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DAR Announces Winner of Its 2025-26 Good Citizens Award
Signal Hill Chapter, NSDAR, named Zachary Gorska, a senior at Lake Zurich High School, the winner of its 2025-26 Good Citizens Award.
The Barrington, IL-based Signal Hill Chapter, NSDAR, named Zachary Gorska, a senior at Lake Zurich High School, the winner of its 2025-26 Good Citizens Award.
Zachary competed in the Chapter’s essay contest and received a $1,000 scholarship for his winning essay on the topic, “Our nation will celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States of America on July 4th, 2026. Describe how the characteristics of a good citizen help to renew and strengthen the democracy achieved by the patriots of the American Revolution.”
Zachary is a principal cellist in the Lake Zurich High School symphony orchestra and was recently named to the Illinois State orchestra. He has been a member of the Varsity track and field team for three years, placing in state sectional meets for discus. He is a member of the Student Advisory Board, National Honor Society, and the Tri-M Musical Honor Society.
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He has also achieved the rank of an Eagle Scout. For his Eagle Scout project he built wooden toy boxes for his church’s nursery that helped increase seating for parent supervisors and storage. He has led a bike repair project through his Boy Scout troop to restore donated bicycles for families in need. Zachary plans to study biology in college and would like to attend medical school and become a doctor.
The Signal Hill Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) was chartered fifty years ago in Barrington, IL in 1972. NSDAR is a volunteer women’s service organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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DAR members promote historic preservation, education, patriotism, and conservation via commemorative events, scholarships and educational initiatives, citizenship programs, service to veterans, meaningful community service, and more.
Since the national organization was founded in 1890, over one million women have joined NSDAR. Membership is open to any woman aged eighteen and over who can prove lineal descent from a Patriot of the American Revolution. For more information about the Barrington, IL-based chapter, visit signalhilldar.com.
