DAR Awards Dinner

Hi there and happy Monday.

I am fresh back from Kalispell Montana. I had quite a compliment from the Daughters of the American Revolution. This was an honor for me and also for Will James Middle School. The Shining Mountain Chapter of the DAR selected me for the teacher of the year. They then sent my application to the state DAR committee and I was selected Teacher of the Year for the State of Montana.

I was invited along with Diana my wife to the State Convention awards banquet. I was honored along with several outstanding students who had participated in the DAR’s annual student essay contest. (I will be sure to get some Will James’ students involved next year.) I was happy to speak to the convention and explain how my history classes are connection our past with today’s events. I also was happy to explain how Will James Middle School has supported our soldiers continually for the past six years and how we are prepared to continue. A special and unexpected treat was meeting and listening to the key note speaker Major General Paul Vallely US Army Ret. I had not expected to meet such a noteworthy man. His speech was outstanding to hear.

Diana and I were able to spend time visiting with the DAR leaders from every part of Montana. I will tell you that if you want to talk history a DAR convention is the place. Diana and I then took a sight seeing drive along the south edge of Glacier Park. We then continued to drive home south east through parts of Montana we had never seen. Oh what a marvelous state to drive through.

SO I am back and we are learning about slavery in the south and the coming civil war. If you have any comments just send them along.

Bless you all

Hunter