeh Al-Sayed.

Celia Baggett, the DAR chapter’s good citizens chairman, explained the good citizens program and scholarship contest.It is intended to reward and encourage outstanding qualities of good citizenship of high school seniors. They have demonstrated dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. Students were required to submit a list of their activities and personal qualifications along with two letters of recommendation. The second requirement was to write an essay titled “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility to Preserve It.” It was written without assistance or reference material in a two-hour sitting under the supervision of a faculty member. Essays were judged by one retired teacher and one who is still actively teaching. The seniors at the school voted to choose three individuals. Finally, the entire faculty chose one for their school’s winner.All winners have received a DAR Good Citizen’s pin and will be awarded a DAR certificate and savings bond when they are recognized at the end of the year in their individual school assemblies.

Winners who attended the Silver Tea and were given gift certificates were: 1. Rocky Mount High School, Malcolm Armwood, son of Mary and Alvin Armwood. Malcolm recently wrote, directed and starred in that play at Rocky Mount High School; 2. Southern Nash High School, Daryl Emig III, son of Mary and Daryl Emig, IV; 3. SouthWest Edgecombe High School, Donna Lynn Harrell, daughter of Debra and Carl Harrell.

Good Citizen winners who could not attend were: Tarboro High School, Qu’Nesha Hinton, daughter of Mary and Johnny Hinton. Qu’Nesha was the school and DAR Micajah Pettaway Chapter’s winner who will go to the District DAR competition.; Northern Nash High School, Mahogany Joyner, daughter of Constance Hart; and Rocky Mount Academy, Mallory Chambliss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Constance Hart.

Members placed Silver Tea fund-raising money contributions in a silver bowl. Nicki Savage, treasurer, gave each member a copy of the “DAR Micajah Pettaway Chapter 2007-08 Budget” dated March 28.