Dads, you can credit Sonora Smart Dodd for that tie you always wanted, the hand-drawn, crayon-colored greeting card and all the attention that will be lavished on you Sunday. Why? Because Dodd was an equal-opportunist daughter.
While listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Spokane, Wash., Dodd got to thinking that fathers deserved special recognition, too.