1 20 4 https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/c093256a800c96fbe8cf0ac63ceec9d4.pdf 596c2b4fd1c8913f45821a76eefca5d6 PDF Text Text F t MINUTES /Of a Meeting of Descendents of Francis Scott Key and Mary Tayioe Lloyd held at St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, on May 2Z, 1959. 9^ * * * * i|t * * * « * * 413|i # :(i # * *1)1 ** * Invitations to the dedication of the FRANCIS SCOTT KEY MEMORIAL HALL on the Campus of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, having been sent to 123 addresses of descendents by the College, the following assembled at that place on May 2 Miss Ellen Key Blunt Miss Elizabeth Blunt Col. & Mrs. Wilfrid M. Blunt Col. & Mrs. Arthur T. Brice Gen. & Mrs. Richard W. Cutts Mr. George Washington Dobbin Mrs. Robert A. Dobbin Mrs. William Harvey Doyle, Jr. Mr. Howard rfay Doyle Mrs. S. Wilson Heaton Mrs. William Tabor Jarvis Mrs. John Forsyth Joline, Jr. Mr. Laurence Turnbull Joline Mr. Christian Albert Keller Mr. & Mrs. Francis Scott Key 1/ 1959: Mrs. Herrick Faber Kidder Mr. Edward Lloyd —-— Mrs. Josephine Browne Masi Mrs. James Edward Palmer <Mr. Gilbert Key-Smith Mr. Robert H. Key-Smith Mrs. Mlles P. Standish Mr. JohnT. Wainwright Miss Mary Katherine Weld Miss Katherine Key-Smith Mrs. Morgan Burdette Schille Miss Mary Howard Lloyd After an impressive dedication ceremony which was attended by The President of the United States - Dwight D. Eisenhower - and a buffet luncheon served on the College Campus - all of the above-listed members of the Francis Scott Key family - with the exceptions of Mrs. Palmer, Mr. Keller and Miss Lloyd, - assembled in a conference room of the Memorial Hall The purpose of the meeting, as outlined in the call to assembly, was to consider the formation of a permanent Key Family Society to establish and maintain in the St. John's College Library complete genealogical data and records of the Family. The meeting was opened at approximately 2:30 PM by the President of St. John's College, Dr. Richard D. Weigle, who welcomed the descendents �MINUTES- - - ------------- -{2) of Francis Scott Key, Class of 1796, to the College. Dr. Weigle stated that, ever since his advent to St. John's College a decade ago, he had hoped for a memorium to that honorable and distinguished gentleman and alumnus - our ancestor « that would be of a permanent nature; and that he had also hoped for the establishment of a Key Family Society that would be related in some way to the College. He reported that, as a result of the efforts of the Old Dominion Foundation, the Maryland Historical Society, the Board of Governors of the College, and the friends and alumni of the College, the ground-breaking for the memorium had taken place in October, 1956. He offered to the proposed Key Family Society the freedom of the Memorial Hall, the use of the St. John's College Library, and secretarial service and assistance to facilitate the collec-tion and maintenance in the Library of complete genealogical data and records of the Society and Family. Dr. Weigle also brought tolhe attention of those present the fact that the interior decoration of the Ijobby of the Memorial Hall had not been completed, and that the College would like to have a memorial plaque, tablet, or bas-relief for the space above the fountain in the entry, covered at the time by a United States Flag of 1815. Dr. Weigle withdrew, and the meet­ ing was turned over to Col. Brice - (Cousin Arthur). Cousin Arthur explained how the idea of a Key Family Society had come up in his immediate family, and told of the work that had been done by himself and his wife (Cousin Alice) - Mrs. Joline, his Sister (also a Cousin Alice) - Col. Blunt (Cousin Wilfrid) - Mr. Donald Key King (a professional genealogist but not in our direct lines) - the Library and Secretarial Staff of St. John's College and others - toward compiling a complege genealogy and directory of living �MINUTES.................................... (3) descendents. He told how he and Cousin Alice, when his Mother, Cousin Jeannie, was confined to a wheel chair in her old age, as something to occupy her time and thoughts, had set her about the task of listing her "100 First Cousins ' - which she had often mentioned, not .juite believing that she could do it, and how she had recalled from memory by name 75 of them, with some of whom a correspon ­ dence was started, family interest aroused, and ancestral diggings begun. Cousin jeannie died at age 90 in 1950, and Cousin Arthxxr - hoping to amass for himself the 100 cousins, as his Mother had, and he had not - had continued the work and correspondence from that time - thinking at the same time that it might be nice for all of us to know each other better so that we might all be able to claim 100 or more cousins. He concluded his report and remarks by stating that finally - thanks to the help of those mentioned - he had discovered that the St. John's Library had compiled a list of 118 of us - just the right number to fill one of the new jet passenger airliners by which he expected to return to California after the meeting. The meeting was then turned over to Col. Blunt (Cousin Wilfrid). Cousin Wilfrid stated that he had been very pleased by the number of descendents who had responded to the notice sent to them all; and that out of 118 sent, only 8 were returned undelivered - indicating that the St. John's mailing list is essentially correct as to addresses. He informed us that he had conferred with President Weigle and advised that a perpetual record of the Key Family could be established and maintained in the Library of St. John's College in the event that we might decide to form a permanent Key Family Society. As a matter of genealogical interest he reported that the record of �MINUTES -.................................. --(4) service of John Ross Key as an Officer in the American Revolution had been lost - so that any of us who might wish to establish eligibility for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati through lineal descent from John Ross Key , 1754 - 1821, would be disappointed. Mrs. Standish, at this juncture, stated that a record of John Ross Key's service as an Officer in the Revolution existed in I aunce's Tavern in New York City, and volunteered to look it up on her way home to Connecticut. The meeting was then turned back to Cousin Arthur. Cousin Arthur called for discussion from the floor, and suggested that we might appoint an "Acting Board of Regents of seven or eight to study the problem of establishing a permanent Society and report to the Family as a whole at a future meeting. He mentioned that Mr. Foster, the Director of the Maryland Historical Society, had offered the use of the Key room of that Society in Baltimore - in its present building or in the larger room in their proposed new building expected to be started during the next five years - to any such permanent Key Family Society that might be formed. There was a general discussion from the floor on the question as to whether or not any such permanent Family Society should be formed. Cousin Arthur pointed out that we would have to establish certain rules of eligibility for member­ ship, and stated that he would favor not more than two classes of membership - ' Hereditary , for all direct lineal descendents,-and Associate , for husbands and wives only of direct lineal descendents. this time. He also made small mention of dues at Cousin Laurie Joline suggested that we consider what kind of a Society we might have in mind - whether of a sophisticated type with annual dues, or of simpler type merely for the purpose of keeping up the genealogical record. �(5) MINUTES It seemed the concensus of opinion that the primary purpose of the Society should be for the establishment and maintenance ox complete genealogical records - although no vote on this question was taken. It was pointed out that almost all of us have Key memorabilia of one kind or another > letters* docu­ ments, portraits, and other physical property of our ancestor, which few of us would be willing to part with. Mrs. Jarvis (Cousin Edith) suggested that a temporary Secretary should be appointed . A voice vote on the question was taken and passed in favor of forming a permanent Key Family Society. Since he lived in Baltimore, and knew Mr. Foster of Maryland Historical Society personally, Mr. George Washington Bobbin, Jr.(Cousin George) was nominated and accepted the appointment to act as Secretary and representative of the group to it's sponsors designated as St. John's College, of Annapolis, Md., and the Maryland Historical Society, of Baltimore, Md. The question of rules of eligibility for membership « whether an^/or "Associate" Hereditary or other was again raised and discussed briefly. Since there were only approximately 21% of the known living descendents on the St. John's College mailing present, it was moved and passed that this question be tabled until a latter date; and suggested that a write-in vote by mail on it could be allowed. Mrs. Jarvis (Cousin Edith) suggested that someone should study the structure of some of the old Boston Family Societies, which could be of use to us in patterning our own. Cousin Arthur requested her to undertake such a study, and agreed to act as temporary chairman of a planning Committee or Acting Board �MINUTES . . . ............................ *(6) of Regent®” for the B’amily. Committee. He called for volunteers for members of such a The following accepted nominations and were appointed: Gen. Cutts (Cousin Dick) Kir. Dobbin (Cousin George) Col. Blunt (Cousin Wilfrid) K^r. JLloyd (Cousin Edward) Mrs. Jarvis (Cousin Edith) Mrs. Schiller (Cousin Elizabeth) Mr. Key (Cousin f rank) Mrs. Wm. Ward Clore (Cousin Catherine - in absentia) Mrs. Masi (Cousin Josephine) There was general discussion as to the proper time and place for the next meeting - to be for the purpose of acting on the recommendations of the Planning Committee. Cousins Dick Cutts, Eaurie Joline, and John Wainwright, pointed out that commencement time at St. John's College would be an imposition on the President of the College, having so many other matters of importance to attend to at such a time. Photographs of a portrait of our ancestor Francis Scott Key painted by the well known Artist Charles Wilson Peale during the year 179b in which he graduated from St. John's, and now in the possession of Cousin Arthur were shown, and there was brief discussion on the possibility ot having a bronze bas-relief done from it by a recognized sculptress in California. No decision was reached. As it was getting late and some of the Cousins had some distances to go to reach home, the meeting was adjourned at about 5:00 PM - (sine die). SS*SSSS>ii*3»iS««*:|t:)<********>t<*S*iK*** As the meeting was of an informal nature - many of the Cousins were meet­ ing each other for the first time - no agenda or order of business had been pre­ scribed, and there was confusion at times - apologies are hereby extended to those who may have taken part in the discussions or made recommendations or suggestions and whose names may have been passed over by your reporter. ELLEN KEY BLUNT � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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The descendants met to discuss the formation of a Key family society and the creation of a genealogical record of descendants of Francis Scott Key. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Blunt, Ellen Key, 1932-1975 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant St. John's College, Annapolis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1959-05-22 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <strong>In Copyright</strong> <br /><a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en</a> <br />This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from St. John's College. Please make sure to credit St. John's College using the citation provided in this record. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Subject The topic of the resource Key family St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.) Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK Records Box 2 Folder 27 Francis Scott Key Francis Scott Key Auditorium https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/f1175135d9cb4746b47d1f0e9a691c7f.pdf 1f51ac34215638ea3e45cdb3837ba040 PDF Text Text ARTHUR T. BRICE, VOLUME I EDITOR MACK A. ALLRED. PRINTER SONOMA, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY, 1963 FRANCIS SCOTT KEY - Class of 1796 Bronze bas-relief by M. Brackenridge From portrait by Charles Wilson Peale. NUMBER I �O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must , when our cause it is just, And this be our motto; "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the bravel �EDITORIAL Attention is invited to the Sponsor’s Column of this communication. We feel that all Cousins should be pleased and gratified to recognize that institutions such as these have volunteered to make themselves responsible - even if only to a very limited extent - for a Society of Descendants of - Grandpa Key among ourselves - when, as, and if any such Society may ever be permanently organized, established, or incorporated. The Maryland Historical Society has offered its Key Room in the new building for the first formal assembly of the Family. St. John's College has and is and will continue to provide the necessary clerical and library assistance to compile and maintain a com­ plete genealogical record. There need be no fear that the record will be used in any manner not authorized by the Society. Attention is, also, invited to the Treasurer’s Report - filed in this communication under Line IX of the column "From Among the Branches". It is the sense of your Acting Regents that all descendants are automatically, by birth, members of the Society in good standing - that there will be no monetary requirement to maintain such membership in good standing - that the activities of the Society as such will be maintained when, as, and if sufficient funds for such purposes are voluntarily contributed by members who are will­ ing and able to do so - and that the estimated cost of a project will be submitted to the en­ tire membership before any action on it will be taken by the Officers, Regents, or Society, as such. If the response to this newsletter justifies another, the custom initiated herein of reporting incidents of ancient history of significance to Key descendants will be continued. Our Country nourishes a tremendous force of tradition associated with the name of Francis Scott Key. has sprung. No one knows all of the incidents and events from which this force They are of importance and should be of interest to all our children. This communication may help to pass them on. All cousins are urged to keep a watchful eye on developments originating or having originated in the public schools of Hicksville, Long Island, New York. Please communi­ cate promptly with your Acting Chairman if you think any action looking toward proper patriotic or religious objectives can be taken by our Society as an organized group or by any of its Officers, Regents, or Members. I �VENTURESOME SCULPTORS Marian Brackenridge Sonoma, California Studied under Leo Lenteili at the Art Students League in New York and with the famous Venetian sculptor, Ettore Cadorin. She has worked in charcoal, clay, wood, ivory and other materials. With Cadorin, she worked on the bronze of Father Junipero Serra in the National Capitol in Washington, D. C. , and the statues of St.Peter, St. Paul, and St.John in the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church, also in Washington, D.C. Working alone she has done corbels and stone statues, to be seen in that cathedral, of St. Andrew, St. Francis, St. Patrick, and Joan of Arc, as well as a stone head of Albert Schweitzer. Her three large panels on the Annunciation, Nativity, and Visitation, for reredos are in the Church of the Incarnation, in Baltimore, Md. She has done bronze portrait bas-reliefs of living subjects -- a field which she considers her forte. From the Charles Wilson Peale oil portrait of Francis Scott Key at age 17, she has done the 18 x 23 inch bas-relief shown. This was his graduation portrait. A bronze of this work would constitute a very fitting and appropriate memorial gift from the family to St.John's College, to be placed in the Key Memorial Auditorium there. The artists price for a bronze of it was $800. 00. This has been advanced by your Acting Chairman, who will hold the bronze until such time as the Society of Descendants may be established on a permanent legal basis and sufficient funds contributed to cover the cost of incorpora­ tion of the Society and 75% of the above figure for the memorial gift -- which does not in­ clude the expense of mounting it in a suitable location at St.John's. Richard H. Recchia Rockport, Massachusetts Is a member of the National Sculpture Society and National Academy of Design. His work may be seen in the Red Cross Museum, Washington, D. C. ; the Speed Memorial Museum, in Kentucky; the Boston State House; Brookgreen Gardens; Harvard, Brown, and Purdue Universities; Buffalo Museum of Arts and Sciences; facade of the Boston Art Mu­ seum; the General Stark equestrian statue in Manchester, N. H. ; as well as in private collections. They have won for him the following awards: Kimball prize; gold medal and Cross of Honor, International Exposition of Italy; bronze medal, Panama Pacific Exposi­ tion; Lindsay Morris prize of the National Sculpture Society; and the Watrous Gold Medal of the National Academy. He has recently completed a plaster four foot statue of Francis Scott Key composing the "Star Spangled Banner". The creation depicts a young man attired in the dress of the period standing with arm outstretched and hand holding a scroll. He would like to see this work erected in heroic size somewhere in Maryland or even in the present four foot size ' in some museum. No cost estimates for such a memorial are available. FROM FORT MC HENRY The staff from which the Star Spangled Banner flew in 1814 was recreated by hand by a flagstaff maker of 29 years of experience in June 1959. Research by a six man Govern­ ment team indicated that it should stand 84 feet above ground and weigh three tons. It is estimated that the new staff will last from 75 to 80 years. 2 �OUR SPONSORS Maryland Historical Society 201 West Monument St. , Baltimore, Maryland Under the terms of two wills, the Society has received more than $2, 500, 000. 