[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19123-19124]
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[FR Doc No: 94-9885]


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Part IX





The President





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Proclamation 6674--
National Youth Service Day, 1994 and 1995


                        Presidential Documents 


Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 77
Thursday, April 21, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
                Proclamation 6674 of April 19, 1994

 
National Youth Service Day, 1994 and 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On September 21, 1993, I had the great pleasure of 
                signing into law a new national service program, using 
                the same pen that John F. Kennedy used to create the 
                Peace Corps. That event was particularly meaningful to 
                me because so many of my own dreams about national 
                service began when President Kennedy challenged my 
                generation to ask what we could do for our country--and 
                thousands responded as Peace Corps volunteers.

                Thirty years later, a new generation of young Americans 
                is not waiting to be asked. All along the presidential 
                campaign trail, young people told me again and again 
                what they wanted most--the opportunity to make a 
                difference. So we created AmeriCorps, a new national 
                service program. Now, the real work of rebuilding 
                America must begin.

                This year, 20,000 young AmeriCorps members will provide 
                hands-on community-based service to meet our Nation's 
                urgent needs--in education, in public safety, in health 
                care reform, and in the environment. In exchange for a 
                commitment to service, AmeriCorps members will receive 
                many benefits. They will get education awards to help 
                them pay off student loans and finance further 
                education. They will have an experience that will 
                change their lives forever. But the most important 
                benefit of national service will be seen in the 
                accomplishments of the participants in the communities 
                they serve. With young people at the vanguard, 
                AmeriCorps can help to bring the American people back 
                together with a sense of working toward a common 
                purpose.

                I know that it can be done. Last summer, we launched a 
                pilot service program to see if AmeriCorps could really 
                work to strengthen communities. As a result of our 
                Summer of Service program, 87 participants in Texas 
                helped to immunize over 100,000 children. Fifty 
                participants in New York City operated summer day 
                school programs at the Harlem Freedom Schools for 643 
                at-risk youths. And 74 participants through Boston's 
                City Year program provided educational, health, and 
                environmental services that reached more than 14,200 
                individuals. If national service participants can have 
                that kind of impact in 8 weeks, just imagine what they 
                can accomplish in a year--or two--of service to their 
                communities.

                In the youth of America lies our hope for the future. 
                Throughout our history, our young men and women have 
                challenged us to reach for goals that seemed beyond our 
                grasp, to reach for an understanding between all people 
                of good will.

                The Congress, by Public Law 103-82, has designated 
                April 19, 1994, and April 18, 1995, as ``National Youth 
                Service Day'' and has authorized and requested the 
                President to issue a proclamation in observance of 
                these days.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, do hereby proclaim April 19, 
                1994, and April 18, 1995, as National Youth Service 
                Day. I urge every American to observe these days with 
                appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities in 
                honor of volunteers and in recognition of their 
                extraordinary contributions to America.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                nineteenth day of April, 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 eighteenth.

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