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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PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Sponsors the Celebration of THE 225th ANNIVERSARY of the SIGNING of the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA PHILADELPHIA CONTINENTAL CHAPTER, HOST Sept. 14 and 15, 2012 Double Tree by Hilton Hotel 301 West DeKalb Pike (Rt. 202) King of Prussia, PA SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 3 - 6 p.m. — Registration, Double Tree by Hilton Hotel 6:30 p.m. — Cash Bar, Informal Buffet Dinner, Entertainment, Adams Room SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 Breakfast on your own Time to be announced later — Bus Trip to Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA Time to be announced later — Color Guard Parade SAR Units, Nationwide Grand March, Independence Mall Ceremony at Constitution Center to be Determined Time to be announced later — Return Bus Trip to Double Tree by Hilton Hotel 6:30 p.m. — Cash Bar, Reception, Banquet, Music, Entertainment, Jefferson Ball Room Make room reservations directly with the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel, phone (610) 337-1200. Mention SAR to receive a special rate of $109 plus 8 percent tax. Reservation cutoff date: Aug. 31, 2012. Continued from page 21 History at the University of Virginia in 1956. Since 1956 the professorship has been occupied by only three scholars. Dumas Malone, author of a six-volume biography of Jefferson (1948-1981), held the professorship from 1956 to 1963. Merrill Peterson, another seminally important biographer of Jefferson, held it from 1963 to 1987. And Peter Onuf, the honoree of the conference, has held it since 1991. It seems hard to deny that these three scholars and the endowed professorship that each of them has occupied have been major stimuli to the scholarly pursuit of Jefferson biography. The second feature that has been 225TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONSTITUTION Registration (members only) Friday Evening Buffet, Cash Bar @ $10 per person ........ $ @ $42 per person .. $ Entrees are (please select one) Baked Flounder Stuffed with Shrimp and Crabmeat Braised Beef Roast with Natural Jus Sat. Evening Banquet, Cash Bar @ $50 per person .... $ Entrees are (please select one) Grilled Chicken Breast with Exotic Mushrooms Sauteed Shrimp and Bay Scallops in Lobster Cream Sauce GRAND TOTAL $ Name Chapter Address Phone Guest Names Make checks payable to 225th Anniversary Committee and mail to Jim Willis, 431 Hightop Road, West Chester, PA 19380 6800(5 profoundly important in shaping the contours of Jefferson scholarship and Jefferson biography over the past 50 years has been the Civil Rights movement, and the fuller national embrace of Jefferson's ideal of equal liberty for all. Jefferson biographers have been forced to deal with what appears to be a deep contradiction within the man, Thomas Jefferson. On the one hand, Jefferson was, as Merrill Peterson has characterized him, "the Apostle of Freedom." On the other hand, Jefferson was a slave-holder, who in his life and in his will freed only nine of his slaves. The 2012 SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution was surely a feast for the Jefferson scholar. It featured absolutely first-rate scholarly papers on Jefferson biography. It was obvious that the scholarly historians relished their conversations and the opportunity that the conference presented to advance their work. For SAR members like myself, and as one whose scholarly expertise lie in an area other than history, the 2012 SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution also provided a stimulating context for reflecting on how we can best learn from and about history. About the author: Dr. David E. Email Schrader has taught philosophy for more than 35. From 2006 to 2012 he served as executive director of the American Philosophical Association. He is also a past president of both the Society for Philosophy of Religion and the International Society for Value Inquiry. He is the author of two books and numerous scholarly articles. He has served as president of the Edmund Terrill Chapter, TXSAR; the George Washington Chapter, PASSAR; and the Major Robert Kirkwood Chapter, DESSAR. He has served as chaplain of the PASSAR and is presently chaplain of the DESSAR. He also presently serves as first vice president of the Philadelphia Continental Chapter, PASSAR.