00 to be used for erection of a new building west of the present headquarters on Monument Street. Mr. James W. Foster, Director of the Society, under date of October 23, 1961, advised that construction was expected to start within a year and be completed in 18 months or two years. He suggested that 1964 might be the earliest date for a con­ vention of our Society of Descendants to be held in Baltimore. He felt confident that the shrine where the original manuscript of the National Anthem is now installed would not be moved. Under date of May 7, 1962. your Acting Chairman was advised by Mr. Harold R. Manakee. Assistant Director of the Maryland Historical Society of Mr. Foster's sudden death on April 30, 1962. This has been a great loss to the Historical Society as well as to our Society of Descendants. Mr. Foster offered the fullest cooperation of the Histori­ cal Society in our efforts to establish a Society of Descendants. He encouraged your Act­ ing Chairman when a Society of Descendants was no more than a gleam in his eye. We hope that the Historical Society will accept this as our expression of condolence and regret and continue the policy of cooperation with us established by Mr. Foster. St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland Two years from now and 1, 700 miles away from its present site, St. John's College, Annapolis, plans to duplicate one of the most remarkable experiments in 20th Century higher education in America, Initially, the Santa Fe College is expected to copy in fairly full detail the small Annapolis College of 300. Once it is firmly underway, according to President Richard D. Weigle, who will head both institutions. St.John's officials hope the Santa Fe College will be free to develop its own particular direction. What makes St.John's College different from other colleges in the United States 7 First is its famed "great books, " non-elective curriculum. It offers one single, non­ elective program which all students must take. As a college without a curriculum designed along "major" and "minor" lines, it stands alone among American colleges. Students are subjected to four years of mathematics, ranging from Euclid to transfinite numbers, and four years of laboratory science in which students perform crucial experi­ ments in physics, chemistry and biology. In addition, there are four years of languages and a year and a half of music. Because there is just one single curriculum, students may enter St.John's only as freshmen. While they may transfer to other colleges as upperclassmen, no upperclassman can be enrolled at St.John's. The college is proud of its small student-faculty ratio. There are seven students for each faculty member, a ratio sufficiently small to enable St.John's to abandon the pedagogical method in which an instructor lectures from notes to students who take notes and return them via examination. Instead of a lecturing system, instruction in the tutorials, as classes are called, follow a face-to-face, dialectical method. There is full opportunity for the student to be -- and he is supposed to be -- an active, not passive, participant. Non-denominational, St.John s for some reason continues to attract more men than women students, although It was opened to women in 1951. While the program is a rigorous one. St. John's officials do not consider it something simply to be offered to young intellectual giants. It is also one, they believe, which can be completed by a student classified as a "good average". 3 �PROJECT NO. 1 THE PERMANENT GENEALOGY RECORD AT ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE Under date of September 27, 1961, Miss Charlotte Fletcher, Librarian of St. John’s College, reported that genealogy record cards had been received for a number of names not on our mailing list representing children of known living descendants who have re­ ceived our communications. The status of the record as of that time was: Line I - Descendants of Elizabeth Phoebe Key (1803-1897) and Charles Howard (1802-1869). The list shows 39 names; 25 had not sent in their records. Line 11 - Descendants of Maria Lloyd Key (1805-1897) and Henry Maynadier Steele (1798-1863). The list shows 27 names; 24 had not sent in their records. Line III - Descendants of Francis Scott Key, Jr. (1806-1866) and Elizabeth Lloyd Harwood (1807-1902). The list shows 8 names; 6 had not sent in their records. Line V - Descendants of Ann Arnold Key (1811-1884) and Daniel Turner (1796-1860), The list shows 12 names; 10 had not sent in their records. Line VIII - Descendants of Philip Barton Key (1818-1859) and Ellen Swan (1824-1859). The list shows 20 names; 17 had not sent in their records. Line IX - Descendants of Ellen Lloyd Key (1821-1884) and Simon Frazer Blunt (1818-1854). The list shows 4 names; all had sent in their records. Line X - Descendants of Mary Alicia Lloyd Nevins Key (1824-1886) and George Hunt Pendleton (1825-1889). The list shows 6 names; 4 had sent in their records. Line XI - Descendants of Charles Henry Key (1827-1869) and Elizabeth Tayloe Lloyd (1827-1881). The list shows 3 names; one had sent in her record. This does not indicate an impressive showing of interest. We hope that during the past year, the record has become more nearly complete. If you are not sure that your record has already gone to St. John's College Library, please send it to Miss Fletcher without delay. All available printed cards have been distributed. If you have lost or misplaced your card, write to St.John's College Library, Annapolis, Maryland, giving the following information: Your name and address Date and place of your birth Name of your husband or wife Date and place of your marriage Names, birthdates, birthplaces, and addresses of any children' Names (and dates of birth and death if known) of the individuals through whom you are descended from Francis Scott and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key The compilation of the record at St. John's College is the only family project in which your Acting Board of Regents is now interested or concerned. There need be no fear that the record compiled there will ever be used for any purpose not authorized by the Society. ;• �FROM AMONG THE BRANCHES News from the eight lines of descent from Francis Scott and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key for which we have addresses of living members of the family has been scanty and scattered. We don’t quite yet know who we all are well enough to have named a reporter or genealogist for each line. A genealogical identification numbering system might help. Under such a system, every member's identification number is coded according to chronology of birth and generation from the ancestor by whose name the family is known. For example No. 1-2-3 represents the third child of the second child of the first child. According to the records in St.John’s College Library, your Acting Chairman is No. 10-3-1, the first child of Jane Frances Pendleton, who was the third child of Alice Key, who was the tenth child of Francis Scott and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key. According to the same records, No. 1-2 would have been Captain John Eager Howard, CSA, 1828-1911, unmarried; No. 2-3-2 is Cousin Cecil Herbert Claude, born 1897, carried in the record as unmarried, address unknown; No. 3-7-1-1-2 is Francis Scott Key, Jr. , Born 1944, of the only branch now bearing the family name KEY; etc. , etc. Or the numbers could start at our own ends of the lines rather than at Francis Scott and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key’s end. I would be No. 1-3-10; Capt. Howard No. 2-1; Cousin C. H. Claude - incidentally our principal candidate for the missing persons column this year - would still be No. 2-3-2; and young Francis Scott Key, Jr. , No. 2-I-1-7-3. Of course, we could employ someone to go into the Key Genealogy File at St.John's College Library to calculate each of our family identification numbers and let us know them - but, as you can see, the treasury is not up to that yet, and St.John's still doesn’t know all of our children. If you like the idea, why not calculate your own number and let us have it for the card file which we keep here of members who have responded hereto­ fore to our various communications. Records here are incomplete - but we have calculated some numbers - many inaccurate no doubt - as a starter. L I NE - I Evelyn Tyson Kidder (1-3-2) favors the idea that the Society might grant a scholarship to a deserving student or send an underprivileged child to camp - rather than place a wreath on our Grandfather's grave - when, as, and if the status of our treasury might ever permit. Evelyn Bayly Doyle (I-3-2-2) teaches Sunday School in Oyster Bay, L.I. , New York, and "pursues painting" while her husband Bill is learning to fly a glider. Their eldest, Howard, is a music major, and youngest, Herrick, likes to swim. Mary Howard Lloyd (1-4-?) writes that her life is so quiet that she has nothing to report tut everyone close to her knows that she spends a great part of it doing kind things for others. Elizabeth Lloyd Schiller (1-4-2) reports that the garden of the Lloyd-Chase House in Annapolis has had its face lifted by 16 small boxwoods from Wye House garden to form "The Lloyd Walk" there. She has completed a survey and cross index of the Wye Graveyard, with all inscriptions, which has been filed with the Society for Preservation of Maryland Antiquities. Edward Lloyd (1-4-3-1) points out that there are hundreds of organizations campaigning actively for funds to send needy children to camps; and that the selection of a beneficiary would present problems of adminstration, impartiality, race, creed, color, etc. When, as, and if, as a Society, we would ever afford a wreath on the grave, he thinks it would be more suitable. He would prefer to have any such money turned over to St.John’s College at Annapolis for a prize for the best essay on Francis Scott Key, submitted by a member of the Senior Class. 5 �Catherine deWolf Lloyd Clore (1-4-6-3) is a member of the Altar Guild at the Episcopal Cathedral of the Diocese of Arizona and does Gray Lady work among her Indians and at the Florence Crittenton Home and Gompers Clinic for Crippled Children. Returning from the Islands on a Pan American World Airways System jet in 1961, the pilot turned out to be Captain Francis Scott Key Lewis. ’’Yes” - he wrote "he was my Great-GreatUncle in my Mother's line, which comes from F. S. Key's sister. " (Note: -- Ann Key married Roger Brooke Taney at Terra Rubra, Maryland, on January 7, 1806). W. Ward Clore, Jr. (1-4-6-3-1) Under his sponsorship, the Episcopal Young Churchmen of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, Arizona, have trebled their membership during the past year. Portia Rich Hoekstra (1-4-6-1-1) is reported by our Line I correspondent as "a full-time mother"; Peter, a high school senior; Anna, a high school freshman -- "talent in Art and Sewing"; Margaret, Age 10 -- "scholarly"; Betsy, Age 8, "sings"; Andrea, 6, is in Kinder­ garten; Mary Jo, 4, is "big and tough"; Catherine, 2, is "chubby and red-headed"; John Thomas - "no talents indicated as of this date". (Note: We didn't have Cousin Portia's address when the genealogy cards were distributed. Suspect she will have to employ a secretary to get the record straight in St.John's College Library). Lloyd deWolf Clore Ray (1-4-6-3-2) is also a full-time mother. Catherine, first grade parochial school; Barbara deWolf, kindergarten; Anne Marie, Age 4; Harry Charles Ray, HI, Age 3; Deborah, Age 2. Howard Key Morgan (1 -9-2-1) is very sure that the work your Acting Regents have been doing is worth an annual contribution from everyone except the minor children. His ideas have been incorporated into the fiscal policy outlined in our editorial. L I N E - II Edith Bartow Bliss (2-7-3-2) sends her check from Martha's Vineyard and a letter heartily endorsing the work of our Acting Regents, in which she states that she is sure that two inherited portraits which she has loaned to the Maryland Historical Society should be at St. John’s. We hope that this will not result in any friction between our sponsors. Howard Key Bartow (2-7-?-?) would like to have copies of the genealogical charts from which our mailing list of living descendants has been compiled. These two charts were developed by Donald Key King, a professional genealogist, and Alice Key Pendleton Joline (10-3-2) in response to the call from St.John's College in 1953 to compile a list of living descendants. They are far from complete as indicated by our question marks above. The record will be completed only when all eligible members have filed their genealogical record cards in St.John's College Library. The carbons we have here are difficult to read in tracing the lines, and cover 31 closely typed pages. To edit and distribute a chart that might be complete even as far as the fourth generation would probably cost at least $500.00. Please send your check to the Treasurer earmarked if you would like such a project initiated. Edith Claude Jarvis (2-1-3-4) is Owner and Manager of the Jarvis School Bureau at 3 Dupont Circle, Washington 6, D.C. , which sent 400 children to camps in the U.S.A. , Switzerland, and Austria during the Summer and enrolled 200 in boarding schools during the Fall. She is now entering her fourteenth year of service as the only woman on the Board of Managers of Chevy Chase Village. She and Bill attended the Francis Scott Key Memorial Stamp Ceremonies at Fort McHenry in I960 and travelled in Portugal and Spain in 1961. They are camellia-fans and have gone all-out in the planting, purchase of books, and joining the Camellia Society in Chevy Chase, Md. �Patrick Henry Key (3-7-1 -3) is in the United States Merchant Marine. been wide and many. His last trip was to Hong Kong. His travels have Francis Scott Key, Jr. (3-7-1-1-2) achieved the highest mark in a mathematics test given by American Telephone and Telegraph Company at Dumont High School, New Jersey, and is now working and studying with that Company in New York City. Noel Mary Key (3-7-1—1-1) married John Leverett Hartle in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, on May 26, T^Z. John is graduating from Teachers College, after which they plan to make their home in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. L 1 N E - V Anna Key Palmer (5-2-1) who sat with the President of the United States as the oldest living of the oldest generation of descendants on the occasion of the dedication of the Key Memorial Auditorium on the Campus of St.John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, on May 22, 1959, died at the age of 94 at her home in Ventnor, New Jersey, on May 3, 1961. She would have been our Grand Matriarc had our proposed constitution been adopted be­ fore her death. She was strongly in favor of establishing a permanent Family Society, and compiling a complete genealogical record at St.John’s. Her name appeared on the first call to assemble at St. John's on May 22, 1959. Daniel Key Turner, III (5-7-1-4-1). With regard to this new member, the San Francisco Examiner of January 23, 1962, had this to say: "He is a direct descendant of Francis Scott Key, composer of the "Star Spangled Banner", but that's not all. His Great-GreatGrandfather, the first Daniel Turner, was a Navy Officer who came from Alabama to California in 1834 to help Admiral Farragut establish the Mare Island Navy Yard. " LINE- VIll George Washington Dobbin (8-1-1-4) attended the first day of issue ceremonies for the Francis Scott Key Credo Memorial Stamp at Fort McHenry and wrote that the Post Office Department had done a "whale of a job" on that function. A year ago he took over direct responsibility for the conduct of annual Heart Fund Campaign in the Baltimore-Annapolis area. He has developed a plan under which our mailing list for an annual newsletter could be managed for approximately $350. 00 to $400. 00 per year. Elizabeth Key Guinness (8-1-6-2) writes from 104 Kensington Church Street, London W-8, England, that her son Dennys Key Guinness is Captain-Royal Tank Regiment. L I N E - IX Wilfrid M. Blunt (9-2-1) Colonel U.S.A. Retired is still known in the Army as a top bracket polo player. He has been active in the Republican cause and a yachtsman for recreation. As our Treasurer, he reports for the period from May 26, I960, to June 1, 1962, as follows: Contributions from members of the Family -- $510.00 Expenditures for Secretarial work, printing, and postage----- - -- - --------- - ----------- - ------- 432.47 Balance on hand, deposited with Suburban Trust Co., Bethesda, Maryland----------- ----- $ 77.53 Mary Blunt Henson (9-2-1-1) lives in Sacramento, California, and has the following children: Laurel Fraser (9-2-1-1-1), Mark (9-2-1-1-2), Katherine Fleming (9-2-1-1-3), Robin (9-2-1-1-4), Mary Ross (9-2-1-1-5), Joel T. (9-2-1-1-6), Abigail (9-2-1-1-7). We hope the St.John's College Library has a complete record. �Ellen Key Blunt (9-2-1-2) kept the minutes of our first organization convention at Annapolis on May 22, 1959. She is now a reporter for the Washington, D.C. , Post. Elizabeth Blunt (9-2-1-3) is Assistant Director of the Bethesda, Maryland, office of CARE. L 1 N E - X Your Acting Chairman (10-3-1) has been writing a chapter for a symposium on "Cine­ micrography in Cell Biology" to be published by Academic Press of 111 Fifth Avenue, New York. This has delayed the editing, production, and distribution of this newsletter. He is Research Associate in Bacteriology at Davis, California, Campus of the University of California, For recreation, he fishes and cruises with his wife Alice Lloyd (nee Winder) on the 17-ft. cabin outboard "White Swan". After diligent study since the dates of publication of "Spangled Banner" by Victor Weybright, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. , New York, 1935; and "Francis Scott Key - Life and Times" by Edward S. Delaplane, Biography Press, New York, 1937, he has developed a 35 minute talk on the defense of Fort McHenry and writing of the Anthem. This has been well received during the past three years by Rotary Clubs in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and San Anselmo; Kiwanis Club in Santa Rosa; Sonoma Historical Society; and California Committee of the Society of the Cincinnati. Alice Key Pendleton Joline, Jr. (10-3-2) has been active and an officer in the Wayne Pennsylvania Art Club and Center. She works in oils and water colors. Her things have been hung in a number of salon exhibits. JohnF. Joline, III (10-3-2-1) is Headmaster at the Darrow (boys private) School, New Lebanon, New York. His theory is that talent is the only valid basis for the foundation of an aristocracy. Lawrence Joline (10-3-2-2) has been working for several years with the underwater ex­ ploration projects in the Mediterranean of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Julia Frances Chubb (10-3-3-1) is a medical technologist, senior in charge of the labora­ tory where she works. For recreation - skiing (snow not water) with the Sierra Club, or kodachromes with the San Jose, California, Camera Club, Sarah Jane Chubb (10-3-3-2) teaches at grammar school, also in Santa Clara County, California, during the school year. With sister Frances and roommate, she enjoyed the 1962 Summer vacation in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. RECEIVED TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY Alice C. Wainwright (5-11-2-2) is Metropolitan Commissioner of the City of Miami, Florida. We have pictures - but no dates - of her breaking ground with the architect and chairman of the Citizen's Committee for the new Coconut Grove Plaza Park develop­ ment; and presenting the key to the City to the World president of the YWCA. Dorothea Lane Cutts (5-11-2-1-1) is now 22 and has a position with a firm of attorneys in