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Head Stmt, as candy-stripers in hospitals, and as junior counselors in church clay camps. \Ve feel that the troop gained in every way through our acceptance of skills learned in special school progrmns, botl1 in continued interest and participation on the part of the girls and in the more varied programming • that we were able to have by emphasizing Challenges rather than badges.

From Mrs. Robert Black, neighborhood chairman, Pittsville, Wis.: vVe have had our physical eel. teacher in to speak to the girls concerning good grooming. For two years she had a Brownie troop, and tllis year took over my former Cadette troop. Through her, two more teachers have been drawn in as What would you do? leaders. Perhaps your teachers are just wait­ Problem clinic ing to be asked to give of their special talents to help you witl1 your Girl Scout troop. And perhaps you would so interest these teachers that you would have a source of future leaders This column presents difficult situations planning a program that holds something for without realizing it. from actual leadership experience, but with­ everyone in the h·oop. out naming individuals or groups concerned. From Mrs. Joseph Guerin, Cadette leader, Anonymous letters are not considered. From Mrs. Pat N. Lucas, Cadette leader, Flint, Mich.: Why did the girls do tl1 e Good Roanoke, Va.: Why not use teachers as pro­ Grooming, Dressmaker, Home Nurse, and Junior leaders as well as Cadette leaders gram consultants? If tl1e leader cloesn' t give Hostess badges? Probably because tl1ey were should find help in replies to the October credit where credit is due, she will douse the working on tl1e first two Challenges, and these problem of spark of enthusiasm instead of fanning it into badges fit so well witl1 the Challenge preps. the fire she needs. I have found the teachers But if the girls had other ideas, they should Badgework and schoolwork to be most willing to give help and to sign tl1e have clone better planning at the Court of Much of my Cadette troop's badgework handbooks in all tl1e instances mentioned and Honor. parallels their schoolwork. They were bored in First Aid. However, that alone does not The leader says "they get no credit for it with Good Grooming because they had done complete the badge for the girl. There are at Scouts." vVe are educating a whole person most of it in school, even to the style show. still those three big questions at the end, be­ for the future. Surely a girl can use tl1e knowl­ In sewing class they do the equivalent of fore the leader's final signature. Planning and edge she has gained in dressmaking at school Dressmaker badge. They've done home carrying out a service project could in itself and extend it through Scout activities. Why nursing and hostess. But they are annoyed keep a patrol busy at troop meetings for not make a dress for a needy child for some because they get no credit for it in several weeks. · organization in your town? vVhat an oppor­ Scouts. There are sixty badges in tl1 e Cadette tunity for real service! This will have real Of course, most of the girls, would be Handbook, and I'm sure they're not all cover­ meaning and give satisfaction as the girl writes happier if we made the meetings coed, ed in school, but by starting with one that it clown under tl1 e service requirement for tl1e which is where their interests lie, but it they do there, interests will grow, services Dressmaker badge. i\11y feeling is tl1at the would be a very impractical arrangement. will be rendered, and Challenges eventually authors of tl1e handbooks took into considera­ And if we had a Beatie badge it would be met. Good Grooming and Hostess badges both tion the new skills the girls are developing at finished in no time flat! tie in so nicely with tl1e Challenge of Social school and planned requirements so that tl1ey Perhaps other leaders have some ideas Dependability-and a coed party would be could use and extend these skills. on creating enthusiasm for Scouting among something to look forward to and plan fm. Scouting is not a coeducational activity Cadettes; I'd like to hear them. And who knows, tl1e girls may find they'd (nor should it be) . However, there are op­ like to do the Social Dancer or Folk Dancer portuniti es to include boys, such as giving a From Stephie Cheney, Cadette leadm·, badge before they're done! By starting with teen-age party, which completes a require­ Cocoa Beach, Fla.: Schoolwork does take up My Government in school, a h·ip could be ment in tl1e Challenge of Social Dependability. a lot of a Cadette's time. If she can explain planned that would lead toward the Traveler To "save fa ce" for tl1e girls who are not yet how to do the requirements, and where she badge, etc. This leader simply stumbled over interested in the opposite sex, suggest tl1at got her knowledge, why not give her credit? the first stepping stone, instead of using it to troop members invite whomever they like, Should it make any difference whether she reach her goal. male or female. learned it from her mother, from her teacher, or froni you, her Scout leader? By tying Scout From Mrs. Samuel Montague, Cadette H ere's a plea for help from the leader of a , activities in with school activities, the girls leader, Kansas City, Mo.: Because girls at Junior Girl Scout troop: will begin to enjoy Scouting more and find this age spend so many hours in extracurricu­ more time for it. lar activities at school, we were able to have Wider p1'0jects fo1· Juniors When girls reach the Cadette age level meetings only every other week, in the eve­ Many of the girls in our troop are working their main interest is BOYS. Let the girls plan ning. In order to keep up interest in Scouting hard to eam the Sign of the Arrow, but they several coed activities. If you, as leaper, txy during our shortened time together, we decid­ have a problem trying to find an' interesting to eljminate this type of activity, your h·oop ed to give credit for work clone in school in project to meet requirement #9 of this Sign, membership will greatly decrease. Maybe this the badge program and then to fill in amund "Take part in a Girl Scout project that is one of the main reasons girls drop out of the holes in the badge requirements with Scouts all over the United States are taking Scouting in the seventl1, eighth, and nintl1 Scout activities to complete the badges. In part in or one that all Girl Scouts in your grades. At this age boys are beginning to come this manner we did not waste time repeating town are taking part in." into their lives as more than just "pals." It is any completed activity, and we were able to The only all-town event that we seem to a new experience for the girls. Instead of plan social programs in the Social Depend­ have for Girl Scouts is our own council's sheltering them, let them '1ook wider still" ability Challenge, community activity in tl1e product sale, but we don't think this is an and develop a healthy boy-girl relationship Active Citizenship Challenge area, and to appropriate project for this requirement. within the Girl Scout ahnosphere. By holding make use of the complete Red Cross Junior What kinds of projects can we do that will several coed activities, in addition to troop First Aid course taught our eighth-graders in fulfill the purpose as well as the letter of camping trips and product sales, you may find physical eel. to complete a First Aid badge for the requirement? the troop growing and building better all­ "Emergency Preparedness." round girls. Our girls enjoyed their work with a troop Address your letters to: Problem Clinic, Don't forget tl1e girls who haven't dis­ of retarded girls at a local institution. Many Girl Scout Leader, 830 Third Avenue, New covered boys yet. One of the biggest chal­ of them did community service during the York, N.Y. 10022. No letters to tllis depart­ lenges to the troop's Court of Honor is summer as teachers' helpers in Operation ment can be acknowledged. THE END

DECEMBER 1965 3 Girl Scout Leader

Vol. 42, No.9 December 1965

Published by Contents Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

Mrs. Holton R. Price, Jr., President 5 · Action on the Promise, Margery L. Malsin Louise A. Wood, A report from the Roundup on what Senior Scouts discovered when National Executive Director they visited troops in their home councils to find out how girls of Mrs. John D. Hesselbein, different ages are putting the Promise into action. Chairman, Program Committee Mrs. Edward L. Warner, Jr., Chairman, Magazine Committee 7 Effective Exhibits, Sal Carbone Follow these simple steps to successful exhibiting.

Esther R. Bien, 8 Trends in Day Camping, Doris M. Biggio Publisher A summary of current council efforts to meet the growing expecta­ Virginia Greene, tions of girls who want day camping experience. Editor Alice White, 10 Museum Aides at the Birthplace, Robettine K. McClendon Associate Editor The imaginative service being done by Senior Scouts who serve as Joan Myers, guides for visitors to the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. Associate Editor Tillie W. Green, 11 Delegates in the Council, Helen M. Feeney Managing Editor Participation in council government should prove challenging and Phil Hummerstone, rewarding to new and experienced delegates. Art Editor T. James Thompson, Advertising Director 12 Method in Our Madness, Margery Lawrence Why we bother to be leaders of Girl Scout troops.

14 Snow White .. . and the Girl Scouts, Lane Carvey Editorial Board A behind-the-scenes 'theatre adventure with a cast and crew of Jtmior Alice S. Rivoire, Chairman Girl Scouts in Salt Lake City, Utah. Irene Anthony Esther R. Bien Lucile Cannon 16 Badges on Health and Safety, Mary M. Weeks Helen M. Feeney Hints on making health and safety practices basic to all activities. Minnio Gilliland Virginia Greene 17 The Leader and Her Community Joan Myers Elizabeth Sheehy Ten questions to help a leader evaluate her own community relations. Fred Todd Alice White 27 Ornaments of Colored Tissue A Christmas wreath and roundels or medallions for the holidays.

Sources of pictures in this 28 How to Make a Papier Mache Angel, Corinne M. Murphy issue by pages: Directions for making the· angel pictured on this month's cover.

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5-Neal Evarts 3 Problem Clinic 24 Author! Author! 6-Courtesy of the author 8-U.S. Forest Service 18 Bulletin Board 24 Success Stories - Lee Praeter 9-Top: Ben Fowke. Bottom: 20 Just What You Wanted 29 Index, Girl Scout LEADEJI, Volume 42 U.S . Army Photograph ll-Ben Fowke 23 Speak Your Mind 31 The AMERICAN GmL Magazine 14-15-Ross Welser in Girl Scout Program 16-U.S. Army Photograph 26-Top: Courtesy of the coun­ cil. Bottom, left, and right: GIRL SCOUT LEADER, published monthly from October to June by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., 830 U.S. Navy Third Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. Copyright, 1965© by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Second-class 27-Mas Ito postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing offices. Subscription $1.00 a year in 28-Mas Ito the United States and Canada, $2.00 elsewhere. Vol. 42, No. 9, December 1965.

4 GIRL SCOUT LEADER 1"We, the Senior Scouts of the 1965 Roundup,

By Mm·ge1·y L. Malsin have gained a deeper understanding of our

Girl Scout Promise as a result of the ideas ex- Action pressed in the Roundup forums. We are con- cerned with the need to spread this deeper

understanding. Therefore, we are committing

on the ourselves to expand our 'Promise in Action'

project to reach each Girl Scout in every troop, Promise in every council, throughout the U.S.A." ... That is how it begins. It may seem strange to

say "begins" when, in fact, it is the final phase

A Roundupper speaks out at a fomm session while another of the Promise-in-Action project that is being awaits her turn at the mike For a note about the author, see page 24. described here. But this final phase is truly a beginning. some councils there was no adult to inspire and guide the It is a "beginning for girls in tr·oops, for leaders, for coun­ Seniors in these visits. But for others it was a major proj­ cils, and for Girl Scouting. ect. Row1duppers from councils of this kind reported that Leaders in councils will remember well the first stage not only had they visited tr·oops, they had actually of this project. It was described in the December 1964 'adopted' them. By this they meant that the Seniors got LEADER and in Roundup Guide for Cattncils. Such a to know the · troops so well that they were no longer project had been requested by girls. They said in their guests, but family. They had long discussions on camping evaluations of other Roundups, "Could we have some­ weekends; they helped in badgework; they even partici­ thing to work on that might stmt before the Roundup, pated in the h·oops' social plans, with pm·ents, with com­ continue during the Roundup, and conclude when we munity organizations, and with other hoops. It is obvious retwu to our councils after Roundup?" that when Row1dup girls revisit these tr·oops, they will The Guide states: "The 'Picture Your Home Frontier' feel like members of the family. They will be welcomed project that was carried out in connection with the past royally and invited to share fully all the excitement of two Roundups will therefore be replaced this time by a Roundup with their sister Scouts. pmject that will involve the Roundup campers as well as And so they came to Idaho. Some with wonderful other girls in their councils. things to say, some with nothing to say, some with repmts "This new project, called 'Girl Scouting-A Promise in that were factual but not particularly inspired. Kansas, Action' requires Roundup girls to visit Brownie, Junior, Maine, Florida, Michigan, living closely together, getting Cadette, and Senior Girl Scout troops before the Round­ to know one another, exchanging all kinds of ideas to­ up to find out what putting the Promise into action means gether. And they talked into the night. In these small to girls of different ages. The Roundup campers will be informal groups, in lm·ger h·oop discussions, in all-camp asked to keep , a record of the ideas they gather and forums, Seniors shm·ed and compared their h·oop visiting discuss them at the Row1dup during troop, camp, and experiences. all-Roundup £mums. The project will end with campers making post-Roundup reports to the same h·oops they The Bmwnie Gi1·l Scout Pmmise visited em·lier so the girls in these h·oops can lemu what the Promise in action means to girls in other parts of Some leaders m1d advisers would have blushed and the country and other counhies around the world." squitmed if they could have hem·d themselves described Councils, like people, are all different. They have per­ by these girls." In telling of her visit to a Brownie troop, sonalities, and they are individuals. And in this first visit­ one git·l said, "After the meeting, the leader came over ing phase of the project, some councils did vety little to m1d thanked me. She said it was the best meeting the encourage or interpret or even assist their Rotmdup tr·oop had ever had. She said she hadn't realized, till I selectees in carrying out these visits. For some councils came, that Brownies were mature enough to discuss their it was difficult because of circumstances. For example, Promise and its meatling for them, so they hadn't ever there was a council nem· the Canadian border in which talked about it at all. I was the one who was surprised," one Roundup Senior,, single-handed, visited Girl Guide the Senior went on. "I think that was the fit·st time the companies just over the border and came to Roundup Promise was more than a four-line sing-song piece to the with a full, beautifully written report of her findings. In girls." This same cpncem was voiced by many, and it began to emerge as a vety definite pattern. It was felt by Seniors At the end of a forum session the girls hurry that Brownies really are capable of w1derstanding the back to their own camps for more discussion values implied in their Promise. They suggested that these values can be closely related to Brownie activities, and that the very day a girl joins a tr·oop is not too soon for her leader to help her w1derstand the real significance that her Promise will have for her all through her tr·oop experience and, in fact, all through her life. This can be pointed up in dramatics, in outdoor settings, in service, and in free and frequent h·oop talks. The Roundupper thought that this was surely one place where she, as a Senior Scout, could not only help some Brownie see her Brownie Promise come alive, but that in the doing she would be putting her own Promise into action. Brownies look up to Seniors. They see thelT)selves wearing that Senior w1ifom1 someday, going to a Round­ up, and so they feel a different kind of closeness with these older girls than they might feel with their leader. All agreed that if leaders wanted an exciting and mean­ ingful hoop meeting, they should invite Roundup campers m1d let them "moderate" a Brownie "fmum" on the sub­ ject, "My Promise."

