The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-04
Big Weekend for American legion Here rontluded

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 Climaxing a weekend of import ant American Legion activities Mrs. Saxon Heath Snow was installed Monday at the local Dugout as Com mander of Juneau Post No. 4, The American Legion, before crowd which attended the ceremonies held jointly with Juneau Unit No. I, The American Legion Auxiliary.
 Mrs. Snow is the first woman to head the local post and the second woman in Alaska's American Legion history to lead post other than the two all womens posts at An chorage and Fairbanks. She has previously served as first vice com nander and adjutant-finance ofiic- CT. Mrs. Snow was a SPAR in World War II. She was born and raised in Ketchikan and is married to Joe Snow, employee of the Veterans Administration and well known To- cal baseball player.
 Department of Alaska Comman- der John II. Van Horn, of Sitka, conducted the installation of Post officers assisted by Department Ad- iutant- Finance Officer Robert N. Druxman, of Auke Bay, who acted as installing Sergeant-at-Arms
 Mrs. Helen Ottke was installed as president of the Auxiliary Unit with Past Department President Edna Policy as installing officer assisted by Anita Garnick as sergeant-at- arms.
 Auke Bay Installation
 Saturday evening, Van Horn in stalled new officers for Auke Bay Post No. 25 at DeHarts store in Auke Bay. He was assisted by De- partment Executive Committeeman Garman Shut, of Sitka, comman- der of Sitka Post No. 13. Jack l. Sturtevant, Territorial Employment Service official was installed as the Auke Bay commander
 Saturday afternoon, the Depart men of Alaska Executive Commit tee met in Department Headquarters here and authorized the printing of the Department Constitution and Bylaws for distribution to all members. It also appointed Exec- utive Committeeman William M Liddle of Juneau, as advertising manager of The Alaska Legionnaire monthly Alaska Legion publication
 The committee also authorized the department commander to ar- range for the employment of full time service officer as soon as a qualified person can be secured
 Attending the executive commit tee meeting were Commander Van Horn, Adjutant-Finance Officer Druxman, Executive Committeeman Liddle and Shut; and the follow ing post commanders: A. L. Kicker Ketchikan Post No. 3; Vernon P Harris, Juneau Post No. 4; Garman Shut, Sitka Post No. IS; and George F. Cantillon, Auke Bay Pest No. 25. In addition, Snow and Stur- tevant, as incoming commanders were present.
 Floyd Guertin, Territorial Com- missioner of Veterans Affairs, and Ernest E. Lincoln, Regional Man. ager of the U. S. Veterans Admins tration, were also invited.
 Other Officers
 Beside Mrs. Snow, incoming Ju- neau Post No. officers are. George Caldwell, first vice com mander; Kenneth Thibodeau, sec ond vice commander; William Lid de, adjutant-finance officer; Ralph Wright, service officer; Leo Jew cit, historian; and Harold Zengei and George Crisman, executive com mittee. Arthur Berggren. sergeant GI-dl uio, anu NldA LCN1os CllttlJldii were not present last night and vii i be installed at the next meeting
 In addition to Mrs. Ottke, other new Unit No. officers are: Mary Jean Perkins, first vice president MarNynn Dapcevich, second vict president; Anna Bedding, secretary Mabel Lybeck, treasurer; Silve Zenger, historian; Lillian Harris chaplain; Martha Newbould, serg- eant-at-arms; and Elizabeth Nord- ling, Edna Policy and Agnes Kiefer executive committee.
 Other Auke Bay post officers in stalled Saturday are: J. Irvint Noble, first vice commander; Clar- ence c. Mosher, second vice com- mander; Robert N. Druxman, ad- jutant-finance officer; Bill c. StillcJ ergeant-at-arms; and Jack N