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Title
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American Legion Scheduled Meeting letter
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Accession Number
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2026.35.49
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Accession Date
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3 November 2026
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Accession Creator
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Sophie Pendergraft
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Depositor
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Janis Burnette Garland
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Description
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Letter from H. E. Nordquist to a fellow legionnaire about an upcoming scheduled meeting.
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Date
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14 January 1954
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Storage Location
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Box 83, Folder 3
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Text
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FRONT
THE AMERICAN LEGION
GREER COMMUNITY POST #115
Greer, South Carolina
January 14, 1954
Dear Fellow Legionnaire,
The next regular scheduled meeting of our Post will be Monday night, January 18, at &;30 P.M., in the agricultural room, in the new high school building.
Commander McCarter especially wants as many as possible to attend all meetings. His reason for this is good and very important to the life of our post, and to each Legionnaire individually. To keep any organization active and alive in the community there must come from each member some spark of interest. Our membership now numbers 115, and* increase of 48 over last year. The average attendance has been a number between 15 and 20. It is encouraging to see this number come, but it should be much larger. A few can make decisions and carry on, in a small way, however, with the active participation and ideas from many more, we can achieve many of the things that we probably should have achieved by now. Let’s all try to make it a point to attend as many of the meetings as we can.
The Department of South Carolina of the American Legion is distributing to all Legion posts in the State packets of Legion Rehabilitation Stamps, with all proceeds to be devoted to the assistance of widows and orphans of servicemen and to ill or disabled veterans. These should be bought by ever* member, but you are not being told that you must do so. One-half of the net proceeds will be retained by our Post for local use. The remainder will be placed in a Department Fund to be used where needed throughout the State where local funds have been exhausted. We can very well use some of the money to good use right in our own community. Enclosed are 60 stamps an equal amount to each member. Please remit 60 cents or the stamps to Finance Officer Nordquist at McCarter’s Barber Shop.
A short business meeting will be held after which there will be a film shown. This film is in color, and shows the highlights of the National Convention, held in St. Louis, this past summer. I’m sure all will be interested in seeing the film. There will be no refreshments at this meeting.
Make it a point to come.
Respectfully yours,
H.E. Nordquist (signed)
H.E. Nordquist
Adjutant
BACK
Commander
1950-51 - Roy Collins, Jr.
1951-52 - S. H. Jones
1952-53 - W. T. Bramlett
1953-54 - J. W. McCarter
Adjutant
S.H. Jones
Roger Simmons
J. R. Parker
H. E. Nordquist
*Typo made in text