[DeTomaso] NPC - Father's Day

Charles McCall charlesmccall at gmail.com
Sun Jun 16 09:43:59 EDT 2013


I didn't know any of this. Based on a question of why Father's Day is the
third Sunday in June, I looked at Wikipendia. it's celebrated in many
different days in different countries - Swedes and Norwegians in November
for example!!. :

Full text here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day

 

Summary here:

Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century
to complement Mother's Day <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day>  in
celebrating fatherhood and male parenting
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting> .

After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day
in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members,
and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other
persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's Day",
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-myers_185-1> [1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-larossa_first-2> [2]
but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-larossa_first-2> [2]
who was the driving force behind its establishment.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-Schmidt_276-3> [3]

Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington>  at the YMCA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMCA>  in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora_Smart_Dodd> , who was born in Arkansas
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas> .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-Schmidt_276-3> [3]
Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-Schmidt_276-3> [3]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-Father.27s_Day_United
_States-4> [4] Her father, the Civil War
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War>  veteran William Jackson
Smart <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Smart> , was a single
parent who raised his six children there.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-Schmidt_276-3> [3]
After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her
pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-Schmidt_276-3> [3]
Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors
did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was
deferred to the third Sunday of June.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-myers_185-1> [1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-larossa_first-2> [2]

It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting
the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago> , and it faded into
relative obscurity, even in Spokane.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-5> [5] In the 1930s
Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again,
raising awareness at a national level.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-6> [6] She had the
help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for
example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional
present to fathers.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-7> [7] Since 1938 she
had the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated
Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial
promotion. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-8> [8]
Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just
an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day,
and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-9> [9] But the trade
groups did not give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated the
jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-10> [10] By the mid
1980s the Father's Council wrote that "(...) [Father's Day] has become a
'Second Christmas' for all the men's gift-oriented industries."
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-11> [11]

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in
Congress in 1913.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-nyt1913-12> [12] In
1916, President Woodrow Wilson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson>
went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-myers_186-13> [13]
and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would
become commercialized.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-daily-14> [14] US
President Calvin Coolidge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge>
recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped
short of issuing a national proclamation.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-myers_186-13> [13]
Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by
Congress.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-myers_186-13> [13]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-nashua-15> [15] In
1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith>  wrote a proposal
accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers,
thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-nashua-15> [15] In
1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson>  issued the first
presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in
June as Father's Day.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-daily-14> [14] Six
years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President
Richard Nixon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon>  signed it into
law in 1972.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-myers_186-13> [13]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-daily-14> [14]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-nashua-15> [15]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day#cite_note-16> [16]

In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day>  is celebrated in
many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.

 

 

Charles McCall
Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
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