Alison Brown, daughter of Neil and LeAnne Brown, Crawfordsville, was chosen by the Crawfordsville American Legion Auxiliary Unit 72 to attend the 80th annual session of the American Legion Auxiliary, Hoosier Girls State, which was held June 19-25.
Brown, a junior at Crawfordsville High School, joined approximately 250 other young women for this government program designed to educate our leaders of tomorrow in the duties, privileges, rights and responsibilities of citizenship. This session of government and practical politics is non-partisan and non-political.
Citizens began their week-long adventure by registering to vote, where they received an assignment to a mythical political party which at registration time had no political organization or party beliefs/platforms — all established by the delegates within three days into the session.
Delegates also filed for an elected office electronically on the city, county or state level. She then conducted her political campaign complete with speeches and campaign materials. Once elected to office, delegates were sworn in and performed the duties as described for that position. Non-elected delegates were given appointments as well as encouraged to visit the offices of those elected to communicate their needs as citizens.
