2008 Spring Trustees Meeting

February 22-23

Brown Hotel - Louisville, Kentucky

Nineteen members of the Virginia Society, both primary and dual, gathered in Louisville to render their support for President General Wilcox's initiative to purchase the Fulton Conway Building on West Main Street and begin efforts to prepare that building to house the National SAR Headquarters with a target date of 2011.  Above, (L-R front row): Former PG Roland Downing; Former PG Hank McCarl; Treasurer General Ed Butler; President General Bruce Wilcox, International District VPG Bob Bowen; Former PG Larry McClanahan. (L-R back row): VASSAR Alternate Trustee Joe Dooley; Registrar Dick Bidwell; Mike Tomme; Frank Horton; Col. Fielding Lewis President Wayne Rouse; Genealogist General Chuck Bragg;  Former VASSAR President Larry McKinley; National Executive Director Joe Harris; Historian General David Sympson; Former VASSAR President Trice Taylor.  Not present when photo was taken at the Saturday Night Banquet were VASSAR President Art Batten, Former President General Nathan White and Bill Eubank.

Fulton Conway Building - As it stands today, left, and as it is envisioned to look as our Headquarters, right.