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Also, the Samsung American Legion Scholarship, which can only be applied for by Boys/Girls State attenders, is an endowed scholarship fund of $5 million administered by the American Legion. In 2010, ten $20,000 scholarships and 88 $1,000 scholarships were awarded to those who completed a Boys/Girls State program. [ 10 ]
In 2019, the American Legion's National Convention voted to replace the word "wife" with "spouse" in the organization's constitution and bylaws section regarding eligibility to be a member of the American Legion Auxiliary; since then, male and female spouses of U.S. veterans have been eligible. Previously, only female spouses of U.S. veterans were.
The Paris Caucus. The American Legion was established in Paris, France, on March 15 to 17, 1919, by a thousand commissioned officers and enlisted men, delegates from all the units of the American Expeditionary Forces to an organization caucus meeting, which adopted a tentative constitution and selected the name "American Legion".
Both Bronson Post 259 and Coldwater Post 52 are looking for old members to rejoin or for younger veterans to become members. ... The average age of an American Legion member is 67 years old, with ...
Member Conflict Era Branch of Service References Orval Faubus: World War II Era: U.S. Army [citation needed] Mark Ferguson III: Gulf War Era: U.S. Navy [15] Hamilton Fish, Jr. World War I Era: U.S. Army [7] Hamilton Fish IV: World War II Era: U.S. Navy [citation needed] Jim Folsom: World War II Era: U.S. Army [citation needed] Gerald Ford ...
The club of more than 1,500 members closed for about a week. Nittany Post showed up unannounced Feb. 1 and placed closed signs on the building’s front doors and canceled all activities at the ...
The Forty and Eight was founded in March, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when World War I veteran Joseph Breen and 15 other members of The American Legion came together and organized it as an honor society for the Legion. They envisioned a new and different level of elite membership and camaraderie for leaders of the Legion.
The Membership Impact Division works to sustain marketing efforts and relationships with the national organizations that make up the predominant number of chartered organizations, such as Lions International, Rotary International, Kiwanis International, American Legion, Elks, VFW, and all religious denominations chartering BSA units.