CHAPTER 392
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, this State and Nation owe their present prosperity and the bright promise of their future to the lifelong efforts and sacrifices of those whom we respect and honor as Senior Citizens; and
WHEREAS, we now widely recognize the injustice of depriving human beings of opportunities to enjoy a happy and useful life beyond middle age, especially in those cases where men and women possess trained skills and valuable experience which can benefit the community; and
WHEREAS, while widespread undertakings have been launched at national, state and local levels to solve the problems of the aging, we cannot hope to succeed in these projects without the full understanding, sympathy and cooperation of all our people; now,
THEREFORE, I, J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor of the State of Delaware do designate and set aside the month of May, 1959, as
SENIOR CITIZENS MONTH
in Delaware and urge all citizens of our state to observe this month by showing personal concern for the health, well-being and happiness of our Senior Citizens at home, at work and at leisure, and especially by visiting those who are confined by illness or incapacity in hospitals, nursing homes and other establishments.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I, J. Caleb Boggs, 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 twenty-seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and eighty-third.
(GREAT SEAL)
J. CALEB BOGGS, Governor
GEORGE J. SCHULZ, Secretary of State