Fremont Calendar Hunk

Local man a calendar hunk

When Brian Schaaf phoned home last spring to say he wanted to pose for a campus calendar, his mother had misgivings.

"I wasn't too sure at first," Pat Schaaf said Monday from their S. Washington Street home. "He had a summer job at Whirlpool and this would have taken him away for a week and they weren't going to hold the job for him.

"But it was something he really wanted to do," she said.

"But I really liked the picture and he picked my birthday month," Pat said. "I though that was kind of neat."

The second oldest of the fourth Schaaf children was always a "very friendly and thoughtful kid" said his mom, a supervisor at Society Bank in Fremont.

Brian's dad, Gary Schaaf, president of Triton Manufacturing, Inc., in Fremont, is showing off his son's month in the 1993 calendar.

Brian, 21, is the March pin-up in the "Campus Men® in Key West Featuring the Ohio State University" released two weeks ago.

The blond former Ross High School swim team camptain is depicted wearing jeans cut-offs and holding a wind surfer on a sandy beach.

It all started last spring when Brian was working out at Ohio State's Larkin Hall weight room and a girls handed him a business card from calendar producer-promoter Sean Ashbrook.

Two days later the senior civil engineering student made the call and met with Ashbrook at his off-campus office.

"Sean told me to take my shirt off and gave me the whole spiel about the calendar," Brian said from his dorm Monday night.

The shoot included a two week all-expenses-paid trip to the Key West in June.

"We were tanning and working out everyday and watching what we ate," he said. "The people were really friendly and welcomed us. It was really cool."

Brian chose the wind surfing theme "Because I thought it was a neat idea."

"I wasn't as nervous as I thought," Brian said. "It was really a lot of fun after a few shots."

Each model had to pay Ashbrook $400 up front and were given 110 calendars to sell for $10 apiece, he said, adding, the models got to keep the profits.

The exposure also opened a few lucrative doors.

Since June Brian has signed on with the Michael Allen Model agency and models about once a week.

He recently was featured in a television commercial for Shottenstein's department store in Columbus.

"It's a Christmas scene with me and another guy," he said. "We just walk out and turn to the camera."

He's also done mall shows in Columbus and Cleveland, making "Really easy money for just trying to look pretty."

Brian has also tried his hand in the production end by scouting and setting up props for the 1993 campus women's calendar.