This article appeared in the Marietta Journal on February 16, 1939 - staff photo by Edmund Hughes for Loudermilk Studio.
From this group of enthusiastic Cobb youths came the nucleus for a squadron of Sons of the American Legion, sponsored by the Horace Orr Post, American Legion, which was formed Monday night at the courthouse. Names of 15 boys will be listed on the application for charter which will be submitted to state and national officials Friday. Other boys shown in the group above are expected to qualify for membership soon.
Application for a local squadron charter of the Sons of the American Legion will be submitted Friday to state and national legion officials, Grover C. Fennel, Sr., chairman of the advisory committee of the Horace Orr Legion post, sponsor of the organization, announced today.
More than 25 boys - sons of Legionnaires - attended the organization meeting at the courthouse Monday night, Mr. Fennell revealed, and plans are being mapped for "one of the largest and best units in the state."
Other members of the advisory committee assisting in forming the squadron are Pat Crowe and H.H. Horne.
Names of 15 boys will be listed on the charter as the first ones qualifying for membership, but others will be added as they meet the necessary requirements. "We hope to have eventually a squadron of at least 50 boys," he added.
Officers for the new organization will be elected and installed at the next regular meeting of the legion post March 7.
Later a musical unit will be formed within the squadron, under the supervision of Mr. Fennell. Proceeds from the legion spring agricultural and educational fair to be held in Marietta March 29 through April 1, will be used to equip the musical unit.
Qualified charter members or the organization follow:
John Phillip Heck, Jr.; Johnny P. Brown; William Howard Brown; Jack Dobbins; Grover Fennell, Jr.; Billy Corley; Frank Lowe; Tommy Corley; Claude Allen Gault, of Marietta; Charles Otis Leonard, of Kennesaw; Ernest Wayne Leonard; Harold Dexter Leonard, of Kennesaw; William Abbott Kemp; Edward Kemp, Jr., of Acworth; Arthur Crowe, Jr., of Smyrna; and John M. McKenzie.
