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PUu!- FEAT(;RES 5 Connecting Past and Present ~ Sylvia Barsion and GIRLSCDUTS ® Sharon Hussey President Elinor Johnstone Ferdon 12 Proudly Celebrating Our National Executive Director 85th Anniversary Mary Rose Main f u,dy We/age Editor 22 Speaking of Girl Carolyn Caggine 13 Make It a Troop Scouting ... Graphics and Design Director Celebration Mary Levey and Dr. Lillian Susan Cuttler Rita Niemeyer S. Williams Pennissions Editor Colleen Floyd 14 Handbooks That Mirror 24 Update on Pluralism Technical A.. o;;sistant the Decades Think Tanks :\1ark Kal) Toni Eubanks Sheryl Schulte 17-0577) b publisht?d Girl &out U>adrr "'"' 15 85 Years of Program 25 The Place of Religion quarterly by Gtrl 'X ' the L 5A. -t?O Fifth in Girl Scouting Avenue, 1\t•w "\ ork. \ "\ 1 I'"~~ 1996 by Acti\'ilie~ (centerfold) Girl Scoub of the l ruted 'lllt - of Amenca All Patricia Paddock Robyn Payne right;. re-er.-ed lh1..' pu licauon ma~ not b.. rc- produced. -: rt?d an a retrieval -)-tern. or trail" 26 Did You Know ... ? Dlllttd m who e or m pan. an any form, or by any judy We/age lll('an- t'l~niC, mecharu<-al, photocopying, rl'('Ordmg, or othrrv.1't' \\1thout th<' prior writ· ten p mu--10n of Girl xuuts of the United 27 ··r Wouldn't Have Missed It States of Amenca. Girl Scout Leader cannot be for Anything" rt';,ponsible for unsolicited manu~cripts. photos, janet 0. Laws or art in it~ offices or in transit. Th ird-class post· age paid at St. Paul, Minn. and additional mailing ! ~ u. 28 New Perspectives- ofikes. a: " 29th World Conference Subscriptions $5 yt' GSUSA'~ \\'eb ~ite addn.•" i> hnp: /www.g I L President's Message On October 14, 1996, Elinor Johnstone Ferdon, GSUSA First Vice President, was installed as Girl Scout National President at the National Council Session in Fort Worth, Tex. uminous colors of fall, glowing candles, and L joyous holiday celebra tions-these herald the closing of yet another year. Holidays especially evoke thoughts of family, reunions, getting to gether with friends, sharing good times and fond memories. Girl Scouts. too, are plan ning for a grand reunion, one that will take place on March 12, 1996-our 85th birthday. We're asking Girl Scouts every One of my first experi German-speaking area of Swit where to remember what Girl ences as an adult in Girl Scout zerland. Scouting made possible for ing was as a troop leader in Throughout rbe years. I them, and to make a commit West Nyack, N.Y., in 1964, have been honored to repre ment to give some of that back when my own children were 6 't:nt our movement locally, na to the girls we serve in your months, 4, and 6 years old. The tionally and in.emationally in a communities and in our coun energetic and delightful Ca range c,- x-ttings, here and try. dette Girl Scouts taught me abr.;ad Many of us began our Girl many things; among the thing Scout experiences as young I learned were to honor and re girls. Some continued through spect the rights and opinions of adolescence. Others came to young people, and how impor - Elinor Johnstone Ferdon Girl Scouting as adults. I joined tant it was to be a role model l\ational President USA Girl Scouts Overseas living the values we hold so Troop # 1 when my father, who dear in Girl Scouting. Those dy was in the U.S. Army, was namic Cadette Girl Scouts were transferred to Frankfurt, Ger a good influence for my ov.'11 many. As I was trying to under three daughters, each of whom stand a new language and cope became active Girl Scouts. with life away from home, Girl The years I spent as a Girl Scouting was very special for Scout "Overseas" in Germany me. It provided a wonderful were extremely beneficial to way for me to maintain a con me when I was appointed a Note: r..rrs. Ferdon chaired the nection to home while learning member ofWAGGGS's Our 29th World Conference in Nova about different cultural Chalet Committee. Those Scotia this past July. See photos traditions in a foreign meetings, held twice a year, and a report of the event on land. were in Adelboden, a primarily pages 28 and 29. 4 Girl Scout Leader/ Winter 1996 Connecting Past and Present L. very first volume of the The Girl Scouts' "Let us cultivate such a strong bond of Rally Bulletin, published in June 1915, cele sympathy that each girl shall be indeed 'A little bJ·ated the first national conference as follows. friend of all the world'." "Hurrah! Hun·ah! The Girl Scouts have become At the first national conference, Colonel a national organization! They have emerged Colin Livingston. national president of Boy from their chrysalis of helpless dependence, Scouts at that time, " ... impressed upon this thrown aside their swaddling cloth of infancy, audience the necessity for each member be and now, behold. they stand forth in all of the coming a (dues-paying) contributor in a small Hearing the history glory and pride of their emancipation, for they way toward the support of the national organi of Girl Scouting in are now a real organization, an organization zation." He emphasized the importance of thus your own family is with a charter, a constitution, elected national creating in the girls the sense of proprietary in really special, as overseers, a standing, and a brilliant future." terest in their new organization that no amount these Girl Scouts What better way to think about being part of gratuitiel> could possibly do. "Every girl must discovered at a of the largest membership organization for girls regard it as her club and work for it loyally and recent Valuing than to capture the excitement of the start of faithfully ... Differences the movement and the hopes of the founder, The 1919 Annual Report answers the ques roundup in South Juliette Gordon Low. As first national president tion: "Who are the Girl Scouts?" "TI1ey are girls, Texas Girl Scout of Girl Scouting, she is quoted at that confer just good American girls, in every rank and Council (Lake ence: "When we started two years ago, I hardly walk of life, they are schoolgirls, working girls, jackson) dared to hope that we would succeed in becom rich girls, poor girls, city girls, country girls, ing a national movement ... "Te now have a who between the ages often and eighteen have working machine of great power- Notth, chosen to spend their leisure time in working South, East, and West-we have patrols regis and playing together to acquire the lore of tered in over a hundred cities." (In fact, at this Scouting." first conference, so early in Girl Scout history, there were already 5,000 Girl Scouts with A Common Bond troops located in 150 locations nationwide.) Collectively, the tens of millions of former "We Worked Together'' and current Girl Scouts are part of a strong and compelling bond. The power of this is echoed "One cause of success has been that we in so many ways. Over and over again, Girl are so united and the zeal of both leaders and Scouts who attend events that gather girls from Girl Scouts has been rewarded. because we around the country speak of how special it was worked together, free from rivahy. Such a ma to meet girls from such different backgrounds chine as ours can only do good work when each who become instant friends because of the wheel and each cog keeps its place and does its common bond. Adults who attend national own part faithfully. meetings are often surprised, even when they "Girl Scouts are doing just such useful expected a positive experience, as to how mov things abroad, and we in America are doing ing it is to feel a part of something so big. Mem good deeds by sending gifts to our sister Girl bership in Girl Scouting connects girls and Scouts, but the best gift we can bestow is to women to one another and to remarkable prepare the way to lasting peace when the war women from generations past • is ended. -Sylvia Barsion and Sharon Hussey Girl Scout ~eader/Winter 1996 5 ning activities that range from a would improve upon the first outdoor experience to presentation. • backcountry camping. (#264ll: $9.50.) Fu11 and Easy Activities Girl Scouts Against Nature and Science/ Actit'idades Smoking divertidas y /aciles naturaleza y ciencia. For Brownie and Junior First, the bad news: We all Girl Scouts, these are a series know the ham1Iul effects of of activities that make use of ad -.rooking. Yet, nearly 20 per Girl Scout venture, creativity, self-expres cent of girls ages 12-18 still sion. and whimsy to help girls :-moke. Lung cancer has now Program explore various scientific con surpassed breast cancer as cepts. Bilingual (English/Span the leading cancer killer of ish); 24 pages. (#26417; $2.95.) women Fun and Easy Nature and Now. the good news: Science Investigations. Ten easy GSCSA is doing it!i part to activities that leaders can use to help keep the nation healthy Q. It seems to me that Girl help girls of all ages conduct with a sJk('ial patch pro Scouting used to place a lot their own science and nature in ~am. Girl &outs Against more emphasis on outdoor ac \'estigations right in their own ~moking. a component of tivities. Does this mean that neighborhood. It includes work they aren't considered impor our national sports and fit sheets that may be reproduced ness initiative. It's a perfect tant anymore? for use with girls. Available in project for us. Few people En~lish and Spanish editions. A. Outdoor education always begin to smoke after the age 48 pages. (English #26415. will be an important part of the of 20 and smoking is a habit . panish #26416; $4.95.) Girl Scout program. It is just be that can be kicked. These materials may be ob ing broadened to incorporate GSUSA has always em tained at your Girl Scout coun the latest innovations. demo phasized a healthy lifestyle cil shop, or from the National graphic trends, and environ for girls. Now we're doing Equipment Service. Girl Scouts mental education. What this more. A series of attractive of the U.SA., 420 Fifth Avenue, means is that more girls than color booklets-ain1ed at New York. N.Y. 10018-2798; or ever will be able to enjoy posi Daisy and Brownie Girl call toll-free 800-643-0639. tive outdoor experiences in a Scouts, Junior Girl Scouts, greater variety of settings. in