Sandy Pace of Gloucester, a longtime member of the York River Circle of The King’s Daughters and Sons, has achieved an honor that very few can claim—she has been elected to serve as the international president of the International Order of The King’s Daughters and Sons.
In her new position, Pace will be responsible for overseeing an organization of more than 2,000 members in 150 circles across 25 states, the Virgin Islands, and one Canadian province. She has already begun traveling back and forth to the organization’s headquarters at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State.
Pace said her tenure will be about “moving us forward.” The King’s Daughters and Sons, which was established in 1886 in New York City, is “an older organization that seems to want to stay in that mode,” she said, “but I’m trying to revamp.”
Major goals for her three years in office, said Pace, will be bringing the organization into the 21st century and updating the facilities at the headquarters.
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