SWEET IRONY –
Feb. 17, 2023 – After corresponding for about a year, Herold and the Foltz family met recently outside of Columbus at the high school where Stone Foltz graduated.
Herold was honest in sharing his alcoholic past when the families met.
“It’s part of my past. I can’t just dust that off. It is what it is. I accept it. Am I proud of it? No, but I’m not going to hide from it,” Herold said.
He was appreciative the Foltzes held nothing against him and were happy he was alive. Foltz, a 20-year-old sophomore, died of alcohol intoxication in March 2021, three days after he reportedly drank a liter of bourbon in an estimated 20 minutes during a college fraternity hazing event.
Stone’s death reignited a push at the Ohio Statehouse to pass Collin’s Law: Ohio’s Anti-Hazing Act, which, among other things, made Ohio the 11th U.S. state to make hazing a felony.
