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Show June A ship at sea-and a bride in June Ivy and hittersneet in Fall But the bride is the loveliest love-liest of all. Anne Mary I.awler June brings us to the halfway half-way point of 19X1 . By the end of the month, a fiscal year will have been completed. JLNE BRIMiS with it summer sum-mer (the 2lsti. commencements, commence-ments, weddings, school vacations vaca-tions and beautiful weather. It is. perhaps, the most welcome of all the months. The days are longer than during any other month of the year. The Allies landed in France on June 6. 1944. in World War II. the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. JLNE IS not a month of birthday anniversaries for famous Americans, but it contains con-tains patriotic days. The anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought on June 17, 1775, is observed in Boston. The United States Government Govern-ment came into being in the month of June. 1 788. when New Hampshire ratified the Constitution, the last article of which provided that, upon ratification rati-fication by nine states, the Constitution would be activated. acti-vated. FATHER'S DAY also falls in June (the 2lst as does the birthday of the first and only president of the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, on the 3rd. |