Local student to represent Rochelle Post 402 at event.
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ROCHELLE — Calling himself “a man of the skies,” Rochelle Township High School junior Justin Julian has been chosen to attend the American Legion Boys State Conference for a week this July at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
He will represent American Legion Post 402 in Rochelle, which has not sent a representative in many years.
“There is a long history of military service in our family, plus I think I might pursue a career in either the FBI or the CIA,” said Julian, who transferred to RTHS last October from Chicago Amundsen High School.
Boys State is among the most respected and selective educational programs of government instruction for U.S. high school students. A participatory program in which students become part of the operation of local, county and state government, Boys State was founded in 1935 to counter the socialism inspired Young Pioneer Camps.
At Boys State, participants learn the rights, privileges and responsibilities of franchised citizens. The objective training centers on the structure of city, county and state governments. Operated by students elected to various offices, Boys State activities include legislative sessions, court procedures, law-enforcement presentations, assembles, bands, choruses and recreational programs.