The Membership Recognition luncheon honored chapters and Daughters for outstanding service: Our Fifty Year Members, four Chapter Membership Trekker Awards, eleven New Horizon Graduates, fifteen New Member Graduates, seven Chapter Regents completing terms, six chapter Outstanding Juniors, Lara Grant received Thatcher Award, Caitlynn Nemec received the literacy award for her book A to Z, Birds of Wisconsin, Barbara Nemec was named VIS State Award winner, Nancy Underbakke was paid tribute for entering over 20,000 names for Project Patriot Records; Betsy Grant received the DAR Service to Veterans Award. Wisconsin American History Teacher of the Year, Linda Garcia rocked the ‘house’ with her Educational Luncheon presentation.
Barbara Kiser, WSDAR Chaplain planned a Memorial service to honor thirty-six Sister-Daughters with a candle that was lit and then snuffed, however the light of their service remains bright. Tribute was given to fifty-sixty year members Helen May Gilboy, June Morris Ardovino and Joan Wendel Ketchum and two Honorary State Regents: Barbara Small Wood Janikowsky and Marilynn Ruth Baxter.