The 1960s
The Huguenot Society of Maryland (the Society) was organized on 31 March 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland, in the home of William Henry Lloyd, who at that time was the Corresponding Secretary General of the National Huguenot Society (NHS). At this meeting, Charles Edgar Hires, then President General, spoke on the origin and functions of the National Huguenot Society. After his presentation, the President General conducted the investiture of the officers of the newly formed society, which became a member of the NHS at the Thirty-second Annual Congress on 20 April 1968.
At the Thirty-third Congress in 1969, it was announced that the National Huguenot Society had been incorporated in the State of Maryland. Also at this congress, the Huguenot Society of Maryland was honored by having its Counselor Charles Francis Stein, Jr. elected Counselor General, a position he held until his death in 1979.
On 21 September 1969 the Society suffered an incalculable loss in the sudden death of its Founder and President, Mr. Lloyd. In his memory, the Society presented a Maryland flag at the Thirty-Fourth Congress for inclusion in the NHS’ Stand of Colours.
The 1970s
On 4 July 1976, as a Bicentennial Project, the Society held a special ceremony at the Washington Monument in Baltimore, during which President John Bryan Jones placed a wreath in honour of George Washington.
1979: Mrs. Frances Maitland DuBois, the Recording Secretary of the Society, was elected Assistant Registrar General, serving until 1983. In that year, she was elected Second Vice President General, an office she held until 1987.
The 1980s
On 20 October 1985, the Society held a Tercentenary Commemorative Service in the Eccleston Chapel at Emmanuel Church in remembrance of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The 1990s
1991: NHS awarded the Society the 1990 David V. Prugh Award for membership growth in category 1. The Society won the same award for increase in its membership in 1987.
1993: At the NHS’ Fifty-seventh Annual Congress, Richard Löwer Goodbar, President of the Maryland Society, was elected Assistant Chaplain General of the National Society. In the same year, The Huguenots, Their History and Legacy: Biographies of Ancestors of Members of the Huguenot Society of Maryland was published by editors Richard Löwer Goodbar, Nan Barton Bushey Cockey, Margaret Patterson Smith Keigler, and Rosemary Ann Goodbar.
1995: Richard Löwer Goodbar started the newsletter Le Communiqué de la Societé Huguenote de Mariland. He also designed a membership certificate for the Maryland Society to give to new members.
1996: The Society established an Essay Contest for high school students with the winner receiving a $1,000 scholarship. The contest is held every two years with the winning student reading his/her essay at the May meeting.
1999: The Society, under the presidency of Mrs. Elizabeth Stansbury Gould, presented a $1,000 scholarship it Andrew Ferrand, a tenth-grade pupil at Gilman School, for his essay, which was published in Le Croix de Languedôc.
The New Millennium – 2000s
2003: A website was created for the Society by Wilfred James Keats, II.
2004: The Huguenot book published by Richard Löwer Goodbar for the Society in 1993 was updated, revised, and published under the editorship of Henry Clint Peden, Jr.
2009: The Society withdrew from membership in NHS.