Adams County Legion posts award scholarships to two seniors
Beau Hesler and Addison Shupert each received $500 legacy scholarships tied to Adams County Legion posts, keeping the names Cameron-Ellis and Morris-Baldridge alive.
Charles H. Eyre American Legion Post 633 honored two North Adams High School seniors at the school’s Scholarship Awards Ceremony on May 11, presenting Beau Hesler with the Post 242 Legacy Scholarship and Addison Shupert with the Post 583 Legacy Scholarship. Each award carried $500 to help with the costs that come with starting full-time college.
The scholarships were created with funds provided by Post 242, a move meant to preserve the memory of older Legion posts after membership transfers shifted the local organization’s structure. In 2026, the Cameron-Ellis American Legion Post 242 in Winchester transferred its membership to Charles H. Eyre American Legion Post 633 in Seaman. Several years earlier, the Morris-Baldridge American Legion Post 583 in Cherry Fork had transferred to Post 242. By attaching scholarships to both post names, Legion leaders kept those histories visible even as the memberships consolidated.
That history reaches back more than a century in Adams County. Cameron-Ellis Post 242 was founded in 1919 and named for Earl Cameron and Lewis Ellis, both lost in World War I. Charles H. Eyre Post 633 carries the name of Charles H. Eyre, who was killed in action on April 13, 1944, during a mission to bomb a ball-bearing plant in Schweinfurt, Germany. The scholarship program tied to those names turns remembrance into direct support for students who are about to leave North Adams High School and enter college.
The awards also fit a broader pattern of Legion involvement at North Adams. Post 633 and American Legion Auxiliary Unit 633 have regularly hosted Americanism and Government recognition events for North Adams students, reinforcing the connection between civic education, veterans’ service and school honors in Adams County. For local families, the legacy scholarships do more than ease the first bills of college. They keep the names of old posts, and the service behind them, in front of a new generation.
Hesler was also identified in March as a North Adams High School senior who received a separate $500 scholarship from the Edge of Appalachia–Adams County Fund, underscoring the range of community support reaching graduating seniors this spring.
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