Washington, D.C. 8 �KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT BY RADIO The following correspondence has been paraphrased in the interest of space -printers -- not outer. Mr. Mel Venter Telo-Test Program-Radio Station KGO 277 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, Calif. May 1, 1962 > Dear Mr. Venter: I was very much interested in your Tello-Test Program of April 25, 1962. Your identification of the City where the original manuscript, of "The Star Spangled Banner" may be seen as Baltimore was correct. However, it has not been in the Walters Gallery there since 1953. Since then, it has been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society, where it is kept in an hermetically sealed glass case filled with helium in a decorative alcove or shrine, the dome of which depicts the exact star formation in the heavens above Fort McHenry, Maryland, as it existed before dawn on September 14, 1814. ■■'4’ 'f' -w’' >- ,1* > — ■ “ Sincerely yours, ARTHUR T. BRICE Colonel AUS Retired (10-3-1) W « » — — — « » — •• -> — Colonel Arthur T. Brice 656 Austin Avenue, Sonoma, California May 10, 1962 Dear Colonel Brice: Needless to say we are grateful for your most interesting letter of May 1st to Mr. Venter. We produce the Tello-Test show Nationally and provide all questions, answers, and source material. I find that our sources for this particular program were several years old, and that you are indeed right. Accordingly, 1 am updating our script, as we may want to use this program in other markets around the Country. Thank you very much for your letter. Sincerely, PHILIP SCHWIMMER Research Director Radio Features Inc. , Chicago 1, Ill. August 16, 1962 Director, Maryland Historical Society 201 West Monument Street Baltimore, Maryland A few months ago we used the following question on our Tello-Test Stations in the West-coastal states: "In what city would you find the original manuscript of 'The Star Spangled Banner'?" -- the answer of course being Baltimore. Through the kindness of the Chairman of the Society of Descendants of Francis Scott Key, we learned that our script giving the additional information that it was in the Walters Art Gallery was in error. The source material for this script was the 1956 editions of Collier's Encyclopedia and the Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia. I am enclosing our revised script, written this week, for your interest, but I think it should be called to your attention that the 1962 editions of both these encyclopedias still state that the manuscript is in the Walters Gallery. I have spoken by telephone with Mr. Roberts of Comptons, here in Chicago. Perhaps you will want to write to Dr. J. Parker Sondheimer, Research Editor of Colliers Ency­ clopedia at 640 Fifth Avenue, New York, or perhaps an Officer or Member of the Society 9 �of Descendants of Francis Scott Key will write for you. I might add that the S.D.F.S.K letterhead should have a more influencing effect than any letter by you or me. Sincerely, PHILIP SCHWIMMER Research Director Radio Features Inc., Chicago, 1, III. Postscript: The letterhead has been used in the manner suggested and we hope has created an authentic and accurate impression. OUT OF THE PAST A communication published by the San Francisco Chronicle on February 4, 1944: Editor: Referring to your editorial. January 31, 1944, on the contrast between the high money prizes for the new Russian national anthem, and the little probably received by composers like Francis Scott Key; as the last living granddaughter of Francis Scott Key I wish to inform you that "What he got" out of writing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was the satisfaction of thus expressing his love for his Country, and that I do not at all envy the composers of today. My pride in our National Anthem far outweighs their pecuniary remuneration. JANE F. BRICE (10-3) ******* * * ***** An interested genealogical researcher has sent us a complete roster of members of the Confederate Armed Forces from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, commanded by Brigadier General George H. Steuart, which includes the name of William Key (3-9), born 1846, died unmarried, for the Confederate cause, in a Union Prison in Washington D.C. , in 1865. A copy of the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine for May 1886, bearing the pencilled name Pendleton on the cover has been turned up from the family attic by Julia Frances Chubb (10-3-3-1). George Hunt Pendleton, 1825 - 1889, was the husband of Mary Alicia Lloyd Nevins Key. 10th child of Francis Scott and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key, (In a note to Thomas Harrison Montgomery, the pioneer in Key genealogy, dated March 21, 1885, she is re­ ported to have written: "I was christened Alice and bore no other name. ") As Senator from Ohio. Pendleton introduced the bill enacted by the Congress and the President which placed a monument over Grandfather Key’s grave at Frederick, Maryland, and further provided that the flag should fly over it continuously, day and night, forever. The magazine contains an article by Talesin Evans describing "A Californian's Gift to Science". James Lick was born in Pennsylvania in 1796. As a piano and organ maker, he arrived in California with a moderate fortune in 1847. Two years before his death in 1876, he conveyed his entire fortune, estimated at four million dollars, to a Board of Trustees to be divided among public charities, and for the erection of specified important institutions. Among the latter was the astronomical observatory on Mount Hamilton for the University of California which bears his name, and for the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, a bronze monument "To the Memory of Francis Scott Key, Author of the Song 'The Star Spangled Banner'. ” James Lick was an apprentice in Baltimore at the time of the defense of Fort McHenry. His Executors awarded the commission for the work prescribed in his will to the sculptor William Wetmore Story, who won the award in open competition in 1885. Story executed the statue in Rome. It was shipped to San Francisco and arrived aboard the Italian freighter Pietro B. in January 1888. The Trustees of the Lick Estate re­ 10 �quested certain changes in the original design which they had accepted. The sculptor refused to make them. The changes were made by another artisan under orders of the Trustees, and the huge memorial was dedicated on July 4, 1888, at an elaborate cere­ mony at which a salute of 100 guns was fired by a detachment of artillery from the Presidio of San Francisco. The Trustees charged the cost of the changes against Story's final bill. Story re­ fused to accept the charge, and a law suit hung on for several years. It was settled in the sculptor's favor in 1894. The cost of the monument was $60, 000. 00. The base of the monument is of travertine stone. On its four sides are inlaid marble slabs, on two of which are engraved the four verses of the Anthem. One bears the dedication in memory of Francis Scott Key, dated 1887; the other a wreath of oak and laurel leaves surrounding a lyre. The base supports four Corinthian columns between which the heroic size bronze statue of Key sits - his cloak over an arm of the chair pen poised in right hand - a scroll of paper in his left - a beautifully modeled work of art. Over his head the columns support a travertine canopy. Its classical cornice bears four bronze eagles at the corners. Between them four stone bulls heads hold garlands of laurel. Above rises an heroic bronze statue of Liberty, wearing helmet and sword, and holding the banner loosely furled about its staff in her right hand. * ***** national anthem vs NATIONAL SPORT ***** On or about June 2Z, 1962, some unknown patriotic observer noticed that, when the San Francisco Giants of the National League played their games at night by artificial illumination on their home grounds in San Francisco, the games were opened by the play­ ing of the National Anthem, but the Star Spangled Banner was not flown. Research indi­ cated that the only other major league team not flying the Star Spangled Banner at their night games was the New York Mets, based at the Polo Grounds, New York, It was pointed out that Francis Scott Key saluted the Banner in his own immortal words over Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814, by artificial illumination, and that Public Law 829 passed by the 77th Congress specifically states that "The Flag may be displayed at night upon special occasions when it is desired to produce a patriotic effect". It is now so flown at every game of the Giants played at night in San Francisco. �BOOK REVIEWS The Virginia Bishop - A Yankee Hero of the Confederacy. John Sumner Wood. Garrett and Massie, Inc., Richmond, Va. 1961. John Johns of Delaware was one of the foremost presidents (1849-1854) of the College of William and Mary. He was also deeply interested in the Theological Seminary and High School of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of the Diocese of Virginia, which he virtually re-founded after the war between the states, and served as president until his death in 1876. This rambling series of word pictures of different phases of his life and times in a young and vigorous nation suggests a close professional relationship between the younger Rev. John Johns and Francis Scott Key, Esquire, 17 years his senior. Key was a member of All Saints Parish in Frederick Town, Maryland, when the Rev. Johns was called to be its Rector a few weeks after his ordination in 1819. Elected with others as "Managers" of the Christian Education Society of the Church in 1825, they established the farsighted policy under which thereafter the Virginia Seminary required each candidate for admission to present a college diploma, or pass special ex* aminations on philosophy, rhetoric, Latin, and Greek. Interview in Weehawken - The Burr-Hamilton Duel as Told in the Original Docum.euts. Edited by Harold C. Syrett & Jean G. Cooke with an Introduction and Conclusion by Willard M. Wallace - Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn. I960. This book tells the story as it developed, in the words of the actors themselves. As a first-hand view of an important historical event in the process of developing, this book has few parallels. It will be of principal interest to the Line No. 10 Members of this Society. Hamilton's Second was Captain Nathaniel Pendleton whose Grandson, George Hunt Pendleton married Alice Key, the tenth child of Francis Scott and Mary Tayloe Lloyd Key. Your Acting Chairman and Editor inherited a pair of pistols by Grice of London for which claims had been made by an earlier generation that, if they were not the pistols used in the duel, they had probably been taken to Weehawken by Pendleton and discarded by the principals in favor of lighter weapons. They are flintlocks of approximately . 