JUNIORS
NSDAR Joseph Habersham Chapter - Junior Membership

Georgia Juniors serving as Conference PagesA Junior Member is a DAR member age 18 through 35 years of age (until her 36th birthday).  She holds full membership in the National Society, State Society and Chapter, and when qualified, may serve as an officer and chairman at all levels. Junior Members are students, teachers, mothers, lawyers, doctors, authors, accountants, and professionals in their communities.  Although these young women are busy, they still find time to contribute to the DAR.

The National Junior Membership Committee was established in 1937 to encourage younger women to be active in their Society.

The Outstanding Junior Member Contest began in 1963 to recognize Junior Members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Honoring young women who have truly promoted the aims and purposes of the National Society, as well as participated in community activities, encourages all Junior Members to be vitally interested and involved in DAR programs and projects. Recognition on the Chapter, State or National level is an honor not to be taken lightly. Each chapter elects their Outstanding Junior. Chapter winners then compete at the State level; State winners compete at Continental Congress for the honor of National Outstanding Junior Member.

The Joseph Habersham Chapter provides a scholarship to the Georgia Outstanding Junior Member so that she may attend Continental Congress for the national competition.

Conference and Congress Pages are DAR members, under the age of 41, who are responsible for the smooth operation of State Society meetings and Continental Congress. Pages were first introduced at an early Continental Congress to add to the pageantry and formality of the occasion. There were thirteen, for the original colonies. Today hundreds of DAR members, mostly juniors, serve as pages at Congress, and at State Conferences across the nation. Paging is an excellent way to learn about the work of the DAR, and is a great way to get to know other members of the organization.  Today's DAR pages are tomorrow's DAR leaders; many of our current Society leaders served as pages at some time.
Continental Congress pages from Atlanta, 1953
These are Pages arriving at Congress in 1953. Pages are still identified by their white sashes today.

Junior membership has a very long history in the Joseph Habersham Chapter.
Today's Chapter Juniors sponsor evening events, the Chapter Book Club, and the wreath-laying ceremony marking the Chapter's anniversary.