1984 - 2004

We started about 1965 when our founder, Bee Wilson Holmes, began researching her Pennington lineage.  Soon she began sharing her research and before long, the first "Pennington Lending Magazine" appeared.  The first "magazine" Volume 1 with 3 issues started in October 1968. In 1970 Volume 2 with 3 issues was published.

It didn't take long for us to grow and soon a decision was made to create a formal organization.  We first agreed to identify ourselves as the Pennington Research Association in 1979 at our meeting in Wichita, Kansas.

We decided in 1983 at our meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico to strengthen the organization of the Association by the creation of a set of Bylaws to give a more formal structure to the Association and to delimit its operations.

One year later, the Articles of Association were signed on July 28, 1984 at our meeting in Louisville, Kentucky which was our sixth annual meeting of the Pennington Research Association.

Join us in celebrating 20 years as being the Pennington Research Association!

 

Click here to read the names of the wonderful recognizable people who signed the first Articles of Association and to read the first Articles of Association and Bylaws.