Q. My Brownie Girl Scout and Cadette and Senior Girl cluding urban neighborhoods, Scouts-focuses on the dan in ways that will be less damag troop just participated in a proj ect to learn about different as gers of tobacco and the ing to the environment. Bv skills needed to make posi helping all J;(irls feel pects of a business. but thev comf~rta tive choices. Girl~ choose ble in the outdoors, Girl Scout found the presentation botfug. \Vhat can I do to avoid a replay? their o'\\n activitiec:; to obtain ing encourages them to respect the patch. The'e resources, the environment and take cMe A. Some people are better than which include a leader's tip of it. others at interpreting materials sheet. were introduced in You'll find the following re for children. Feel free to step in September in conjunction sources very helpful. Outdoor politely to help guide the course with the U.S. Public Health Education in Girl Scouting is a of any troop experience. To Service's Office on Women's turn this negative experience newly revised book for leaders Health. • of all age levels. It contains a into a leanling opportunity, ask wealth of information on plan- the girls to discuss how they 6 Girl Scout Leader/ Wi11ter 1996 • It • the editor November brings gray skies. lower tempera For a mort. personal glimpse of our foun tures, and Thanksgiving, that most indigenous der, Marianne llaw of Communications inter of our holidays on whkh we give thanks for all viewed Julieth.: Low's niece, Mary Stuart Gor our blessings. don PlatL '11h:ir conversation is recorded in Less than a month ago, our triennial :-..a "Remembering Aunt Daisy." tiona] Council Session at which our 2.000 del In "Sp~;aking of Girl Scouting .. :· Mary egate::; made decisions that will carry the move Levey of thl National Historic Preservation ment into the 21st century occupied center Center and Dr. Lillian \Villiams of the Univer stage. What greater demonstration of the dem sity at Alban~ gathered reminiscences from five ocratic process could there be? Just as in the women who'e experiences vary. but whose Daisy Girl Scout circle. the Brownie Girl Scout dedication ts unwavering. Dr Sylvia Barsion. ring. troops. groups, or patrols. we listened. de :\lational Director. Research and Evaluation. liberated, voiced our opinions. discussed. voted and Sharon Hussey. National Director. Mem as we saw fit. and abided by the will of the ma bership and Program. discuss the early days jority. and tht: sen~e of belonging to the movement. Winter 1996 Girl Scout Leader takes us while compiler Judy Welage give~ us 20 infor from the future to the past as we prepan· fo r mation "bites" about Girl Scouting. A Girl Scout our milestone anniversary next year. For an Two articles touch on ongoing concerns: Worlds Fair, O\'erview of what is happening nationally, Judy ·'t_: pdatt; on Pluralism Think Tanks" by Sheryl sponsored f,y Welage of Communication~ \'-Tilt~ of "Proudly Schulte of Organization Development and Hoosier Capital Celebrating Our 85th Annivcr,ary." while Rita Training and 'The Place of Religion in Girl Girl Scout Council Niemeyer of \lember-,hip and Program tells Scouting'' by Robyn Payne of National/inter f Indianapolis, ho\\ to ":\lake It a Troop ( elebration." national Relations. Ind.), brought Othu Membtr:,.hip and Program staffers Complementing our photo essay on 1900 girls to a di~cu~~ the mo\ement from \arious angles: WAGGGS"s 29th \\'orld Conference is "i\ew local shopping Toni l:.ubanks focuses on ··Handbooks That Perspectives."" a first-hand report by :\1argarita mall to spread the Mirror the Decades": Patricia Paddock takes a Gonzalez of :'\ational/lnternational Relations. word about the unique view of "85 Years of Program Activities"; Longtime volunteer Janet Laws of Win movement; and Donna Nye, Carolyn Kennedy, and Sanely field, Kans., enlivened our mailbox with "I picfured,lzere, Ayala collaborate on "RcOections on Girl Scout Wouldn't Have Missed It for Anything." Con Brow11ie Girl Camping History." tributing editor Janet Lombardi closes with Ca Scout Troop 984 dette Girl Scouts "Earning the Girl Scout Silver Award." You may have noticed something new on our contents page, just above our cover copy GSUSA's Web site address. li you haven't al ready accessed it, you'll be surprised at what"~ there. The spring 1997 issue will bring you our \\Tap-up of the ~ational Council Session in Fort Worth. with profiles of our new officers. a re prise of the action items, and an overview of the entire proceedings. Until then, happy holidays to all! • -Carolyn Caggine Girl Scout Leader/ Winter 1996 7 • n the news Ambassador for Youth sent the concerns of youth to the commission and serve as ambassadors for voluntary serv ice in their communities. As a Laura Wolfe, a member of Ul standing committee of the com ster County Council of Girl mission, the council examines Scouts (Kingston, N.Y.), has ways young people can engage been selected to serve on the in worthwhile service. Laura Youth Advisory Council of New and her peers are charged with York State's Commission on Na identifying the major problems tional and Community Service. facing New York's youth and She is one of 14 young people developing potential solutions. More than 60 Cadette and Sen chosen from a statewide pool of In this capacity, they will be in ior Girl Scouts were on hand for 75 highly qualified community fluencing policies that have a di Appalachian Girl Scout Coun activists. rect impact on millions of young cil's first Action Team program The council members repre- people. • in Johnson City, Tenn., earlier this year. The girls learned the importance of teamwork via a sent their Senators and Repre minicourse in rock climbing at sentatives on a current national the overnight event. Navigating issue. rock-covered walls. girls and Sharon wrote about legislat leaders worked together to map Girl Scouts Sharon Spilatro ing English as the official U.S. out their courses and reach the from Middlesex, N.J .. and ?1.1isti language. Misti's concern was top. Kooyman from Las Vegas, Nev., the increasing high school The exciting course was the were in Washington, D.C., May dropout rate and its effect on first in a serie:; of three events 11 to 16 to lobby their members unemployment and crime. She to promote teamwork while of Congress as part of the 1996 proposed a law denying driver's building the Action Team. Pmi RespecTeen National Youth Fo licenses to those under 18 who II involved goal-setting and nllll. They were among 51 sev had left school. She argued that team-building through a Ropes ._.::...--.- enth and eighth grade students such a law would motivate Course challenge. In Part III, chosen to represent each state teens to stay in school and the girls faced both high and and the District of Columbia graduate. • low elements of the Camp based on position papers they Bethel Ropes Course. • skirts, zigzag seams, two-piece shirts, and pull-string gathers. The troop also visited a fabric store to learn about the wide ar Brownie Girl Scout Troop 637 ray of fabrics on the market. Incisive position earned a unique "Our Own Besides the homemade Try papers brought Council" Try-It for their It, featuring a sewing machine Sharon Spilatro achievement on the sewing ma and a spool of thread, the girls and Misti chine. It was the first Try-It of made most of the commemora Kooyman to the its kind awarded by Girl Scouts tive patches for the backs of Capitol of North Alabama in Huntsville. their uniform vests. Says their The sewing project. de proud leader, "My girls have signed by troop leader Nancy been working on sewing ma Cucci, included sewing machine chines since their first Daisy safety, and making simple wind meeting two years ago.·· • socks, lined vests, gathered 8 Girl Scout Leader/Winter 1996 Honored rrci/Jil'llts of tlrr Grey Wolf Au·ard Dora Even Start is for families seek Grayson (]996J ing hdp in literacy skills. Girl 011d Brcky Albert Scouts contacted a local Ki wanis that has literacy as its pri orit). and the organization agreed to fund the project and Workin" on fjteracy prov1de books. The result was a monthly meeting of 11 girls ages 5 through 11 from the area's Asian and Caucasian When a local ~chool district communities. all in Girl Scout 11w annual Anwncan Indian asked Land of Lakes Girl Scout ing for lhe first time. (,irl Sl'Outing/h<~~ Scouting Council (Waite Park. ~linn.) to Now in its third year, the "'l'mtnar is a \\ir 1er. ;..lost of provide child care during it.; project is Douri~hing. The girb tlw 300 participants who gath- monthly parent mt"'<'ting.; of the look forward to their monthly en·d thi~ pa... t july at Haskell In- Ewn tart Family rree project. meHin~s and they sell Girl dian :-iation ... l' ni,er":>it) in the t:oundl re-.ponded by Conn Scout cookies to develop --.el · Lawrl'nl'(', Kan ..... t. r the 39th ing a Girl '-,(:out troop. Becau-.t> ,ufficiency. • Anwril-an Indian C.rrl ~outing/ Bo~ Scouting :x:m ·nar were Girl ~out-.. Ihey came from 39 the t"'unciJ',archiw--.c 'mmittee. ..;tall',, 51 Girl Scout councils. Rai-.ed in a milit,II')· fan:.ly -.,ta· and 40 American Indian com tioned ovcr... ea". Becl-.·y v.-a:> in· munitit•-.. to -.hare ideas and suc ' 1, ~I in international Girl Cl',.,..,t•s and learn more about La'-'t ..;prinj{. 1l1e (;irl Scout Jt activitie ... in Gennany. Anwrkan Indian cultures. Coundl of Coa ... tal Carolina 1... ~an. u~.:l J .pan. Her collec 1l1b }'l ar's Girl Scout recipi (Grecn ... boro. 1\.C.) mounted a tion incluJe-. wllfom1:> from ent of tlw prl•stigious Joseph T. mu ..., ,) 0\\, "In Cdebration 1ql4through the 19SO-.. Girl Provo ... t ~ilwr l\ledallion of (,1rl 'x·c utin~: :-.temorabilia !X:out doll~ from the 19-tOs ~~v~n to the (,irl Scour and Boy on Lxhibll " On di~play was tht.• through the 1990..... and an array S<.·out \\ ho clc>monstrate exem pe~onal collt>ction of Becky of pin~. medab. and patches. plar. knowh•dg<> of their cul Byms. in Girl &:outing for over The exhibit will encore next turt>-was Chi Sawyer. 