A Centennial Years (100 years) Celebration for you FATHERS

This year 2010 the third Sunday of June is the century or one hundred years Celebration for you Fathers. Father's Day poses as just the perfect occasion to express feelings of gratitude and thankfulness to every daddy, papa, tatay, itay, ama in the world. It is your special day honoring your fatherhood and parenting not only to your family but the entire society.

The brief history of Father's Day Celebration.

The first observance of Father's Day through the efforts of Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington. To pay tribute to her great dad, Sonora held the first Father's Day celebration on 19th of June 1910, on the birthday of her father. After listening to a church sermon at Spokane's Central Methodist Episcopal Church in 1909 about the newly recognized Mother's Day, Dodd felt strongly that fatherhood needed recognition, as well.

States and organizations began lobbying Congress to declare an annual Father's Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations."

After a protracted struggle of over four decades, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the third Sunday of June as Father's Day in 1966. Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on the third Sunday in June. Then in 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. Sonora Smart Dodd was honored for her contribution at the World's Fair in Spokane in 1974. Mrs. Dodd died in 1978 at age 96.

To all the father this is your day thank you for your undying love and support to your family, continue to be a role model for your children and to all people you keep in touch.

To TATAY, thank you so so so much for everything, wherever you are, your still in my heart remembering the goodness you have shared with us. Despite our difficulty during our times, you have done your part and share the best you can to ease the burden we have. You teach us to strive hard to alleviate the status of our life. You always reminded us to study hard because we inherit nothing from you but our education. Please continue praying for me as I traverse this chosen life of mine.