This article appeared in the Marietta Journal on April 29, 1949. There was no byline.
JOHN ROY, wartime master sergeant who has lived in Marietta less than three years, Tuesday night became commander of Horace Orr Post No. 29, The American Legion. He will hold office for a year.
Election of Roy, an insurance service man in the Veterans Administration, shoves his family right up front among Marietta Legionnaires. His wife, the former Sarah Alice Andrews, of Atlanta, is currently present of the Post's auxiliary.
Named as senior vice-commander was John Pope, advertsising manager of the Marietta Journal. Erskine Guest, a partner in Arnold Guest Motor Company and Harrison Mitchell, of the Vaughan Implement Company, are the new junior vice-commanders.
Other officers elected were:
Rogers Wheeler, of the Marietta post office staff, finance officer; L. T. Hagood Sr., of the Veterans Administration, chaplain; Col. Fred Morris, Marietta attorney, hisstorian; Dr. Bruce D. Burleigh, post surgeon; Bill Cornelius, Veterans Administration employee, and Charles Nixon, of the Southern Bell Telephone Company, sergeants-at-arms.
A three-man house committee to assist the manager in running the new Legion home will be composed of Leon Van Woert, Lyman Hall, and Dick McCleskey.
A. L. "Pat" Crowe, first post commander. Jimmy Colquitt, and Rogers Wheeler were named to the post's building committee. They succeed retiring committemen Clyde Brown, Lucius Atherton, and Wheeler himself.
The new slate will be installed the first meeting night after the state convention in Augusta June 10-12.
A large membership turnout in the Roswell Street Legion Home installed past vice commander Russ Mills as commander pro tem until the new officers are installed iun June. He fills the unexpired term of "Chuck" Ward, who resigned this week, to take a civil service engineering joib.
Groverr Fennell, of the TIMES, read the invocation to start Tuessday's proceedings. After Adjutant Arthur Poor read the minutes of three prior sessions, the following steps were taken:
An American flag will be sent without charge to McEachern School of Powder Springs, which normally requested one.
The adjutant will send a message of cheer to Legionnaire M. O. Allison, now a patient at Lawson General Hospital.
A rising vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Fennell for his work in framing the original Post charter for display in the club room.
The membership approved appointment of Shuler Antley, superintendent of county schools, as coach of the post's junior baseball team. Also approved was a motion to send two youngsters from schools outside Marietta, to Boys State this June.
Commander Roy joined Horace Orr Post in October, 1947, and has been an energetic member since. During the recent membership drive he signed up more than 50 ex-GI's.
A native of Charleston, W. Va., Roy served 3-1/2 years in the Army in World War II, a few years after graduating from Georgia Tech. He lives at 420 Alexander Circle, Marietta, and has one son, Johnny Jr.,