]uni01's and the GM Scout Pmmise Long into the cold clear night went the discussions. It was interesting to note that through much of the talk common threads now began to appear. About JW1iors there was agreement that be- [Continued on page 21]

GIHL SCOUT LEADER If you are lucky enough to get space in a large deparh11ent store window, think big. Use large photo blow-ups and big By Sal Cm·bone lettering as the main elements of an eye-catching exhibit Drawings by the auth or

Effective exhibits·

He1·e's the sec1·et of a successful exhibit-

choose a simple theme to get the message A large portrait of a girl, ac1·oss to all the people you want to 1·each four hats, and a trefoil is enough for a smaller space

·, . CAn effective exhibit has all the qualities of a good poster-it stops the viewer long enough to deliver the mes­ sage-and the message is powetful enough to make an impression. An effective exhibit is not just a pretty display-a museum it's not! It should do a job! Change an attitude! Cause some action! The message should be -the message currently being used by the council in every other medium that reaches its public., An effective exhibit might be compared with a well­ constructed news story: tl1e opening paragraph or main caption should tell the whole story; the second element goes into more detail (for tl1ose viewers who are not in a hun.y); and finally, the small details are shown. Careful selection should be made of these small tl1ings. A careful selection of a few Don't b·y to show each and evety item made by a b·oop. well-made craft objects can Pick two or three of the best examples that illustrate the help catch the viewer's eye message. If you would like to know more about exhibiting, be sure to see the filmsb·ip "Displays and Exhibits," Catalog alog No. 11-22, $32.50. These materials may be ordered No. 13-48, $5.00, and the film "Simply Exhibiting," Cat- from the Audio-Visual Materials Service, Girl Scouts of The author, Sal Carbone, is the Art Director for the Art Section of the U.S.A., 830 Third Avenue, New York, New York the Public Relations Department. 10022. THE EI\TD

DECEMBER 1965 7 Trends in day camping

By Doris M. Biggio

Experienced campers take the trail to adventure during a pack trip out of camp

From B1·ownie to Senio1· Scout-more and m01·e girls m·e coming to day camp

seeking fun plus challenging new expe1·iences and a real sense of p1·ogression

CLet's think of trends apart from the concept of a cil-owned sites that are operated as established or troop graph with lines mnning perpendicularly or h01izontally camps also or that are being developed for such operatiqn. to show stability, growth, or decrease. Let's imagine one Councils are moving toward loan or lease (for minimurp continuous line that f01ms a square, a rectangle, an octa­ rental) of farmland and other undeveloped areas. These gon- or more likely a jagged line with many indentations provide a primitive camping experience for Cadettes and and protrusions. In other words, the outline of a council's Seniors. With a minimum of effort and money, simple jurisdiction. The extension and development of day camps health and safety facilities to meet the needs of Brbwnie is seen as a council's eff01t to meet the expectation of each and Junior Girl Scouts can be erected. A day camp on a girl to participate in four-day or established camp exper­ roof, a beach, a private estate, a corner lot, or even an iences during her years of seven through seventeen as a undeveloped area of a golf course is not a "stretch of the Girl Scout." imagination" but imaginative use of available lands in order to meet the expectations of girls. Campsite Administration of the day camp operation No longer can we make the broad statement that most day camps are conducted in government-owned parks or Councils have recognized their responsibility to administer forest preserves. Although these are prime resources, the day camp operation centrally, in regard to criteria, more and more day camps are being conducted on coun- priority for development of day camps, transportation •Gir! Scout Leader Notebook, pages 44-45. plans if needed, personnel practices, 'fees, camp director For a note about the author, see page 24. employment, and site approval. With centralized responsi-

8 GIRL SCOUT LEADER bility for over-all planning, there are also dispersed re­ sponsibilities. Site, staff, equipment, and faculty resources of the community reflect interest and enthusiasm to serve those girls 'living within the boundmies of a given locality. When setting day camp fees, councils me reviewing the concept tl1at day camp fees must be kept low. Has "low" resulted in poor or nonexistent Girl Scout program? Does "low" carry with it the additional cost to each in­ dividual for transportation and for participation in cook­ outs, overnights, and other activities? If tl1is is true, con­ sideration is being given to including all activity and operation costs in each day camp budget. The camper fee is then determined on the basis of the total day camp­ ing budget for all operations. Such equalization almost always results in a day camp fee that can be met by all Girls work with natural materials found the membership. on the site. Here they polish stones Girls have been saying, "We've learned lots of skills during our five days at camp. Now we want to stay longer

Campe1·s

As the bus, the private car, or even the skate board ar­ rives at the campsite, it is evident that day camps are for campers who represent the Girl Scout program ·through the four age levels. In the selection of campsites and prep­ aration for the Girl Scout program through activities, there is insight into the need for challenging, adventure­ A discussion between two girls can take place any some opportunities for Cadette and Se11ior Girl Scouts. time, anywhere-even when it's late at night camp Few if any camps for a single age level of tl1e program should be operated. The limited resources, both human and physical, quickly result in lack of registration. Since we are a uniformed organization, the "What to wear at day camp" section of the camp folder reflects this belief: "The official Girl Scout camp w1iform or appropri­ ate summer clothing." Within t\IVO years of tl1e use of this sentence in the camp folders, most campers appeai· in the uniform. Encouraging the use of camp w1iforms in day camp is another way in which councils have found it possible to implement the yem·-round public relations plan of telling the public, "We are tl1e Girl Scouts." (Not to be overlooked is the easy identification of Girl Scout campers when several organizations operate day camps on the same site.) Day camp, night camp, twilight camp, and other pur­ poseful phrases are evidence that cow1cils are developii1g new ·operations in order to serve their Girl Scout mem­ bership. The intense heat of the day might result in a day camp h·om 3:00 to 8:00 P.M. [Continued on page 22] Music fills the air as the members of a troubadour unit strum their guitars and sing Girl Scout songs together

Older girls share their camp­ ing skills with younger girls as they lash a work table

DECEMBER 1965 9 Above: Gretchen shows a visit­ ing Senior how to make glass 'Immdels. Right: Marly;; demon­ strates spinning. Below: Lurline tells a northern girl, "We have banana h·ees in Hawaii, too"

Senio1·s act as guides at the birthplace of

the Founder of Gi1·l Scouts of the U.S.A.

C Senior Girl Scouts serving as Museum Aides at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah, Georgia, are making these words of Mrs. Low come alive: "To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination." And the girls are doing just that-putting themselves in Mrs. Low's place as they guide visitors through the his­ toric Regency house where the dynamic founder of Girl Scouting in the U.S.A. was born in 1860 and lived as a child and young woman. The Museum Aides take visitors back in time to the nineteenth century and give them a glimpse of activities that young Juliette Gordon enjoyed as they demonsb·ate various crafts and skills. By Robe1·tine K. McClendon This imaginative Museum Aide service at the Birth ~ place was established as a pilot project in 1964. Each . summer during June, July, and August, six Senior Girl Scouts, working in teams of two, serve for one month each at this national Girl Scout program center. More than forty percent of the Cadette and Senior b·oops who Museum visit Girl Scouting's living memorial to Mrs. Low come during these months. This one quarter of the year also ac­ counts for almost half of the other visitors to the Birthplace. These two percentages point out the peak of the Birth­ place year and show· the real need the national Museum Aides meet in the daily life of the big old "Savannah Aides at the pink" mansion where five generations of Cordons lived. The house was built in the early 1820's, and its garden of the 1870's has been restored to the period of Mrs. Low's girlhood. Juliette, who was always called Daisy, spent most of her first twenty-six years in this old home, which Birthplace stands in stately elegance on the [Continued on page 19] For a note about the author, see page 24.

10 GIRL SCOUT LEADER . .

By Helen M. Feeney

Delegates 1n• the council

Pm·ticipation in council

g?vemment can be an exciting

and 1·eivm·ding expe1·ience

Delegates register before a meeting of the Central Maryland Council

CTo be a co~nc il delegate can be a challenging and Pm·tidpation at or during the meeting involves: exciting experience. Whether this is yow- first or your • listening carefully, weighing judiciously, and decid- tenth council meeting, attending as a delegate should ing prudently; prove rewarding to you as an individual and productive • voting on the basis of intelligent analysis of facts; for the council. It is at such meetings that group spirit is • acting wisely in making decisions that will be in renewed and fresh enthusiasm gained for the task ahead. the best interests of Girl Scouting. Council meetings are important events in the continu­ ing life of a Girl Sc_out council. It is then that decisions Communicat-ion after the meeting involves: are made, officers and board members elected, and lines • reporting on official action and the reasons therefor of direction given to the council's board of directors. (discussions pro and con and decisions voted upon ); What are the duties of a delegate? Stated in simplest • reporting the elected slate of officers and board tetms, they are: members; 1. To attend regular meetings of th e council and to • infonnin0cr and interpreting new items or issues pre­ participate in the proceedings. . sented at the meeting (for study or follow-up) ; 2. To be informed on the needs and point of vievv of • evaluating with other delegates and responsible the local association (neighborhood, community, etc.). groups and individuals in the council on ideas, issues, 3. To vote "in meeting assembled " and on the basis of and new agenda items for future council meetings. what is in the best interests of Girl Scouting. 4. To report to the local association (neighborhood, To come together as delegates "in meeting assembled " community, etc. ) on the decisions reached and the rea­ and to participate in what is essentially a collective enter­ sons therefor. prise can be an opportunity for productive action on the in reviewing these duties in detail , a threefold responsi- part of every delegate. The wisdom of the decisions bility emerges for each delegate­ made, the nature of the _problems solved, and the clarity Before the meeting, preparation. of the direction set will depend in large part upon the During the meeting, participation. effective participation of tl1 e individuals carrving this After the meeting, communication. elected responsibility. Why is it important that delegates come to tl1 e meeting P1·epamtion before the meeting involves: informed but not instructed? A council meeting is a delib­ • becoming thoroughly info1med about the local associ­ erative body and has a specific purpose: therefore, dele­ ation and its needs, point of view, and problems, if any; gates carry out their respective responsibilities "in meeting • reviewing and studying the meeting workbook and assembled" and not on a one-to-one basis. Each individual the agenda and attachments in detail; exercises self-discipline in order to insure the true spirit • having pertinent facts at hand; of a democratic meeting. Provisions should be made in • knowing about the nominees for election; the meeting plan for the debate and discussions of all • practicing skills of participation (reporting, parlia- issues in a h-ee and open manner. Various pou1ts of view mentaiy procedure, discussion, etc.) . · may be expressed on tl1e floor, and delegates carry an The author, Helen M. Feeney, is n specialist in th e Orgallization and obligation to make the local association's poil1t of view Management D epartment. known. On the other hand, [Continued on page 17]

DECEMBER 1965 11 CPeople who have never been Girl Scout leaders sometimes ask secretly (or openly) , "Why do you bother?" The answers vary with the leader, the troop, or how well today's meeting went. Those who have been leaders long enough to be comfortably familiar with the activities and to be able to concentrate on the amusing, exasperating, moving experience of seeing girls grow, know that few efforts are more rewarding. The essence of true Girl Scouting comes from within­ within the leader sensitive enough to help girls become the kind of persons they truly want to be. There is no magic in a h·oop organization pattern. It sets the stage, provides the potential actors, and awaits the skill of the director to make the play a long-running hit or a one­ night stand. But there is no denying that a well-designed stage set and a versatile cast can enhance the efforts of a good director. With program change in 1963 came the retum to the wide-age-range open-end troop that, characterized Girl Scouting until the problems of troop organization during the war years caused us to slip into the easier-to-orgaruze single-grade pattem. The response has been varied. Most adults who experienced the prewar pattem expressed great pleasure in the retum. Some who had known only single-grade troops saw change as a Big Problem. Others accepted the idea on pure faith. ~any now speak and write of their pleasure in the "new" concept of Girl Scouting as they see it exemplified in the h·oops they lead. · The point in recommending the retum to wide-age­ range, open-end troops is that the potential for the best in Girl Scouting is greater in this pattem than in the single-grade troop. Why? Because of what girls can learn from other girls who are not with them day in and day out; because the process of give-and-take is more natural when there is some variation in age; because a girl can see herself growing up as her role changes from year to year within each age-level troop; because there is reinforce­ ment of learning and attitudes from the influence of ex­ perienced girls on the new ones; because there is natural recogrution of certain privileges that come to girls as they grow older and gain experience. In free-play groups, ability rather than age is often the basis of changing leadership roles. The child with imag­ ination is a key personality when the group decides to put on a play. The sports-minded girl excels when that type of activity is chosen, and the peace-maker smooths the way with regularity. Being the same age fades in impmtance when such a group needs a special skill to move the activity along. The same is hue within a Girl Scout h·oop, when the adult leader's attitude fosters deci­ sion-making by the girls. Perhaps the most difficult adjushnent to the wide-age­ range pattem is the change in the role of the adult. VI/hen girls are not all at approximately the same stage in development and experience, the secure leader relin­ quishes much of her direct teaching to the team. She gains her satisfaction from such comments as, "We can plan the ceremony," "I will help Sally between meetings," "My pah·ol would like to meet with the Redbirds to leam .. ." or the ever-to-be ti~ easured, "We did it ourselves!" It will be years before the then-grown girls realize that

The author, Margery Lawrence, is Director of the Program D evelop­

ment Division 7 Program D epartment.

