Scituate Legion Post Officers

Post Commander
Covell

Ed Covell
Email the Commander

Duties
Duties of Post commander. It shall be the duty of the Post commander to preside at all meetings of the Post and to have general supervision over the business and affairs of the Post, and such officer shall be the chief executive officer of the Post. The Commander shall approve all orders directing the disbursement of funds and shall make an annual report covering the business of the Post for the year, and recommendations for the ensuing year, which shall be read at the annual meeting and a copy thereof immediately forwarded to the Department adjutant. The Commander shall perform such other duties as directed by the Post.

Biography
Ed Covell served in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1966 to 1968, where he was a Training Company Commander at the Engineering School at Fort Leonard Wood, MO for a year. For the second year of his service he was with the 34th Engineer Battalion, 20th Engineer Brigade in the Republic of Viet Nam. He held the position of Battalion S-2 for several months before assuming the command of a company. Ed was commissioned into the service through the Reserve Officer Training Corp program at Providence College, where he also received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. After his discharge, Ed began a career that would span more than 30 years in the medical device manufacturing industry. His work for The Kendall Company (now Kendall Healthcare) lead to a variety of management assignments in Massachusetts, California, South Carolina, England and France. He was then recruited to lead a product diversification program at Tampax Inc. (now Tambrands Incorporated). He subsequently became Chief Operating Officer at MedChem, Inc. of Woburn, MA and Chief Executive Officer at ChemTrak, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA before starting up a successful consulting practice of his own. He is now a MA-licensed Real Estate Broker affiliated with Jack Conway & Co., Inc. in Scituate, where he has lived off and on for most of his life (so far). He has three children, and four, soon-to-be-five, grandchildren. Ed and his wife, Lorraine really enjoy their home on Third Cliff.

Senior Vice Commander

Jim Wadley

Duties
Duties of vice-commander. The vice-commander shall assume and discharge the duties of the office of commander in the absence or disability of, or when called upon by the Post commander. Biography

Jim served in the Navy during the Vietnam era and was a boatswain mate. Between the Navy and the Army Jim spent 31 years in the service.

2nd Vice Commander
Bob Harkin

Bob Harkins
Duties
Duties of vice-commander. The vice-commander shall assume and discharge the duties of the office of commander in the absence or disability of, or when called upon by the Post commander.
Biography
Bob served in the Navy reserves from 1969 till 2005. From 1969 till 1972 he served on the USS Cascade, a destroyer tender, homeported in Naples, Italy. After graduating from vocational school he worked at the Boston Naval Shipyard as a welder. After a stint with Boston's Ironworkers Local 7 he went to work with the Boston & Maine Railroad , which later became the MBTA Communter Rail. Transfering to Amtrak he continues to work as a high speed train technician on the Acela train. Bob resides in Holbrook with his wife Cathy. His interest and hobbies are motorcycles,boating, scuba diving, trap shooting and traveling.

3rd Vice Commander
Gary Vitty

Gary Vitty
Duties
Duties of vice-commander. The vice-commander shall assume and discharge the duties of the office of commander in the absence or disability of, or when called upon by the Post commander.

Biography

Adjutant
Jack Ketterer

Jack Ketterer
Duties
Duties of Post adjutant. The adjutant shall have charge of and keep a full and correct record of all proceedings of all meetings, keep such records as the Department and National Organizations may require, render reports of membership annually or when called upon at a meeting, and under direction of the commander handle all correspondence of the Post.

Biography
Jack grew up in Scituate and graduated from Scituate High in 1949. Served in the Navy from 1950 to 1958 as Boatswain Mate 1st Class. Jack went to Boston University and graduated in 1954 with BS in Education and then in 1955 got an advanced degree in Physical Therapy. Jack worked at Mass General hospital and also at Harvard University.

Finance Officer

Stephen Litchfield
Duties
Duties of the finance officer. The finance officer of the Post shall have charge of all finances and see that they are safely deposited in some local bank or banks and shall report once a month to the Executive Committee the condition of the finances of the Post, with such recommendations as may deem expedient or necessary for raising funds with which to carry on the activities of the Post. The Finance Officer shall sign all checks disbursing the monies of the Post, and shall furnish such surety bonds in such sum as shall be fixed by the Post Executive Committee.

