The Fifth National Strother Conference was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the host hotel was the Sheraton Inn & Conference Center.  The Conference was a big success with 149 members and their families in attendance.  Keynote speakers were Dr Edward Miller, Trustee of the Virginia Military Institute, and Dr Allan Williams, Professor at the University of Virginia.  In addition to the Board and Business Meetings, the program included:

• Genealogy Round Table Workshops on Thursday and Friday.

• Strother Family Night on Thursday at the hotel, with Dr Miller's talk on "Life and Times of General David Hunter".

• Conference Banquet on Friday evening at the hotel, with introduction of new officers and directors and Dr Williams talk on "In the Footsteps of Giants: Virginians 1820-1850".

• Saturday tour to Montpelier, home of James and Dolly Madison, and Meadowfarm, ancestral home of the Taylor family.  Included was a picnic on the lawn at Meadowfarm hosted by the Honorable Helen Marie Taylor.

• Sunday provided an optional tour to Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, and the old campus of the University of Virginia.

For more details on the activities at the 1994 Conference, minutes of the Business Meetings, and accompanying photographs, please check the October 1994 issue of the Houses of Strother Newsletter.