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Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee • Fall 2019 Happy New GirlGirl ScoutScout Year! Table of On My Honor is a quarterly publication of Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee. Contents B A Troop Scrapbook Follow along on Girl Scout adventures across Middle Tennessee! C 6 President/CEO Agenia Clark Editors in Chief Girl Scout Legend Sarah Elmore and Amelia Lee Get to know the legend and long-time 10 supporter among us, Miss Pinkie. Contributors Paulette Allen Nashville Service Center Nashville Shop Troop Leader & Volunteer 4522 Granny White Pike 4522 Granny White Pike Nashville, TN 37204 Nashville, TN 37204 Delmiccia Corwin Un-Hidden Heroine Tel: (615) 383-0490 Tel: (615) 460-0222 Girl Scout Ambassador in Troop 2293 Read the story behind Nashville’s 200th Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 12 Historical Marker Honoring Miss Holloway! Mary Corwin Troop Leader & Volunteer Clarksville Service Center Manchester Service Center 331 A4 Union Street 506 Hillsboro Boulevard, Suite 103 Abbigail McCulley Clarksville, TN 37040 Manchester, TN 37355 Girl Scout Senior in Troop 2562 The Spanish Corner Tel: (931) 648-1060 Tel: (615) 460-0256 We're introducing a new way to help our Sonma Nwanso 20 Spanish-speaking families stay informed. Girl Scout Junior in Troop 1347 Columbia Service Center Murfreesboro Service Center 1129 Trotwood Avenue, Suite 11 2690 Memorial Boulevard, Suite C1 Sophia Rokas Columbia, TN 38401 Murfreesboro, TN 37129 Girl Scout Junior in Troop 1347 Tel: (931) 490-8660 Tel: (615) 890-2451 Be YOU. Be the Future. Lily Wilson Register for Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Cookeville Service Center Gold Award Girl Scout online at www.gsmidtn.org/join! A. Camp Sycamore Hills, Ashland City 23 1435 South Jefferson Avenue, Suite D B. Camp Holloway, Millersville Cookeville, TN 38506 C. Camp Piedmont, Readyville Tel: (931) 526-4925 Submissions for content should be sent to [email protected]. All submissions must include: Follow Us Online! • Clear, good quality photo (No text facebook.com/gsmidtn or Photoshop effects, please.) • Troop number instagram.com/gsmidtn • City or county where troop is based twitter.com/gsmidtn • Short blurb describing the photo We do not guarantee that all photos youtube.com/girlscoutsmidtn or other submissions, such as articles, gsmidtn.org/blog will be used. Photos and stories can Cover: Girl Scouts explore also be submitted through our new heights at summer camp. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter pages. Photo Credit: Charlotte Smith 2 With Girl Scouts, I can... Cabin Hours: We are open the first and third Cabin Talk Saturday of each month. With Girl Scouts, girls can challenge themselves and be anything they dream of! Monday 8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. From helping their community to becoming future scientists, Girl Scouts are changing Tuesday 8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. the world, and we want to see how Girl Scouts encourages you to dream big! Wednesday 8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee Shop Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. 4522 Granny White Pike, Nashville, TN 37204 Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. Phone: (615) 460-0222 | Email: [email protected] Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. New Leader Vests have arrived! help soldiers Sizes SMALL through 5XL available for $30 each. experience overseas the outdoors Check out our new explore my EXPLORER make the passions merchandise! world a better Buy each item separately for $15 or place bundle all three pieces for $30. Available while supplies last. make new friends travel to Japan We're Excited to Announce 45 NEW Badges Over the Next Few Months! Use the trefoil on the back cover to show what you've done with Girl Scouts, something NEW for every level of Girl Scouts then email your photo to [email protected] or share on social media with #GSMIDTN. Let’s show the world what Girl Scouts can do! 4 gsmidtn.org | Fall 2019 5 Troop Scrapbook ShareTag your Yourposts with #GSMIDTN Story!! After seeing Papa C Pies featured at Outside the Box, Troop 151 enjoyed visiting and having a mini pie cooking class! Troop 10 visited St. Louis where Cadettes in Troops 840 they visited the City Museum, toured the and 2390 hosted a Arch, and attended a Cardinals game! Fairy Myst for Service Unit 87! Read about Gillian and her great-grandmother at gsmidtn.org/gillian Troop 2095 stopped by After saving, budgeting, and planning the Nashville Service Center and for two years, visited Troop 600 took a tour of the museum with Hawaii where they hiked and met Historian Cindy Robinson! with local Girl Scouts! 