50 caliber and 9-inch barrels, undoubtedly the side arms of Major General Nathaniel Greene, presented to his Aide, Captain Nathaniel Pendleton, after the Revolution. A source at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been reported to have said that if all the pistols alleged to have been used in the duel were valid, there must have been a wagon load of them at the field of honor in Weehawken at sunrise on July II, 1804. �'i 1 HAIL AND FAREWELL ? ? On May 22, 1959, the following assembled at the Key Memorial Auditorium of St.John's College, Annapolis, Maryland: Miss Ellen Key Blunt Miss Elizabeth Blunt Col. & Mrs. Wilfrid M. Blunt Col. &r Mrs. Arthur T. Brice Gen. & Mrs. Richard W. Cutts Mr. George W. Dobbin Mrs. Robert A. Dobbin Mrs. William Harvey Doyle, Jr. Mr. Howard H. Doyle Mrs. S. Wilson Heaton Mrs. William Taber Jarvis Mrs. John Forsyth Joline, Jr. Mr, Laurence Turnbull Joline Mr. Christian Albert Keller Mr. & Mrs. Francis Scott Key Miss Katherine Key-Smith Mrs. Robert H. Key-Smith Mr. Gilbert Key-Smith Mrs. Herrick Taber Kidder Miss Mary Howard Lloyd Mr. Edward Lloyd Mrs. Josephine Browne Masi Mrs. James Edward Palmer Mrs. Miles P. Standish Mrs. Morgan Burdette Schiller Mr. John T. Wainwright Miss Mary Katherine Weld To paraphrase in part Cousin Ellen Blunt's minutes of the meeting: "Cousin Arthur Brice, (10-3-1), explained how the idea of a Key Family Society had come up in his im­ mediate family. His Mother, Cousin Jeannie, (10-3), had been able to name from mem­ ory 75 of her 100 first cousins before she died at age 90 in 1950. President Weigle of St.John's College got in touch with the family in 1953, looking for living descendants to invite to the laying of a cornerstone. Cousin Arthur had only one first cousin and thought it would be nice to have more and for all of us to know each other better and be able to claim 100 or more cousins. " "Cousin Arthur" now feels that the claim at least has been established. You all have names and addresses of more than 100 cousins. As to knowing each other better -- time will tell. The record (see Project No. 1), has been set up at St.John's College Library. The response has not been encouraging. The financing has been on a shoestring that is about worn out. This publication is costing about $200. 00. There is $77. 53 in the Treas­ ury. "Cousin Arthur" now feels a little like the sergeant must have felt. who. in World War 1. released a homing pigeon from the line of battle carrying a message to the Army command post -- "1 have carried this bird as far as I am going to". Or Longfellow's bowman who knew not where his arrow would land. He cannot call on his only first cousin. George Hunt Pendleton 11. (10-1-1). died in 1938. He hopes that some one or more of the 100 plus will step up "in loco first cousin" and help him carry the ball from here on out. TAPS In announcing the 100th anniversary ceremonies commemorating the first sounding of the bugle call for "lights out" by Butterfield's Brigade after the hard fighting of the peninsular campaign early in July 1862. the New York Times makes the statement that "the piece ranks with The Star Spangled Banner in its appeal to Americans". The new call not only spread through the Union Army, but was taken up by Confeder­ ate buglers who could hear it across the quiet James River in tidewater Virginia. It was soon used at military funerals in place of the customary rifle volleys, which might attract enemy attention, and was played at the funeral of General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederacy. Like the Star Spangled Banner, its authority and appeal rests on tradition and use rather than on any legislative or executive action. 13 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK Description An account of the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records contain correspondence, publications, and administrative and financial records relating to the Society, Francis Scott Key, and St. John's College. 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CALIFORNIA, JULY. 1966 USS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, launched at Groton, Connecticut 11:00 AM April 23, 1966. NUMBER 2 �O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation; Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just. And this be our motto: "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! �THE PAST IS PROLOGUE The launching of the atomic submarine, the USS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY named for our illustrious forebear, provided an occasion for the first general assembly of this Society since its formation at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1959. The events and formalities of April 22 and 23, 1966, at Groton and New London, Connecticut, celebrating the christening and launching undoubtedly strengthened the integrity of the Society as a unit. Our hosts for these events were the Electric Boat Company Division of General Dynamics Corporation builders of the ship for the U.S. Navy. They had extended invitations to all members of the Society whose addresses were known for the christening and launching as well as a luncheon reception afterwards. In addition, they gave a formal dinner the night before the christening in honor of the two sponsors, Marjory Key Thorne and Edith Claude Jarvis. This affair was attended by high officials of the Electric Boat Company, a number of selected Naval Officers, and the Matrons of Honor of the Sponsors, Mrs. C. T. Lyon and Mrs. Milton E. Miles. On this occasion, Mrs, Jarvis contributed to the sense of solidarity of the Society of Descendants in all minds by presenting State of Maryland New York World's Fair Francis Scott Key gold medallions to wives of Boat Company officials who were most active in making local arrangements for the social events of the occasion, Mesdames J. Wm. Jones, Allan Dunning, and Robert Chappel, as well as to the skipper of the Blue Crew of the Ship, Captain Frank Graham, USN. CHRISTENING AND LAUNCHING Th^ extent to which our ancestor still lives through his influence on our modern United States community and society was demonstrated by the crowds who attended the event. There were overalls and hair curlers from the work­ shops where the ship had been built. There was Brass from Wall Street, Groton, New London, and Washington, D.C. , where she had been planned. They must now equip her for a commission by the U.S. Navy. The ceremony was attended by a large Naval contingent, including the per­ sonnel of the two -- Blue and Gold -- crews selected to man the vessel, officials of the Electric Boat Company, a detachment of Sea Scouts and more than 3, 000 citizens, including those members of our Society present. The route through the shipyard to the ways was through a double line of our National Flags held by blue-jackets and past an honor guard of Sea Scouts. Red, white and blue bunting decorated the bow of the Ship and the launching stand. Com­ bined with perfect weather, and the Navy Special Show Band which played during the assembly prior to the launching, these local arrangements provided a gala and auspicious setting for the historic event. The ceremony was opened by an inspiring rendition of the National Anthem, the "Star Spangled Banner", followed by a stirring address by the Hon. David G, Bress who now holds the position once held by our ancestor, Francis Scott Key, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He gave an account of the - 1 - �Defense of Fort McHenry, Grandfather Key's trip to the British Fleet, the bom­ bardment and the writing of the Anthem, to which even the most meticulous of historians could find no exception. At exactly eleven o'clock on 23rd of April, 1966, the Sponsors, our Record­ ing Secretary Edith Claude Jarvis and Cousin Marjory Key Thorne, each broke a bottle of champagne on the bow, and the newest nuclear submarine USS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY slid down the ways in the bright sunlight amid the waving flags, accompanied by the cheers of spectators and the spirited music of the Navy Band. RECEPTION The importance of the occasion, the number of distinguished guests involved, and the wishes of the Acting Regents of the Society of Descendants to hold a short family gathering called for the