[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 180 (Monday, September 19, 1994)]
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[Federal Register: September 19, 1994]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 180
Monday, September 19, 1994
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Title 3--
The President
Proclamation 6719 of September 14, 1994
National Hispanic Heritage Month, 1994
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
As children across the country return to school this
year, it is easy to see the vast diversity that defines
America reflected in the sea of young faces filling our
classrooms. Our ancestors came from all corners of the
globe, bringing the myriad cultures, knowledge, and
beliefs that shape our Nation today. For every one of
us, the community that shares our ethnic heritage can
provide an important source of strength and continuity
in today's rapidly changing international marketplace.
If our Nation is to succeed in that global arena, we
must embrace the energy and creativity of all of our
people, relying on the strength of community more than
ever.
Young Hispanic Americans are future leaders, educators,
and workers of our Nation. For their sake and for the
generations of young people to come, we must strive to
advance the great traditions of family and community
that have enabled Hispanic Americans to make invaluable
contributions to our country since its beginnings.
These traditions, fortified by new opportunity, can
uplift our people and help to build a brighter future
for all of our children.
On February 22, 1994, I joined Hispanic Americans in
taking an important step toward setting a new standard
for educational excellence. Designed to better prepare
our people to meet the challenges we face, Executive
Order No. 12900, which I signed that day, seeks to
improve educational opportunities for Hispanic
Americans throughout the Nation. It establishes a
commission of leaders from the Hispanic American
community that will focus on Hispanic children and
youth and recommend methods to improve their academic
performance. Drawing on the high standards set by our
Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the commission will
look for ways to encourage government and the private
sector to work as a team to inspire Hispanic students
to achieve those goals. And an interagency working
group will strive to ensure that the obstacles still
confronting too many of our people--barriers from
language to unemployment to crime--are more easily
overcome.
To recognize the accomplishments of Hispanic citizens
and to focus national attention on their extraordinary
contributions and culture, the Congress, by Public Law
100-402, has authorized and requested the President to
issue annually a proclamation designating September 15
through October 15 as ``National Hispanic Heritage
Month.''
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim September
15 through October 15, 1994, as National Hispanic
Heritage Month. I call upon the people of the United
States, government officials, educators, and
volunteers, to observe this month with appropriate
programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and nineteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-23270
Filed 9-15-94; 3:14 pm]
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