HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

149th GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 32

RECOGNIZING AND HONORING DELAWARE FATHERS ON SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 2018.

WHEREAS, Father’s Day is celebrated across the United States on the third Sunday in June; and

WHEREAS, the tradition began with Sonora Smart Dodd who proposed the idea of Father’s Day in 1910 after her own father, a widower and Civil War veteran, raised 6 children by himself; and

WHEREAS, President Calvin Coolidge in 1924, supported the idea of a National Father’s Day in order to “establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations;” and

WHEREAS, President Lyndon Johnson signed a Presidential proclamation in 1966 declaring the third Sunday of June as Father’s Day; and

WHEREAS, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father’s Day in 1971; and

WHEREAS, it is appropriate that the members of the House of Representatives of the 149th General Assembly honor the State’s fathers of all kinds, including biological fathers, adoptive fathers, stepfathers, or others who have fulfilled that role in the lives of children for their important contributions to their children and families.

NOW, THEREFORE:

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 149th General Assembly of the State of Delaware, that Sunday, June 17, 2018 is hereby recognized as Father’s Day in the State of Delaware.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that on Father’s Day all residents of the State are encouraged to celebrate fathers and honor them in the original spirit of the day.

SYNOPSIS

This resolution recognizes June 17, 2018 as Father’s Day in Delaware.