The Huguenot Society of California,
is the outgrowth of a meeting held on April 21, 1934, between Louis Piers de Boer
and Major Walter Downing Kephart at La Crescenta, California.To perfect a
permanent organization, a meeting of Huguenot descendants was held at the Kephart
home on Sunday, March 3, 1935. Dr. Orra E. Monnette acted as chairman and stated
that the purpose of the Society was to be an organization of Huguenot descendants
to enable them to become better acquainted and to cultivate a happy Christian
fellowship with each other, as well as to extend the great principles of political
and religious liberty for which the Huguenots had always stood. A Constitution was
drafted for the new Society and was duly adopted at a meeting held April 14, 1935.
The State Society was re-organized on March 28, 1982 with two chapters, namely, the
La Rochelle Chapter of Southern California
and the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.
In order to foster the principles of the French Huguenots and to further the objectives
of The Huguenot Society of California, both state chapters offer scholarship awards
for students. The La Rochelle Chapter of Southern
California
offers an award for graduate students. The San Francisco Bay
Area Chapter
offers scholarship awards to Golden Gate University students.
Further information about The Huguenot Society of California may be obtained by contacting either
State Registrar Gloria Kent by email at
gling2@earthlink.net
or State President Donna Bennett Cole by email at
Donnacole03@aol.com.
