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BLOOD BANK; The post established the Hancock Blood Sank and continues to support this endeavor, by providing a place for all blood drawings.
Athletica: The post provides funds to support little League Baseball in the community, it not only sponsors a teaqi it also provides for awards and banquets for the team.
General Programs:	The post conducts a County Veterans Day
program honoring all veterans of all wars. The post provides american flags for all schools and classrooms of the county.
Through the years the following have served as commander of the American Legion, Clement R. Bontemps Post:
1923	Curtis L. Waller - Wilson E. Acker
1924	Leon Mc.Cluer 1925-26 Henry Capdepon 1927 a. Palmer Lott 1928-29-30Henry Capdepon 1931-32 Laurent Dickson
1933	W.B.Graham
1934	Laurent Dickson
1935	C.L.Reed
1936	S.L. Engman
1937	Edward P. Ortee 1938,1939,1940.
1940	J.W.Peairs
1941	William R. Garcia-Henry Capdepon 1942-43 Leo W. Ford
1944	Frank Cassidy
1945	Wm Douglas Bourgeois
1946	Harold Holdritch
1947	John Rutherford,
1948	Joe Colson,
1949	Andy Becker 1950-51-52 Fred Fayard,Sr.,
1953-54 Lucien Kidd 1955-56 Sidney Bourgeois
1957	Rusell Elliott
1958	Roger Reinike 1959-60 Warren Buehler 1961-62 Frank Taconi 1963-64 Joseph Benvenutti 1965 Gilbert Gayaut 1966-67 John Wilkerson 1968 James Kelly
1969-70-71 Edward D. Murtagh,Jr.
1972 Alvin Vetter
1974-75 Clayton Thompson	1
1976 Wm Horace Ruhr ?	P<? .v'f'	^ -?*	^	- ?r" ,