The SAR MAGAZINE is the official quarterly publication of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution published quarterly.
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The extended Dooley family at the Elam Baptist Church, the third-oldest historically black church in Virginia. Joe is a Life Member, a George Washington Fellow and a Minuteman (Class of 2009). He has served as Secretary General (2012-13), Treasurer General (2011-12), Genealogist General (2008-11) and commander of the NSSAR Color Guard (2009-11). Since 2008, he also has served as the founding director of the SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution. He has chaired or served on numerous national committees, including the Color Guard, Membership, Genealogy, Medals & Awards, Master of Ceremonies, Handbook and Congress Planning committees. Joe has been the first-line sponsor for more than 200 new members. During the time Joe was chairman of the Membership Committee and Genealogist General, he drafted the memorandum of understanding that formed the basis of a contract between the SAR and Ancestry.com. By the terms of this contract, Ancestry has digitized all SAR applications and indexed the names of the first three generations. The SAR-Ancestry contract also provides for Ancestry to post on its website SAR applications that were approved through 1970. In part because of the inclusion of SAR applications on Ancestry.com, the SAR has enjoyed an increase in new membership applications. As a result of Joe's establishment of the SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution, some of the nation's best historians gather annually to present papers on various topics related to the American Revolution. Among the historians who have attended the SAR Annual Conference are three winners of the Pulitzer Prize. The papers from the first SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution, which convened in 2010, are expected to be published by the University of Virginia Press in an edited, peer-reviewed volume in 2013. Joe is a major contributor to The Center for Advancing America's Heritage. He also has contributed to the NSSARHarvard University research project into black patriots of the Revolution (go to www.archives.com/Patriots). Joe is a Silver Palm donor to the Arthur M. King Eagle Scout Scholarship Fund. He has made an additional contribution to the Eagle Scout Fund in honor of his late brother, Bill, who was both an SAR member and an Eagle Scout. Joe is a significant contributor to the JROTC Endowment Fund, the George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest Fund and the NSSAR West Point History Award Saber Fund. SUMMER 2013 Joe is a member of the Sons of the American Legion, in honor of his father, Wil, a World War II veteran who died in 2002. For six years, Joe served as a senior leader of the Children of the American Revolution. He is a member of, or is working on his membership application for, the following: the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Descendants of Colonial Clergy, the Society of the War of 1812, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Flagon & Trencher, the Dutch Settlers Society of Albany, the Descendants of Founders of New Jersey, the Order of the First Families of Maryland, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America. In 2007, Joe received the President's Volunteer Service Award for a lifetime of volunteer community service. The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission presented the award with a certificate signed by President George W. Bush. In 2008, the Texas Society SAR arranged for Gov. Rick Perry to name Joe an Honorary Texan. In 2010, Gov. Steve Beshear commissioned him a Kentucky Colonel. In his first act as President General, Joseph W. Dooley presented outgoing President General Stephen A. Leishman with the Gold Good Citizenship Medal. 19