Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 572

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, it is only fitting and proper that we should set aside a specific day to honor fathers; and

WHEREAS, it was the fathers of our land who built a great American nation through unstinting devotion to liberty, love and freedom; and

WHEREAS, the theme for Father's Day 1966 is "Juvenile Integrity Starts in the Home", where fathers are the builders of good family life, the foundation of our future, and the teachers of our young in the importance of good ethics, fair play, peace and brotherhood:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby proclaim Sunday, June 19, 1966, as

FATHER'S DAY

and call upon all citizens of this State to observe it by worship in the church of their faith, and by reverently displaying the American Flag, and by otherwise commemorating the occasion so that we may continue to enjoy the blessings resulting from responsible fatherhood and good family life.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Charles L. Terry, Jr., 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

(GREAT SEAL) 8th day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and ninetieth.

CHARLES L. TERRY, JR., Governor

Attest: ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State