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Father's Day: That Was the Day That Was!   Don DeForge, VMD Silver Sands Veterinary Center June 21, 2015 ORIGINS OF FATHER’S DAY --from history.com The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm–perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” 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 commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane,  Washington  woman named  Sonora  Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and...

Captain Kangaroo Where Are You? Don DeForge, VMD Silver Sands Veterinary Center 11Jun2015 Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent. Bob Keeshan Pioneering children's television - Bob Keeshan   Howdy Doody , was an early children's show which premiered in 1947 on  NB C!  On January 3, 1948,    Keeshan played " Clarabell the Clown ", a silent  Auguste clown  who communicated by honking several horns attached to a belt around his waist on Howdy Doody. One horn meant "yes"; another meant "no". Clarabell often sprayed  Buffalo Bob Smith  with a  seltzer  bottle and played practical jokes. Keeshan gave up the role in 1952, and was replaced. Developing ideas from  Tinker's Workshop , Keeshan and his long-time friend Jack Miller submitted the concept of  Captain Kangaro...