Biography
Steve Litchfield grew up in Scituate, graduating from Scituate High School in 1964. He then studied electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituate, graduating in June 1968. At Rensselaer, he joined Navy ROTC program and was commissioned upon graduation as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. He was assigned to the USS Wright as a computer systems programmer at a time when computers still quite uncommon. The Wright was a Command and Control ship whose mission was to act as a command center for the president and staff in the event of nuclear war. In May of 1970, he was transferred to the Naval Command SYStems Support Activity in Washington DC, working as a computer systems programmer on various software systems deployed throughout the Navy worldwide. He left active duty as a Lieutenant in April 1972. After the Navy, Steve worked a year with Planning Research Corporation, a defense contractor but then was offered a job as a systems programmer for the City of Boston. He moved back near home to Marshfield Hills, working for the city until 1978. He then became a systems programmer for Fidelity Investments which was a small company at the time. In 1980, Steve left Fidelity for the Gillette Company in South Boston, Where he worked on various computer systems for 25 years, taking early retirment in June 2005. Steve married his college sweetheart, Martha, on Valentines Day, 1969 and has two daughters and six grandchildren. He finally moved back to Scituate to his grandparent's farm property on Country Way in December, 2000 where he now is a "Gentleman Farmer" and finds himself more busy then he was when employed full time.

Historian
Callahan

Robert Callahan
Duties
The office of Historian is of growing importance. The historian works on matters of historical interest. The Post Historian should keep in touch with the Department Historian and should be prompt in answering inquiries. An annual report should be made to the Department Historian just before the Department convention. Copies of whatever is printed concerning the Post should be deposited in the local and state libraries, as well as in the Post files.Also, copies should be deposited in Department archives. The Post Historian should make a point of knowing what Historians of neighboring Posts are doing. The Historian should attend Department conventions and keep in touch with other Post Historians. The Department Historian can advise Post Historians on Department and national Post history contests, historians' associations, and material available from the Department Historian that will assist in doing a better job.

Biography
Bob grew up in Milton and has lived in Scituate since 1976. He served as a radioman in the Navy from 1968 to 1971onboard the USS Fulton, AS-11. Before Class A Radioman school at Bainbridge, MD. Bob served in the deck department as a seaman on the USS Harland Dickson, a destroyer. Bob graduated 'magna cum laude' with a degree in Engineering from Northeastern and did graduate work at UMass Dartmouth. Bob works as a Principal Engineer at Electroswitch in Weymouth designing electric utility control devices and writing embedded software. Bob has two adult children and resides with his wife, Jean, and his hobbies are Amateur Radio, cars, and guitar playing. Bob is also a team leader in the Scituate Citizen Emergency Response Team under direction of the Fire Department.

Chaplain
Lou Vanderstreet

Lou Vanderstreet
Duties
Duties of Post Chaplain. The Post chaplain shall be charged with the spiritual welfare of the Post comrades and will offer divine but nonsectarian service in the event of dedications, funerals, public functions, etc., adhere to such ceremonial rituals as are recommended by the national or Department headquarters from time to time.

Biography
Lou was a submariner during World
War Two and served on a LSM/LST during Korea. During his submarine tour his boat operated out of the following Islands or bases: Midway; Subic Bay, Philippines; Guam; & Fremantle, Perth, Australia. Lou was
a Radioman and rose to the rank of
Petty Officer Second Class. When
Lou came home he became a
Brockton firefighter and rose to the rank of Captain. He and his wife Phyllis have been married 52 years and have one son and two grandsons.

Sergeant - At - Arms
Badore

Dennis Badore
Duties
Duties of sergeant-at-arms. The sergeant-at-arms shall preserve order at meetings and shall perform such other duties as may be from time to time assigned by the Post Executive Committee.

Biography
Dennis grew up in Halifax and entered the ARMY in 1966. Dennis was a signalman and after basic training went to Fort Bragg, N.C. to await orders to Vietnam. He was attached to the 40th Signal Brigade, A Company and served in Long Binh, Chu Chi, and Tain Nin Vietnam. Dennis left the Army in 1968 with the rank of E5 (Sergeant). After leaving the Army Dennis served in the National Guard. Dennis received the Presidential Meritorius Unit Citation, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, National Defense Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal.

Assistant Sergeant at Arms
Jim McRae

Jim McRae
Duties
Duties of Post Assistant Master at Arms. The assistant master at arms will take over for the Master at Arms when the Master at Arms is unavailable and will otherwise assist the Master at Arms in his duties.

