Anne Arundel County Councils of PTAs
Founders Day Dinner 2012
April 13, 2012
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Michael's 8th Avenue, Glen Burnie (directions)
Featuring special volunteers, teachers, principals and unit awards.
Nominate those who make your PTA work today by following the below links.

ABOUT FOUNDERS DAY

Founders Day is a perfect time to renew the dedication to the Purposes of the PTA that were defined by PTAs Founders more than a century ago. Each year, PTA honors the three founders as well as past and present PTA leaders. Through special programs and events, PTA also attempts to increase the awareness of its members and the community by highlighting achievements, activities, projects and goals.

The Founders Day celebration was created in 1910 by Mrs. David O. Mears, a charter member of the National Congress of Mothers founded by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst in Washington, DC, February 17, 1897. The Founders Day observance has continued through the change of organization names in 1925 to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the uniting in 1970 with the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, founded in 1926 by Selena Sloan Butler, to become the National PTA.

The vision of PTAs founders has been realized in many ways, and now it is up to present PTA members to continue the vision.

While paying tribute to the three Founders and all who worked with them, it is also an appropriate time to show appreciation to those in your own PTA and community who have been dedicated advocates for children.

Each year, PTA honors the three founders as well as past and present PTA leaders. Through special programs and events PTA also attempts to increase the awareness of its members and the community not only about its past achievements but its present and future activities, projects and goals. In Anne Arundel County, we honor volunteers, teachers, principals and active PTA units with special awards during the Founders Day dinner. In addition, our scholarship committee hosts a silent auction to provide scholarship funding for deserving Anne Arundel County public school students.

Come celebrate and network with other local unit leaders.

2012 Founder's Day Packet