Schaublin, Boys State representative, visits Post 457

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Every sum­mer, mem­bers of the Sunbury’s Col. Ben­son W. Hough Amer­i­can Legion Post 457 spon­sors sev­eral stu­dents who attend Buck­eye Boys State and Buck­eye Girls State. Last Thurs­day evening, a boy who attended Buck­eye Boys State at Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity stopped at the Legion Post to share his expe­ri­ences with Post 457 members.

Kevin Schaublin will be a senior at West­er­ville North. Schaublin was a first alter­nate in the West­er­ville Boys State selec­tion process, when mem­bers of the Sun­bury post stepped up to the plate and spon­sored him.

Schaublin, who is con­sid­er­ing a career with the Ohio State High­way Patrol and is also think­ing about becom­ing a high school teacher, said Buck­eye Boys State was a great experience.

“I really enjoyed it, it was one of the best weeks of my life,” Schaublin told the Legion mem­bers. “I learned how to inter­act with oth­ers and a lot about gov­ern­ment; and I also learned about the mil­i­tary and what it means to us.”

While at Buck­eye Boys State Schaublin was a mem­ber of the Fed­er­al­ist Party. He ran for a seat as a judge, lost the elec­tion, and became a Clerk of Courts for DeWeese County.

“The high­light of Boys State for me was when Gov­er­nor Kasich spoke at one of our nightly assem­blies,” Schaublin said. “He spoke about how to live life to the fullest and do what you can to change the world as much as you pos­si­bly can.”

At West­er­ville North Schaublin par­tic­i­pates in foot­ball, track, lacrosse, mock trial and is a class offi­cer. He said he is inter­ested in attend­ing either Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity or The Ohio State University.”

The Ohio Amer­i­can Legion has spon­sored Buck­eye Boys State since 1936. Each year 1,200 boys from around the State of Ohio attended Buck­eye Boys State.

Buck­eye Girls State and Buck­eye Boys State appli­ca­tion forms are avail­able in the Big Wal­nut High School guid­ance office dur­ing Decem­ber and Jan­u­ary. Post 457 looks for stu­dents who are active; they don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to be high grade point aver­age stu­dents, but stu­dents who are involved in their edu­ca­tion and par­tic­i­pate in extracur­ric­u­lar activ­i­ties and out­side organizations.

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion about Buck­eye Boys State go to < ohiobuckeyeboysstate.org >; for addi­tional infor­ma­tion about Sunbury’s Col. Ben­son W. Hough Amer­i­can Legion Post 457 go to < americanlegionsunbury.com >.

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