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The Artwork is in!!!
Join Congresswoman Wilson and these talented young artists for a ceremony on Monday, May 14, 2001 at 6pm at the Winrock Mall. There, each of the winners will be revealed. Come support New Mexico`s talented high school artists. |
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| Which President officially declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother`s Day? |
Woodrow Wilson
In the United States, Mother`s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother`s Day. Jarvis persuaded her mother`s church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother`s Day on the second anniversary of her mother`s death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother`s Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother`s Day. It was successful; by 1911 Mother`s Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother`s Day a national holiday that was to be held each year on the second Sunday of May. |
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