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Sarah “Sally” Wood Hlavay is a native of Corvallis, Oregon. She is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Sidney Wood, Sr. and Mary Eleanor Grantham Wood. Sally was married to the late Joseph Francis Hlavay. Sally completed her undergraduate work at the University of Georgia, earning a B.S. She completed her M.B.A. at Pepperdine University, and an M.A. in Teaching at Emory University. Sally’s career has been as a Professional Fundraiser, serving as Associate Director of Alumni Relations for Emory University; as the Atlantic Regional Manager for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; as an educator at Holy Innocents Parish Day School, as a number of other roles. Sally’s service to the community has been significant and extensive. She is, for instance, a fifty plus year member of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, serving as Organizing President of First Emigrant Chapter in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

Memberships

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta

  • National Society Americans of Royal Descent

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

  • National Society Children of the American Revolution (admitted 1951, South Carolina State Society Vice President)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Chapter Regent-Heritage Chapter, Calgary. Alberta, Canada; First Vice Regent, Beverly Hills Chapter, CA)

  • Colonial Dames of America (1979, Chapter XX, Los Angeles, California)

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Organizing President, First Emigrant Chapter, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Member)

  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars (National President, Honorary National President)

  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (Governor General, Honorary Governor General)

  • National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co. (National First Vice President Court President, Arizona)

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (2nd Vice Justiciar, Founding Member)

  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (State President, Arizona)

  • National Society of New England Women (State President, Arizona)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Regent, Arizona)

  • National Society Children of the American Colonists (Adult Adviser Chairman, Life Members)

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State President, Arizona)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Governor, Arizona)

  • Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts

  • Piscataqua Pioneers

  • Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

  • United Daughters of the Confederacy

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

  • Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Founding Recording Secretary General)

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Founding Member)

  • National Gavel Society

  • National Society First Families of New Hampshire (Founding Member)

  • Sons and Daughters First Families of Newbury

Listed In (Publications)

  • Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century

  • International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women (ABI)

  • Who's Who of American Women (Marquis Who's Who)

Other

  • Association of FundRaising Professionals

  • National Charity League- Founder Chapter (Los Angeles, California)

  • Washington Athletic Club

  • Willow Park Golf and Country Club

  • President's Society, University of Alberta

  • Episcopal Church of the Advent

  • Interests: Literacy, Travel, Golf, and Music

  • Volunteer - CanLearn Society

  • Chairman, Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy

  • (Raised over $1,000,000 for Adult and Children's Literacy for Calgary, Alberta) Willow Park Charity Classic

  • Peter Gzowski Literacy Award NSDAR, National Literacy Award Winner Calgary Community Service Award

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