[DeTomaso] NPC - Father's Day

Sun Jun 16 11:27:54 EDT 2013

For some reason we decided to do Father's Day last night - about 12 people including family, had a great time.  But my point is for breakfast this morning I had two pieces of Pecan (I say puh-kahn - you say pee-can) Pie, and three pieces of candy.  Life is good.  Now if I can just figure out the "clunk" "clink" noise when I mash on my brakes.    ---Bill (on the Pantera) Lewis

> From: charlesmccall at gmail.com
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:43:59 +0200
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - Father's Day
> 
> 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.
> 
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> Charles McCall
> Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
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