The proud tradition of saluting Old Glory and this nation’s military on Flag Day by the 109-year-old Allentown Flag Day Association continues with a patriotic concert by the Allentown Band at 7 p.m. on June 14 in Allentown’s West Park, 16th and Turner streets.

Rain site is the auditorium of William Allen High School.

With the presentation of the colors, Old Glory will be waving proudly to the selections of Allentown Band Conductor Ron Demkee to include favorite arrangements of John Philip Sousa’s ”Stars and Stripes Forever;” Henry Fillmore’s “Americans We;” Thomas Knox’s “Americans We” and appropriately among other selections.

All veterans will be applauded during the “Armed Forces Salute” by Richard Hayman.

Celebrated soprano soloist Evelyn Stewart will enhance Hawley Ades’ arrangement of “This is My Country” as well as Wilhousky’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “God Bless America.”

Judge Edward D. Reibman, elected to the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas in 199, and current president judge, will deliver the Flag Day message.

Reibman, an Eagle Scout, graduated from Lafayette College and Duke University School of Law, serving in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1969-75.

One of his favorite duties on the bench is presiding over the quarterly naturalization ceremony proudly noting his grandparents entered this nation through the very same process.

The three winners of the association’s annual essay contest held in all Allentown middle schools on the role of Old Glory in their lives will be presented by the students.

The concert is free. A free-will offering will be taken to perpetuate the programs of the Allentown Flag Day Association, the oldest incorporated Flag Day association in the United States, founded in 1907 by Allentown resident Joe Hart.