San Marcos Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution award local students with National Defense medals

The San Marcos Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently awarded local students with National Defense medals, offering scholarships to the Gold Medal winners. These medals are presented to cadets who, in the judgment of their military instructors, have performed their military studies in an outstanding manner. The winners were as follows:

•Cadet Ariana Wilkinson, from Texas State University/Air Force, received the DAR Gold ROTC Medal.

•Cadet Devyn Grant from Texas State University/Air Force received the DAR Outstanding Cadet Silver Medal.

•April Niles, from Texas State University/Army, received the DAR Gold ROTC Medal.

•Megan Ombres from Texas State University/Army received the DAR Outstanding Cadet Silver Medal.

•Megan Seaton, from San Marcos High School received the DAR Bronze JROTC Medal.

•Breanna Eliaz, from San Marcos High School, received the Good Citizenship Medal.

•Cadet Captain Celeste Cordova, from San Marcos Academy, received the DAR Bronze JROTC Medal.

•Victoria Polhemus, from San Marcos Academy, received the DAR Good Citizenship medal.

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890 to promote historic preservation, education and patriotism. Its members are descended from the patriots who won American independence during the Revolutionary War. With more than 185,000 members in approximately 3,000 chapters worldwide, DAR is one of the world's largest and most active service organizations. DAR members are committed to volunteer service having served more than 12.5 million hours in communities throughout the world during the past three years. To learn more about the work of today's DAR, visit www.DAR.org or connect with DAR on social media at facebook.com/TodaysDAR, twitter.com/TodaysDAR and youtube.com/TodaysDAR.

•Submitted by the San Marcos Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution