Flag Day (United States) holiday. William T. Kerr, a native of Pittsburgh and later a resident of Yeadon, Pennsylvania, founded the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1888, and became the national chairman of the American Flag Day Association one year later, serving as such for fifty years. He attended President Harry S. Truman's 1949 signing of the Act of Congress that formally established the observance. In 1889, the principal of a free kindergarten, George Bolch, celebrated the Revolution and celebrated Flag Day, as well. In 1893, Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin and the president of the Colonial Dames
State Patty's Day With an excess of over 4,600 members in 2008, along with an effort to get bars in downtown State College involved, the group was successful in moving the holiday to Friday March 2, a day that has been dubbed as State Patty's Day. Currently, the State Patty's Day Event Page has grown to nearly 12,000 followers. The holiday has grown to such an extent that it attracts a significant number of out-of-town visitors; in 2011, nearly 60% of day's 234 arrests were for visitors. In 2012, the number reported was just under 20%. Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia, who serves