Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 517

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, we are honoring our fathers this coming Father's Day, Sunday, June 15th; and

WHEREAS, the theme for this American Holiday is "Happy Families Make a Peaceful World;" and

WHEREAS, it is the fathers of our land who primarily have built this great democracy through their teachings and sturdy devotion to liberty and love of freedom; and

WHEREAS, we look to the father in the home as the builder of good family life and the foundation of our future and teacher of our young in the importance of good ethics, fair play, peace and brotherhood throughout the world:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby proclaim Sunday, June 15, 1952, as

FATHER'S DAY

and I call upon all the citizens of this State to observe it in worship and displaying the American Flag and otherwise commemorating the father in the home so that every day in the year may have the blessings that flow from good fatherhood and a strong family life.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Elbert N. Carvel, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this Twentieth day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth.

(GREAT SEAL)

By the Governor:

ELBERT N. CARVEL

HARRIS B. McDOWELL, JR., Secretary of State.