12 Illustration : Ralph Owen

the reason they "did it themselves" so successfully was because an interested adult raised the crucial question at the crucial time to keep their_thinking clear and their planning on the path of success. Most girls love ceremony and tradition. Girls in open­ end troops develop their own b·aditions and pass them along to the girls who follow them. There are b·oops in some communities serving a second or even a third generation of the family; there are b·oops that proudly display their logs and point to council board members and professional staff who once were members. There are hoops that have kept a unique community service in operation for years because new members have con­ tinued the work begun by girls who wore that troop number before them. Here "inspiring girls with the high­ est ideals . .." is very real-not merely the opening words of the pmpose of our movement. Such troops become a part of the ongoing community; younger girls look for­ ward to the day they will become members of Troop 16 or Troop 145. They know that the more grown-up oppor­ tunities to which they aspire happen there, and will happen to them in their turn; just as they know that they will grow into other desired opportunities in other parts of their lives as years pass. The open-end plan of troop organization, as devised, does not provide the opportunity for any leader to raise "a family of daughters" through eleven important-years of their lives, but it supports the patience she needs to b-y to help each girl for the three years she will be in the b·oop. Nor, quite frankly, does tllis plan provide a girl with a "second mother" (which she may not need), but rather with an understanding adult friend who is espe­ cially interested in girls of a particular age span and able to develop their potential. It provides an adult friend who has known and worked with so many girls of that age that she has realistically high expectations-and a realistically high boiling point for the normal high jinks. "Why bother?" becomes a little easier to answer when considered in the light of the great potentials of Girl Scout leadership. Why?-to inspire girls with the highest ideals, to help them learn to make decisions, to assist them in governing themselves, to prepare them to live in ·an ever-changing world with an inner secmity about themselves and their relation to those older and younger than themselves. - Oms is a wide-age open-end world in which a Girl · Scout troop can be a small manageable segment of society. That is our purpose. And it's ftm, it's learning, it's ad­ venture, it's Girl Scouting. .• By Mm·gm·y Law1'ence That is why we bother! THE El\TD

Method in our madness

Ou1·s is the p1·ivilege of watching gi1·ls g1·ow as they gain expm·ience and

assume 1·esponsibility in the give-and-take atmosphe·re of a well-rounded t1·oop

DECEMBER 1965 13 SNOW

WHITE • • •

With a good dramatics consultant, even

Juniors can put on a well-staged play

CAbout a year ago, the twenty-one members of of Utah Theatre Department inquiring whether there wm( Junior Girl Scout Troop 655, Salt Lake City (Utah Girl anyone at the Uni,versity whom they might get to work Scout Council), were discussing how they could go about with them, and he referred them to me. In early April I fulfilling the requirements for the Troop Dramatics badge. met and talked with the playwrights, the h·oop members, Someone said, "Let's put on a play!" Others seconded the and the troop leaders. Two days later, I agreed to be the idea. Someone else suggested that Girl Scouts could even director-then the playwrights and the director had the write their own play! usual session of adjusting the script for staging. The play In the spring all the ideas and suggestions were tied to­ is a two-act and multiple-scene version . There are three gether and the decision was made. They would write a large set requirements and a number of area spots used for- play themselves-and they would secure a director to special scenes. · "check them out" in all the phases of putting on a full­ scale production-as well as to direct the acting of the A job f01· every t1'oop member play. Not one of the twenty-one h·oop members had been in a dramatic production before-but they were energetic, The Girl Scouts' version has a new twist on ·the· old eager, and willing. . favorite. The events are all seen through the "eye" of a Fortunately, St. Ambrose Church had included in its charming little green wmm who lives in the apple h·ee plans for a new building a well-equipped and adaptable from which the Evil Queen Stepmother plucks the fatal studio theah·e, and very generom!y offered it to Troop apple. The wo1m narrates portions of the story to the 655 for both rehearsals and perfo1mances. audience and, with the audience, watches in terror as the Early in the spring of 1965, two h·oop members wrote Queen tries-not once-but four times to kill the lovelv an miginal adaptation of the well-loved story of "Snow Snow White! ' White and the Seven Dwarfs." Sixteen of the twentv-one Girl Scouts were cast as actors. Troop leaders Mrs. Nancy K. Payne and Mrs. Noreen A seventeenth acted ;s stage manager-perhaps the most Kunzweiler wrote to Dr. Keith Engar of the University demanding job in theatre. The remaining four girls were The author, Mrs . Elizabeth Lane Corvey, was a Graduate Associate in chm·ge of "front-of-house" operations-tickets, programs, in the Theatre Department at the University of Utah last year. She is audience seating: All the members of the troop-plus the now teaching at Indian River Junior College in Florida. leaders, the director, and a pair of hammer-and-paint-

14 GIHL SCOUT LEADER By Lane C 01'Vey

and the GIRL SCOUTS

bmsh-wielding troop friends-worked on scenery, gathered burgers and milk shakes-and at six it was back in costume props, and sewed costumes. . and makeup for the big evening pe1formance. There The well-equipped studio theatre boasts an excellent were any number of out-of-town pab·ons-as well as group lighting system, and two boys, students at the elementary pmties of Girl Scouts and friends . At seven-thirty the cur­ school and official lightmen for the theatre, worked with tain opened on a "standing-room-only" house. The Scouts the director in planning and executing a light plan that performed like veteran troupers. Such small incidents as would encompass a number of special effects: a glowing the poisoned apple's rolling to stage-center were handled yellow spot for the wmm's hideout, a series of lightning with aplomb-a dwarf simply "accidently" kicked it back flashes during which the Evil Queen lost her temper so where it belonged. thoroughly that she went up in smoke! One of the local mm·kets had donated lollipops, and The day before the official opening was, fortunately, a after each perfmmance the children in the audience were vacation day from school. The whole b'oop spent an eight­ invited up to receive a present from the cast and to greet hour day rehearsing, attaching the green crepe-paper the exciting characters in person. leaves to the forest setting, sewing a last stitch to the costumes, testing the sound and lighting plans for effect, A box-office success and gilding the crowns for the royal family of Snow White. A ve1y small price was set on tickets-but so well received The cu1·tain goes up was the total pedmmance that the troop took in at the box office enough to pay all expenses of the production. On the opening day, they reported in to the stage manager And the girls accomplished the very important and desired at twelve noon and got into makeup and costume. At goal of fulfilling a number of requirements for the Troop 1:30 P.M. the first pedormance was under way. The after­ Dramatics badge-as well as gaining the expelience of noon audience was made up of kindergarten through accomplishing a successful theatrical production. third-grade students and-much to the troop's conster­ The troop plans to put the play on again sometime at nation-the boys of the fifth grade (all the fifth-grade a local children's hospital as a means of fulfilling a public girls are troop members) . service. The troupers of Troop 655 may not make Broad­ At five o'clock the b·oop answered a supper call-ham- way for a while-but they're on their way. TI;IE END

DECEMBER 1965 1.5 Some badge activities call for a program consultant

By Mm·y M. Weeks

The stated pw·pose of each badge gives the

leadm· a clue towm·d helping gi1·ls make

the activities meaningful in everyday life

Badges On health and safety

C Program in troops and camps should sh·engthen the the book indicates. A long list could be made, also, of the health and safety teachings of the home and school. The many other tips found among chapters on "A More At­ leader can see that this happens by making health and tractive You," "Service Starts at Home," "In an Emer­ safety practices ·basic to all Girl Scout activities, and by gency," and "Challenges. " Every badge includes "health guiding the girls in special health and safety activities. and safety" as one of the "open-end questions." The proficiency badges relating to health and safety in Such a badge as First Aid requires special instruction, the Junior and Cadette age levels contain many activity as stated at the beginning of the badge requirements. suggestions. Both the Junior Health Aid and the Junior However, learning about first aid is not enough to carry Personal Health badges, for example, are specifically de­ out the purpose, "To be able to meet emergencies and to signed to build up attitudes about good health among give the right kind of first aid." The requirements include nine-, ten-, and eleven-year-olds. Before the girls launch words like "demonstrate," "apply properly," "teach some­ on any of the badge requirements, the leader should one," and the like. The leader can and should rely on examine the purpose of the badge so that the individual the first aid instructor for the technical help, but it is her activities will be carried out in te1ms of the purpose. job to see that the learnings are incorporated into the life Health Aid has as its purpose, "To learn how to help of the h·oop. take care of yomself and others when there is sickness or Program consultants may also be. needed for parts of an accident." In requirement # 2, which calls for girls to other badges, such as Child Care and Home Nurse. Help demonsh·ate proper use and care of hot water bottle, is usually not very far away and can be found in the per­ heating pad, ice bag, this purpose should be emphasized. son of a school nurse, a public health nurse, a neighbor Girls can have fun filling hot water bottles or balancing who is a registered nurse. The leader can also find current ice bags on their heads, but unless the use of these is material in popular magazines and newspapers on subjects interpreted in terms of comfmt and relief to a sick person, related to health and safety. the activity is meaningless. Why not have the girls make The bibliography in the Cadette Girl Scout Handbook up a simple skit demonsh·ating the use and care of hot lists American Red Cross textbooks on first aid and home water bottles and the like? · nursing, Teaching Johnny to Swim, and materials on child The Personal Health badge, with the purpose, "To care and food . It also gives sources of free and inexpensive learn how and why to guard your own health," is most materials on pp. 352 and 360. A glance at pp. 38-40 in the appropriate as a long-term pursuit. While it might be Girl Scout Leader Notebook will suggest other sources of possible to do the eight requirements in a short time, material on nutrition and child development. much more progress toward carrying out the purpose will All proficiency badges and activities in the progr:am be made if this badge is done over an extended period have a relation to health and safety as an element of the along with other badges. _ foundation. Whether the badges and activities are in the Th~ Junior Girl Scout Handbook, in addition to the arts, the home, or the out-of-doors, the principles of health chapter on "Preventing Accidents," weaves much health and safety should receive equal attention. and safety information into other chapters: "Fires," "Your When all is said and done, most answers are in the Home," and "Games." leader's head, in the basic books, or readily available in The Cadette Girl Scout Handbook also contains much the community. Checking the h·oop's progress in health material on health, first aid, and safety, as the index of and safety against the "Lasting Values" on pp. 26-27 in the Leade1· Notebook will help to guide the leader in her For a note about the author, see page 24. _progress. THE END

16 GIRL SCOUT LEADER Theleaderand hercommunity Here me ten questions by which a leader can evaluate her own Girl Scout community relationships: · l. How long has it been since I talked with the principal, priest, minister, rabbi, or head of other group in whose building our troop meets? 2. Are d1e teachers of the girls in our DEDICATED AND EXPERIENCED SERVICE TEAM troop familiar with the Girl Scout program and particularly with our age level? Have they seen the handbooks? Do they know about our troop plans for the coming year, and do I know what the emphasis of d1eir school work will be? 3. Do I always remember to notify the ap­ propriate person when our troop will not be using its regular meeting place? 4. Have we, as a troop, discussed any problems faced by d1e building custodian in relation to our use of the meeting room? How can we help to make his job easier? Dee Pa nkratz 5. How has our troop expressed its ap­ preciation to our sponsoring group for its sup­ port during the past year? 6. Have I provided enough opportunities for members of our sponsoring group to know about the Girl Scout program and how it is helping girls prepare for future responsibilities Hoby Hipwell Fred Farr in the home and the community? 7. Is my husband (family) proud and enthusiastic about my Girl Scout activities? How do I show others my own pride in be­ ing a Girl Scout adult volunteer? 8. Have I established a good working re­ lationship with the librarian in our com­ munity? Do I seek his or her help in looking for resource materials to enrich troop projects? Are the four Girl Scout handbooks and the Girl Scout Leader Notebook on the library shelves? 9. Do I take the time to let the grocer Bob Ickes Bill Pratt know before the mmketing patrol descends on his store to buy food for an overnight? 10. Do I see that the pments of troop members are kept informed about troop activ­ ities? THE END

Delegates in the council Continued from page 11 delegates also have the obligation to listen to other ideas and recommendations, and to weigh the pros and cons of d1e argunient judiciously. When the time comes for a vote, Owen Haycox Marty Quinn a delegate acts upon her own individual con­ victions and in what she considers the best interests of Girl Scouting. Belief in majority rule is inherent in democ­ racy. The diverse views in any group can be For complete information write to: brought to an issue by orderly discussion and clemly defined debate. When the decision has been made by majority vote, the responsi­ BURRY BISCUIT bility of every delegate is to support that deci­ division of sion wholeheartedly and to pmticipate in its The QuakerQats@mpany implementation. Thus direction is set for the council's future, and continuity of effort is assured. You- as a delegate-help to do this for your council and for Girl Scouting. It is an honor and a privilege; cherish it well. Girl Scout Cookie Sales and Service THE END 33 North La Salle Street, Ch icago, Illinois 60602 Reference Remember to clear all money-earning plans with your Council Finance Comm ittee, or Lone Troop Committee. The Council Manual, Chapter X-also, p. 27 and pp. 122-123.

DECEMBER 1965 17 SELLING POLICY

Certain adve rtise ments appearing in the magazines of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. present opportunities for individuals or groups to earn money.

The selling of a ny product must b e done on its own merits.

Whe n a girl wishes to take part in one of these opportunities to earn personal money, she does so as an individual and not a s a Girl Scout.

When a Girl Scout troop wishes to take part in one of the opportunities to earn money for the troop, the troop first secures the approval of its Girl Scout P'I'Ogmm date lines: Decembe1· flowers combine to form a relaxing back­ council for the particular money-earning ground for friendship and good times. p roject. Decembm· 1-Science Talent Search begins As in past Adventure Sessions, participants December 2-Pan American Health Day will pool their talents and interests to make December 5-12-Universal Bible Week the event a success. They should bring ex­ December 8-Immaculate Conception (Roman amples of successful troop activities to share, Catholic Holy Day of Obliga­ and be prepared to teach some skills, such as Booklets and tion) dances, games, hand arts, songs. December 10-17- Human Rights vVeek The Cabana staff will help the group con­ Samples From December 15-Bill of Rights Day duct round tables for the exchange of ideas; AMERICAN GIRL 'Becember 19-26-Hanukkah carry out a wide game; teach typical hand ADVERTISERS December 21-Winter· begins arts and dances of Mexico; organize tours to f~ December 25-Christmas Day Taxco and Cuernavaca for sight-seeing and December 31-New Year's Eve shopping; plan visits to beautiful homes of Cuernavaca. Additional tours can be arranged WRITE DIRECT TO ADDRESSES LISTED BELOW Thought for the month to other fascinating places, such as ·the Toltec Pyramids of Xochicalco, the University of "TEEN AGED ? HAVE ACNE?"-a 16mm., 10 minute color movie for teen-agers shows how "Since the beginning, the world has presented Mexico, and the Cacahuamilpa Caves. acne comes about, how youngsters can learn to cope with it and what their doctor can do to challenges to living creatures: to crawl out The approximate cost wiii be $75.00 (U.S.) assist them. Sent on free loan (except for re­ of the sea to live on dry land, to climb trees for room and board, and $15.00 for activities turn postage) through the, manufacturers of pH!soHex®. Please give two alternate dates and mountains, to change in keeping with (excluding the additional tours). Air travel r';~;,erattgrie~epf450G~roi'J~y.LI~~'i,ry Yo~~ntW.O/ changing environn1ent. Every creature is to between the United States and Mexico City 10018. itself the center of its own universe, but it is convenient, and there are good bus and "WON DERFUL WORLD"-a 16mm color motion must have contact with all surrounding crea­ limousine services to Cuernavaca. picture. filmed in 31 countries of the . world, showing the dances of 14 countries, the sports of tures. TI1e challenge of conservation is nothing Applications will be accepted on a first­ 11, and the exotic beauties of ancient and modern less than preservation of mankind." come, first-served basis. For an application worlds ... educational, exciting. beautiful. Show­ ings of this film may be a rranged for by Troops -from a speech made by George B. form and further details, write ainnail to and Councils through their local Bottler for Coca­ Cola. Hartzog, Jr. , Director of Srta. Maria Laura Avii'ia, Guider-in-Charge, " IT'S WONDERFUL BEING A GffiL"-sensltlve National Park Service, at Camp Our Cabana, · Apartado 406, Cuemavaca, new motion pictu re on menstrual hygiene for girls Cloud Rim, Utah. Reprinted by Morelos, Mexico. 10 to 14. P roduced in beautiful color, this 16 mm. sound film runs 20 minutes. Sent on free loan pem1ission of Mr. Hartzog and of (except for return postage) from the makers of Modess®. Educational Director, Personal Pro­ Utah Girl Scout Council. Vacation fobs ducts Company, Box 6-11, Milltown, N.J. Allow 6 weeks for delivery. Give alternate date. From June 1 to August 31, 1966, Our Cabai'ia "UNDE R STANDING MOTIIER"-All adults In has two attractive job openings for registered a position to help girls between the ages of 10 Come to Ow· Cabana! and 15 cope with the delicate and complex prob­ adult members of the Girl Guide/ Girl Scout lems of growing up will find this pamphlet very Associations in their respective countries. Both helpful. Teenform, Dept. L 23, 112 West 34th St., Adult adventure session New York 1, N. Y. staff members will work under the supervision "YOU'RE REALLY COOKING WilEN YOU'RE Our Cabana's ninth Adventure Session offers of the Guider-in-Charge. They must enjoy COOKING WITH SEVEN UP!"-a booklet that tells how this popular beverage can make culi­ a special opportunity for all active Girl Guide working with girls of the Senior/ Ranger age, nary magic when added to all sorts of recipes. and Girl Scout adults (women) to have a and have qualities and skills of leadership. Those of you whose girls are planning troop par­ ties will find it full of wonderful new a nd differ­ wonderful international experience, March 7- An assistant program directar is needed to ent ideas. The Seven-Up Company, Dept. GSL, 1300 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis 3, Mo. 19, 1966. plan and carry out assigned responsibilities for "ARE YOU IN THE KNOW"-a booklet for A wann, sunny climate, an inviting swim­ activities such as campfires and ceremonies, ' teen-agers on dating, grooming, manners, poise ming pool, and gardens full of colorful and help with arts and crafts. She must be and personality. It helps young girls achieve confidence in social, school and personal situa­ tions-a quick quiz technique. It is free from the makers of Kotex Sanitary Napkins, Kimber­ ly-Clark Corporation, Educational Dept., GSL, Neenah, Wisconsin. "WORLD OF A GffiL"-A hea:lthy and happy approach to physical maturation is the goal of a booklet and a film. "World of a Girl", prepared by Scott Paper Company, makers of Confidets. Both are designed to aid young girls in under­ standing the importa nce of health and menstrual hygiene, and in coping with their emotional prob­ lems. To order free booklets for your troop and to arrange for a free film showing, write: Mrs. Cece Allison, Dept. GS. Scott Paper Company, International Airport, Philadelphia 13, Pennsyl­ vania. Are you: going to move? Give the LEADER at least five weeks' notice, so as not to miss any issue. Be sure to send your old as well as your new address and zip code number to the GIRL ScoUT LEADER, 830 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022

18 GIRL SCOUT LEADER in good physical health and be at least twenty-three years of age. Qualifications for a wate1jront director in­ clude having an up-to-date Senior Life Saving Certificate and good physical health. She must be at least twenty-one years of age. Ability to converse in Spanish would be helpful, but is not a requirement for either job. Room, board, and financial assistance of $200 are provided. There is no h·avel allow­ ance. For application and reference forms write to Srta. Maria Laura Avilla, Guider-in­ Charge, Our Cabana, at the address given above. Final selection will be made .with the approval of the International Commissione1· of the appli cant's counh-y. All applications must be received by March 1, 1966. Lost and found Several cameras and prescription eyeglasses found after the 1965 Senior Roundup still remain unclaimed. If you, or any Roundup campers you know, are missing any such articles, please write to: Miss Bernadette Mc­ Court, Girl Scouts, U.S.A., 830 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022, giving a clear description of the lost article. Any articles not claimed by February 1, 1966, will be disposed derful variety of lovely gifts awaits you in the of. Girl Scout department, for every Girl Scout on your list from Brownie to adult. Consult How to be gift-practical your Equipment Catalog for appropriate sug­ gestions. If you are looking for small h·ee­ All of a sudden, here's the holicla y season trimmers and stocking -stuffers, there's a good sneaking up on us-and the gift list looks so selection. One trip to the agency will shorten long! At your local equipment agency a won- that list! THE END

Museum Aides at the Birthplace Continued from page 10 corner of magnolia-bordered Oglethorpe Av­ "Troops learned about national and inter­ enue and Bull Street. national opporhmities. I spoke and showed More than 130 Seniors applied for this my slides. At the Cadette Preview Day national MuseLm1 Aide opportunity in 1965. luncheon I told about Senior Scouting and its Their experiences as Museum Aides in their opportunities." own councils was a prerequisite for applica­ '·I have talked about my experience and tion and consideration. The Senior Girl Scout shown my slides whenever possible-in gather­ Handbook, pages 198-99 and 210-11, fur­ ings on a councilwicle level, neighborhood and nishes the take-off point for Seniors at home district levels, ;md on the troop level. As a and in their troops who wish to become result, a Senior troop is going to visit the Museum Aides and eventually earn the coral Birthplace on the way from the Bahamas. I bar symbolizing their preparedness, skill, want to thank you for everything-making knowledge, and willingness to serve. Daisy come alive for us, enri ching our minds Their app]jcations show, too, the initiative with new horizons, letting us share good times and imagination used by Senior advisers and filled with laughter. I'm glad we can share program services personnel in matching the these experiences with other Girl Scouts. " It's no tragedy if you're the last in desire for community service with local re­ "I have gained so much. I only hope now your set to use Tampax internal sources. Communities have found need for that I can help others-open doors for them sanitary protection. For some women, qualified Seniors at national historic sites; as they have been opened for me." the Tampax decision is a very · old missions; museums in high schools, col­ In 1955, even before the old Wayne­ leges, and universities; public museums in all Gordon house was dedicated as the birthplace important one, and they often consider categories-arts, fin e arts, sciences, industries, of Ju]jette Gordon Low, it was written, "To it for quite a while! We never want technological and anthropological areas, na­ be true to her ideals and her plan for the Girl a woman to use Tampax until · tural history, and specialized collections; chil­ Scouts of the United States, the Birthplace she's ready for it. One day I' dren's and youth centers; historic houses; must provide opporhlnities for girls to talk the advantages of cleanness, : :. 1 memorial halls; public and private libraries; about their dreams, their ambitions, ways of freshness, poise, security, 1 111· instihltes of national and culh1ral origin; his­ serving their country, ways of making friends comfort will overcome your toric societies; and local historic buildings. in their school, theil: town, their country, and last lingering bit of resistance. And And what do the girls who have come to other countries .... The activities will reflect you'll find that using Tam pax is easy, Savannali as Musemn Aides take back to the the lively mind of the girl who grew up in Girl Scouts in their home councils? Here is the house when it, too, was young.... vVe thanks to the silken-smooth what some of them said: know that girls can and do learn from each applicator. But don't rush. We want "Every time I go home [from college] I other, given only the opporhmity." you to be sure you want us, because show my Birthplace slides. Last quarter I And this is a good way of summalizing we want you for keeps. gave two talks on one Saturday. Over spring what our national Mnsemn Aides mean to the Dress by-J r. Accent break I gave five talks-one to a group of Birthplace. They give life to the words and approximately two hundred fifty Scouts. Since time of Juliette Low. THE END I've been clown here, Mother has been giving For information about visiting arrangements, write TAM PAX® talks for me. Everyone has commented about to: Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, 142 Bull Street, Internal Sanitary Protection how beautiful the Birthplace is." Savannah, Gemgia 31401. MADE ONLY BYTAMPAX INCORPORATED. PA L MER, MASS.

DECEMBER 1965 19 Just what you wanted

"Consume1's All" holiday season right up until Twelfth Night, or Epiphany. Most of the decorations use natural Crammed full of most useful information, materials-nuts, pods, cones, fruits, vegetables, Consumers All-The Yearbook of Agriculture evergreen, and all are very tastefully pre­ 1965, released by the U.S. Department of sented. ( Hearthside Press, Inc., 118 East 28th Agriculture, provides help for all Girl Scout Su·eet, New York, New York 10016; 1964; leaders. vVhether an inexperienced Brownie $4.95. ) leader wants help on such questions as "Is Although published several years ago, A it safe to leave canned food in the can?" Ne w Look at Ch1·istm.as Decomtions, by Sister or a Senior patrol working on a service project M. Gratia Listaite, S.S.C., and Norbert Hilde­ wants information on the basic points of land­ brand, remains a worthwhile resomce because scaping, Consumers All has the required in­ of its unusual approach : international friend­ formation. The book is useful to all girls and ship. It looks at Christmas from the standpoint adults who buy and use food, clothing, and of the stories, legends, customs, and decora­ household furnishings; to Seniors interested in tions of twentv-five counu·ies of the world. the Operation Dream-Futmes project and There are ' directions for Danish hearts, money management; to Cadettes working on Swedish straw goats, Gennan paper stars, and Conservation, Explorer, Family Camper many other decorations not always as authen­ badges, or the Challenge of Emergency Pre­ tic folk arts as these, but whicl1 give one a paredness; to Juniors who are earning the flavor of the country they represent. Health Aiel or Toymaker badges. It's also There are stories and histories of the wreath, about improving our conmmnities, staying the Chrisunas tree, and the creche; excellent healthy, protecting our wil,cllife, and interna­ drawings of the decorations and how to make tional friendship, and has a chapter on exotic them, and several color photographs of trees foods from other countries. The diversity of from various countries, complete with people subjects covered is so great that only a partial in the native costume. In short, it is a valuable listing can be included here. little volume not only for the decorations de­ Highly recommended for camp and council picted, but for all the other ideas it affords I ibraries, as well as for troop leaders and pro­ for dramatics, pageants, parties, festivals, dis­ neret Chiel (Friendly House Publishers, 65 gram consultants. Available for $2.75 from cussion groups, research , as well as home or Suffolk Street, New York, New York 10002; the Superintendent of Docwnents, Govern­ comnnmity decoration. (Bruce Publishing 1959; $3.00 ), both interesting and informa­ ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Company, 400 North Broadway, Milwaukee tive. In it, Hanukkah's many dimensions are 20402, or free on request from your Congress­ 1, Wisconsin; 1957; $4.95.) brought together, so that young people of any man or Senator as long as hi s supply lasts. faith can gain a meaningful understanding of Holiday books the spirit of this heroic holiday. F 01· holiday times The Second Cl11·istmas, by Louis Unter­ Sometil11es in tl1e excitement of decorating meyer ( Hallmark Cards, Inc., 2501 McGee "Deck the halls . . . " at holiday tilne, children forget the deeper Trafficway, Kansas City, Missouri 64141 ; meaning of the season for which they are 1965; $2.50 ), is a beautiful story by a dis­ Designs foT a Family Christmas, by Ernestine preparing. TI1e following books will help keep tin!j\uished American poet. It brings out the Coffey and Dorothy Minton, is an excellent the joy and reverent spirit of the two great enduring quality of the true spirit of Christ­ addition to the holiday season. It contains holidays tl1at are upon us-Hanukkal1 (De­ mas. This is a "read-to" book for Brownies ideas and directions for indoor and outdoor cember 19 this year ) and Christmas (Decem­ and Juniors and a beautiful gift book. The decorations, gifts, tree ornaments; garden sug­ ber 25 ). story is an excellent one for dramatizing. gestions for birds; ideas for trilmning anything Believing that children can be led to caTe Seniors and Cadettes would enjoy reading and everything. Recipes, ceremonies, tradi­ and shaTe, tl1e American Friends Service from American Christmas, edited by Webster tions, activities are also included for the entire Committee has prepared a packet of service Schott and Robert J. Myers ( also published projects, "Caring and Sharing at Chrishnas by Hallmark Cards, Inc.; 1965; $2.95). This and Hanukkai1." Of special interest to Girl book is a fine example of the printer's and Scout troops is the "Look-and-Tell Pictmes" binder's art. It contains poems by forty-eight project for pre-school children in Operation American poets, celebrating the beauty and Headstart. This inexpensive gift of basic teach­ wonder of Ch1istmas time. ing materials can be prepared by troops for Christmas-An American Annual of Christ­ a younger group of children, perhaps in the mas Literature and Art, edited · by Randolph , same school, church, synagogue, or neighbor­ E. Haugan, is a browsing book for all ages. hood. The directions are clearly given, and This thirty-fiftl1 anniversary edition contaills, the result is not just another scrapbook but among its many beautifully illustrated pages, ' a real teaching tool for those helping disad­ an article on "The Clu·ishnas Story in vantaged pre-school children catch up before Stamps." Of particular note to troops also is they fall behind their peers. the section on Christmas customs· around the In addition to the service projects, the book­ world. ( Augsburg Publishing House, 426 let lists resources for Chrisunas and Hanuk­ South Fifth Street, !11inne.c'1 polis, Minnesota kah. They include stories, songs, games, ideas 55415; 1965; $1.50.) for creative handwork, and suggestions for earning and saving in order to share. ( Chil­ Playing it safe dren's Program, American Friends Service Committee, 160 North Fifteenth Street, Phila­ "Stay alive and whole for the Jun that is • delphia, Pennsylvania 19102; 1965; 25 cents.) ahead," advises Van Brocklin in a "Teen-Age For Brownie and Junior troops, Chanuko­ Safety Checklist" compiled and edited witl1 Th e Festival of Lights, by Sophia Cedarbaum his help by the National Society for Crippled (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Children and Adults. 838 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York The checklist points out that every 10021; 1960; 75 cents ), is an attractively year more ilian 12,000 teen-agers are killed illustrated, simple story of two children plan­ in accidents and many more thousands • ning and celebrating tl1is festival. are crippled or severely injured. The list Leaders, Cadettes, and Seniors will find points up a few simple rules that n1ay mean From The ComjJlete Book of Hanukkah The Complete Book of Hanukkah, by Kin- the difference of a lifetime. Free single copies

20 GTRL SCOUT LEADER may be obtained from Easter Seal societies in From The Second Christmas every state or from the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, 2023 West Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60612. Ow · flag, our anthem The pamphlet Pmudly W e Hail, by Art La Cour, should be of interest to all age levels. It gives the origin of The Star-Spangled Banner, both the flag and the song. There are graphic illustrations and good historical notes about how Francis Scott Key came to write our national anthem. Many little-known facts are made to come alive, and infonnation about flag etiquette is also included. (Rampart Productions, 57 Ringwood Court, Pompton Gleaming New Lakes, New Jersey; 1965; 29 cents, plus 5 cents postage and handling.) Aluminum Foil Packages L anguages, anyone? Featured In Quinto Lingo is the well-coined name of a new magazine written in five languages : Eng­ lish, German, French, Spanish, and Italian­ FFV'S and sometimes Portuguese. Published twelve times a year, the content of each issue is laid out in columns, each ,column presenting NEW 1966 identical material, but in different languages. This arrangement makes it easy to cross-check that will improve the quality of education." and increase one's facility in each. At the While primarily directed to classroom teachers bottom of most coltmms are listed some of and other school personnel, tl1e articles it con­ COOKIE the important words appearing above. Each tains can provide for leaders of Junior Girl issue has a theme to which most of the articles Scouts valuable insight into some of the new refer. Thus tl1e reader's knowledge of the directions in teaching social studies, reading, subject expands as tlle new languages are science, mathematics, and the arts. The con­ PLAN absorbed. Quinto Lingo is recommended for tributions of each of eleven authors from the Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts, and for adults field of education reflect tl1e same concern as interested in increasing their facility in lan­ New cookies, beautiful new package that of Girl Scout leaders: the growth of each designs and colors-in gleaming alumi­ guages. (Quinto Lingo, 4 West 16th Street, child as an individual. num foi l that projects the quality New York, New York 10011; $5.00 for one The discussions on school grouping prac­ image, and protects the oven-fresh year's subscription.) tices, individualizing studies, and selecting goodness. New promotion aids for both learning experiences, and the section on order taking, and direct sales. See Resource fo1· Junior leaders "Values in the World of Nine to Twelve Year t hem now ! Old" can provide the leader with much food Intermediate Education-Changing Dimensions for thought. (Association for Childhood Edu­ Assorted Sandwich Cookies is a new eighty-page booklet designed "to cation International, 3615 Wisconsin Avenue, Girl Scout Mint Cookies assist those guiding children from the ages N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016; 1965; $1.25.) Butter Flavored Shorties nine to twelve to make the basic decisions THE END Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies Phis: NEW Sugar and Spice Cookies

Action on the Promise Continued from page 6 Cookie Chairman: ~ cause girls of this age level are just beginning Cadettes and the "image" of Scouting to think for themselves, things were usually r !!::!_t_:_h!:_~~o::._~~ ~~ either all wrong or all right for them. Too 'When the discussion got around to visits often Scouting is just fun, playing around, en­ made to Cadette troops, once again the same SOUTHERN BIS CUIT COMPANY joyment. Leaders have a tendency to "keep words seemed to echo through all the camps GIRL SCOUT COOKIE DIVISION girls busy," but Seniors felt that was not - words like "dropouts," "outside conflicts," TERMINAL PLACE , RICHMOND, VI RGI NIA enough for the Junior Girl Scout. She is begin­ and "Their itnage of Scouting is not strong Please send me sales kit and compl ete informa­ ning to face growing-up problems as she is enough." Here again, Seniors seemed to agree tion regard ing the FFV Gi rl Scout Cookie Pl an. moving into womanhood. She feels a desper­ that everywhere they went on their Cadette ate need to conform. She wants to be popu­ visits, they got the feeling that leaders didn't lar with her peers and so feels very insecure realize the potential of tl1e Cadette. It' was the about herself in her Scout uniform in school. general opinion that these girls are capable of NAME OF COU NCIL OR LO NE TROOP For all these reasons the Roundup gi~·ls con­ planning much of their own program. Since curred that it was time for leaders to be firm they are approaching Senior Scouting, they in their guidance, to interpret the Girl Scout should carry more responsibility for them­ YOU R NAME Laws for Juniors and with them, so that these selves. They need to see themselves in rela­ same Laws could become guidelines. And as tion to Brownies and Juniors so they can TITLE guidelines they could also become answers appreciate their maturity. They need the con­ to some of the problems the girls face. Junior fidence and self-respect tlley can gain by I ADDRES S Girl Scouts could be encouraged by their lead­ assisting their younger sisters and being looked I ers to realize that it is more important to be up to by them. And they should meet with I CITY STATE and work with Seniors as often as possible. ready to stand up for what they believe than Check one : 0 Lone Troop 0 Counci l to succumb to the easy solution of conformity. In this way Cadettes could identify them­ I Once again the Roundup girls felt that they selves as the "older" Girl Scouts- important in I could serve the leaders as aides in Junior the eyes of tlle younger troops, respected in I 1 Remember to chec k all money ea rning pla ns with yo ur troops, camping with Juniors, sharing skills the eyes of the Seniors, and, more importantly, cou ncil finance com mittee or yo ur lone troop committee. with them, and giving tl1em a taste of what in tlleir own eyes. The Promise and Laws I lies ahead as they grow up with Scouting. could be woven for them into actqal behavior L------DECEMBER 1965 21 decisions to be made, in the community serv­ of yellow hats tilted up toward Mrs. Herbert Declaration of Independence, these Seniors ices they give, and in their own attitudes to C. Schuckle, key speaker and Roundup Chair­ finally found words to express their "declara­ themselves as young women in the commu­ man. Seniors with intent expressions listened tion." It was to be a declaration of commit­ nity. to a stirring, inspired, yet tough speech. Mrs. ment, a promise from them to Girl Scouting, Schuckle came to grips with actual girl-size to be carried out back home. What 'Seniors said about the Promise problems, decisions that Seniors have to make The Senior Scouts of tl1e 1965 Roundup are Now Seniors began to talk about themselves. and live with every clay of their lives. challenging councils all over the United States. These Ratmdup girls did much soul-searching. "When we promise to obey the Girl Scout At a National Council meeting Seniors once They were very honest about themselves and Laws," Mrs. Schuckle said, "we endorse a set pleaded, "Use us-or lose us." Today, Senior the Senior troops they visited. They tried to of values. Each of the Girl Scout Laws em­ Girl Scouts are inspired, committed, ready to look as objectively as possible at their sister bodies a basic principle, and it is not until act. In their declaration, they say: Scouts. One girl described her experience in we really understand the basic principles be­ "We need the assistance of the National her own Senior troop: hind the Laws, believe that they are right, Organization and local councils to endorse and "It was awkward at first. The kids that and accept them as our own code of conduct fully support this project." hadn't been chosen for Roundup were kind of that we can live them with any degree of Eacl1 Senior is bringing back to her council hurt, and pretended they were not interested personal conviction and success." and to her sister Scouts in troops her sense in discussing the Promise and Laws, but after After the speech, five hundred campers rose of rededication. She is brimming over with a while, they forgot they felt that way be­ to their feet, clapping and · cheering. They ideas and with the energy to carry them out. cause we all got so interested. And from then understood, they were inspired, they were Listen to tl1ese girls, encourage tl1em. Invite on we had the best exchange of ideas we've ready for the "action" part of the project. them to share their inspiration witl1 the coun­ ever had in the troop. 'We came up with some Buzz groups, questions and answers, problem cil's board of directors. Respect their advice very good suggestions: ( 1 ) Councils should situations, exciting statements . .. girls chal­ to leaders. If all councils will help tl1e return­ have a planning board member attend meet­ lenged the speaker, the panel. The forum ing Senior put her own Promise into action, ings of the board of directors. ( 2 ) Senior ended in a crescendo of an approaching Idaho tl1ey will find that she also brought the Round­ planning boards should list their qualifications wind and rain squall, which sent girls scurry­ up home to them as well. for a good leader. ( 3 ) Councils should make a ing in all directions. The declaration ends with these words: particular effort to encourage Seniors to read "The entire body of Senior Scouts who at­ and use the LEADER magazine. ( 4) Seniors ~nd finally- commitment tended Roundup must act as a united corps, should have more public recognition for their In a small tent, huddled over a patrol table, spreading the Promise and Laws throughout achievements." This Senior continued, "Our a dozen girls, earnest, dedicated, moved, tried the land, igniting a fire in each Senior, so that meeting went on and on. Everyone was inter­ out words and phrases to set down on paper. no Scout may be left without guidance in liv­ ested and involved. When we finally wound This was to be the paper that each Roundup ing the ideals she has adopted as a member of up, we all felt really l!Plifted, sort of as if girl would take back to her own council for Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. " we'd all just come from church." her return troop visits. They worked by _ Here is a truly.~ilt - edged promissory note. The days of Roundup unfolded one by candlelight (the storn1 had knocked out ·the If each council will invest it wisely and well, one. It was the clay of the last major forum, electricity). Like our Founding Fathers in its potential dividends will surely emich all "Living the Principles We Believe." Hundreds 1776, struggling for words to express their girls in all troops everywhere. THE END

Trends in day cam ping Continuecl 'from page 9 A twilight camp from 5:00 to 10:00 P.M. or camping. This group of key staff members ( witl1 emphasis on sailing), site ell:ploration, a night camp from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 A.M. and unit leaders serves in several clay camps and archaeological digs; widening circles; serves Senior Scouts who wish to be gainfully operated throughout tl1e council. Recruitment troubadour (music, dancing, singing, and employed and still participate in a Girl Scout concerns are lessened as tl1e trained core staff dramatics), homestead (to practice advanced camping e;:cpedence. is available for all camps. Overhead costs, camping skills ), operation emergency pre­ Troop (unit) placement more consistently such as transportation, are decreased, since paredness (with consultants from an Amly or reflects the age range of each level of the girls can attend day camp in their own com­ Naval Base ), heritage trails, archery, Indian program. Serious thought and evaluation of munities. campcrafts, adobe, backpack, and saddle. the timing of bridging is being made by Basic to tl1ese special interests is the Girl councils: If girls have bridged in the spring The Girl Scout program in the day Scout program, the six elements of the foun­ but have not participated in troop activities camp setting dation pervading all activities. and the form of troop management of the The full use of the Brownie ring and the Cadette Girl Scouts have told us, "Day next age level, where are tl1ey placed? Should pab·ol system in living, planning, and doing camp isn't always fun ; it isn't exciting; we Brownie units be composed of only one age is evident. The equipment, formerly available do the same tiling over and over. Day camp group? Does the introduction to, and learning for full-unit use, is now divided or replaced shouldn't have as its purpose just earning about, the new age level take place in the for patrol-size groups. Unit sites are developed badges; it should be fun. We don't want year-round troop setting, or in a special fly-up to serve four patrols. The unit group selects everytl1ing planned for us." "Vile want to plan unit at camp? its site; each patrol selects its patrol site within what we want to do; we want to feel that tl1e unit. we accomplished sometl1ing; we 'want ilie Staff A day camp can no longer be described opportunity to learn that if we don't cook In councils where clay camps operate for four, within the tin1e span of 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 we won't eat; we want to do different things six, or eight weeks and camper attendance P.M. One- or two-day overnights on the clay - activities that are more advanced; we want ranges from 100 to 250 campers, tl1ere is in­ camp site, the council's established or troop to choose and decide." Successful Cadette creasing indication that staff members receive camp site, or a public site are the cuhninating units do exist when tl1e girls: ' remuneration. The compensation is based on a adventures to skills well learned. Since tl1is • select their own site "away from other definite system of salary range and increment. activity is considered in the recruibnent and campers and the noises of htmlan nature"; On the other hand, councils with a long­ employment of tl1e staff, different units may • meet the challenge of setting. up their established procedure of compensation for clay participate in this activity each night of tl1e campsite; camp staff members have studied their year­ day camp operation. The "all-camp overnight" • are given responsibility, such as training round recruibnent plan. Since the Girl Scout quickly disappears from the scene. Day-and­ the Brownie Girl Scouts who volunteered at program is carried on through activities in the stay units are .also on the increase. The girls the camp council meeting to conduct the one home, the arts, and the out-of-doors, partici­ participate in the planning activities of a unit all-camp flag ceremony of the session; pation in outdoor activities is built into the during the day. In the evening, they have the • take on a more independent role of recruitment plan and ongoing responsibilities opportunity to form their own unit and enjoy adulthood and plan and prepare ltmch for of all troop leaders. Thus, acceptance of a additional experiences, including sleeping their guests, the Senior tmit; or plan and volunteer position on a leadership level carries overnight at camp for five or more days. carry out an overnight to whicl1 they invite, with it the expectancy to serve as a day camp This is a time of specialization in education, as guest members of their patrols, the sixtll­ staff member. in interest. Special interest units and/ or patrols graders who will join as Cadette Girl Scouts The recruitment and employment of a core are available for girls who wish to extend and in the fall; · staff to operate mobile day can1ps make it develop· their knowledge and interest in a • are "doing" things, such as making cos­ possible for more girls to experience day specific activity-performing arts, Madner tumes using natural dyes;

