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Mrs.
Ronald Alan Duchin
(Belle Brent Clay Ward)

Belle Brent Clay Ward Duchin, the daughter of James Miller
Ward, Jr. and Thecla Elizabeth Santen Ward is a native of
Paris, Kentucky. She is married to Colonel Ronald Alan
Duchin, US Army Retired. She has two daughters, Elizabeth
Ward Duchin White and Belle Clay Duchin Deming.
Mrs. Duchin holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts
degrees in history from the
University of Kentucky
and has completed post graduate work at the
University of Virginia.
She has been a member of the Clinical Faculty at George
Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She and her
husband maintain residences in McLean, Virginia and Paris,
Kentucky.
Society Memberships
*
Order of the First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25
(Registrar 2007-
2010; Counselor 2001-2007)
*
National
Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
(President 2004-
2010)
*
Order
of the Crown in America (First Vice President General
2006-2011;
Corresponding Secretary General 2001-2006)
* National Gavel Society
* Colonial Dames of America, Chapters III and IX
(Counselor)
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Counselor)
* National Society Colonial Daughters of the
Seventeenth Century
Authorship
Treaty of Paris of 1783: A diplomatic victory,
1983
A Team-Teaching Success Story, 1994
Other Notes
Mrs. Duchin was a member of the Board of Trustees of
the McLean Orchestra and served as Co-Chairman of the
Gala Committee. She was a member of the founding
board of the Army Officers’ Wives Club of the Greater
Washington Area (1973-1975) and was the President of
the Officers’ Wives Club of Fort Knox, Kentucky in
1977. As a member of the Kentucky Society of
Washington, D.C., she was a founder of the Henry Clay
Distinguished Kentuckian Award, and chaired the award
presentation dinners.
She is the owner of Wardmont Farm in Bourbon County,
Kentucky
She and her husband are members of The George Town
Club and The Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C.
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