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Morristown East High School’s Olivia Lamb and Morristown West High School’s Annabeth Workman received the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Bronze Medal, a certificate, and check from the Samuel Doak Chapter NSDAR at East High School last week.

Recipients must have demonstrated loyalty and patriotism and earned a record of military and scholastic achievement during their participation in an ROTC program.

They must be in the upper 25 percent of their ROTC classes and in academic subjects. They must have shown qualities of dependability and good character, adherence to military discipline, leadership ability and a fundamental and patriotic understanding of the importance of ROTC training. Not more than one student in a graduating class in a secondary school Junior ROTC program may be the recipient of the DAR Bronze JROTC Medal.

The Bronze JROTC Medal is awarded to either a junior or senior student in a secondary school JROTC program or to a Junior College graduating senior (one medal per unit). Medals are worn according to ROTC protocol. ROTC medals and campaign bars are awarded to student cadets of outstanding ability and achievement in high school, junior college, college, or university ROTC programs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The DAR has awarded ROTC medals since 1967 because the ROTC is such an important source of trained officers for the armed forces.

The selection of the students to receive the DAR JROTC Award was made by Col. Jim Thigpen and Joshua King, Air Force JROTC Aerospace Science Instructors. The presentation of the JROTC Awards was made by Samuel Doak Chapter’s members Carol Long and Barbara Baker.