13. an 20 year-. and t·urrenlly hc>ad of year. • Ea,tern B.md Cherokee from Pi,gah Girl Scout Council (A-.h(•\'illt') in \lonh Carolina. Congratulations also go to Silt•cr .lleda/linn Dora (;rayson, a Cherokee from tl'illlzer Chi Lakt•-\\'ood Girl Scout Council. Sauyer 111 frnnt of l\Ju,kogt•t•, Okla .. \vinner of the mural at Haskell Elltm Louise l\lurphy. a Cadettc> Grl'Y \\'olf Award. given for 15 Indian 1\atinns Girl Scout from Black Diamond plus year~ of dt>dicated service Un it•ersi ty Girl Scout Council (Charlc>.;ton. o Ameril'illl Indian youth. \\'.Va ). '-t'TVt:d a.; a pa~e in the 'Jt xt yt•ar·~ --.eminar will be '-Pnnl{ ....e ...... ion of thf' \' r¢nia ho ... tt'd by thto Ea ... tem Pequot Hou ...e of Dd~att ~ Shf' fef'J, Indian ... of Ledyard. Conn .. in fortunate to have bct>n cho.;en july. Plan now to send repre- from a large. comJ)('titi\'C ....entntiw .... both adult and youth group-~.500 applicant.; for .tO (age-. 12-18), Indian or non po~ition ... -and crf'dits Girl Indian. who work to promote Scouting as tht: n~ason. What Virgi11ia Govemor George Ct1rl ~outing in American In· clot"'s ~lw want to do next? Allen co11gratulates Ellen dian c:ommunrties. Details will "Return as Head Page.'' sh<' say~. Murphy be st>nl to all Girl Scout coun "I loved every minute of it." • cib in Febmary. • Girl Scout Leader!Wi11trr 1996 9 • n the news Flon'dialts find law en[orcemer1t more complex tho 11 expected In an annual event calll d Rt·· facets of law enforcement. They spect of Law Day. ~irh. Ill Cl'lllral are shown how to dust for fin· Florida learn what it's likt to be gerprints. how police artists law enforcement officers. ll1e draw suspects, how police use program. sponsored by Cilru~ helicopters, horses. and bike pa· Council of Girl Scouts (Orlando) trois, and they learn about the and South Seminole Oplimbt juvenil e justice system. As one Club, starts with the girls ancl of· Junior Girl Seoul summed up fleers ~etting acquainted over the group's experience. "1 clidn'l breakfast. Then, t:wo girls to know there were so many types each officer. they leam about all of police jobs." • Emironmental Award face pollution. and gaw public in '-:ew York City and after· \\"mners demonstrations on the issut:". -;t,-ard:; toured Girl Seoul na· Ten Cadette Girl Scout:' \\TOte ticnal headquarters. • nt>wspaper articles on propt'r In 1995. the 1\lillbrook Service water use. and others made Unit of Dutchess County Girl posters. signs, and displays for Women in the Arts Scout Council 10 Girl Scout Leader/Winter 1996 Working 011 tltrir [)isabilit} Au·arnuss patch, thrse Brou nie Girl Scouts u:atd1 as Tim Brothtrs explains Jwu lte 11 orks ,.., I (11 ha" bt"t"n blind 'I It' 1 -.;ince birth. ... howed the 14 girl ... how he '. 1 11111 learned to read. \\Tite, and do For the second year running, When Brownie Girl Scout arithmetic using a ...}ate. stylus. Cadette Girl Scout Troop 819 in Troop 863 in Buckeye Trails abacus. and other Braille learn Girl Scouts of Middle Georgia Girl Scout Council (Dayton, ing tools. He also ..,J10wed them (Uzella. Ga.) led workshops on Ohio) was working on lhe Disa how he work~ hi" computer, American Indian culture. The bility Awareness patch, leader which is equipped with a popular workshops, held eight Lora Warwar took the girls to "Pt'ech synthe,izer so he can times a year at Ocmulgee In visit Tim Brothers. a program hear whatever apjkars on the dian Mounds Nationall\.lonu mer/analyst with the Standard monitor screen. • ment in Macon, drew 280 par Register company. T1m. who ticipants. Activities included American Indian legends, dances, and games, along with a puppet show that demon· strated daily life. (111e troop made the puppets and theater themselves.) Park ranger-. led Back in 1990. while anendin~ a tour of the Indian ~found-. and workshop at Edith Macy Con taught the girls how to make ference Ct?nter. Brownie Girl pottery. • Scout leader-. juel Fitzgerald of Girl~ ut' of Lake Erie Coun 17usr f('('nagr 11orksllop lradtrs C!! CIP\'eland) and :\'cmcy paus~ bttu cen sessitms at Schmidt )f Gre.ater Minneapolis .lfusllroom Rock to srar1 Girl ~nut Council IBrooklyn planning next yrar's ev(nf Center) became fa-.t friends. Then their troop... bec.. me pen pals. and for fin~ rear-. the girls lndu--try :Vtuseum. took a boat exchanged letters and pictures. tour of the lake, rode tour Last year after much plan buses, vh;ited Sear~ Tower and ning, Troop!-~ 282 and 1371 met ShNicl Aquarium, and shopped face-to-face in Chicago. and 'til they dropped. The girls and what a time they had! They ll'acler-; agreed it was a great spent a day at the Science and iclt'a. • Young Volunteers ba-.ketball clinics. leamin~ tradi tional Girl Scour camping --kills. and earning badges. Says council field director A group of Sacred Heart Uni Llizabeth Papcsy, ·we realized versity students bas been volun that young girls in Brid!leport teering as troop leaders in an af had \irtually nothing to do and ter-school program run by Girl nowhere to go after school. and Scouts of Housatonic Council in we wanted to providt: them "'ith Bridgeport, Conn. The two-year rt'Creational activities. 'll!e girls old program reaches out to low having college students as more than 150 girls in a dozen troop leader~. and the students inner-city schools. Their weekly are getting a lot out of the pro activities include arts and crafts, gram a~ well." • Girl SCO!If uader1Winter 1996 11 Proudly Celebrating Our 85th Anniversary ~ the 8:ith anniversary celebration just to renect "Hidden Heroines" or the sports ini around the corner. memorable stories from for tiative. mer Girl Scout~ are being sent to GSUSA from To make their celebration unique, many points far and near. Mixed among the tales of councils are offering "Hidden Heroines," a pro rainy camping trip!' are touching moments. like gram project for girls that requires them to the thrill of hiking the Alps or riding a horse identify and recognize women whose contri for the first time. butions to the community and the nation have When GSUSA launched the first phase of been overlooked and who exemplify the "Be the 85th annivt-rsary r elebration-to find the Your Best" theme. "Hidden Heroines" is also 50 million Girl Scout alumni-no one knew offered online in the Scouting Forum of Amer what to expect. Yet stories like these are driving ica Online. GSUSA and councils across the country to plan The 85th anniversary is also being used to the most memorable of celebrations. launch the sports initiative, "Sports - Girls = - A Winning Team:· on a national level. In fact. The Game Plan plans are currently underway to recruit as • spokespersons sports 1igure who exemplify During the fir::;t pha::;e of the anniversary the anniversary's theme. - celebration. which began on June 4 with an an As a final touch. GSt:SA's ~ational Equip nouncement of the national alunmi search and ment Service has designed a number of items will conclude next spring. GSUSA and councils to support anniversary activities, including a will use conventional media and the newer tech Hidden Heroines patch for girls and an 85th nology. such as the World Wide \Yeb and on reunion lapel pin for adults. In addition, a spe line services. lo encourage alumni to reconnect cial anniversary poster highlighting the reunion with the movement and become advocates for theme was designed pro bono for Girl Scouts today's children. GSlJSA is also using this time by African-American artist Synthia Saint James. to highlight council projects. During the second phase. GSlJSA will sa Lasting Impressions lute prominent alumni in a Girl Scout reunion on March 12 at its New York City headquarters. From a public relations perspective, the Girl Scout councils will host similar events in 85th anniversary celebration is an ideal oppor or around that date. The reunions will provide tunity to generate positive public attention for an opportunity for current and fanner Girl Girl Scouting. More important, perhaps, the Scouts to meet and interact. as well as a \'vay for celebration is motivating former and new Girl alumni to discover how they can use their tal Scouts to use their skills and abilities to help ents to support our nation's children. future Girl Scouts. • -Judy Welage Special Projects and Specialty Items Though ''Be Your Best" is the general theme of the 85th anniversary celebration, some councils have developed spin-off themes 12 Girf Sro111 Leader/ Winter 1996 Make It a Troop Celebration L. vision of 85 candles on a cake, and ner other language. Girls can incorporate what they vous troop leaders paging through Safety-Wise, have learned in a troop or council celebration. sparked us to think of other ways that troops • Develop a trivia game on Girl Scouting might celebrate Girl Scouting's 85th annjver and invite another troop to play it sary. • Find a way to have the troop gain access Next March may seem a long way off, but to the Internet. Set up an 85-day countdown to we all know that dates have a way of sneaking the anniversary so the troop can talk with other up on us. So taking our cue from the Olympics, Girl Scouts about what they are doing in Girl "let the planning begin." A great way to start is Scouting and how it has helped them. to use the old troop brainstorming technique. • Select an organization or worthy com Here are some ideas to help get you started: munity project. Have the troop donate 85 hours • Recruit a local garden center to help to that project or organization. sponsor a "Girl Scout Anniversary Community • Celebrate 'The 85th Anniversary of Girl Beautification'' project Plant 85 plants or flow Scouting" at a mall. Provide refreshments, set ers in a community garden or at a historical up a display, design a wide game. or put on a monument. If the girls feel really creative. they play about Girl Scouting. Use it as a girl and can sculpture the planting. to <;ymbolize Girl adult recruitment tool. Scouting. • Have the troop read the story of]uliette • Have the troop design a montage or Low. To commemorate her contribution, make quilt depicting the history of Girl Scouting over daisy corsages or boutonnieres. Encourage 85 years. Di play it in the community or school girls to give them to a parent, guardian, or other library. council office. or municipal building. important person in their lives. and explain the • Contact local merchant to see if they significance of the use of daisies. would agree to display an anniversary poster • Organize an all-troop parade in your during Girl Scout Week. Have girls design the community or neighborhood for Girl Scout posters, and include the council name and Week, or participate in an already scheduled number. parade. Demonstrate Girl Scout contributions • Plan an ice cream social for Girl Scout to the community. Design and create an 85th Week. Invite people in the community who anniversary banner for display. were Girl Scouts, and ask some to record an The best way to honor the legacy of ]u· oral history of their Girl Scout experience. Use liette Low is to make sure that celebrations re the oral histories at a council event flect the Girl Scout program goals of helping • Find the people ill a local nursing home girls build self-esteem, develop positive rela who are celebrating their 85th birthdays during tionships, learn values, and contribute to the 1997. Plan a joint celebration and invite all the community. residents. If girls still think the celebration isn't com • Plan a food drive celebrating "Girl plete without that cake, just test the sprinkler Scouts- 85 Years of Community Service." and system, get out the fire extinguisher, and light prepare 85 food baskets for a local food pantry. those 85 candles. Happy 85th anniversruy, Girl • Teach a troop or group to say the Girl Scouting! • Scout Promise, count to eighty-five, and say -Rita Niemeyer "Happy 85th anniversruy, Girl Scouts" in an- Girl Scout Leader/Winter 1996 13 Handbooks That Mirror the Decades Beginning with How Girls Can Help Their Country, handbooks have always been the ma jor vehicle for propelling the Girl Scout pro During the war years, as people emigrated gram. Throughout the eigh.t decades of the to urban areas for jobs, life for girls changed movement. handbooks have helped girls to de also. The 1945 handbook, Senior Girl Scouting, velop new skills and interests and meet the was an expanded revision of the booklet Senior challenges of their coming of age. Girl Scouting in Warlime. Here the focus shifts When Juliette Low made plans for an or from a predominately outdoor Girl Scout ex ganization that would change the lives of Amer perience to a more cosmopolitan milieu. There ican girls. she must have struggled with a vision are suggested visits to museums, public gar of Girl Scouting that was more global and inclu dens, and zoos. Camping is still important, but sive than our country was prepared for in 1912. has become a more social experience. The However. despite the climate of her time, Ju book also contains social scenes involving boys liette Low used the first Girl Scout handbook to and dating, and illustrations have become challenge the limited definitions under which multicultural. girls lived. She encouraged them to learn new Also in the 1940s and 1950s, two special skills and become active participants in our de interest handbooks were published to accom mocracy. Citizenship, patriotism, and serving modate girls who were interested in boating one's country were important priorities. and in aviation: The Mari11er Scout Manual and In How Girls Can Help 17zeir Country, Ju Wing Scout Manual. liette Low stated that "in time of peace [one should] prepare for war," so girls learned sem Worlds to Explore aphore signaling, Morse code, how to tell time by the stars, rescue runaway horses, care for The Girl Scout program was revitalized in the sick, and "secure a burglar with eight 1977 with the publication of Worlds to Explore: inches of cord." There was information about Handbook for Brownie and junior Girl Scouts. how to take care of their homes. and girls were Activities were arranged into five worlds of in also introduced to such accomplished women terest: Girl Scouting, Well-Being, People, Today as Garrett Anderson, "a very clever lady doc and Tomorrow, Arts. and Out-of-Doors. tor," who went to France to get her doctor's The handbooks ofthe 1990s reflect our di degree, but returned to start the Hospital for verse American society. They provide infor Women staffed by women. mation on a wide span of contemporary topics, The early handbooks praised the pioneer from self-esteem and cultural identity to com spirit with references to the skills and coura puter literacy and time management. These geous abilities of the American Indians in mas handbooks address the needs of girls coming tering their environment. These books in of age in today's complex society with infor structed girls on such skills as building fires, mation about careers. health and fitness, AIDS, reading trail signs, smoke signals, and animal and communication. Although the topics differ, tracks. these contemporary handbooks. like their pre decessors, help girls learn about themselves and others, and expand their world to new dimensions. • GSUSA ARCHIVES -Toni Eubanks 14 Girl Scout Leader/Winter 1996 .. Ml<11g apple cider 'lleans gett ng to have some, too " Prac; c ng erne-gency r rs: a1d requ res concentra~on Years of J>rqgralll ActiVIties From the beginning, Girl Scouting has been in step with or ahead of its time. ® In an age when women of her social class were expected to define themselves by what they wore, Juliette Gordon Low was helping girls define themselves by their interests and abilities. ® As early as 1913, in an effort to ensure the contemporary appeal of Girl Scouting, she even asked girls to consider careers as pilots, stockbrokers, accountants, and architects- cutting-edge fields at the time! Girl Scouc Leader/Falll996 15 When did it happen? With the girls in your troop or group, look over the following list of Girl Scout program activities and initiatives from the first 85 years of Girl Scouting, and see if you can place the year for each event. (HINT: We were founded by a woman with a vision of the future.) ® You might even want to make a game out of the quiz that can be used to celebrate Girl Scouting's anniversary, as an introduction to Girl Scout history, or even as a scavenger hunt. @ Answers and explanations follow the quiz, as do other suggestions for exploring Girl Scout history with your troop or group. 4. Individual girls can register as Girl Scours and participate in all program acciviries. A. 1920s B. 1940s c. 1970s D. 1980s 5. Girl Scour uoops called Mariners are first formed. They met on 12 different ships located throughout rhe country. A. 1910s B. 1930s c. 1960s D. 1980s 6. uOur Troop's A. 1930s B. 1950s c 1970s D. 1990s 7. Interest groups ror Senior Girl Scours get a push from national headquarters, and Senior Girl Scour enro ll ment more than doubles nationwide ... in only ... Horses and g rls are a seven months! great m·x. even '~ the ran A. 1930s B. 1950s c. 1970s D. 1990s 1. Girl Scouts are encouraged to prepare for a career... 8. Senior Girl Scouts can earn the new Occupational " ... and try ro learn something of a second trade in case Therapist Aide recognition, refleaing a nationwide the first one fails you ... as so very oft: en happens." interest in health care. A. 1910s B 1920s C. 1970s D. l980s A. 1930s B. 1940s C. 1970s D 1990s 2. Homemaking badge focuses on designing the 9. First Aid was rhe most popular Junior Girl Scour badge mucturallayour of rhe house, as well as irs interior during the , with almost 900,000 girls design. earning it. A. 1920s B. 1940s c. 1960s D. 1980s I A. 1920s B. 1940s C. 1960s D. 1990s 3. Girl Scours ger together for the fusr rime for hands-on 10. ln order ro address rhe needs of''tag-along" little sisters lessons in basketball. or older Girl Scours, a new age level is introduced in ... Girl Scouting. A. 1910s B. 1930s c. 1960s D. 1970s A. 1910s B. 1930s c. 1950s D. 1970s Girl Scout Leader/Fall 1996 . ~ .. ~- mr- ·- ·- ~ ~ .- ~ ·~ ~ ~ k ~fi: IHl i\\1 .__ ...... - '- ..._ ...... __ ...... ·- ' - '--- Activities 11. "Homcrr ·~ng" badge j, rhe mo~r popular badge ior 0 ~1any acrimic.-) mentioned in rhe quiz were done in (,lrll.,cmm tor thi~ dcc.1de and the rwo rhar klllow it. re pon'c ro world and local cYents at the rime. Maybe the: girl~ in your troop/group are curious about a A. 19.W' B.1940s c . 1961h D. l980s p.micular era. Invite a librarian, newspaper archivist, or 12. I he ( .1rl ')cours launch the first nacionwide cook1e ,aJe. hi torian ro help rhem find our more about the ociological e\'ent) ,md mores of rhat decade. A. 19.!0\ B. 1930~ C. 19-iO, D.l950s 0 ll.tve girls prcdic.r wh.u daily life might be like in rhe 13. In order ro serve girls w1rh di~abiliries, The Girl Smut yc.\r 20 I 0. Or, wh.u major events (in science, politics, H11ndbook is rramcrib~:d inro Braille 14. Our CJb,1na open' in Cucrn.l\'aca. ~texico. 0 Girls can record or.tl histories of women in their community who \\ere invoked in Girl Scouring during different eras. 15 lne Troop Camper h•dge \\'a) rhc mo~r popular dunng rh~c rwo decades, \\1th u\er 5,000.000 prJ, cammg u. 0 Help )OUr Iocal ..ouncil celebrate rhe 85th anni,·ersa.ry A. 1910 -192(), C. 1960.,_19-0s of Girl S~.:ouring. Girh could take some evenrs B. 19 t0,-1 910~ D 1~so~-199o, mentioned above and create murals, posters, comics, picture books, .ll1d ads for Girl Scouting throughout 16. The lnrernauonal fncntt htp mreres; parch could first be the )Car,. Or rht)' could create a video or drama to tell earned b) emor Gul rouu m: orhm abour rhe rich history of Girl Scouring. 0 U'ing chi~ as a model, have girls create a similar game 17. Wider opportunirie' with nationwide parncipation have for young.~r girls m play at a counci lwide celebration. Ir be~n offered through G\Lf"'A ~incc: could he part of .t wide game or serve a$ a culminating A. 19tO, B. l950s c . 1960~ o.I9-o, event '~ ith ream~ playing by age b-el. 18. Girl' ~ould firsr earn rhc E.lccrrician badge in: <11 ;. p - ' ~ tne park ends happt wth ~ ~ory A. 1910s B. 1930s c . t95o~ D. 19-o~ ts c' 19. Tl)-llS were inrroJu~ed for BrtJ\\nie Girl cours ro earn in: B. 19)1h D. 1980, 20. (.,\L liA I eadmhip ln\titute' \\trt fu,r oflerc:J w Senior Girl l.,coUt\ in: A 1%0s B.1970s C. 191l(h D. 1990s 1. A. Juhcttc l~ordon Low uid dus 1n the nm 5 n :t.ccordin5 ro TJx Gm 5alur C#I!Htms 12. B. In '"5 YMrrcj Gtrl !Xt!rmng. u\ noted "h.mdbook fOr prb and ka 2. A. From ~ounngfor G,r/J published in 19~0. acrincies became more mdl\1du.thud. handbooks are soli rran~nbed into Braille, I he h~d~;c mduJn aspects ot archircaural as wdl as large print books and audiotape. dt"ign. ht.lhh K\UCS, e"'uonmcntal 7. A. l939.roheexact: <..i~L\:\ re.:ul.rrl} .