Office of the Mayor
BURLINGTON VERMONT

Bernard Sanders
Mayor

PROCLAMATION: EDUCATION DAY

Yud-Alef Nissan in Honor of the 81st Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

WHERES, The Lubavitcher Rebbe has democratized education;

BY, Laboring tirelessly to establish educational institutions for the elderly, for women, for children; and

WHEREAS, He has sought out the materially oppressed and disadvantaged, thereby effecting their enfranchisement through education; and

BY, Stressing the universal implications of education as a source of continuous creativity through which the human condition is perfected,

I, Bernard Sanders, Mayor of the City of Burlington, hereby designate Yud-Alef Nissan a DAY OF EDUCATION in Burlington, Vermont.

Bernard Sanders – Mayor
Dated on the twelfth day of April, 1983

Mayor Bernard Sanders proclaims the Rebbe’s birthday as a Day of Education in Burlington Vermont in 1983. Credit: 39/35, Bernard Sanders Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.
Mayor Bernard Sanders proclaims the Rebbe’s birthday as a Day of Education in Burlington Vermont in 1983. Credit: 39/35, Bernard Sanders Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.