Seven boys were sent from the Milford area to attend the first Wolverine Boys State.
On November 28, 1937, the board of directors of The American Legion established Wolverine Boys' State. American Legion departments in other states, including Ohio and Indiana, had existing programs. The American Legion sought to teach citizenship and leadership to boys by training them in the fundamental principles of American government. Individual legion posts sponsored local boys who were "mentally alert, vigorous and enthusiastic and honest and thrifty " The first Boys' State was held at Michigan State College (present day Michigan State University) in East Lansing. Posts sent eight hundred boys at a cost of $12.50 each for the ten day event.
* Copied from Post Historian book 1940-1943
