Gray, Herboldsheimer Chosen for Program

Potter American Legion Post 291 and Auxiliary Unit 291 are sponsoring two students from Potter-Dix High School to attend American Legion Cornhusker Boys and Girls State.

Terell Gray, the son of Wendy Relerford and Chris Wilson of Kimball, and Virginia Herboldsheimer, the daughter of Bryan and Laurie Herboldsheimer, will represent the Post June 2-8 in Lincoln.

Gray has been very much involved at Potter-Dix High School, in which he lettered in the following - football (All District- Honorable Mention for Offensive Line-2017), basketball, track, choir, band, speech, and in one act play production, receiving the District Outstanding Actor performance in 2018. Gray's future goal after graduating high school is to go into the field of Criminal Justice.

Gray will join nearly 400 other high school junior's from across Nebraska participating in the American Legion Cornhusker Boys' State, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln downtown campus. The annual citizenship program, sponsored by the Nebraska American Legion, is designed to provide youth with a better understanding of how city, county and state governments operate. Each boy is sponsored locally by an American Legion Post, or supported by some other patriotic, civic, fraternal or religious group in cooperation with the local American Legion Posts. The Potter American Legion Post 291 is Terell's financial sponsor for the 2019 Boys' State program.

Special lectures and addresses will be delivered by experienced public officials and professional leaders from Nebraska, on subjects pertinent to the program of instructions.

The Potter American Legion Auxiliary Unit 291 selected Herboldsheimer to attend Cornhusker Girls State to be held on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln-campus.

Virginia's school activities include volleyball, one acts, basketball, speech, track, National Honor Society, Quiz Bowl, swing choir and Letterman's Club. Her community involvement includes Job's Daughters, Salvation Army bell ringer, Holy Trinity Church, Miss Potter Days Attendant and the Lions Club Food Booth.

Other organizations helping the Potter American Legion Auxiliary Unit 291 financially to be able to send Virginia, a junior from the Potter-Dix High School to Cornhusker Girls State are: Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, Social Neighbors Club and Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865.

Delegates attending Cornhusker Girls State will study local, county and state government processes in a nonpartisan political learning experience. They will receive special instruction in parliamentary procedure and organize themselves into two mythical political parties. They then campaign, hold rallies, debate and ultimately vote to elect city, county and state officials. Once elected to office, delegates are sworn in and perform their prescribed duties. Citizens not elected to office are given appointments and visit the offices of their elected or appointed counterparts in actual state, county or city government.