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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.