22 GIRL SCOUT LEADER • are "learning" outdoor cooking and opportunity to learn new skills-to learn to other skills, all reflecting progression; open and close a knife and to use it to cut • are "going"-hiking, backpacking. a green stick to toast marshmallows or to With such opportunities available, there is make a fuzz stick to start the fire; to hike no need to develop a camper aide training to different places; to cook different meals. for Cadettes, which, they say, does not meet A third-year day camper, just completing one their interests, abilities, or desires. year of Junior Girl Scouting, whose mother Senior Scouts, too, want "to do things" asked her, "Sweetie, day camp starts tomor­ with other girls their age as well as to serve. row; aren't you going?" replied, ''I'm going A day camp Program Aide caravan for Seniors next week. I already have two sit-upons." Yes, there are trends in day camping. A was developed by one council. Program Aide trend toward introducing girls to Girl Scout­ training was given on a councilwide basis ing through day camping. Special invitations prior to the day camp operation. This troop­ sent to all girls on waiting lists invite them It's PUNCH TIME! size caravan of Senior Scouts moved from day to enjoy Girl Scouting through day camping Try this one at your next meeting camp to day camp during the entire season, until there is room for more. A trend to setting up their own unit on each site and giving all girls who attend day camp an out­ eherry remaining there overnight. In addition to door experience in the -Girl Scout program continuing their Program Aide training and that- cola fizz giving service to each day camp, they were • does not rely on a crutch of themes, able to enjoy and develop activities based on 5- 12 oz bottles Cola schedules, ceremonies, and the need to "keep 3- 12 oz bottles cherry soda the resources of each site. As a way to interest girls busy" while a consultant teaches the art 2- 12 oz bottles cream soda new girls in Senior Girl Scouting, another of making crepe-paper flowers; 2-12 oz bottles lemon-lime soda council recruited, interviewed, and selected • does represent the six elements of the 1 oz lemon juice high school girls who had assisted in Bible foundation through challenging girl-planned 1 oz lime juice schools or recreational agencies (many of activities; 1 quart canned pineapple juice whom were former Girl Scouts). TI1ese girls • does give gu·ls a "chance at harder (Serves 20) participated in training offered by the council things to do; a chance to test their wings on Ju st the thing to " punch " up children's and then joined the •S enior Scouts in theu> the unfinished and the new." 0 THE END refreshment time, This punch is bubbl ing Program Aide unit at day camp. over with that extra special zip and flavor only pure, refresh ing carbonated beverages Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts too need • From the closing ceremony by Kathryn Allen can provide . Send for free booklet of soft this sense of progression and challenge. For Johnson for the National Convention in San F ran­ drink punch rec ipes for both party and new or returning campers , there must be the cisco, 1955 . mealtime use. EARN EXTRA MONEY for your group with a conducted round -up of empty soft-drink bottles in your area. Contact your local Speak your mind bottler for full details. Kudos fo1· Clinic . . . Some of the Brownies' older sisters are American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages in my Junior Scout troop, so they help with 1128 Sixteenth Street, N.W. Cocoa, Florida their younger sisters, and both the troops are Washington, D.C. 20036 Since I fu·st became a Girl Scout leader three benefiting from it. I have never regretted be­ years ago, I have had a lot to learn. Your ing a leader. Not once. Problem Clinic column has been a tremendous -Mrs. R N. Bullard help. So often I have felt that it was written your to me personally. A year and a half ago, I C abafi a memories went from leader of a Brownie troop to leader of a Cadette troop. With plenty of help, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania troop among which the L EADER magazine is of pri­ I was very glad to read that Om Cabana is mary importance, I am enjoying Scouting continuing to have Adventure Sessions for more all the time. adults. I went to the first one in the fall of makes -Mrs. L. J. Jerome '61 and have many pleasant memories : inter­ Cadette leader national flag ceremonies . . . tmtillas, tacos, 45% and enchiladas . . . pinata . . . Taxco . . _ People love "BB" Almo ndeere s, No 1·egrets Mexican Folklore Ballet . .. Floating Gardens Malties and Bridge Mix - the on ly of Xochimilco . . . Popocatepetl and Iztac­ on ca ndy officially licensed by the Gi rl Texarkana, Arkansas cihuatl . . . and of course, best of all, the Scouts. And your troop makes al­ I have eleven children of my owi:I, six of many friendships I have made with Guide and most 11 dollars on a ca se . Th at's Girl Scout - leaders from Canada, Scotland, them are in Scouting and another to start each 45 % profit, guaranteed, beca11se Guatemala, Colombia, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, soon. I have two boys, one fowteen, who will you can return wh at you don't sell. be advancing to Explorers this month; a boy and half of the States. thirteen, in Boy Scouts. My oldest daughter, -Dorothy M. Schwartz 50C We impri nt your troop identificatipn twelve, is a Cadette. Two daughters, ten and on each box at no cost to you . This eleven, are going into Junior Girl Scouts, and [EDI TOR,S NOTE: See p . 18 for an announcement of is a re al money-earning plan to cl ea r one daughter, eight, is in Brownies. the ninth Ad venture Session at Our Cabana .] bOX! with your local cou~cil! Now it's been a year since that fateful day MAIL COUPON FOR FREE SAMPLES that I became a Brownie leader. At tunes I've Bouquet fo1· Octobe1· issue felt I wasn't doing a very good job, but when ------,Gi rl Scout Sales I school began in the fall, I still had my old Memphis, Tennessee BLUMENTHAL BROS. CHOCOLATE CO. troop members, plus several new ones. Congratulations on the excellent October issue Margaret & J a m es Sts., Phila., Pa . 19 137 I am a Girl Scout leade r. Please send There has been a crying need for a Junior of the L EADER! There was something in it for informatio n a nd free samples Girl Scout leader for several years. I decided every Gu-1 Scout leader, with practical advice D Al m ondeeres D Ma ltie s D Bridge Mix to take the plunge again. I am now leader of and help hints on program which certainly two troops. My Brownies are still the same will enrich individual troop activities. The NAME------girls, yet there is a pleasant difference. They leaders will find this issue particularly helpful are more willing to work together, not so in those areas of the Junior and Cadette age ADD RES~------much "attention conscious." Also, the mothers levels which occasionally baffle them. are more helpful, realizing more and more vVe are sending a copy to our United CITY ______what Scouting means. By the time we cele­ Funds so they can see the support given by brate our second year of Brownies and first the Girl Scout organization. STATE ______year of Juniors, I know we will be better - Virginia Jones Scouts, working together as an organized Executive Director ------~ Make sure you clear all money earni ng with your coun ­ team. Ah yes, we use the open-end system. Tenn-Ark-Miss Council cil finance comm ittee or lone troop committee. DECEMBER 1965 23 Author! Author! Success stories "Action on the Promise" by Margery L. Malsin (Mrs. Theodore R.) is the long-awaited report on the are many. These Girl Scouts are becoming findings of Rounduppers Unique community action familiar with the work of local and world­ who visited troops in their What Senior Girl Scout would ever think she famous artists. They are learning to work home councils to discover better with children and adults, and they what putting the Promise would serve as a Museum Aide or an Office Aide in a converted jail? Seniors of the Mid­ are promoting the Girl Scout image. in action meant to girls of land Empire Council find themselves doing each age level. Mrs. Mal- Malsin just that. sin has attended two Sen- Clothing fo1· mfugees The city of Billings, Montana, after build­ ior Roundups, working ing a new jail, was left with a large, two-story The front line is in South Viemam, but some with girls on fonm1 s in Vermont and Idaho. She.i s building, which they decided to convert into four hundred Girl Scouts in Buckeye Trails an art center. 'With a vote of confidence from Council ( Dayton, Ohio) are making their a member of the Region II the people of the city, volunteers began tear­ contribution to the war effort in the fonn of Committee and formerly ing clown the cells, painting and plastering served as President of the clothing. A soldier from Dayton, stationed in the interior, and landscaping the grounds. All Northern 'Westchester Girl South Vietnam, started the drive to aid refu­ funds came from individual donations and all gees, and the girls have provided a continuing Sco ut Council. Mrs. Mal- work was vohmteer. sin has been a troop lead- supply of used clothes. They read of the need The bars were left on all the windows as a er and a volunteer train er. in a newspaper item last winter, too near safeguard to valuable paintings on display. Chrish11as 1964 to get the project under way The windows behind the bars were caked at that time. The decision was made to cele­ "Badges on Health and with years of dirt and dust. Here is where brate Girl Scout Week by beginning the Safety" by Mary M. Weeks the first Senior Scouts, (Troop 102) stepped project in iV!arch. Since then the Girl Scouts suggests activities that can in. They offered their services wherever they have mailed twelve boxes to South Vieb1am. strengthen the teachings might be needed in the remodeling job. They Their biggest problem has been earning of home and schooL Miss were put to work washing the many windo~ s money for stamps, sin ce the cost of mailing Weeks is a specialist in in the new art center. It was hard wet work, packages to Vieh1am is ·high. To earn the the national Program Dc­ but now sunshine filters thwugh the bars. necessary money the girls have washed dishes, parh11 ent. She was a \Vhen the art center opened, Senior Girl shined shoes, baby-sat, and clone other chores. Weeks Y. vV . C ..A. professional Scout Museum Aides and Office Aides be­ One seven-year-old Brownie contributed two worker for many years be­ came known to Billings art lovers. After five four-cent stamps! At the time of writing, the fore joining the Girl Scout hours' training each girl was qualified to tell girls had raised and spent $55.00 for postage. national st,Uf in 1950. Miss guests the facts about the center. Now the They are sending a number of boxes this vVeeks is a graduate of the girls act as smiling receptionists, greeting Chrisb11as, containing soap, toothpaste, toys, University of Iowa and re­ guests and passing out pamphlets. They guide and picture books as well as clothing. Photo­ ceived her master's degree interested people through the large display graphs of a "give-away day" in a Vi etnamese from Columbia Uni versity. rooms, the smaller art rooms, and the audi­ village were sent to the participating Girl torium on the second floor, where in the Scouts, along with a lette1· from the soldier Doris M. Biggio brings us future there will be a stage for dramatic and from Dayton. He said, "I cannot express the up to elate on "Trends in other productions. On Saturdays, Aides house­ pride I have in you young people for your Day Camping." Miss Big­ clean the building, dusting displays and scrub­ concern for unfortunate people in a faraway gio is a program specialist bing floors. The girls are also helping in land whom you may never hope to meet. Your in the national Camping children's art classes, passing materials, clean­ generosity and unselfish efforts are outstand­ Division. Before joining ing up, and performing other useful tasks . ing qualities that are typical of good American the national staff in 1964, The benefits of serving at the art center citizens." she was associated with . . the Girl Scout Council of Refugee children in South Vietnam hold clothing sent by Girl Scouts Greater New York for ten years. Miss Biggio began her Scouting career after graduation from Barnard College. She has been a fi eld adviser and served as executive director of the Trenton (New Jersey) Council of Girl Scouts.

Robertine K. McClendon, Director of the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, tells us about the imagi­ native service being clone by Senior Scouts chosen to be "Museum Aides at the Birthplace." Miss iVIc­ Clenclon has been assistant McClendon director of the Edith Macy Training Center. She was also executive director of Girl Scout councils in · Raleigh, North Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

24 GIRL SCOUT LEADER STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION Dote of Fil ing: Oct. I , 1965 Title of Publication, GIRL SCOUT LEADER Frequency of Issue: Monthly except July, August & September location of Known Office of Publication: 830 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022 location of the Headquarters of the Publishers: Some a s above Name and address of Publisher: Esther R. Bien, 830 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022 Ed itor: Virginia Greene, some address as above Managing Editor: Tillie W . Green, same address a s above Owner: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., 830 Th ird Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022, a non-profit corporation Known Bondholders, Mortgages, and Other Security Holders: None CIRCULATION Average no. copies S ing le issue neares t to Seniors practice for their annual carol sing on the waterways of Miami p r~~~~ i, ;~s '1_~ dn~~~~W1 s filing dat e A. Total No. of Copies Printed (ne t press run) 6 29,295 6 1 8,835 B . Paid Circulation 1. Sal es through d ea lc1·s the ladies to help them u·im it. As a favor and cal'l'ie rs, s treet ve n · Ca1'0le1·s ahoy! dors a nd co unter sa les - 0 - - 0- for each resident they made a Santa Claus in 2. Mail s ul.> sc1·iptions 629, 2!)5 618,835 C. Total Pa id C irc ulation 6 2 9,295 61 8,835 About the time the rest of the country starts his sleigh. The entire troop visited the home D. Free Dis tributio n (in­ cluding s ample s) by m a il, getting out winter underwear, Girl Scouts of and entertained their friends with carols. TI1ey catTier 01· oth er means - 0- -0- E. Total Dis tdbution (Stun Miami (Tropical Florida Council) are ready­ also visited other shut-ins, and shared their o r C and D) 6 2 9,2 9 5 6 1 8,835 F' . Ofrice U se. Le ft-o ver, ing their canoes and practicing songs for carol singing with a family from Costa Rica Unaccounted. Spoiled _spending their first Christmas in this country. after P 1·inting - 0- Christmas carol singing O'n the Miami canals. G. Total (Sum of E & F- While they were making Santa Claus s hould equal net p1·ess Senior Troop 46 is a Mariner troop, twenty of run s ho wn in A) 629,295 6 18,835 favors, they made enough to supply the Easter whose members play the guitar quite well. I certify that the statements made by me above ore Their three-hour carol sing up and down the Seal Rehabilitation Center, so each child who correct and complete. came for a treabnent dming the holiday sea­ SIGNED, Esther R. Bien, waterways has become a tradition. Three Girl Publisher Scouts ride in each of their nine canoes. They son would receive a small gift to take home. harmonize all the Noel favorites as they glide along in formation to the accompaniment of Recognition cm·tificates their guitars and the jingle of sleigh bells. These Mariners not only observe Coast Guard For the third successive year, Northern Pine rules of the sea but "go ,one better" on the Council (Duluth, Minnesota ) offered (free) red-flashing-lights rule, rigging the canoes to its Senior troop advisers a locally designed with reflectors shaped like Christmas trees. Graduation Certificate for their Senior Girl Florida's balmy winter climate inspired an­ Scouts graduating from high school in 1965. other holiday outing in Fort Lauderdale These are presented annually to the Seniors (Broward Council) , when Senior Troop 270 in a special recognition ceremony. Some troops roll the certificates and tie them with white planned an evening carol sing through the waterways. This was a coed event, which or green ribbon. Others place them in a simple frame. All reports are most favorable took place on a sight-seeing boat. The girls about the use of this recognition. planned the entire project, inviting the boys, The first year it was presented, the fonn hiring the boat, buying the refreshments, and won first place in the local Craftsman Fair providing the songbooks. The well-loved songs and received second place at the State Fair. floated out on the evening air, to the pleasure This year the insignia was applied with a DON'T THROW AWAY of all who heard them. Everyone on board en­ STOPI steel engraving stamp created by a boy as a joyed the trip, including the captain, the mate, special assignment from a "gentleman volun­ the advisers and their husbands, and a hus­ those CHRISTMAS CARDS! teer." [Continued on page 26] Turn them into exciting gifts and crafts. Hurry, band-and-wife team from the troop committee. subscribe now to get ideas galore in the January "Peace ... good will" Packo·Fun· When Cadette Girl Scouts of Troop 4, Otaki PACK·O-FUN is the only Scrapcraft magazine. " It's • crammed with hundreds of fantastic ideas for turning Council (Cape Girardeau, Missouri), decided throwaways suc h as Christmas cards into . ba skets, to work on the Challenge of Active Citizen­ favors and decorations. All of PACK·O·FUN's 10 exciting • issues ea ch year show you how to convert everyday ship, they asked themselves what they could throwaways like plastic bottles, spools, newspapers, do, with their knowledge, to benefit others milk cartons, etc. into Gifts, Toys, Games, Bazaar items, Knick-knacks, Place Cards and Household Items and demonstrate good citizenship. Since "To -plus Skits and Stunts. help other people at all times" is the second PACK·O·FUN magazine is edited part of the Girl Scout Promise, it seemed especially for Hobby·Crafters, Teachers, Den Mothers, Group fitting to "adopt" a boarding home, which leaders, Church Workers, the patrols of the troop took turns in visiting Therapists and Entire Families. each month. An understanding of the founda­ SUBSCRIBE NOW. tion elements of the Girl Scout program was FREE IDEA BOOK excellent preparation for the wonderful ex- II you subscribe now to sa periences ahead. . PACK·O·FUN •• 1 year only In October the girls decorated a pumpkin PACK-0-FUN, Dept. 205, Park Ridge, Illinois. for Hallowe'en, and in November they pre­ Payment enclosed for PACK-0-FUN subscription: pared a large basket of fruit to give the ladies. 0 $3 for 1-Year 0 $5 for 2-Years (Save $1) With each visit, friendship and understanding Also send my FREE "99-PLUS PLASTIC between the two age groups grew. .PROJECTS" book under separate cover. As the Christmas season approached, the girls were getting excited. "What can we do to bring more joy to our friends?" They de­ cided to make decorations and ornaments for an "old-fashioned" Christmas tree and ask CITY, STATE, ZIP

DECEMBER 1965 25 Troops used these opportunities to c~k all kinds of outdoor meals, from roasting marshmallows to baking tinfoil "Srmday din­ ners." Each week the girls learned to identify different kinds of trees in winter. The colorful sight of girls in bright jackets climbing up and down the paths and their cheerful songs around the campfires will long be remem­ bered. A P1·omise 1·emembm·ed "Nun Will Take Scouting to Wilds" was 'the heading of an item in The Hartford Times, telling about Sister Leo Joseph, a fonner Girl Scout, who has gone as a missionary sister to Bolivia, where she is now teaching catechetics to the Aymara Indians in a small village. As a Girl Scout, Sister Leo Joseph attended Winding Trails Camp (Connecticut Yankee Council, Farmington, Connecticut), later be­ coming a counselor at Rocky Cove Camp. Her enthusiasm for Girl Scouting may lead to the establishment of a Girl Guide Company on the shores of Mapiri River. As a parting gift, Connecticut Yankee Cormcil presented the Sister with a set of Girl Scout handbooks. She wiil be in touch with the National As­ sociation of the Girl Guides of Bolivia. "Opemtion Dolls" to repair. However, so many other Girl Scouts wanted to help that additional trips were Girl Scouts of Rochester and Genesee Valley made to the. firehouse until a total of seven Juniors afloat responded with overwhelming enthusiasm to hundred dolls were picked up. We all know how easily fathers get involved a call from the firemen of Rochester, New Inasmuch as most troops already had in the Girl Scout program. When one's dad York, for help with a Christmas service project Christmas projects in progress, the extra work happens to be a Commander in the United last year. It started the second week in De­ had to be done by the girls individually at States Navy, remarkable opportunities may cember when firemen from Engine 15 broad­ home. They washed and repaired the dolls, present themselves, as they did to Junior Girl cast a call for assistance in renovating the fixed their hair, washed and mended their Scout Troop 694, Greater Tidewater Council, old dolls they had collected for distribution clothes, and, where necessary, made new out­ Norfolk, Virginia. to needy children. With Christmas only three fits. The father of one of the girls, Command­ weeks away, they could not possibly repair "Operation Dolls," as the project was de­ ing Officer of the U.S.S. "Mullinnix," flag­ the hundreds of dolls stockpiled in the fire­ scribed by the local television station, lasted ship of a destroyer squadron, played host to house. just ten days. 'Vhen it was over, seven hun­ the troop for "an afternoon fete" aboard. Answering the distress call, the troops in dred dolls, lovingly packed in individual Highpoint of their tour was the presentation one neighborhood secured two hundred dolls plastic bags to keep them fresh and neat, to the troop, on behalf of the crew, of a· new were ready for distribution. On December 18, troop flag. The flagpole was surmounted by a a fire truck was dispatched to pick up the star to remind the girls of their responsibility Junior Girl Scouts of Troop 192 precious load, which helped to make Christ­ to make the ideals of Girl Scouting shine in ( TOFS, Far East) offered friend­ mas complete for many little girls in the troop and community. ship and showed kindness when Rochester area. After the presentation, these Juniors were they planned and gave a pluty for given instruction in knot-tying and signaling the children of the Kobo Cottage Winte1· hiking by boatswain's mates. Each girl also received Orphanage in Hayama, Japan. This an on-the-spot picture of herself. On the mess child is receiving one of the toys The ]unio1· Girl Scout Handbook says, "Every decks of the ship, there were movies and ice made by the troop, whose mem­ step along the way is filled with adventure. cream to conclude the visit, which was report­ bers also baked cakes and collected You'll hike in the sun, in the snow, in the ed by the Staff Chaplain, a former member of clothing to give to the orphans. rain ...." The Cadette Girl Scout Handbook the Board of Directors, Virginia Skyline Coun­ states invitingly, "Here are new ideas for cil. THE END your mind, new projects for your hands, new advenhrres for your soul." So Michigan Water­ ways Council (Port Huron, Michigan) de­ cided to offer a series of "Winter Hikes" to help Junior and Cadette leaders conduct out­ door activities with their troops. They recruit­ ed consultants in the community who were well acquainted with the countryside: Na­ tional Audubon Society members, a tree fam1er, an Explorer Scout, a Nature Associa­ tion officer. Four Sunday afternoons from 2:00-4:00 were scheduled and announced a month ahead of time. Senior Girl Scouts helped in registering groups, guiding along the trail, and starting campfires. The first week an amazing 250 Girl Scouts arrived so promptly that the narrow country road was jammed in an unexpected traffic snarl. The next week, 280 hikers, in addition to their leaders and other adults, registered. By the third Stmday the number had grown to 325, and 360 htrned up for the final hike on the 600-acre Boy Scout Camp Silver Trails.

26 GIRL SCOUT LEADER SUGGESTIONS Ornaments of we hope prove useful colored tissue Ch1·istmas w1·eath Mate1·ials: 1 package wrapping tissue in purple-blue-green or red-yellow-orange shades; copper wire in gauge 16 or heavier. Cut tissues in ci rcles of 5" -6" diameter in layers, 12 at a time. (If you make a cardboard pattern of the circle, it saves much time. ) You will need many circles. Our small wreath, 6W' at the wire, used 60 cireles. vVhen your tissues are cut, arrange them in your color pattern. You many want to have a variegated wreath or to use solid tones of color blending from blue, blue-green, green­ Hide and Peek Book blue, green, etc. vVhen your arrangement Here's way to dramatize the 10 Girl satisfies you, pinch each circle of tissue in wish to glue a complete circle of tissue of one Scout Laws. Or adapt idea for center, twist it slightly, punch a hole in end, color as background. Cut shapes of tissue in a children's play book. and thread it on wire. Continue until wire is other colors, harmonious or contrasting to covered and fu ll. Pack the tissue flowerlets backgrounds. These may be freehand or cut F rom old magazines, cu t out 10 tightly. Twist the ends of the wire to close from circles the same dimension as back­ bi g pictures, one for each law, For the circle. Place a velvet bow, if desired. ground and folded into 5, 6, or 8 sections. directions, see Picture I, above. I t If you are placing the wreath against a Try interesting and different color combina­ depicts Law 6. C hoose sleeve for wall, you can secure the flowerlets by folding tions, such as magenta, pink, red, and orange; tape over the wire and ends of flowerlet. area M; cu t along dotted line. or yellow, pink, orange; or red, orange, and P aste down on paper all but area pink; etc. Roundel o1· medallion Glue gold cord around rim if desired, and M . Lift up M. On exposed paper below, print: is a friend to animals. Materials: 1 pkg. wrapping tissue in various form a loop at end to use as hanger. This color tones, and 1 roll gold cord; poster board, cord needs the casein glue. Rubber cement pelion, or acetate; rubber cement; "Sobo" or is not strong enough to hold it. · white casein glue. The acetate as background makes a trans­ Cut circles in desired circumference-small parent medallion. By gluing designs on both roundels for tree decoration, large for wall or sides, slightly off line, an interesting effect is backgrounds ( 4 to 8 inches is a good range ). achieved. THE E ND Pic. 2 is for L aw 9. They may be cut in poster board, pellon, or EDITOR's N OTE: These ornam ents are adapted from Choose fl ap of purse acetate. On poster board or pellon you may desi gns of the Norcross D esi gn Studio. for area M. Beneath fl ap, print: is thrifty. Pic. 3 fo r L aw 3 : to be useful & to help others. P aste pictures on same siz ed p a per , one to a page. Make book with stiff cover. Title-Hide & Peek.

Girls everywhere love the fresh, lively flavor of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum ; And it's not rich or filling.

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DECEMBER 1965 27 a How to make a . II I perfect pap1er mac he -* gift ..··.··· ·· angel

Materials: Newspaper, thread, masking tape, • wallpaper paste, paper toweling, styrofoam ball, fabric (muslin, plain white cotton) or _;* ;_: decorative wrapping paper. Directions: Roll newspaper sheets into a ·~ .. thin, tight coil (about 1" in diameter). Tie ,.. at intervals to make the body base; cut roll to desired length. • Cut slit in the first torso section and slip a thinner coil of newspaper into the slit for the arms. Bend at points for elbows and For the dress part of clothing, take a length wrists, and tie. Slit the larger roll from bottom of fabric, which should be twice the height of up for legs. Place masking tape around these figure plus 2", and half as wide as the length; separate sections to form legs. Tie at the knee in the center, cut a hole large enough to fit and ankle joints. over the head; clip it in paste; squeeze out, Wrap thread completely around the torso, put over head and onto body of angel; ar­ Having t rouble fi nding THE right gift? arms, and legs to hold them firmly in place. range front, then back to overlap side seams; Well, he re it is ... a stunning coffee Mix wallpaper paste to heavy cream con­ cut slit to let loop on back come through; spoon in sterling silver, ideal for the sistency. (See directions on your package.) tie piece of yarn or cord at waistline; fold Girl Scout who has everything. Com­ Cut strips of paper toweling J~" wide and 3" hemlines under. If there is some rearranging plete t refoil on top of the shaft plus to 4" long. Dip these strips in the paste, wrap of drapery needed at this point, suspend the the words " Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.'' the wet strips around body until all surfaces angel and push the drapery into place with a Both emblem and lettering are high­ are covered and it assumes a body fom1 . Let pencil. lighted and have a polished finish. this dry. · If you want wings on the angel, make them 11-575 •• • 2.25. Ava ilable at your Use a styrofoam ball for the head. Shape of cardboard or poster board. Cover one side local Girl Scout agency. with a knife to obtain proper proportions to with paper toweling clipped in paste, let it correspond to the body. Cover it also with dry, then cover the other side; Attach the GIRL SCOUTS OF THE U.S.A. wet toweling strips and allow to dry. wings to the body with small sh·ips or pins. NATI ON AL EQUIPMENT SERVICE Add hair to head with strips of paper or Allow the figure to dry thoroughly. (This NEW YOR K/ST. LOUIS/ SAN FRANC ISCO yarn clipped in paste; with wire secure the could be several days.) Paint as desired when head to the body; trim away excess paper at completely dry. An effective painting is a neckline. sin1ple one. Spray with off-white paint. (Use THE GIRL SCOUT Cut a strip of fabric for the sleeve ( strip an old cardboard box as a paint shield.) LEADER MAGAZINE about 3" wide and 24" long), dip in paste, After paint has dried, it can be antiqued by squeeze out, and arrange around the ann, rubbing over it completely with soft clotl1 now available to winding loosely from the wrist, where the dipped in thin burnt mnber oil paint. Before sleeve should be wide, to the shoulder, where this is completely dried, it is wiped off with Senior Girl Scouts it fits the ann closely. Tum edges under, a clean soft cloth, leaving the dark areas deep press into shape, and arrange drapery until in folds and recesses. Every registered Senior it pleases you. Finish the· other sleeve in the Many other types of figures can be made G irl Scout may now sub- same manner. in tl1is method. For a standing figure, you At this point it is wise to place a loop of may wish to include a wire inside the news­ scribe to the GIRL SCOUT LEADER wire at the top of spine of angel if it is to paper coil for added strength. THE END magazine at the special annual be a hanging figure. - Corinne M. Murphy rote of 50 cents (9 issues). Seniors may use the coupon below. of AJVIERICAN Gnu. goes hand in }:land with Girl Scouting, and it is designed with several G irl Scouts of the U.S.A. special audiences in mind: 830 Third Avenue Leaders and advisers-to show them how New York, New York. l 0022 AMERICAN Gnu. magazine can help Junior, Cadette, and Senior troops plan better pro­ I am a registered Senior Girl Scout. granl activities . . . Board and committee membe1·s, neighho1·­ Please enter my subscription to the bOO ms hood peTsonnel, and professional staff mem­ GIRL SCOUT LEADER for one year (9 bers-as part of their orientation .... issues), at the special Senior G irl Scout Parents and girls- to show how AMERICAN "Dem· Esther" ..• GIRL magazine translates the principles of Girl rote of 50 cents. Enclosed is a "Dear Esther," the fihmtrip based on typical Scouting into terms of everyday living. money order ___or a check _ __ , letters the AMERICAN GIRL magazine receives Because AMERICAN GIRL is absorbing most monthly from its readers, has now been made of the cost, you can buy this film at the low Name (please print):______into a 7J~ -minute, 16mm fihn. The adaptation price of $8.00 and enjoy tl1e advantage of retains the high quality that won the filmstrip using "Dear Esther" at any tin1e you need it; Street address:: ______the first place award in the Consumer Sales at any place, with any group you wish. Order Classification of the National Visual Presenta­ ·from the Girl Scout Film Library, 830 Third City: _____S tate __Zip code _ _ tion Association's 12th Annual Competition, Avenue, New York, New York 10022 (Catalog adding the further enjoyment of a big screen, No. 306-66) . Girl Scout council:______color, interesting movement, and pace-setting Or you may borrow tl1e fihn free for as background music. long as two weeks from AMERICAN GIRL mag­ Sen ior Troop No.:: ______The film shows how the editorial content azine at the same address. THE END