Biography
Jim grew up in Roslindale and went to Hyde Park High School. Jim went in the Navy in 1941 and served untill 1946. Jim was a Shipfitter 1st class and served on the LST381 and the destroyer USS Underhill. Jim and his wife moved to Scituate and lived in Hummarock and then Tilden Rd. He ran an oil service business and had 4 children.

Judge Advocate
Ron Wheatley

Ron Wheatley
Duties
Duties of Judge Advocate. Interpreter of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Post and may be called upon by the Commander and other officers and members of the Post to rule on the legality of their actions and decisions insofar as they affect the good of the American Legion.

Biography
Ron served in the Peace Corps, Nigeria, West Africa, 1963-1965, as a school teacher. After returning he volunteered for the draft and did basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington and on the job training at Fort Huachuca, Arizon with the 176th Signal Battalion. Ron was a communications specialits and was sent to Chui Lai, Vietnam, where he served with the 37th Signal Battalion of the 1st Signal Brigade. Three months later he became the Company Clerk at the headquarters of the 37th Signal Brigade in Danang. Ron reach the rank of Specialist 4th class.
After returning to the States, Ron went to the University of Washington for his Masters Degree and then to Law School at Gonzaga University. To specialize, Ron went to the LLM program at the Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University. Ron started his career at the Executive Office of the President's Office of Telecommunications Policy as a Legal Assistant in the International Division under President Ford. In 1976 he became a foreign Service Officer at the Department of State where he worked for two years as an Officer in the Office of Telecommunications. While working for the Executive Branch he served on two delegations to the United Nations Subcommittee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and to the US committee of the CCITT, Geneva, Switzerland.
Leaving the public sector Ron was hired by AT&T, as Government Relations, Regional Attorney in Boston. Ron retired from AT&T in 1990. Since 1993 Ron has been serving as a Hearing Officer, Telecommunications Analyst, and now Counsel for the Transportation Division at the Department of Telecommunications & Energy, a State agency in Boston. Ron also has a private practice in Scituate. Ron lives with his wife Ethel, a Speech and HearingTeacher with the Brockton School system. Ron and Ethel are the proud parents of a son John and a daughter Elizabeth. John is now serving as a radio operator in Iraq with the Marine's 25th Regiment and Elizabeth lives in Washington DC and works for Steve Case, founder of AOL, in his new venture, Revolution LLC.

Service Officer
Carlo

Gary Carlo
Duties
Duties of the Service Officer: The Service Officer performs fundamental, unselfish work, not only for the benefit of the members of this Post, but for those War veterans particularly in need of your service. Responsibility of looking out for the welfare of all concerned.

Biography

Executive Board Members at Large

Executive Board Member & Past Post Commander
Conley

Conley Ford

Biography
Conley Ford served from 1960-68 four years in the regular Air Force as a medic and was stationed at Wheelus Air Force Base in North Africa from 1963-64. He also served in the active Air Force Reserves and Georgia Air National Guard. He grew up in Knoxville, Tenn. and has lived in Scituate since 1987. He and his wife, Mary (Taylor), a Scituate native, were transferred 9 times before moving to Scituate. Overseas assignments with the family included Yokohama, Japan; Calais, France; and Southampton, England. Conley also worked in Limerick, Ireland and Stockholm, Sweden. During his career , Conley worked for Western Electric/Bell Communications Research and Telecordia Technologies, and was part of the Safeguard Anti- Ballistic Missile Program; and trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic submarine cable projects team. He also served aboard the Cable Ship Long Lines. Conley is an honor's graduate from Wentworth Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in technical management. After nearly 38 years in the telecommunications industry, Conley retired as a Senior Member of Technical Staff. Conley and Mary have two sons: James, an ROTC graduate who served four years in the Army including 13 months in Ramadi, Iraq; and Jarat, a West Point graduate, and Army captain, who is stationed in Germany. Conley and Mary have a granddaughter, Samantha, 3. In his spare time, Conley enjoys politics, community service work, researching family history, golf, fishing, and is working on a book about his youth.

Tom Reilly Biography	Franny Litchfield Biography Franny served in World War Two in the Army Air Corp. Staff Sergeant Litchfield was an aircraft electrician and served in India Franny came back to Scituate and was self employed as a mechanic and crane operator. He and his wife, Nancy still reside in Scituate.	Ken Elliott Biography Ken is well known around town and served in Korea with the 8445th MP unit. Lance Corporal Elliot came home and became a MDC police officer, rising to the rank of Captain. Ken also owned the famous "Grog Shop" for years. He and his wife Nancy live in Scituate.