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Show HEADS DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH DAKOTA Wherever Frank G. McCormick, of Sioux Falls, S. I)., went in his professional work as an attorney, following fol-lowing the close of t lie World war, he joined up with the American Legion post and became active in it. lie did not think that his home town was the only place where he could engage successfully suc-cessfully in the work of his organized comrades of the war days. Me went in, wherever he might he, and made a place for himself in the local post. Today Frank McCormick is commander com-mander of the Department of South Dakota of the Legion. lie was elected to that post at the recent state cou- 1 W&. V : Frank G. McCormick. vention and is setting about the new duties which devolve upon him in the same spirit which won for him recognition recog-nition in his elevation to that office. After his discharge in 1919, Mr. McCormick Mc-Cormick returned to Vermilion, S. D., as a member of the coaching staff of the state university there. He joined the Vermilion post of the Legion that year. In 1920 he went to Akron, Ohio, where he was employed in the legal department of a tire and rubber rub-ber company. He joined the Legion there. When he moved to Sioux Falls in 1922, he joined there. Entering the first officers' training camp at Fort Snelling, Mr. McCormick was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh Machine Gun battalion bat-talion in the Eighty-eighth division. He served with (his outfit overseas and was discharged as a first lieutenant in June, 1019. Born in Genoa, Neb., on November Novem-ber 5, 1S94, Mr. McCormick attended school at Omaha, Neb., and at Wagner, S. D.. and graduated with tlie degree of bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws. He is now practicing practic-ing law at Sioux Falls and directing athletics at Columbus college. |