The Journal-Record - Bicentennial Edition Thursday, July 1, 1976 Section D, Page 3 BRILLIANT LEGION BEGAN IN 1951 The Brilliant-Boston American Legion Auxiliary, Post 163, was organized October 1951, according to Mrs. Minnie FIELDS, who supplied the history of the organization. Mrs. Minnie FIELDS, Mrs. Ernestine SHIRLEY, Mrs. Clifton JONES, Mrs. Cassie SHIRLEY, Mrs. Elaine FIELDS, Mrs. Jack COTTON, Mrs. Vera HULSEY, Mrs. Modine STOMPS, Mrs. Luther COTTON, Mrs. Edith WHITE, and Mrs. Christine VICKERY were the charter members of the auxiliary. Mrs. Minnie FIELDS served as president, temporarily, when the group was first organized. The other presidents in the order in which they served have been: Mrs. Ernestine SHIRLEY, Mrs. Louie COTTON, Mrs. Modine STOMPS, Mrs. Oscar GREEN and Mrs. Luther COTTON and others throughout the years. Their projects have been numerous, including helping with equipment such as ice box and drapes for the Legion Home, the sponsoring of a Christmas program for over one hundred under-privileged children, giving one child a wheelchair; the sponsoring of the Crippled Children's Drive, aid to the school lunchroom and to needy school children and the sponsoring of the welcome for prisoners of War. They also serve actively in any and every project of community service.