Burlington Education Day, 1985

Office of the Mayor
BURLINGTON VERMONT

Bernard Sanders
Mayor

PROCLAMATION: EDUCATION DAY

Yud-Alef Nissan in Honor of the 83rd Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

WHEREAS, 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; and

WHEREAS, Especially, in this same week marking the 850th birthday
of Maimonides, binding the principle of reason to human liberation.

NOW, THEREFORE, 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 29th day of March, 1985

Mayor Bernard Sanders proclaims the Rebbe’s birthday as a Day of Education in Burlington Vermont in 1985. Credit: 39/36, Bernard Sanders Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.