Pictured is the 1965 James E. Coffey Post 3 Championship Color Guard.
From left to right are: Felix Ratoff, Robert Farrell, Francis O'Neil, John Molloy, Fred Clemons, and Richard McDonald.
The Color Guard won the competition at the 47th Annual Convention of the American Legion Department of New Hampshire held in Laconia, NH June 25-27, 1965. The newly formed color guard won first prize for "best color guard".
Another first prize went to the posts marching unit for "outstanding marching ability of a unit". Included in this category are the band, color guard and marching group led by Commander Earle F. Wesson.
The band took second place in the band awards division, wpm by Gordon Bissell Post of Keene.
Click on the link below to read the Nashua Telegraph archive article about the convention.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zRpbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=404NAAAAIBAJ&pg=...