use of two rooms of the Mohican Hotel in New Lon­ don, Connecticut, across the river from the shipyards. In one, our Sponsors of the christening were introduced to distinguished guests, officers of the Navy and officials of the Boat Companies, before joining members of the family in the other. On arrival in the Hotel after the launching, we were greeted by signs which read "FRANCIS SCOTT KEY descendants proceed to the Florentine Room", an arrow, and a corps of ushers. At the door of the banquet room, we were greeted by a secretary who gave us name tags and a staff of waitresses serving champagne. A bar was set up at one end of the room with an elaborate buffet adjacent. The remainder of the room was set with small tables. No count or roster of names was kept. An estimate of more than sixty in attendance was based on counting thirty-two acceptances of invitations as two apiece. There were, however, also parties of 3, 4, and 5, including children, so that the attendance may well have been more than seventy. With delicious food, waitresses insistant on keeping champagne glasses filled, and circulation between the tables, one might have thought we were attend­ ing a wedding reception. THE GATHERING OF THE CLAN It was hard to break up the party and establish a semblance of order at one end of the room. The business meeting was a short one. Our Christening Sponsor Marjory Key Thorne, Line XI, was presented with a framed photograph of her Aunt Mary McBlair, Line XI, deceased. Our Christening Sponsor and Recording Secretary Edith Claude Jarvis, Line II, made the following report. - 2 - �REPORT OF THE SECRETARY On October 18, 1963, a meeting of four of the Acting Regents of the SOCIETY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY was held at the home of Mrs. Wm. Jarvis in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Those present were Col. Arthur Brice, Chairman, Col. Wilfrid Blunt, Treasurer, General Richard W. Cutts, and Mrs. Edith Claude Jarvis, Recording Secretary. A discussion concerning the drafting of a Resolution to be presented to Governor Tawes of Maryland took place. The Resolution concerned the presentation of a documentary film on the Bombardment of Ft. McHenry and the writing of the National Anthem for use at the New York World's Fair. The Resolution was adopted and later signed by about 22 of the Maryland descendants of Francis Scott Key. It was presented to the Governor by Mrs. Jarvis with the result that a docu­ mentary film was shown at the New York World's Fair in 1964. On Mardill, 1965, your Secretary attended a Bill-signing Ceremony at the State House in Annapolis. It was a House Joint Resolution #14 endorsing the name of Francis Scott Key for consideration to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans. Nearly every State in the Nation took similar action, as a result of D. A.R. efforts. How­ ever, Key's name was not among the 4 who were selected for the Hall of Fame. In the Summer of 1965, all of the Key family records, which had been carefully collected, indexed, and filed by Col. Arthur Brice, Chairman of the Acting Board of Regents, were shipped to the East from California. They are now in the tempor­ ary custody of the Recording Secretary, Mrs. William T. Jarvis, Chevy Chase, Md. , until such time as a permanent place may be found for them. Respectfully submitted, (signed) April 23, 1966 EDITH CLAUDE JARVIS Recording Secretary The Recording Secretary's report was acceted by unanimous vote of the meeting. Treasurer, Col. Wilfrid M. Blunt, Line IX, reported on receipts and ex­ penditures by year from organization of the Society to December 31, 1965. Dur­ ing that period, a total of $540.00 was received from contributions and $439. 37 expended for office expense, secretarial help, stationery, printing, postage, etc., leaving a balance of $100. 63 on deposit with Suburban Trust Company of Maryland. His report was accepted by unanimous vote of the meeting. Your Acting Chairman made an appeal for contributions to meet similar ex­ pense in connection with St. John's College Genealogical Records Project. To date $325. 00 has been received by the Treasurer in response to this appeal. On nomination and seconding from the floor, Mrs. C. T. (Cousin Clarissa) Lyon, Line XI, having accepted, was appointed Acting Regent in place of Edward Lloyd, Line I, deceased. - 3 - �The Chairman suggested that the next meeting might be held in connection with the dedication of the new buildings of the Maryland Historical Society where the original manuscript of the Anthem is kept. No date for the dedication had as yet been set. He urged all members in the interim to think over the problems of giving permanence and continuity to the Society by adoption of a fo’^mal consti­ tution and to decide whether appointment of Regents should be for s: ecified terms of office or for life. On motion by General Dick Cutts, USMC, Ret'd. , Line V, the Chairman was given a rising vote of confidence and the meeting adjourned. EPILOGUE "Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. " Through the years since 1959, by correspondence and in conference, the Acting Regents have discussed many different plans and projects for the Society of Descendants. Primarily, the question has been how we can give it permanence and perpetuity after a small dedicated group of founders who assembled at St.John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1959 pass on. A set of accurate genealogical records is of the greatest importance. A complete genealogical file on the family as a whole should carry the Society on through the ages for as long as the Star Spangled Banner remains the National Anthem. St. John's College reports that less than half of the living descendants of known addresses have submitted genealogic records, and experience has shown that the cards originally sent out were not entirely satisfactory. An improved genealogic record card is being prepared for distribution. It is hoped that they will be executed and submitted without delay. Our Line III was believed to be extinct for several generations, but we now have nine names and six addresses of living members in it -- descendants of Francis Scott Key, Jr. (1806 - 1866) and Elizabeth Lloyd Harwood (1807 - 1902). We have no names or addresses of any living descendants in Line IV descendants of John Ross Key, II (1809 - 1837) and Virginia Ringgold (? - 1901). Information on any living descendants in this line will be appreciated. No replies were received to many invitations to the christening and launch­ ing of the USS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, resulting , no doubt, from faulty mailing lists, unknown addresses, address changes -- or possibly even name changes not reported. Our Secretary is now keeping the record of all correspondence and current archives of the Society at her home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, until such time as a permanent place may be found for them. It is urgently requested that all members notify her of any changes of name or address. The Maryland Historical Society will sponsor a meeting of our Society on the occasion of the dedication of its new building in Baltimore, expected to take place in the Spring of 1967. At that time, the Acting Regents would like to present to the Maryland Society a set of colors to be a memorial to the founding of the Key Family Society of Descendants, Estimates have been obtained of cost of a suitable - 4 - �set of nylon flags with fringes, staffs with brass eagle on one and cross on the other, stands, etc., for $113.00. The Treasurer will acknowledge any contri­ butions to this approved project that nnay be received by any member of the Ac. ing Board of Regents. Checks should be made payable to the "Society of Descen dants of Francis Scott Key. " - 5 - �o ACTING BOARD OF REGENTS Chairman Arthur T. Brice, D. S. C. 656 Austin Avenue Sonoma, California 95476 Line X Treasurer Wilfrid M. Blunt, L. M. 7804 Exeter Road Bethesda, Maryland 20014 Line IX Recording Secretary Mrs. Wm. Taber Jarvis 9 East Melrose Street Chevy Chase, Maryland 20015 Line II Sponsors Liasion Officer George Washington Dobbin 2 West Lake Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21210 Line VIII Members Mrs. Wm. Ward Clore 6040 North 7th Street Phoenix, Arizona Line I Richard W. Cutts Dondoric Farms The Plains, Virginia Line V Francis Scott Key 107 Seminole Avenue Dumont, New Jersey Line III Mrs. C. T. Lyon 41 Main Drive Candlewood Acres Brookfield, Conn. 06804 Line XI Mrs. Frank H. Masi Metompkin Millwood, Virginia Line ! Mrs. Morgan B. Schiller Wye House Easton, Maryland Line 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK Description An account of the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records contain correspondence, publications, and administrative and financial records relating to the Society, Francis Scott Key, and St. John's College. Many of the records involve compiling a genealogical record and address list of members of the Society, but the records also document Francis Scott Key's history and his influence on American society and St. John's College.<br /><br />For more information about the records, please see the <a href="https://sjc.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/9">finding aid</a>. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 8 pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Freemen Stand, Volume 1 Number 2 (July 1966) Description An account of the resource Freemen Stand, Volume 1 Number 2 (July 1966). Second issue of the newsletter for the Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key. Published in Sonoma, California. