Life Memberships Awarded at Annual Get-Together

Middleboro Gazette : - March 3, 1975

.........Commander Harold E. Tower, Jr., presented life membership cards for 50 to 55 years of

continuous membership and consistent loyalty to the American Legion at the annual get-together

of Simeon L. Nickerson Post 64 held March 14 at Legion Headquarter on South Main Street.

Life membership went to Fletcher Clark, Jr., Kenneth B. Keedwell, George I. Dunham and Everett

L. Saunders, all past commanders.

......... Also, Clifford G. Bernier, William H. Curley, Augustus S. DeMoranville, George P. Deane,

Herman H. Fuller, John T. Gilfoy , Sr., Norman Guidoboni, John W. Halahan, Sr., Ralph B.

Mendall, Raymond A. Nourse, Timothy E. Leary, Jr., and Kenneth Maker.

..........Other life membership recipients include: Manuel M. Rose, Albert F. Soule, Ernest E. Thomas,

Gideon Fortin, Freedman E. Taylor, Elwin H. Norris, Frank E. Minott and William J. McMahon, Sr.

Awarded life memberships for outstanding work in the American Legion were John T. Gilfoy, Jr.,

Henry N. Junior, William J. McMahon, Jr., Arthur E. Pratt and John D. Rockwell, Jr., past

commanders.

...........Citations for meritorious service were awarded to Mr. Junior for his work at the ward parties

at Brockton Veterans Hospital and Francis McCausland for his work in the poppy and fund drives.

...........Middleboro Gazette photographer Clint Clark took a photo of nine of the life membership

recipients, who were able to attend the annual get-together. Seen in the photograph were

Kenneth Maker, Fletcher Clark, Jr., John T. Gilfoy, Sr., Herman Fuller, Augustus DeMoranville,

Timothy E. Leary, Jr., George I. Dunham, Albert Soule, Sr., and William J. McMahon, Sr.
………………………………………………..(Posted by Bob Lessard Historian 2014)