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Fathers Day Turns 100 years Old
on June
20, 2010
FATHER'S DAY is a day in the United States
set aside in order to honor fathers in homes, communities and churches. It
is celebrated in the United States on the third Sunday of June each year.
A Spokane, Washington woman, Mrs. Sonora
Smart Dodd got the original idea for Father’s Day in 1909. She was inspired
to do this for fathers after hearing a Mother’s Day sermon at Central United
Methodist Church in Spokane.
The following year with the assistance
of Reverend Dr. Conrad Bluhm, the pastor at Sonora’s present church Old
Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), she took the
idea to the Spokane Ministerial Alliance. Sonora suggested June 5 (her
father’s birthday) be established as a day honoring all fathers, but the
pastors felt they needed more time to prepare sermons. June 19, 1910, was
established as the first Father’s Day and sermons honoring Father’s were
presented throughout the city.
It took over a decade for the Father’s
Day idea to gain national prominence. The idea became nationally approved
and was made official by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and President
Calvin Coolidge recommended a national observance of the occasion of
Father's Day in 1924. He wrote that this observance was set aside in order
to, "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children,
and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations." In 1966,
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a proclamation calling for the third
Sunday in June to be recognized as Father’s Day and requested that flags to
be flown that day on all government buildings. President Richard M. Nixon
signed a proclamation in 1972, permanently observing Father’s Day on the
third Sunday in June.
Father’s Day is currently celebrated in
over 50 countries around the world. The red or white rose is recognized as
the official Father's Day flower.
Remember to honor your Dad on Father's
Day! You can purchase a gift that celebrates his love and becomes a token of
yours.
Induct your Dad into the Father’s Hall of
Fame.
View the
Father's Hall of Fame Museum Power Point!
Honor your dad this Fathers Day 2010 with the most
special gift of all...an
induction into the
Father's Hall of Fame!
Father's Day 2010 Gifts for
Men
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