[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 138 (Friday, September 6, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E861]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





         100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL

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                        HON. ROBERT B. ADERHOLT

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 6, 2024

  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Speaker, today I offer my congratulations to the 
Kate Duncan Smith DAR School on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
  The Kate Duncan Smith DAR School had its beginnings at the Eighth 
State Conference of the Alabama Society of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution in December of 1906 with the passing of a 
Resolution to ``adopt measures to insure greater Patriotic Education 
throughout the State.''
  During the early 20th Century, consistent public education was not 
widely available in the mountainous region of northeast Alabama.
  Following years of dreaming, planning and fundraising, the Alabama 
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution opened the Kate 
Duncan Smith School on February 26, 1924. The picturesque campus of the 
school is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, through a 
resolution adopted by its membership in April of 1928, joined the 
Alabama Daughters in support of the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School.
  Members of the Gunter Mountain community and surrounding areas made 
tremendous sacrifices to secure the school for the children of Gunter 
Mountain.
  The Marshall County Board of Education partners with the Kate Duncan 
Smith DAR School Board of Trustees to ensure students are receiving 
quality educational instruction within a safe learning environment.
  The mission of the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School is to provide 
opportunities for educational and personal growth for students, while 
emphasizing patriotism, responsible citizenship, and the historical 
legacy of the school.
  The Kate Duncan Smith DAR School serves any child living atop Gunter 
Mountain and surrounding areas, and currently has an enrollment of more 
than 1,310 children. The school has provided outstanding educational 
opportunities to its students and support for the community's many and 
diverse families for 100 years.
  The Board of Trustees of the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School believes, 
as did the school's founders, in maintaining the ''same spirit of 
dedication to achievement, patriotic and moral values, and service to 
community and country . . . on the campus today as it did in the early 
years of this unique educational experiment of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution.''
  I congratulate the Kate Duncan Smith DAR School on its Centennial 
Anniversary of providing students with a patriotic learning environment 
and on all it has accomplished in its first century. I am pleased to 
honor and celebrate the school's legacy.

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