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‘TEACH LOVE INSPIRE’ WITH THE LOYAL DAUGHTERS
OLD HOME WEEK 2022 | 15 ‘Teach Love Inspire’
with the Loyal Daughters
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By Tamela Baker
For about 100 years, the Greencastle Loyal Daughters have existed to “advance the welfare of Greencastle and to mold the past with the present.”
The group meets once every three years during Old Home Week to renew acquaintances, welcome new members and enjoy a special themed program.
That tradition continues this year with “Teach Love Inspire” — a program to celebrate teachers. The meeting begins with registration and displays at 1 p.m., followed by the program at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, in Antrim Brethren in Christ Church, 24 Kauffman Road East.
This is a new location as the group has outgrown its previous meeting site. More than 400 attended the gathering in 2019.
Dr. Lura Hanks, Greencastle-Antrim School District superintendent, will be on hand this year to “tell her story,” according to Loyal Daughters President Dotti Zimmerman, including “how she got into education, why she got into education, what inspired her to become a teacher” and eventually superintendent.
A panel of past and current district teachers will then participate in a discussion moderated by Zimmerman.
More than 400 people attended the Loyal Daughters’ meeting in 2019. SHAWN HARDY
Displays will include old desks, yearbooks and other memorabilia from Greencastle schools.
“We’ve had some people that have literally gone through basements of the schools over there and found things that people didn’t even know existed,” she said.
The triennial $5 membership fee is charged at the door. The money collected will “go to projects, needs throughout the community,” Zimmerman said.
The 2019 program was “A Salute to Nurses.” Monarch’s Way, Tayamentasachta Center for Environmental Studies and the Greencastle Shade Tree Commission received $500 each from dues collected.
Membership is open to any past or current female resident of Greencastle-Antrim, Zimmerman said.
The Loyal Daughters fi rst met in 1920, but became an offi cial organization in 1923.
Zimmerman noted that Old Home Week was instituted as “The Old Boys Reunion,” but the situation quickly changed.
“It was originally all men that started this and took part in all this,” she said. “And so I guess the daughters and the wives and the women said, ‘Wait a minute!’”
And that’s why, she said, Loyal Daughters “became offi cial in ‘23 … ‘with every daughter or gal of Greencastle eligible for membership, especially the wives of the Old Boys.’”
Beginning with their fi rst donation of $674 in 1926 to illuminate the dials of the town clock, the Loyal Daughters have contributed to a number of local projects and nonprofi ts.
Dr. Lura Hanks, Greencastle-Antrim School District superintendent, will be part of the 2022 Loyal Daughters’ program ‘Teach Love Inspire.’ SHAWN HARDY
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