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                        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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