Westerville man named to YSU trustee board

YOUNGSTOWN — Samuel W. Grooms reported to Youngstown State University football camp the day Elvis Presley died.

Nearly 39 years later, he returns to campus as a YSU trustee.

Gov. John Kasich last week appointed Grooms of Westerville, near Columbus, to a nine-year term. He’s the second YSU alumni and Franklin County resident to be appointed to the board in less than a year,

Last fall, Kasich appointed Dr. Charles Bush, a retired heart surgeon, who lives in Columbus and Florida, to the panel.

Grooms, chief executive officer of Hy-Tek Material Handling, Columbus, got a call about a month ago, asking him to come to Kasich’s office.

“I had no idea why I was being summoned to the governor’s office,” he said.

He was initially supposed to have that meeting on a Wednesday morning, but a governor’s office representative notified him that the meeting had been moved to Thursday.

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