Members of Charles Dibrell Chapter participate in education, historic preservation, and patriotism in many ways.
March 2024 - Women in History Month started with the Charles Dibrell Chapter sponsoring an event at the downtown Library in Albuquerque. Our Member, Henrietta Martinez Christmas, a distinguished genealogist, gave a presentation on “Women in New Mexico and Your History,” highlighting the common resources for locating women but also illuminating the often-overlooked methods for discovering women in our family history.
One to three members attend each naturalization ceremony in Albuquerque, where they present each new citizen with a welcome bag containing candy, a flag sticker, a flag code leaflet, and the most important item in the bag is a sleeve for their certificate. It costs $500+ to replace a certificate if it is damaged or lost.
Pictures from January and February 2024 Naturalization Ceremonies.
An annual event for Charles Dibrell Chapter, held in November, is Sand-O-Rama. Members bring items to fill gift bags for veterans at the VA hospital. The gift bags are delivered to the VA late November/ early December to be given to the patients on Christmas morning.
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We start by sorting out the items on the tables so similar items are together. Once we are set up, everyone grabs a bag and walks around each table putting one of everything in the bag.
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Some of the items that are regularly included in each bag are: T-shirt, socks, a deck of cards, puzzle books, pens/pencils, razors, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, lotion, kleenex, snacks, and books.
September 8, 2023 - Members gathered at Vista Verde Cemetery in Rio Rancho to place flags at the cemetery to honor each person who died on 9-11.
