Published November 25. 2020 12:39PM
The Liberty Bell Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Allentown, was honored in September to receive a Constitution Week Proclamation from Mayor Ray O’Connell on the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Constitution by 39 Patriots which took place on Sept. 17, 1787.
Reading from the proclamation, O’Connell officially proclaimed Sept. 17-23 as Constitution Week in Allentown.
PRESS PHOTO COURTESY HOPE THORNE In attendance at Allentown Mayor Ray O'Connell's reading of the proclamation were Liberty Bell Chapter members were Pennsylvania State DAR Historian Carry Reed Ballek, Chapter Regent Tracy DeJonge, and First Vice Regent and Constitution Week Committee Chair Hope Thorne.
