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Presley Merritt
Wagoner
(Mrs. Joel Morris Wagoner)
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President General
National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution |
Presley McDonald Merritt Wagoner, a native of Mobile,
Alabama, is the daughter of Dr. Charles Wesley Merritt
and Mary Martha Presley. Mrs. Wagoner attended Brenau
Woman's College in Gainesville, Georgia, where she
graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Spanish. She is
married to Dr. Joel Morris Wagoner, with whom she has two
sons and a daughter; Merritt, Andrew and Mary Elizabeth.
Memberships
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(President
General)
*
National Gavel Society
* National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
* Jamestowne Society
* Plantagenet Society
* Colonial Order of the Crown
* Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent
* National Society Magna Charta Dames
Other Notes
Mrs. Wagoner is active in a number of charitable,
professional and civic organizations including:
* Dental Auxiliary: Auxiliary to American Dental Association
* Auxiliary to
West Virginia Dental Association
*
New River Dental Auxiliary, President,
Secretary-Treasurer
* Participant in
Raleigh County, West Virginia, Health Department Dental
Screening Program
* Garden Club:
Azalea Garden Club, Beckley, West Virginia, President,
Corresponding Secretary
*
Laurel
Hill Garden Club, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
* Beckley Junior Woman's Club, Executive Board, Public Affairs
Committee
* VA Hospital Program Coordinator
*
Beckley
Community Concert Association: Membership Chairman, Board
of
Directors
*
Youth
Museum of Southern West Virginia: Advisory Committee,
Board of
Directors Fund; Raising Committee,
Long Range Planning Committee
*
Beckley
Area Foundation: Grants Committee, Advisory Committee
*
PTA:
President, Crescent Elementary School
* Secretary,
Raleigh County PTA, P.T.O. Council
*
Virginia
Episcopal School, Lynchburg, Virginia: Co-Chairman,
Community
Committee of Parents' Association
* Co-President, Parents' Association
*
Beckley
Alumnae Chapter Delta Delta Delta, President, Secretary,
Reference Chairman
* Docent,
Wildwood House Museum
* Cub Scouts, Adult leader
* VA Hospital Volunteer
*
Brenau
University Board of Trustees
* Parents' Council,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
Beckley, West Virginia: Sunday School
and Bible
School Teacher, Altar Guild
* St. Stephen's Episcopal Day School: Pre-school teacher
(19 years)
* Member, Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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