28 GlRL SCOUT LEADER GIRL SCOUT LEADER INDEX Volume XLII, ]anum·y-December 1965

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BIRTHPLACE Toward shared leadership-McEniry . Feb. 10 Tomorrow is now-Hammett ...... Jan. 11 Who goes to Macy?-Hammett .... . Mar. 16 Who goes to Macy?-Hammett . .. . Mar. 16 First Lady's visit to Birthplace ...... May 24 You too can go! ...... Jan. 23 Museum Aides at the Birthplace IN MEMORIAM -McClendon ...... Dec. 10 For girls Eleanor Edson ...... Mar. 28 All-States aftermath-Alley ...... Mar. 13 COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION Eleanor S. Mobley ...... Mar. 28 Beyond your door-Williams ...... Apr. 11 Gertrude G. Murray ...... May 18 Conference on the home-Vendouzis .June 17 Board and committees Betsy Schoellkops Penn ...... May 18 Five forests and a maple tree Delegates in the council-Feeney .... Dec. 11 -Gilliland ...... Nov. 5 Do you need to plan ahead?-Feeney June 8 LEADERSHIP Full circle-Edgar ...... Feb. 5 Let's talk about council meetings Good campers are good packers -Spencer ...... Feb. 13 -Schuckle ...... Oct. 22 A Cadette leader asks for help ...... Mar. 24 Meetings! Meetings! Meetings! Are your Scouts going camping? Idaho is the place to go-Shadduck .. Jan. 6 - Feeney ...... Jan. 10 Museum Aides at the Birthplace -M. Murphy ...... Nov. 16 -McClendon ...... Dec. 10 Are your skills "old hat"?-Stone . .. . Mar. 17 Opportunities-1966 ...... Apr. 15 Camp operation As others see us-Otto ...... Oct. 19 Quest for quality-Henderson ...... Mar. 10 Badges on citizenship-Collins ...... Oct. 16 All-States aftermath-Alley ...... Mar. 13 Visitors at camp and Roundup Badgework and schoolwork . Oct. 31, Dec. 3 -Gilliland ...... Jan. 14 Arts at camp ...... Apr. 28 Challenge of Active Citizenship .. .. May 28 Day camp for four age levels Disappearing cookie money . Feb. 23, Apr. 26 -Hammersmith ...... Apr. 8 Free-loader ...... Jan. 28, Feb. 23, Mar. 24 PROGRAM IN TROOPS AND CAMPS Do-it-yourself nature trail-Reed ... . Apr. 5 , Fringe benefits-Huntley ...... Feb. 14 Marine biology at camp ...... May 27 Hovering mother ... Jan. 29, Feb. 23, Mar. 24 Age level-Brownies Trends in day camping-Biggio .... Dec. 8 How to use the "Leader Notebook" Visitors at camp and Roundup -Sheehy ...... Jan. 3 Father's day festivity ...... Apr. 29 -Gilliland ...... Jan. 14 Investing their humanity · Plunging into creative dramatics Why cotmcil fees for troop camping? -Hammersmith ...... June 10 -Templeton ...... Jan. 4 -Barrett ...... Nov. 29 Meeting the Challenges-Cook ...... Oct. 15 Second steps in creative dramatics Wide-age-range units in camp . .... June 9 Method in our madness-Lawrence .. Dec. 12 -Templeton ...... Mar. 14 Mind-changing .... June 22, Oct. 30, Nov. 20 Finance Nature training-Callahan ...... June 16 Age level-Juniors The United Fund-are you with it? Petit larceny in the troop .. Apr. 26, June 22 A play at Thanksgiving ...... Nov. 22 -Kanis ...... '...... Oct. 18 Plant Kingdom badge-Reed ...... Mar. 18 Juniors afloat ...... Dec. 26 Tax deductions for your contributions Reciprocal trade agreement Junior horsewomen ...... Mar. 26 -Ostrander ...... Feb. 26 -Hirschman ...... May 30 Reports to the troop May 29, Oct. 31, Nov. 20 Why council fees for troop camping? Reflecting your best service resource Snow White . . . and the Girl Scouts -Barrett ...... Nov. 29 -Craig ...... Nov. 14 -Carvey ...... Dec. 14 Reports to the troop May 29, Oct. 31, Nov. 20 The Signs and the foundation Second look-French ...... May 6 Membership ·extension -McEniry ...... Oct. 14 Strength to lead-McEniry ...... May 5 "We love a parade" ...... Oct. 24 Girl Scouting for rural girls-Weller .. May 10 Teachable moments-Franklin and Wider projects for Juniors ...... Dec. 3 Happiness is Troop 855-Cole ...... June 12 Macllwaine ...... May 9 Second look-French ...... May 6 The case for no schedule-Ingwersen . May 8 Xenophobia: have I got it?-Bunda .. Apr. 14 The Signs and the foundation Age level-Cadettes -McEniry ...... Oct. 14 A Cadette leader asks for help ...... Mar. 24 Program services The leader and her community .... . Dec. 17 Cadette Adventure Day ...... Apr. 29 Investing their humanity Those open-end questions-Cook .... May 16 Cadettes: active citizens ...... Nov. 23 -Hammersmith ...... June 10 Tomorrow is now-Hammett ...... Jan. 11 Challenge of Active Citizenship . ... May 28 Method in our madness-Lawrence .. Dec. 12 Troop government : why and how ... Apr. 12 Emergency Preparedness-a real challenge Toward shared leadership-McEniry . Feb. 10 Unearned badge ...... Jan. 28 -Churchill ...... June 14 What are you doing in Girl Scouting? Following through with Father .... June 28 -Kissinger ...... June 13 Grow and glow ...... Oct. 24 Public relations Wider projects for Juniors ...... Dec. 3 Meeting the Challenges-Cook ...... Oct. 15 About gifts in kind ...... Oct. 37 Mind-changing . ... June 22, Oct. 30, Nov. 20 As others see us-Otto ...... Oct. 19 MISCELLANEOUS Plant Kingdom badge-Reed ...... Mar. ,18 Case of the liquidated litterbug . . . . Nov. 10 Those open-end questions-Cook .· ... May 16 Effective exhibits-Carbone ...... Dec. 7 Bulletin board ...... Every issue "Girl Scouts on Parade" ...... Mar. 26 Speak your mind ...... Every issue Age level-Seniors Scout-a-Rama ...... Mar. 27 A community resource-Rockwell . .. Mar. 9 Spotlight on staging-Hess ...... Oct. 12 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION Adventure in ecology-Moler ...... June 18 The sweet sound of your own horn . . May 14 A "journey into friendship" .. ·...... May 26 The United Fund-are you with it? All-States aftermath-Alley ...... Mar. 13 -Kanis ...... Oct. 18 A very special day ...... June 4 First Lady's visit to Birthplace .... May 24 Carolers ahoy! ...... Dec. 25 Visitors at camp and Roundup Conference on the home-Vendouzis .June 17 -Gilliland ...... Jan. 14 From the President of the United States ...... Feb. 4 Eight Indispensables-Task ...... Apr. 7 In the beginning-Satterfield ...... Mar. 5 Five forests and a maple tree Recruitment and selection I was a middle-aged detective ...... Nov. 8 -Gilliland ...... Nov. 5 Another single woman speaks ...... Jan. 23 Journey for sharing-Price ...... Oct. 9 "Friendship Camp" IJroject ...... May 26 Setting mankind in motion Our most beloved Girl Scout-Means Jtme 5 Friends to animals-Blakely ...... Jan. 7 -Sorensen ...... Jan. 12 Thanks to Roundup donors ...... Nov. 24 Full circle-Edgar ...... Feb. 5 Untumed stones ...... Jan. 23 The first Girl Scout troop ...... Mar. 21 Help for the Chamber of Commerce . Oct. 25 What are you doing in Girl Scouting? Vice-President Humphrey's visit .. . . Oct. 36 Milwaukee to Togo ...... May 27 -Kissinger ...... June 13 Museum Aides at the Birthplace -McClendon ...... Dec. 10 OPPORTUNITIES "Of Today for Tomorrow" ...... Nov. 22 Training Quest. for quality-Henderson ...... Mar. 10 Are your skills "old hat"?-Stone .... Mar. 17 For adults Recognition certificates ...... Dec. 25 Films and filmstrips in training-Wells Nov. 13 Beyond your door-Williams ...... Apr. 11 Rural service project ...... May 27 How to use the "Leader Notebook" Cabana Adult Adventure Session .... J nne 24 Seniors camp in Puerto Rico ...... Oct. 25 -Sheehy ...... Jan. 3 Full circle-Edgar ...... Feb. 5 Senior citizens-teen-age-Burrows . . May 12 Nature training-Callahan ...... June 16 Opportunities-1966 ...... Apr. 15 Unique community action ...... Dec. 24

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Two or more age levels Know before you nibble-O'Lem·y ... June 6 For Cuban refugees ...... Jan. 22 "Accidentally on purpose"-White ... Feb. 8 Those open-end questions-Cook .. . . May 16 "F!ienclship Camp" proj_ect ...... May 26 Action on the Promise-Malsin . . .. Dec. 5 Fnencls to ammals-Blakely ...... Jan. 7 A play at Thanksgiving ...... Oct. 22 Home-related activities Girl Scout rose "clown under" Appreciation of art-0. Mttrphy -Stewart ...... Jan. 16 -Part 1 ...... Oct. 20 Badges on the home-Vendouzis .. . . Nov. 9 Grow and glow ...... Oct. 24 Appreciation of art-C. Murphy Conference on the home-V endouzis June 17 Hands across the bmcler ...... Jan. 27 -Part II ...... Nov. 12 Take a bandanna-Thomson ...... May 20 Help for the Chamber of Commerce . Oct. 25 Are you·r Scouts going camping? Investing their humanity -M. Murphy ...... Nov. 16 International friendship (foundation) -Hammersmith ...... June 10 Milwaukee to Togo ...... May 27 Badge sash tip ...... Jan. 22 "Accidentally on purpose"-White ... Feb. 8 Badges on citizenship-Collins ...... Oct. 16 Museum Aides at the Birthplace Acts of friendship ...... Feb. 28 -McClendon ...... Dec. 10 Badges on health and safety- W eeks . Dec. 16 A "journey into friendship" ...... May 26 Badges on the home- V endou.zis .... Nov. 9 "New Eyes" ...... Jan. 26 A TOFS Thinking Day ...... Feb. 29 "Operation Dolls" ...... Dec. 26 Badgework and schoolwork . Oct. 31, Dec. 3 Clothing for refugees ...... Dec. 24 Case of the liquidated litterbug .... . Nov. 10 "Peace . . . good will" ...... Dec. 25 Full ch-cle-Edgar ...... Feb. 5 Ret1ecting yom best service resource Clothing for refugees ...... Dec. 24 Girl Scout rose "down under" Day camp for four age levels -Cra-ig ...... Nov. 14 -Stewart ...... Jan. 16 Rural service project ...... May 27 -Hammersmith ...... Apr. 8 Girl Scouts on stamps-McKinneu . . . Feb. 15 Desert survival education ...... Nov. 22 Senior citizens-teen-age-Bu1mtvs . .. May 12 ICY luncheon ...... May 18 Service holiday in Kenya-Campbell . Jan. 24 Dog scholars ...... June 29 Intemational festival ...... Feb. 28 How to use the "Leader Notebook" Those open-end questions-Cook .. . . May 16 Intemational show ...... Feb. 29 Two projects in Three Rivers ...... Apr. 29 -Sheehy ...... Jan. 3 Milwaukee to Togo ...... May 27 Junior-Caclette bridge activity ...... Apr. 29 Unique community action ...... Dec. 24 NAGS international ...... Feb. 28 Unusual tribute ...... Mar. 26 Milwaukee to Togo ...... May 27 Nifty and thrifty ...... Jan. 26 "Operation Dolls" ...... Dec. 26 Red letter day ...... June 29 "Peace . .. goodwill" ...... Dec. 2-5 Roundup greetings from the late Troop management (foundation) Singing as we go-Deyo ...... Mar. 12 Adlai E. Stevenson ...... Nov. 19 Toward shared leaclersh.ip-McEni1·y . Feb. 10 The case for no schedule-'lngwersen May 8 J:he essential gift-Whateleu ...... Feb. ll Troop government: why and how . .. Apr. 12 Toward shared leaclership-McEni?'!f . Feb. 10 TOFS celebrate ...... Mar. 26 Trends in day camping-Biggio . .. . Dec. 8 Turkey in Texas ...... Apr. 28 Troop government: why and how . . . Apr. 12 Troops On Foreign Soil Turkey in Texas ...... Apr. 28 Reel letter day ...... June 29 Wide-age-range units in camp ...... June 9 Out-of-doors activities A TOFS Thinking Day ...... Feb. 29 \Vinter hiking ...... Dec. 26 All-States aftermath-Alley ...... Mar. 13 In foreign soil ...... Jan. 26 Are your Scouts going camping? NAGS international ...... Feb. 28 Arts activities -M. Murphu ...... Nov. "16 TOFS identification emblem ...... Apr. 20 Arts at camp ...... Apr. 28 A play and a pinata ...... Mar. 26 Day camp for four age levels Wider opportunities (see also Opportunities) A play at Thanksgiving ...... Oct. 22 -Hammersm·ith ...... Apr. 8 Appreciation of art-C. Murphy Desert survival education ...... Nov. 22 Adventure in ecology-Moler ...... June 18 -Part I ...... Oct. 20 Do-it-yourself nature trail-Reed . .. . Apr. 5 Beyond your cloor-vlfilliams ...... Apr. ll Appreciation of art-C. Mu·rphy Friends to animals-Blakelu ...... Jan. 7 Cadette Aclvenhtre Day ...... Apr. 29 -Part II ...... Nov. 12 Good campers are good packers Capital caravan ...... Apr. 28 Arts at camp ...... Apr. 28 -Spencer ...... Feb. 13 Creative exchange ...... Apr. 28 "Fly-up" ballet ...... Oct. 25 Know before you nibble-O'Learu .. June 6 Dear vVorlcl's Fair visitor-Amtington . Mar. 8 Gee-haw stick or kazu-kaza stick .... Apr. 30 Operation Hoots Ya-Koo-Hakkinen . . Jan. 15 Five forests and a maple tree Girls love to sing-Shee/?.!f ...... Apr. 10 Plant Kingdom badge-Reed ...... Mar. 18 -Gilliland ...... Nov. 5 How to make a papier mache angel . Dec. 28 Teachable moments-Fmnklin and Girl Scout landmark ...... June 24 No-paste booklet-Johnson ...... Jan. 8 Macllwaine ...... May 9 Going to Enghmcl? ( Olave House ) .. June 25 Ornaments of colored tissue ...... