CHAPTER 469
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, it is highly appropriate that a specific clay be set aside for the purpose of honoring our Mothers; and
WHEREAS, because of the indefatigable efforts of Miss Anna Jarvis, Mother's Day was officially observed for the first time on May 10, 1908, and subsequently proclaimed by the President of the United States in 1914 for nationwide observance, on the second Sunday in May of each year; and
WHEREAS, Section 29, Paragraph 2107, Laws of Delaware, provides that the Governor of Delaware may issue a proclamation setting aside the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day; and
WHEREAS, the unselfish devotion, tenderness, understanding, patience and loving discipline, bestowed upon us by our Mothers, creates a benevolent influence that helps to guide us throughout our lives; and
WHEREAS, we can best discharge our great debt to our Mothers by living such lives as to reflect only credit upon those who brought us into the world and carefully guided and nurtured us to maturity;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby proclaim Sunday, May 10, 1964, as
MOTHER'S DAY
in Delaware, and urge all of our citizens to take this opportunity to honor their Mothers by attending at least one service in the church of their choice in solemn recognition of the sacrifices, love and inspiration given so freely by all Mothers.
FURTHER, I invite Delawareans to join with me in saluting and congratulating Mrs. Margaret Moffett O'Neill of near Smyrna, our 1964 Delaware Mother of the Year.
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 27th day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-eighth.
(GREAT SEAL)
ELBERT N. CARVEL, Governor
ELISHA C. DUKES, Secretary of State