The 2025 NSCDA-WV Roll of Honor recipient is Betty Scott Ireland. A native of Charleston, she graduated from the University of Cincinnati before becoming a pension trust banker and later a small business leader and executive in the pension profession. She then served as the Executive Director of the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board…

April 5, 2025 – Berry Hills Country Club WV Dames Jane Boylin and Lynn Cvechko presented the history of NSCDA and NSCDA-WV, respectively. Featured Speaker Britton Rogers, Executive Director of Yestermorrow Design/Build School, presented “The English Garden Landscape to the Present American Landscape Architecture,” followed by a champagne toast and lunch.

On July 1, 2025, Mercer Dames and guests toured this 67-acre open-air museum and 1890 farm. The tour features walking tours, wildlife viewing, and periodic reenactments. Admission is $5 for adults. Visitors learn about the remarkable people who settled the mountainous Southwest corner of Virginia. The tour includes a one-room schoolhouse. For more information, search:…

The 2025 History Scholarship was awarded to Miss Molly Kay Belton, a student at Bluefield University. Molly is an education major with a minor in history. Wendy Beavers, Assistant Professor of History at Bluefield University, selects the honoree from among women history students.

The NSCDA-WV Cabell County Committee went on a field trip to Ashland, KY for their June Meeting. The Dames were treated to a docent-led tour of “Revolutionary Threads: Uniforms of Revolutionary War Patriot-Soldier Ancestors” sponsored by the Transylvania Chapter of NSDAR members at the Kentucky Highlands Museum. The reproduction uniforms were accompanied by stories of…

On June 14, 2025, the Pack Horse Ford Chapter NSDAR had a 250th Anniversary wreath-laying ceremony at Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown. The Beeline March was made up of a group of soldiers who traveled from Shepherdstown to Lexington/Concord to meet up with George Washington. It was one of the first armies organized in the colonies.…