Witness Stones Project Executive, Pat Wilson Pheanious, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Golden Shield Award given by the National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (NSDFPA). The award was announced at the organization’s national meeting held in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 10, 2017.
The Golden Shield Award is presented annually to a non-member of the Society who is prominent in his or her field of expertise and has made noteworthy contributions in one of the areas in which NSDFPA is dedicated.
Founded June 7, 1898 by Miss Eugenia Washington, great grandniece of George Washington, Mrs. Henry V. Boynton and Mrs. William L. Mason, with these objectives:
(1) To associate with congenial women whose ancestors struggled together for life, liberty, home and happiness in this land when it was a new and unknown country, and whose lines of descent come through patriots who sustained the Colonies in the struggle for independence in the Revolutionary War;
(2) To teach reverent regard for the names, history, character, deeds and heroism of the founders of this country and of their descendants to inculcate patriotism in the present and succeeding generations, and to commemorate events in the history of the Colonies and of the Republic;
(3) To discover and preserve family records and history, otherwise unwritten and unknown, of the first Colonists, their ancestors and descendants;
(4) In time of war, to obtain and forward supplies for Army and Navy Hospitals.
