From the Nashua Telegraph, Wed, May 25, 1953, page 4.
" Recently new officers were installed by the Post and they will guide the destinies of the organization during the coming year and during the convention that will be held here this year.
Officers for 1953-1954 elected were as follows:
Commander: Andre V. Dion.
Senior Vice Commander: Chester J. McKuskie.
Junior Vice Commander: Roger Poirier.
Adjutant: Miss Mary H. Sullivan.
Finance Officer: Gordon MacDonald.
Treasurer: Edgar E. Lemire.
Chaplain: Edmund A. Makowski.
Historian: David P. Stevens.
Trustee: Anthony Charles Lindsay.
Trust Officer: Atty. George M. French.
Assistant Trust Officer: Robert Whitney
Sergeant At Arms: Arthur O'Neil.
Executive Committee: Atty. Leo R. Lesieur, Paul Massie, Andrew Bernier."
Post Membership for 1953-1954: 882.
"Nashua will be host to the Department convention, June 18-21, when Legionnaires from all sections of New Hampshire will convene for their annual conclave. The Coffey Post has formed a corporation for the 1953 Legion Convention and they include the following officers: honorary chairmen, Governor Hugh Gregg and Mayor Lester Burnham; president, A. Charles Lindsay; vice-president, Edgar R. Caron; assistant vice-president, John A. High; treasurer, Andre V. Dion; secretary, Mary H. Sullivan; clerk, Frank B. Clancy; finance officer, Stanley C. Urban; finance committee, Daniel R. W. Murdock, Gerald Clifford, and John G. Scontsas.
The committee chairmen include: Albert G. Coffey, Earl L. Williams, John J. Kissell, James L. Sardonis, Eugene F. McQuesten, Raoul T. April, Thomas Sullivan, Ernest Maynard, Gordon A. MacDonald, , Leo R. Lesieur, Maurice F. O'Brien, David P. Stevens, Edmund A. Makowski, Ralph S. Therriault, Irving Pelletier, Chester J. McKuskie, Nelson J. Seymour, William J. Johnson, Robert A. Dionne, Richard F. Welch, Paul A. Moran, Morris D. Stein, John H. Collins, N. Roger Poirier, and Germaine Robichaud.
So the Coffey Post No. 3 plans to celebrate the thirty-fourth anniversary of its founding by acting as hosts for the annual convention of the New Hampshire American Legion. There will be bands blaring on the main streets of the city and there will be drum majorettes swinging their batons. It will be pageantry in the 1953 style...."
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