\!any resources ha'T alw been tran,Jared awarcncs\, wne and monon >tUd}. and n·.Uu.tro. exi'lin~t Grrl Scout p "';r.t"' imo a vanety o!dttli:n:nt J;tnb'l"'!;e\ at the •ntefi 4 A. In !i K ve read plenty about her and her antic~. .\.lory Stunrl Gordon You know how much energy and enthu~iasm Platt, grandniece of she possessed, and the passion she exhibited juliette LlJw over Girl Scouting. Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts, was indeed one of a TIM RHOAD kind. Do you ever wonder what it would have been like to sit down and have a conver~ation A: I think sht regretted that very much. and with "Daisy" Low? Well. it was our good fonune I think that -.he tried to have children. but my to have an opportunity to speak at length '~ith understanding was that she was ... injured in ~1ary Stuart Gordon Platt. juliette Low\ X9- a fall from a horse and couldn't have children. year-old niece. Her mother was married to And I think one reason that she was so inter George Arthur Gordon, the youngest of Ju ested in Girl Scouting was because she never liette's brothers and si ters. had children of her own. Young people always Spunky and per onable. \.. ;th a wry sense loved her 'he just drew them. like flies to of humor that ju:.t may be a Gordon family trait. honey. ~terry Stuart is an acti\'C great-grandmother who was eager t -.hare her memorie" of her Q: How did your father feel about her mar -.p1rited aunt The inteniew took place at the riage to Willy Low? h'-.l~tnc juliette G .rdon Low Girl Scout Na tional Center in Sa,·annah. Ga. Here are some A: None of the family approved of the mar excerpts. riage fhey all discouraged it. Q: juliette Low did a lot to promote Girl Q: Why? Scoub, yes? A: \Yell. he ... had no work to do, he was A: Oh, that's right. Even before they became ju .... t kind of a frivolou.., person who loved to recognized. She would collar people and talk hunt and shoot and didn't really have any seri their ears off and also involve them in helping. ou~ pursuits. And they didn't think he was I think that's a well-known fact. that she would ..,uitable for Daisy. not take no for an answer. [Mary Stuart de~cribed how the gregari ou .... Juliette enjoyed parties. and often did a lit Q: Did your family lake ..,eriously the con tle fortune-telling by reading palms. Dais) abo cept of the Girl Scouts? did a little matchmaking, setting up ont of her niece's friends ~ith a ..,uitable date for a fa..,h A: In the early days, the family took Daisy's ionable part}.] idea of Girl Scouting very lightly. because o.;he threw herself into a lot of things that didn't Q: Did she like to dance very much? materialize. But she was very impulsive, as we know. and so they even spoke of Daisy·~ A: \\'ell. she wa~ quite active, because every Scout as 'the Girl Scoots.' birthday we'd gather for lunch at her house. and ~he didn't dance. but after lunch. "he'd Q: Did Juliette ever talk about not having gather her skirt" together and stand on her children and how she felt about not having head~ • them? -Marianne Ilaw Ctrl Scout Le,ader/ Wi11ter 1996 19 Reflections on Girl Scout Camping History f.lierte Ulw, the lou nder of Girl Scouting, was buildings, girls were placed in units spread a woman ahead of her time. In 1912, as part of about the camp. Today Girl Scout camps con her idea to create a Girl Scout organization, she tinue to be organized by units or troops. took a group of girls on a five-day camping trip along the Savannah River. The girls slept out at Camp Edith Macy night without shelters. They spent 11 cents a day for food. Camping attire consisted of blue Training of staff and volunteers was rec cotton duck middies, bloomers, and a broad ognized as a high priority for the Girl Scout or brimmed head covering called a "campaign ganization. To renect that need. a GSUSA na hat." Juliette Low and her Girl Scout troop were tional training center in Briarcliff. N.Y., opened our first campers. Since those early days, Girl in 1926. Camp directors and staff lived in tent Scouts have camped. hiked, backpacked, pad units at Camp Edith Macy while receiving train dled, and horsepacked at organized camp sites ing in "Tramping and Trailing" or operation of and backcountry locations in the United States a camp facility. Part of that Macy experience and around the world. was living. eating, and learning in an outdoor Membership in Girl Scouting grew rapidly environment. and by 1918, 32,000 girls had joined the organi In 1936. a two-year general counselor zation. In response to the increased interest in course was designed for Senior Girl Scouts. By camping, Juliette Low founded a camp near the 1938, Girl Scout councils offered camping pro summit of Lookout Mountain in Georgia. Camp grams for older. more experienced girls. Over Juliette Low was a troop camping site; within Hill and Dale and Far Away informed girls of three years it became a resident camp for girls the various opportunities. from the South. In 1940, Safety-Wise-Health and Safety Suggestions for Girl Scout Leaders was written. Camping Becomes More Popular Since that initial publication, Safety-Wise has been updated many times to reflect the best In 1923, the newly formed GSUSA Camp possible safety practices for girls and adults. Department made recommendations for camp In 1954, the Camping Caravan, a traveling ing standards regarding swimming, food han team, was sent by GSliSA lo deliver supportfor dling and preparation, drinking water, and outdoor training to councils. By 1956, the car trash disposal. In 1927, the minimum standards avan staff had delivered 100,000 hours of train for operating camps became more comprehen ing to over 13,000 girls and adults in almost sive. One early standard stated that girls should every state. have a "balanced schedule to provide activities, The Camping Caravan was instrumental in rest, three balanced meals, early rising and re training Senior Girl Scouts who attended the tiring, and constructive leisure." first Girl Scout Roundup in Michigan in 1956. In the beginning of organized camping. The Roundup concept was so popular that girls slept in facilities similar to anny barracks Roundups were held in Colorado. 1959: Ver and conducted program activities in large mont, 1962; and Idaho, 1965. In Colorado groups. In the 1920s, camping was delivered in Springs, 8.500 Girl Scouts and Girl Guides and smaller groups; this was decentralized or unit 1,500 volunteers and staff lived in a tent city. camping. Rather than living in long rows of The U.S. Army provided logistical support by 20 Girl Scout Leader/ Winter 1996 3 4 5 con .... uucting road:-, water systems. and sewage events in countries such as Finland, England. di ... pv::oal facilities. Girls made friends, sang, at and Sweden. t~nded workshops, cooked on charcoal, and ex changed swaps. Collaborations With Other GSUSA sponsored All-States Encamp Agencies ments from 1951 to 1969. These camping ses ~ion were focused on ways to improve Girl During the 1990·. GSUSA's efforts in the Scout program in camp settings. One session outdoors have been lrengthened by develop experimented with the weight a girl could carry ing collaborations. The :-.:ational Outdoor Lead backpacking. Another looked at careers in out ership School in Lander, Wyo., provides schol door education. arships and training for adults wishing to From the GSUSA As another way of meeting the needs of receive their Master Trainer certification in Archives: girls, GSUSA operated Girl Scout National Cen minimal impact camping techniques. Federal 1 Camp Lowlands ter West in Ten Sleep, Wyo., from 1969 to 1989. natural resource agencies have provided staff i11 Savannah Thousands of girl took part in backpacking. and financial support for wider opportunities 2 Row1dup time horseback riding, hiking with llamas. art. mu and adult training events with an outdoor focus. 3 First established sic, photography. and wildlife studies. Girl Scouts also work closely with the camp, 1913, American Camping Association. ACA accredits Savannah Camping in the 1990s camp and offers national and regional training 4 Traini11g at for camping professionals and volunteers. Camp Edith Macy Today, Girl couts pack high-tech, light 5 1950s Camping weight gear for camping trips and check gro New Outdoor Resource Caraua11; left, Kit cery lists for food that come· in recyclable pack Hammett and aging. Girl Scout camps strive to provide In summer 1996. GSUSA released the new (right) Birte increasingly challenging activities. Many girls edition of Outdoor Education in Girl Scouting. Guld11Ul11 take part in rock climbing, white-water rafting Written for leaders of all age levels. this book and canoeing, wind surfing, kayaking, and provides infonnation on environmental explo high- and low-element ropes courses. Camps ration, orienteering, equipment selection. min also offer programs in computers, photogra imal impact camping, and preparing girls for phy, ecological studies, aeronautics, and ma overnights and lengthy camping trips. rine biology. Although camping equipment, training Many Girl Scout councils offer troop camp techniques, and methods for living in the out ing throughout the year. Some have a core staff doors have changed dramatically through the to help troops or family campers with outdoor years, some things never change. Girl Scouts skills. GSUSA's Trekking Network provides in still giggle in their sleeping bags at night and formation for traveling troops that wish to stay marvel at the night sky. They hike, learn lo at Girl Scout facilities during extended trips. swim, and still think camping is their favorite Girl Scout councils offer wider opportuni part of Girl Scouting. • ties for older girls. Some events focus on horse -Donna L. Nye, Carolyn