Don Jose de Ortega Chapter

Here are some wonderful reasons to be a part of the Don Jose de Ortega Chapter DAR-

Scholarship

The chapter has established a scholarship for the purpose of encouraging higher education in the medical field. Endowed by a bequest by Marcia Havens Stowers, the scholarship will be given each year to the son or daughter of a California DAR. The chapter is especially proud to offer this Marcia Havens Stowers Medical Scholarship for students at Jr. standing who are taking a major that qualifies as Medical or Medical Technical Field, for example, laboratory technicians, nurses and doctoral candidates.

Philanthropy

Copies of the DAR Patriot Index were donated to The Los Angeles Library, West Valley Branch; the DAR State House Library and the Family History Library, on Plummer in Northridge. Donations have been given: to the Seimes Microfilm Center, in Washington, D.C., for census records for genealogical purposes; to the NSDAR Indian Scholarship Fund; to the NSDAR Library in Washington, D.C.; to the CSSDAR (California) State House in Glendora, CA; and to Pouch Cottage at the Tamassee School, in South Carolina. Other monies went to assist children and grandchildren of chapter members in purchasing books for college.

Grave Marker

In keeping with DAR interest in genealogy and genealogical records, money from Marcia Havens Stower's bequest was spent on a plaque to indicate the burial of Don Jose de Ortega at the Santa Barbara Mission. The original grave marker had vanished long since. Members attended the installation of the plaque on the Mission grounds on February 16, 2000, two hundred and two years after the Don's death February 3, 1798.

 

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