Page 12 - Boca ViewPointe - June '21

Page 12, Viewpointe June 2021

Halli’s Comments

All About Father’s Day When World War II began, advertisers began to
argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor
By Halli Moore American troops and support the war effort. By the end
of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal
Father’s Day was holiday, but it was a national institution.
not immediately In 1972, in the middle of a hard fought presidential re-
accepted when it was election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation
proposed and it did making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last. Today,
not become a national economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1
holiday in the U.S. until billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.
1972 during President
Ri c ha rd Ni xon’s Halli Moore is a resident of The Palms. 
administration. Why
was it a hotly contested
debate?
The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins Community Association Meetings Monthly Schedule
in the peace and reconciliation campaigns of the post Civil
War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of Activist Ann (All meetings held via Zoom.)
Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrates
“Mother’s Work Days” that brought together the mothers
of Confederate and Union soldiers. All meetings will be held electronically via Zoom. The following is our regular schedule of monthly meetings, however,
There are more than 70 million fathers in the United sometimes meetings are cancelled or schedules are revised due to holidays, etc. If you would like to attend, please call
States. Mother’s Day caught on right away. But the the BPCA office, (561) 395-7551, the day before the meeting to request the Zoom link be emailed to you.
campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet
with the same enthusiasm – perhaps because as one florist Access Control & Safety Committee 2nd Thursday of each month at 9:30 a.m.
explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal
that mother’s have.” Architectural Control Site Committee 1st Friday of each month at 9:30 a.m.

Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m.

Budget & Finance Committee The Friday before the third Tuesday of
each month at 9:15 a.m.

On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored
the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a
Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died
in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont
Coal Company mines in Monongah. But it was a one-time Servicing PETS of Boca Raton
commemoration and not an annual holiday. for over 20 years
The next year, a Spokane Washington, woman “Caring is our Specialty”
named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised
by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent Complete medical, Surgical and Dental
to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local Facility SPA Bath & Grooming
churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government
officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was
successful. Washington State celebrated the nation’s first
statewide Father’s Day on June 19, 1910.
Slowly the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson Everyone deserves a doctor who they
honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a
flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, trust and like. One who listens and
D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state
governments to observe Father’s Day. takes their time to answer questions
Many men, however continued to disdain the day.
As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s and address concerns. A doctor who is
sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with
flowers and gift giving, or they derided the proliferation available when you need them most.
of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more
products-often paid for by the father himself.” As Robert
Spere, radio performer said, “Both parents should be
loved and respected together.” I provide proactive, preventive, wellness & sick care to
adult patients at my concierge medical practice.

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