L. Kennedy, packing, backpacking. sailing, and outdoor ca and Sandy Ayala reers. Girl Scouts at international wider opportunities use their camping skills during Girl Seoul Leoder/lViltter 1996 2 1 Spea~ing oj Girl Scouting. • • ' S ince the early 1960s, the practice of re Girl Scouting gave me the opportunity to meet cording fir thand impressions of past events people from all over the world, so has it given l has been gaining popularity with historians. them the chance to know me as a window into Oral histories can fill in gaps that are not doc a culture that is centuries old yet as modern as umented by written records and can bring past today." events to life in a vivid fashion. Just think of the millions of people-as Carrying on a Tradition girls or as women and men- who have been part of Girl Scout hi~tory. Oral histories con Carol Wong became a member of a Girl ducted by and for the organization from 1969 Scout troop at the True Light Lutheran Church to the present, reveal inspiring, sometimes in New York City's Chinatown in the 1950s, poignant, stories of the importance of Girl even though Girl Scouting was not a tradition Scouting in the lives of many people. in her family. Later, as an adult, she ultimately became a leader of the True Light troop and Valuing One's Culture has continued in this role for the past 30 years, while at the same time serving as secretary for Jean Havens. staff member with Girl the church. She greatly values her participation Scouts of Westchester"Putnam (Pleasantville, in Girl Scouting, including service as a National N.Y.). grew up on the Cattaraugus Indian Res Council delegate from the Girl Scout Council of ervation in western New York. In 1958, she Greater New \ork. Carol Wong feels that the joined Intermediate Troop 95-1 in Gowanda, greatest benefit to her has been "to be able to N.Y., when American Indian students were in be a leader and encourage others to join." tegrated into the area's school districts. She Troops have met continually at the church after learned "a lot of the underlying traditions of Girl chool on Friday nights, as that is most conven Scouting. like sharing the work and living up to ient for the girls and their parents. Girl Scouting the statement incorporated in the Law''-"A provides the opportunity to socialize for both Girl Scout's honor is to be trusted" became the girls and parents. It also, as noted in a church ultimate declaration of honesty for her troop. history, ·'encourages people to reach out and to Jean described being selected as one of 88 become useful persons, willing, able, and car Senior Girl Scouts to represent the Girl Scouts ing to serve." of Buffalo and Erie County at the 1965 Senior Roundup in Idaho. Part of her patrol's partici Becoming Involved pation involved translating the song '"It's a Small World" into another language. Her patrol Mrs. Arthemise Lacour, an early Girl Scout selected the Seneca Nation of Indians, and her leader in Baton Rouge. La., and later camp di mother helped her to translate the song. the rector and Audubon Girl Scout Council board words of which she can still recite today. ln member, talks of living in a community where summary, Jean notes: "As a result of this, and ladies were not expected to work and in a Jim other opportunities throughout my years in Girl Crow society that offered few job opportunities Scouting, such as serving on GSUSA's Ameri for African-American women. She never can Indian Task Group, T've learned to value my worked outside of her home, but used her ed 'Indian-ness' and be proud of my culture. As ucation (Bachelor of Arts degree from the his- 22 Girl Scbul uader/ Winter 1996 "Shattering Stereotypes" Elisa Sancht>z. president of 7\ 1.Al'\A, .'Ja tional Latina Organization. grew up in the 1940s and 19:10~ in what ~he terms a "half-a-bun·o" town in New Mexico. It was ten miles away torically Black Xavier College in New Orleans from the county scat. where everything hap and a Master of Arts degree from Catholic Uni pened. including Girl Scouting. which was seen versity in Washington, D.C.) and the resources by the Mexican American community as ·'just of her upper-middle-class commtmity to help for \\'hite girls." She didn't really come in con develop girls through Girl Scouting. tact with Girl Scouting until ~he was working t'o:oting that all of "her girls" came from for the San OiLgo Department of Transborder "fine" families. she feels that Girl Scouting of Affairs and active with the San Diego ~1&\A fered them the opportunity for further devel chapter. A-s co.Jrdinator of a \1exican American opment. At each meeting. her troop recited and Women's A-:,:-;ociation project railed "Hermani discussed the meaning of the Girl Scout Law. tas." a nwntoring pros.,rram that partnered The) focused upon ".\ Girl Scout is a friend to young girl' at risk with adults k r learning team all and a "is!t•r to all GJrl"c· ,tr<;." \lr5 Lacour skills. Elisa considered using Girl Scouts as a was committed to thl L \ .. 1)pill ~nt and pro partner She and Girl Scouts had discovered motion of her tic:ht-knit communit). and each other. and she wa~ soon asked to be on throuc:h Girl !SCouting helned to imbue her girb San Diego Imperial's board of directors. One with thi~ value ~{ost of her gTaduates attended thm~ that most impres~ed her wa~ the organi colkgc and today all of them "are interested. zatic.n 's "real rommilment to training." F:lisa Elisa Sanchez concerned. and involved in their communities." abo felt that she contributed to "shattering some ~tereotypcs": ··r think there (is) a feeling Developing Talents U1at Latinas tend to be thl:'o.;e quiet, little people who arc hesitant about talking. I'm very direct; Artist June Baranco Gumbel. a Baton I'm very opt>n. I was very active. 1 made sure, Rouge native. wa~ a Girl Scout in the troop that for example. that I was at all the meetings and Arthcmise Lacour led. She observed that out that any commitments I took. I accomplished." side of her family. "the Girl Scouts was the first group that I joined that was so well-organized "When I Was a Girl Scout" and that promoted the camaraderie and spirit of caring that was so endemic to the African Each of u~ who has experienced Girl American culture" to which she belonged. june Scouting has a story to tell. A::. our 85th anni further noted that her "all-Black troop helped versar)' draws near. many more stories about to boost the girls' self-e:;teem and provided a the meaning of Girl Scouting in the lives of girls fonun in whirh each girl could develop and dis and women art> surt> to be heard. Sharing those play her individual talents in a noncompetitive stories with others-\\ ho ma~ or may not know environment. In Girl Scouts we were taught to of Girl Scouting's long history of serving girls appreciate our differences and to pursue excel is a most effective way of promoting the move lence." ment and all that we stand for. • -Mary Levey and Or. Lillian S. Williams Girl Scout Leader/Winter 1996 23 Update on Pluralism Think Tanks 119H3. a model for conducting think tanks The success of think tanks can be attrib was developed to help councils examine the uted to two factors. First, the proce s is fairly quality of their strategic and tactical plans for easy to implement and uses resources most institutionalizing pluralism throughout Girl councils already have at hand. Second. the par Scouting. ticipants who take part in the think tank are A pluralism think tank is a process by able to enthusiastically articulate and increase which a council can assess perceptions of the their support of the council's efforts. And, of community. volunteer.,;, and staff; review coun course, the resulting recommendations enable cil operations and related systems: and plan council boards to play a leadership role around methodologies to institutionalize pluralism. It pluralism issues in their communities. brings together a wide variety of constituents To date. more than 30 councils have begun with opinions, visions, and feedback regarding the think tank process. Several are now more the counciJ's pluralism status. than two year~ into the post-think tank process TI1e model is a two-phase process: and are developing their strategies for the next I. ll1ink tank participants interview and planning cycle. collect information to as~es.., council and com munity members' views rt"garding Girl Scout Encouraging Results ing. 2. 'l11ink tank participants come together Recently, eight Chicago-area Girl Scout in a conference to process the information and councils completed individual think tanks. create recommendations for in..,titutionalizing They were so heartened by the results that they plurali:-.m to give to the councir... board of di then came together at a pluralism summit work rector~. session to develop joint initiatives for the re gion. They are preparing to seek joint funding Playing a Leadership Role to implement these initiatives in the near future. They have also contracted with GSUSA to bring Councils at the initial stage of institution the Institutionalizing Pluralism cour·e (usually alizing pluralism find the process useful as a offered at Edith Macy Conference Center) to pro-acthc starting point. Councils facing more the Chicago area to help them further their advanced challenges use it both to assess the plans of work. quality of efforts thus far and to revise their plu To request additional infonnation about ralism initiatives and plans. if necessary. Re the process, or to initiate a think lank in your gardless of where your council is on the ·'Or council, contact the executive director of your ganizational Continuum for Institutionalizing Girl Scout council. • Pluralism:· developing and hosting a council's -Sheryl Schulte O\\lt think tank will bring significant benefib to the entire counciL 24 G1rl Scout Leader/ R'i11ter 1996 The Place of Religion in Girl Scouting M ny Americans today are reaffirming their spiritual beliefs. A recent Gallup poll showed that four out of ten adults surveyed say Brownie Girl they attend worship services in any given week. Scout Troop 630 A U.S. News and World Report survey claims (Girl Scout that 95 percent of Americans say they believe Couneil of Orange in God or a universal spirit. Charitable giving to OAVIO RUOAWITZ County, Costa religious institutions in this country totals more Mesa, Calif.) was than S38 billion annually, according to the same it on her uniform, either on her badge sash be honored with the source. low the membership stars or on the right side Bishop's Award of Girl Scouts of the U.SA was founded in of ht'r uniform. level with her membership pin. Excellence by the 1912 as a nonsectarian organization. open to all Califomia Pacific girl who make the Girl Scout Promise and ac Choosing a Recognition Program Annual Conference cept the Girl Scout Law. While we do not en ofthe United dorse one religion or philosophy over another. A good resource to consult on behalf of J1ethodist Church we recognize and respect the deep commit ~rirbi or families inquiring about working on re In Cincinllati, ment to faith by members of our mo,•ement. ligious recognitions is Religious Recognitions/or Ohio, members of Our close ties with many religious organiza Girls and Adults in Girl Scouting. This booklet junior Girl Scout tions have led to support of the Girl Scout pro informs our membership about most of the re Troop 2780 gram by a large number of institutions. ligious recognitions that are available nation Gnat Rhers Girl As of June 1996. 12.8 percent of all Girl wide. It is available from your local Girl Scout Sc ut Council) Scout troops were ponsored by a religious council or by contacting National/International rccored their God group and 20 percent of all Girl Scout troops l~t-lations. GSUSA. 420 Fifth Avenue, New and Church pins held meetings in facilities of religious institu York. \.Y. 10018-2798. We know that there aJ·e at a Westwood tions (the second most popular meeting sire abo many religious recognition programs not First Presbyterian after schools). nationally available that haYe been developed Church program by individual religious groups for local use. About Religious Recognitions Check Y.ith your local clergy for information on such programs in your area. Currently, 17 religious groups award spe cial religious recognitions for Girl Scouts who Recognizing Adults have fulfilled specific requirements to demon strate devotion to their creed. Several other In addition to recognitions for girls. several groups are now working on the development of religious organizations offer religious recogni recognitions. TI1e religious group is responsi tions for adults. too. Currently, there are ten ble for determining a girl's spiritual develop different recognitions for adults who have given ment and for developing and administering any distinguished service by working \vith young recognitions. Thus. the Girl Scout organization people and religion through Girl Scouting. does not grant permission to use the Girl Scout These are excellent ways ro acknowledge the insignia and name on a religious recognition hard work that the clergy and/or lay people do provided by a religious group. If the group for our young members. • wishes to provide a pin. the recipient may wear - Robyn Payne Girl Scout Leqder/Winter 1996 25 Juliette Gordon Low was age 52, widowed, ~d hearing impai.-ed when she formed the first troop of 18 girls in 1912. ~ I Three hundred twenty-one• Girl Scout • councils in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are chartered by GSUSA and provide direct services to girls in their: jurisdictions. The first Girl Scout• cookies were Girl Scouts report higher academic baked by the girls themselves and achievement than a national sample of sold locally from "the early 1920s until Wt-Is comparable age levels. at 1936, when the cookie sale became a nationwide event. ? • • The Girl Scout movement is open to Fun and friendship are the two key Volunteers comprise more than 99 girls age 5 through 17 who make the reasons Wt-ls stay in Girl Scouting. percent of the total Girl Scout adult Girl Scout Promise and accept the membership. Girl Scout Law. z ~ • • Girl Scouting is nonsectarian,• founded The motivating force in Girl Scouting April22, 1982, was the first annual on American democratic principles, is a spiritual one. Girl Scout Leader's Day. one of which is freedom of religion. ? ~ Campus Girl Scouts• were officially The first official Girl• Scout calendar The Juliette Gordon• Low Birthplace recognized in 1968. was dated 1944. was dedicated as a national program center for Girl Scouts in October 1956. ? ~ More than 2.5 •million girls partici- Girl Scouting's highest• recognition- pate in Girl Scouting in troops or the Girl Scout Gold Award-was intro· groups, or as individuals. duced in 1980. -Judy Welage u/ Wouldn't Have Missed It for Anything" I was certainly one of the most reluctant peo Every one of us has learned that we can do ple the Girl Scouts have ever recruited. ~ty wonderful things \\ith the support of others daughter wanted to be a Brownie; I did not and we have only to ask and we have that sup want to be a Brownie leader. They came. in port. Sometimes we don't even have to ask. their green uniforms, and asked me to lead the The community sees Girl Scouts meeting From the Brownie troop. in churches. planting trees, selling cookies, go When they returned the third time and ing to camp, and having a carnival to raise Mailbag said they had twenty little girls who wanted to money to fix up our cabin. I see women and be Brownies and they really could not find a girls working together and playing together leader, I finally agreed to do it for a year. and having a good time learning to live with It wasn't easy. Sometimes I came home each other. I see aU the work and worry that go from those weekly meeting and cried. But fi on behind the scenes to make all the things that nally it began to fall into place, and one day I are happening possible. was telling the little girls to wear their uniforms It takes a Jot of doing for a leader to keep to the meetings and 1 realized that I didn't even a Girl Scout troop functioning. It also takes a have a uniform. The next day I made a special support group of adults who are not working trip to the nearby big city and bought a uniform. direct!} with girls, but I don't know of any vol That was the day I really joined the Girl Scouts. unteer work that returns such rewards. \\'hen I bought that uniform. [ committed my- Girl Scouting is made up of many memo elf. ries. both good and bad: experiences have been Once I went to our Camp Four Winds with both hard and easy. But through it all, I see four other leader~. women I have known and growth-growth in capabilities. in knowledge, worked \'ith for many year=> and some for only in friendship. When I took the Girl Scout Prom a few years. Dogtooth violets were blooming in ise those many years ago. I promised to try to the prairie. A red-tailed hawk soared up from serve God, my country, ru1d mankind-to do its nest in a tall cottonwood tree. and we my best It has led to one of the best experi glimpsed four or five deer running over the hill ences of my life. top. We saw a wild turkey. We ate our peanut :-.'ow it is 33 years since those green butter sandwiches, and we laughed and en uniformed women rang my bell. and those "five joyed the warm friendships that had developed million things" that I have done for the Girl over the years of working together in the serv Scouts have even included four years as presi ice of the Girl Scouts. dent of the Four Winds council (now merged This warm companionship among adult 'vith the ·wichita Area council). My daughter members of this organization is something I Becky is now back with the Girl Scouts doing hold dear. We have shared cold tents, rain outdoor skills training and has just finished di diluted cocoa, and hot days with hundreds of recting a Junior Camporee with her daughter. girls and women. We have learned to tie knots Kristi Gulick. who was earning her Silver and bind up wounds and love little girls who are Award. Three other granddaughters are Girl sometimes hard to love. We have seen each Scouts. I still help at camps and in other ways other rise to whatever the occasion demands where I am needed. I wouldn't have missed it awardee ja11et and we have sometimes seen failures and for anything! • lAws helped pick up the pieces. -Janet 0. Laws Girl Scout Lepder/ lVinter 1996 27 New Perspectives-29th llbrld Conference L. small town of Wolfville in :'Xova Scotia, Canada, gave a warm welcome to Girl Guides and Girl Scout~ from more than 121 countries July 16-23. 1996. Participants also included rep resentatives from national organizations work ing toward membership in WAGGGS, such as Russia, Ukraine. Lithuania, Georgia, and Guinea. GSUSA's nine-member delegation con- sisted of National President B. La.Rae Orullian, International Commi ·~ioner Fidelia A Moreno, :'\ational Treasurer !\1ary Lynn Myers, ~ational Secretary Connie :..Iabw. ~ational Board mem bers Marianne Alexander. Ellen Brooks, and Lois E. Bell, National Executive Director Mary Multili11gual practice session, tL'itil stage screens in Rose Main, and International Relations consul French. English, and Spanish, the three official tant Margarita Gonzalez. languages of the World Conference The conference theme of "New Perspec tives" was reflected in the remarks of the key note speaker, Canadian astronaut Dr. Roberta committees. Fonner National Board member Bondar. She fascinated her international audi and International Commissioner Patricia S. ence as she paralleled the life-changing expe Bonsai was reappointed to the Western Hemi rience of observing the earth from outer space sphere Committee: former National Board to the experience of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member Roxanne Yates will continue serving meeting at such a global forum to understand as a member of Our Cabana World Center different points of views and together decide on Committee, and Tational Board member the future of our unique World Association. Kathryn Manda was reappointed to the Sangam Performing as Royal The new World Chairman, 1\lrs. Heather World Center Committee. Finally, ~ational Canadia11 Motmted Brandon from South Africa, has been a member Treasurer Mary Lynn ~yers will be a member Police, these of the World Board since 1993 and served in of the Finance Committee. her own association as Chief Commissioner and later as National Director. In meeting assembled: the World Conference rmmnBTiflP'1"4:'7l"iTJ The election of our ational President B. delegations La.Rae Orullian as a member of the World Board, formerly known as the World Commit tee, was a highlight of the conference for the U.S. delegation. Ms. Orullian has served as a member of the WAGGGS Finance Comminee since 1987 and as chairman of that committee since 1993. Three other t.:.S.A. members were either ~;;______.,. appointed or reappointed to World Board sub- 28 Girl Scout Leader/Winter 1996 Girl ~routs at their places: (seated) lntcrnatirmal Commissioner Fidelia Moreno, (standing) National Treasurt r .