STATE OF VERMONT
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
A PROCLAMATION
| WHEREAS, | Norman Rockwell, a world renowned illustrator and a resident of Arlington until the early 1950s, painted a Saturday Evening Post cover entitled "The Babysitter"; and |
| WHEREAS, | Mr. Rockwell donated "The Babysitter" to the Taft School in 1947 in memory of Alison Pooley, a sixth grade student in 1946 who succumbed to cancer in 1947; and |
| WHEREAS, | "The Babysitter" is now an important piece of the cultural heritage of both the City of Burlington and the State of Vermont; and |
| WHEREAS, | a campaign to "Save the Babysitter" hopes to raise a $300,000 special endowment fund within the Burlington Schools Foundation to provide equal access to educational opportunity in the fine and performing arts for Burlington's school children. |
| NOW, THEREFORE, | I, Howard Dean, Governor of the State of Vermont, urge all Vermonters to support the efforts of the "Save the Babysitter" campaign. |
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Vermont
this 24th day of October, A.D. 1996. Howard Dean, M.D. Governor |
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 Kathleen C. Hoyt Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs |