TERRE HAUTE - Emma Coppes, Warsaw, attended Hoosier Girls State, conducted by the Indiana Department of the American Legion Auxiliary, June 22-28, on the campus of Indiana State University, Terre Haute.
She participated in a program designed to educate young women of Indiana in the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of citizenship. It was a week of living and learning the political system through a mythical city, county and state.Coppes was elected state representative, and served as judge of elections. At the Honors Day program June 28, she received the Betty Bray Memorial Scholarship.
Emma is the daughter of Bruce and Cindy Coppes, Warsaw. She will be a senior at Warsaw Community High School.
John C. Peterson Post 49 of the American Legion Auxiliary sponsored the program locally.