\lary Lynn Myers, Satiunal Presidmt La Rae Ontllian, /'v'ational Excrutit•e Director Mary Rose Main, Jntemational Relations consultant ,\fargarita Gonzalez, and Sational Board member Ellen Brooks 'Dte World A,,ociation ha' .J..>Town from meeting::; in a re,ource capacity. A recommen 12~ to 136 member countrie,, 'ening nine mil dation urging member organizations to pledge lion !,rirl' and ~ oung \\Omen around the J.!lobe. their support to nominate }oung women for all ~C\\ countric' official!) joining the World -\ ...- \\'AGGGS commjttees was carrit.'d . ... ociation a ... a''ociate me 1b• r' were Bdarus. Cntil the summer of 1999. when delegates Congo. Mauritania. Tuni,i<~ "iluvenia. Western from every comer of \\'AGGGS\ world will Samoa. ~laldiws, and Poland meet agajn in Dublin. Ireland. to hold their Some of the most sim1ificant recommen 30th World Conferenct'. tht' nt'w perspectives dations of the 29th World Conference con gajned from the met'ling in Nova Scotia will ct•ntt•d the participation of young women at guide the work of each national organiza dcdsion-making- levels, integrated in all of the tion. TIU that next time. lt>t us remember the GSUSA's Elinor W.\GC;Gs co1mnitte{ ... and subcommittees. As remarks of Canadian Primt.' Minister Jean Johnstone Ferdon a n suit. at ka't one young woman undl.'r 30 will Chretien at the opening t'cremony: "Go back chaired tlze 29th now be nmong the voting members of all ub and be proud of what you are doing, shaping World Conference committl'\!'-, nnd two young non-voting women girb to be good citizens of the world." • have been a"igned to attend World Board -i\targarita Gonzalez A trtmll udcomr from (at P''lllllm) Clzief Commissioner Marslza Ross. Girl Guides of Canada Guides du Canada, (seated) lion. Robert S Harrison, Minister of Education and Crtlture, l~oor•a Scotia; 111e Rt. Hon. jean Chrl'ltrtl, Prime \linist r oJ Canada; and Hon. james Kinley, Lieutenant Gor•cmor ofNoM Scotia; Doris Riehm, ll'orld Conference chairman: troman in white was not identified Earning the Girl Scout Silver Award 'I2 Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest The result of their work and dedication award a Cadette Girl Scout can earn in Girl was a successful event that educated and lent a Scouting. To eam the award, the Cadette Girl sense of accomplishment to the 64 Junior Girl Scout must complete four requirements asking Scot1ts who earned badges that day. her to build skills, explore career possibilities, In addition to learning bow to set goals, increase leadership skills. and commit to self budget, and manage a day's event, the Cadette improvement before completing the :fifth re Girl Scouts used their skills the following quiremenL the Girl Scout Silver Award project. spring when they planned and conducted a Earning the Sih·er Award is more, how weekend spring camp event for 175 girls. ever, than fulfilling requirements. It represents A badge project was the focus for another the growth of a girl who mastered skills as a Silver Award project by a group from Arizona Brownie Girl Scout, acquired self-confidence as Cactus-Pine Girl Scout Council (Phoenix, a Junior Girl Scout, and matured into a self Ariz.). An interest in marine life and oceanog assured, dedicated Cadene Girl Scout. raphy prompted Emily Blotter, Kristi Johnson. HereisasamplingofGiriScoutSilverAward Pooja Kedia. Ther~ ~Jartin. and Tara McCoy em ironment of the projects completed by Cadette Girl Scouts to write their 0\\11 proposal for a badge in ocean oceans intrigued around the country. Projects run the gamut ographic and marine study. The girls cho:>e to Troop 192 from simple yet civic-minded to more elaborate, make this into a badge project because there is members large-scale community service models. no badge available in this subject. That their home is near the desert did not Badges R Us stop the girls, who began researching their sub ject through the private library of their leader Old tattered flags At Tres Condados Girl Scout Council Debbie Johnson. a consulting archaeologist (Thousand Oaks. Calif.}. four girls from Ca who enjoys scuba diving. They then contacted dette Girl Scout Troop 929. under the leader the Scripps Institute of Ocean Study at the Uni ship of Darilyn Rice, earned their Silver Awards versity of California at San Diego and Sea last year. Three of the girls, Rachel Miller, World's Institute of Oceanography for research Tralee O'Hanlon, and Amy Rice, organized a material. Their research also brought them to Jeweler Badge event for Junior Girl Scouts as San Diego's Chula Vista Nature Center, where their Silver Award project. they got to whale watch and meet a woman The girls worked throughout the summer physicist (who happened to have been a former until November to prepare for the event that Girl Scout leader and trainer) who wrote the allowed Junior Girl Scouts to earn their Jeweler exhibits for the Scripps Institute. badge. Preparation included researching and In producing the badge, the girls consid filming a video about gemstones, planning and ered that it had to be appropriate for the "land sening up workshop stations, and designing locked" as well as those with access to the and distributing promotional fliers. 'The girl. ocean or aquariums. The badge is currently be had to work out time schedules,'' says leader ing considered as a council badge and includes Darilyn Rice, ''to allow good traffic flow at the requirements in such areas as the science of event." They also had to make sure leaders got oceanography, marine biology. ecology and ca fliers early enough and that Cadette Girl Scouts reers. and opportunities for service. The girls were recruited to run the workshops. earned their Silver Awards in May 1996. 30 Girl Scout Leader/Wi11ter 1996 Reading Matters Not only did new parents reap the benefits of this project; so did the girls. "We talked a lot (above. left) Another group that worked together to about skills, introspection. and community," Members of Troop complete their Silver Award project came out says Debra Kirsch, who felt that the girls got a 1238 (A,lgeles of Morris Area Girl Scout Council (Randolph, lot of satisfaction out of working on this project Girl Scout N.].). This group of six Cadette Girl Scouts Council, Los Erin ~Iagennis, Catherine Kimak. Katherine Putting the F1ag to Rest Angeles, Calif.) Kirsch, Kim Petermann, Katie ~iemczyk, and pain ted the Sarah Murphy-decided to pool their efforts Ever wonder what happens to old tattered Manhattan Beaclt and organize a literacy project for new parents. nags that are too worn to be raised? Cadette Scout House as Called "Read to Me-A Parent/Child Literacy Girl Scout Shana Minish (Crooked Tree Girl their Silver Award Project," this effort had the aim of educating Scout Council, Traverse City. Mich.) discov project new parents about the value of reading to and ered the proper way to retire flags and earned communicating with their babies. a Silver Award for her project centered around (above, center) A Since the girls felt their project would flag retiring. literacy project for reach the most people through an established The project began when Shana heard new parents institution, they sought the assistance of Chil about a flag owner looking for a Boy Scout occupied these ton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains, N.j. troop to help him retire his flag. Shana, who has New jersey girls The hospital staff agreed to host the program been in Girl Scouts since Daisy Girl Scouts, of after the girls' presentation. fered to take the flag and figured there had to (above, right) With the go-ahead, the girls produced a be other old nags ready to be retired. By the Troop 929's Tralee computer-generated packet, ordered handouts time she had researched the proper method for O'Hm1lon, Amy that included such items as a booklet called flag retiring. she had 13 flags ready lobe retired Rice, Tandy "What to Expect in Talking to Your Baby" and at a Memorial Day ceremony. Westmiller, and a drawstring "I Read to My Baby" bag, devel The flag-retiring ceremony took place at Rachel Miller oped an agreement with a local bookstore to Craven Park in Bellaire and included aU age lev offer a discount on parenting books. and pur els of Girl Scouts. Each end of the flag was held (bottom) Holly chased a video from the International Reading by a Girl Scout (a different age level at every Chaudoin, Nikki Association that was shown during the hospi corner) while another girl cut the flag stripe by Henni11gsen, Amy tal's new parent courses as well as on its closed stripe. As each stripe was laid on the fire, the Klei1te, and circuit television system. The packets are now name of one of the original colonies was re Nichole Spiess reproduced at the hospital and distributed to cited. The ceremony was topped off with the (Troop 1725, parents along with their baby's birth certificate. singing of ''The Star Spangled Banner:· with Arizona Cactus ashes later sprinkled on a nearby pond. The Pine Girl Scout ceremony was so successful that it will become Council, Phoenix) an annual Bellaire Memorial Day event. held a father/ Earning a Silver Award is a proud event for daughter dance, a Cadette Girl Scout and her family. 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