July 1957 to December 1957

July, 1957
The following officers were elected to serve the post for the year 1957-1958: Commander-Lee Myers Jr., first Vice Commander-Kenneth Miller, Second Vice Commander-Eugene Koontz, Chaplain-Rev. Leroy McKelvey, Finance Officer-Howard Crownover, Sgt at Arms-Ambrose Naugle, Servie Officer Charles Koontz, Historian-William H. Burkhart, Adjutant (appointed)_Kenneth Coleman.
September, 1957
Commander Robert Sheaffer of the Legion 19th District with a team of county nd district officers installed the above listing of post officers. this was a joint installation affair at which Commander Scheaffer also installed the officers for the colored Post # 729.
At the close of the year 1956-1957, Historian B.W. Brechbiel presented Commander Ellsworth Naugle a beautifully compiled and bound scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other mementoes such as programs printed during the year.
The post contributed $300.00 toward the Public Library project, a final installment in the total pledge of $1000.00 made by the post to the Shippensburg Public Library Association for the purchase and remodeling of the former George Stewart property on West King Street for use as the first community owned library building in Shippensburg. (George Stewart was the first Commander of the American Legion Post 223)
October, 1957
The American Legion held a State Bonus Rally for the Veterans of the Korean War. The rally in the post home attracted a fairly large number of Korean veterans who were instructed in the requirements for passage of the bonus issue, to be voted on by the citizenry at the November election.
November, 1957
The annual Veteran's day, 11 November, was celebrated by all the Shippensburg posts holding a short program in the auditorium of the Shippensburg area High Senior School. Vinton Rambeau of the SSTC faculty, was the speaker. Ray Fogelsanger was the master of ceremonies. With William Ward representing the Philippine Insurrection, Malcom Sheaffer the Spanish War, those on stage represented five wars.
Richard Leslie Hinton (Hooker) and his wife were burned to death when their home caught on fire Saturday night, 16 November, 1957. Hooker was a veteran of WW1 who had soldiered with the infantry in France. When Oscar M. Hykes Post was organized, he was a charter member. During his lifetime he had worked as a barber. The shack he and his wife lived in (retired) was located along a dirt road about a mile west of town. Both were buried in a double ceremony in Locust Grove Cemetery.
December, 1957
Melvin Rosenberry was presented the Americanism Award for his outstanding contribution to the post's Americanism Program.