LONG MEMORY: Wayne Caskey of Webster, N.Y., a Port Allegany native, dropped us a note to share a memory from his school days in the early 1930s.
“When I was in third grade at Wright’s School in 1931, our teacher Marie Hermanson announced that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ had officially been chosen as the national anthem of the United States of America,” Wayne writes.
Wayne’s recollection is spot on. “The Star Spangled Banner” was designated the national anthem on March 3, 1931, after President Herbert Hoover signed a Congressional resolution making it official.
Until then, the United States had no universally recognized anthem, according to historian Jennifer Rosenberg.
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