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Mrs. Philip
Wendall Bernstorf
(Betty Jane James)
Betty Jane
James Bernstorf, daughter of Clarence Charles and Hazel
Gertrude James, is a native of Wichita, Kansas. Mrs.
Bernstorf attended
Wichita State University, College of
Business Administration. She has also completed
eighteen credit hours with certification in Professional
Genealogical Research from
Brigham Young University.
Mrs. Bernstorf had a twenty-five year career in Federal
Civil Service serving in procurement with the United
States Air Force, in supply and medical with the Veterans
Administration and in accounting and engineering with the
U.S. Postal Region.
She is married to Philip Wendall Bernstorf, M.D., F.A.C.P.,
and has one son; David James Bernstorf. The
Bernstorfs reside in Wichita, Kansas.
Memberships
* National Gavel Society
*
National Society Americans of Royal Descent
*
Order of the Three Crusade 1096-1192 (First Vice
President General)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
(Governor General)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Honorary
President General)
* National Society Children of the American Revolution
(Honorary Senior
National President)
*
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench &
Bar 1565-1861
(President General)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(Honorary Governor
General)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(former National
Chairmanships and Chapter Regent)
* National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
(State Resolutions
Chairman; former Chapter Regent)
* National Huguenot Society (former National Officers;
Honorary State
President; current State First Vice President)
* Baronial Order of Magna Charta
* Military Order of the Crusades
* Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland
* Presidential Families of America (State Regent)
* Dames of Colonial Cavaliers
* National Society Dames of the Court of Honor (State
President of the
District of Columbia)
* National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
(former Surety
for Kansas)
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
* Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts
* Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin Colony of
Virginia
* National Society of Colonial Dames XVII Century (Kansas
State President)
* National Society of Colonial Daughters of Seventeenth
Century (Registrar
of the District of Columbia Society)
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* National Society of New England Women
* National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum
Planters 1607-1861
(Council Member)
* National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants
* National Society of Women Descendants of the Ancient and
Honorable
Artillery Company of Massachusetts (former National Treasurer)
* National Society United States Daughters of 1812
(Kansas State
Treasurer; former Kansas State Registrar)
* Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
* Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War
* Flagon and Trencher
* Society of Indiana Pioneers
* Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
* National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the First
Settlers of
Newbury, Massachusetts
* Society of the Founders of Norwich, Connecticut
* National Society of Magna Charta Dames
* Plantagenet Society
Other Notes
Mrs. Bernstorf served as Chairman of the Fourth District
Republican Central Committee 1982-83, and Vice Chairman of
the Sedgwick County Republican Central Committee from
1980-82. She was Secretary, Treasurer and
Finance Campaign Manager for Wichita Theatre Organ. She is also a former Officer and Board Member
of the Twentieth Century Club and a life member of the
Women's Kansas Day Club. She has been a member of
the National Association of Parliamentarians since 1996.
Mrs. Bernstorf was Recorder of the Zohar Temple, Daughters
of the Nile; and a former officer of the Rose Douglas
Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. She
received the Outstanding Service Award of the Wichita
Kennel Club. She also hold life membership in the
West Highland White Terrier Club of America, although she
is no longer active in breeding or showing.
Authorships
National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars Lineage
Book VI
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
Lineage Book II
Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
Directories,1997,
2001, 2003
Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry, Directories,
1999, 2001
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench &
Bar 1565-1861
Register of Ancestors, 2000
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench &
Bar 1565-1861
Directories, 1999, 2001, 2003
American Patchwork Quilts, Tokyo Japan, 1987
(contributor)
Listed In
Who's Who in American Politics
Who's Who In Wichita
Hereditary Register of the United States of America
Hereditary Society Blue Book
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