6 gsmidtn.org | Fall 2019 7 CAMP RECAP CAMP recaP Camp Holloway Camp Sycamore Hills As autumn comes to Millersville, brown and gold The 2020 Camp Guide comes out in December, and With its zero entry and only 4 foot depth, the new leaves settle on the grounds of Camp Holloway. registration opens soon after. Flip Flop promised aquatic facility at Camp Sycamore Hills is the Holloway rests quietly at the moment, but from June that parents can look forward to “more amazing definition of inclusivity. Girls of all swimming ability to July it was ablaze with energy (even when the rain programs, expansion on existing programs, and more have the opportunity to participate in a multitude of put out a campfire or two). adventures.” different activities such as swim lessons, a weekly Luau, and free swim where girls can play under the As usual, Holloway offers a variety of programs for “I also want parents to know how much we appreciate huge sprinkler in the middle of the shallow end. different age ranges. This year, we introduced a few everyone’s support and trust,” she said. “We couldn’t The favorite new summer activity is Corcls®. Corcls, new programs, including our first Harriet Potter do what we do without families trusting us to give which are similar to kayaks but are small and round week from June 16-21, which featured a field day their girls a great experience. I am truly thankful to in shape, give Girl Scout Brownies and Juniors the of fun games (including real-life Quidditch!) and a work with such a wonderful Girl Scout community.” chance to learn and practice paddling skills as they Sorting Hat ceremony. Girl Scout Brownies created play various games. foaming, bubbling Fizz Whiz potions with the help of counselors, Juniors made their own fur-covered Girls can also enjoy the aquatics facility on land. The copies of the Monster Book of Monsters, and handmade deck chairs and pool pavilion are perfect Hogwarts Kitchen Insider Cadettes learned how to spots to just hangout in the sun or under the shade make tasty treats that wizards and muggles alike if they need a break from the rays. Through summer can enjoy. Further, a record number of girls (51, to be camp, more than 1200 girls were able to experience exact) earned the Camp Holloway’s Summer Camp the new pool. The staff at Camp Sycamore Hills is Challenge patch during that week, an honor only excited that Girl Scouts in Middle Tennessee can earned at Camp Holloway during the summer. now look forward to many years of learning and loving the water! Harriet Potter week was also the camp’s launchpad for a new weekly event: the Holloway Hues competition. “It’s a friendly competition between units that encourages kind behavior, keeping camp clean, and being helpful,” said Holloway Camp Director, Lauren “Flip Flop” Reichstein. Summer CampBY THE NUMBERS By practicing these behaviors, campers can earn points for their cabin, which is assigned a team color. 996 GIRL EXPERIENCES at Summer Fun Camps across Middle Tennessee. The cabin with the most points at the end of the week wins the competition. 731 GIRL EXPERIENCES at Camp Holloway during June and July. Other exciting updates this summer included expanding our day camp programming so there 1,432 GIRL EXPERIENCES are now separate programs for Girl Scout Juniors, at Camp Sycamore Hills during June and July. including tree climbing and swing-by-choice for Junior Adventure, relaxing crafts and pampering for Oh-Spa-LA-LA, and astronomy activities for 3,159 GIRL EXPERIENCES Space Out campers. with opportunities for girls to be active and learn new skills! 8 gsmidtn.org | Fall 2019 9 Girl Scout LEGEND Thank You I first met Miss Pinkie Hill at a day camp on Golden Mountain in Sparta, Tennessee. She and the nurse Miss would share a station for a day, and each group would have a time to come and talk with Miss Pinkie. All of us would find a seat in from of Miss Pinkie and Pinkie! listen to her intriguing stories. Miss Pinkie donated all her old Girl Scout things to our local museum in Sparta. The museum allowed Recently, my Girl Scout troop and I went to visit her her to get the things out so we could see them and at home. We had a snack with her, then she shared she could show us what she was talking about. so many stories with us. One of the stories Miss When we visited the museum, she was wearing one Pinkie shared with us was when she took her troop of her old uniforms and her great granddaughter to Washington, D.C. At the time, it only cost each was wearing another one. She also had pictures and girl $50 to go. They saved money by driving through documents she showed us. One of the documents the night, so they did not have to pay for extra hotel she showed us was how they used to have to nights.