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0 Ame DAR <br />Daughters of the <br />r,can Revolution• <br />August 14, 2015 <br />Chairman Stephen M. Morris <br />Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br />smmorris @cabarruscounty.us <br />Dear Chairman Morris, <br />Miss Gertrude S. Carraway of New Bern, North Carolina, while President General of NSDAR, <br />was instrumental in getting September 17 -23 officially proclaimed as Constitution Week in 1955. <br />After receiving a copy of the DAR resolution, which had been sent to members of Congress, <br />Senator William F. Knowland of California proposed the resolution on the floor of the Senate. It <br />passed both Houses and President Eisenhower issued a proclamation on August 19, 1955 (60 years <br />ago). The first observance of Constitution Week was so successful that the following year Senator <br />Knowland introduced a Senate Joint Resolution to have the President designate September 17 -23 <br />annually as Constitution Week. The resolution was adopted on July 23, 1956, and signed into <br />Public Law 915 on August 2, 1956. <br />The Cabarrus Black Boys Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, start our annual <br />celebration of Constitution Week by asking the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, Mayor <br />of our hometown and the Mayors of towns in our surrounding area, to sign a Constitution Week <br />Proclamation for the citizens of their cities. We hope you will join us in this endeavor again this <br />year. It would also be outstanding if you could post your signed Proclamation on your Facebook <br />page, in Cabarrus Newsletter, and /or Website for the citizens of Cabarrus County to see. As Chair <br />of our Constitution Week Committee, I would be happy to pick up a copy of the Proclamation to <br />post in the main Concord library for all to see. <br />I would very much like to know if you do sign a proclamation this year and for that purpose have <br />included my contact information for pick up. Enclosed is a sample proclamation that may be used. <br />Thank you for all you do to promote the ideals of the Framers of the Constitution. <br />Sincerely, <br />Kau Ft. Crawfor,{ <br />Kay Hancock Crawford <br />Constitution Week Chair <br />Cabarrus Black Boys Chapter NSDAR <br />Contact Information: <br />kayhcrawford@gmail.com <br />704 - 791 -7903 <br />Cc: Megan Smit, Clerk to the Board, mismit @cabarruscounty.us <br />C -1 Page 521 <br />