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brice, Arthur Tilghman, 1892- The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1966-07 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <strong>No Copyright - United States</strong> <a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en</a><br />The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. 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Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK Records Box 4 Folder 4 Francis Scott Key https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/61b7661fd9ac0c2ac84419c015ecffc0.pdf 0eba8d725e97e8b772df501d9a40f824 PDF Text Text Washington Tuesday April 11. -43 Your letter, dear sister, I was delighted to recieve and thank you a thousand times for enclosing the letter from dear father to you. it comforted me and I hope improved me much, though sometimes I feel hopeless of ever meeting father in heaven, yet the hope I have at times, and the comfortable assurance that our Savior has given us "my grace is sufficient for thee," is to me the greatest consolation. For without his grace I know and feel that the temptations that surround me will overcome me, but I try to place all my trust in him, to ask him to give me his holy spirit, and strength to follow its promptings. It is a great power of comfort to me that dear father, before he died, knew that I intended devoting myself to God, and I have two most beautiful letters, which I prize more than I can tell you, from him on that subject. I will show you them when we meet. and now I have I know something to tell you which will give you great pleasure. Mr. Howard came from Baltimore yesterda Saturday and brought me a letter from Ellen, in which she tells me she is going to be confirmed and wants me to come and be confirmed with her. I will do it most gladly and I hope with more devotion and thankfulness give myself to God for this great blessing and mercy to me. The Bishop was sick and did not come this sunday I told you he was expected, and now I am going to be confirmed with Ellen. I know dear sister this will give you the greatest pleasure. oh pray that God may keep us his through all the trials dangers and temptations of the world and at last bring us all to meet with father and each other in Heaven. - it is so dark I can hardly see, and my eyes hurt me and I must stop. - I send you back the letter as Mother thinks in Ellens weak state it might agitate her too much to see it, and I am afraid to keep it till she can, for fear as we are moving about so much it might get lost. - Ellen is better, her chills are not so violent. - Mother joins me in best love to Mr. Turner and the children and believe me ever your fond sister Alice Key. [cancellation] Washington D.C. Apr 12 Mrs Daniel Turner Woodly near Warenton North Carolina ��� https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sjcdigitalarchives/original/5759821e15c86d2c65d683cda79390cc.pdf 251284c4abd08a5ed2633c282dcda687 PDF Text Text 1 Washington Tuesday April 11. -43 Your letter, dear sister, I was delighted to recieve and thank you a thousand times for enclosing the letter from dear father to you. it comforted me and I hope improved me much, though sometimes I feel hopeless of ever meeting father in heaven, yet the hope I have at times, and the comfortable assurance that our Savior has given us ”my grace is sufficient for thee,” is to me the greatest consolation. For without his grace I know and feel that the temptations that surround me will overcome me, but I try to place all my trust in him, to ask him to give me his holy spirit, and strength to follow its promptings. It is a great power of comfort to me that dear father, before he died, knew that I intended devoting myself to God, and I have two most beautiful letters, which I prize more than I can tell you, from him on that subject. I will show you them when we meet. and now I have I know something to tell you which will give you great pleasure. Mr. Howard came from Baltimore yesterda Saturday and brought me a letter from Ellen, in which 2 she tells me she is going to be confirmed and wants me to come and be confirmed with her. I will do it most gladly and I hope with more devotion and thankfulness give myself to God for this great blessing and mercy to me. The Bishop was sick and did not come this sunday I told you he was expected, and now I am going to be confirmed w ith E llen. I k now d ear s ister t his w ill g ive y ou t he greatest pleasure. oh pray that God may keep us his through all the trials dangers and temptations of the world and at last bring us all to meet with father and each other in Heaven. - it is so dark I can hardly see, and my eyes hurt me and I must stop. - I send you back the letter as Mother thinks in Ellens weak state it might agitate her too much to see it, and I am afraid to keep it till she can, for fear as we are moving about so much it might get lost. - Ellen is better, her chills are not so violent. - Mother joins me in best love to Mr. Turner and the children and believe me ever your fond sister Alice Key. 3 [cancellation] Washington D.C. Apr 12 Mrs Daniel Turner Woodly near Warenton North Carolina �This document would not be possible without the editorial contributions of the following people: Whitney Bixby � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK Description An account of the resource The Society of the Descendants of Francis Scott Key Records contain correspondence, publications, and administrative and financial records relating to the Society, Francis Scott Key, and St. John's College. Many of the records involve compiling a genealogical record and address list of members of the Society, but the records also document Francis Scott Key's history and his influence on American society and St. John's College.<br /><br />For more information about the records, please see the <a href="https://sjc.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/9">finding aid</a>. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource St. John's College Greenfield Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper Page numeration Number of pages in the original item. 2 Text Any textual data included in the document Washington Tuesday April 11. -43 Your letter, dear sister, I was delighted to recieve and thank you a thousand times for enclosing the letter from dear father to you. it comforted me and I hope improved me much, though sometimes I feel hopeless of ever meeting father in heaven, yet the hope I have at times, and the comfortable assurance that our Savior has given us "my grace is sufficient for thee," is to me the greatest consolation. For without his grace I know and feel that the temptations that surround me will overcome me, but I try to place all my trust in him, to ask him to give me his holy spirit, and strength to follow its promptings. It is a great power of comfort to me that dear father, before he died, knew that I intended devoting myself to God, and I have two most beautiful letters, which I prize more than I can tell you, from him on that subject. I will show you them when we meet. and now I have I know something to tell you which will give you great pleasure. Mr. Howard came from Baltimore yesterda Saturday and brought me a letter from Ellen, in which she tells me she is going to be confirmed and wants me to come and be confirmed with her. I will do it most gladly and I hope with more devotion and thankfulness give myself to God for this great blessing and mercy to me. The Bishop was sick and did not come this sunday I told you he was expected, and now I am going to be confirmed with Ellen. I know dear sister this will give you the greatest pleasure. oh pray that God may keep us his through all the trials dangers and temptations of the world and at last bring us all to meet with father and each other in Heaven. - it is so dark I can hardly see, and my eyes hurt me and I must stop. - I send you back the letter as Mother thinks in Ellens weak state it might agitate her too much to see it, and I am afraid to keep it till she can, for fear as we are moving about so much it might get lost. - Ellen is better, her chills are not so violent. - Mother joins me in best love to Mr. Turner and the children and believe me ever your fond sister Alice Key. [cancellation] Washington D.C. Apr 12 Mrs Daniel Turner Woodly near Warenton North Carolina Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Alice Key to Mrs. Daniel Turner (Ann Arnold Key Turner). April 11, 1843 Description An account of the resource Letter from Alice Key to Mrs. Daniel Turner (Ann Arnold Key Turner). April 11, 1843. Alice Key writes about her faith and confirmation. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pendleton, Alice Key, 1824-1886 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Washington, D.C. Warrenton, NC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1943-04-11 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <strong>No Copyright - United States</strong> <br /><a href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en</a> <br />The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to St. John's College for more information. Please make sure to credit St. John's College using the citation provided in this record. Type The nature or genre of the resource text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Subject The topic of the resource Key family Language A language of the resource English Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SDFSK_4_5 Francis Scott Key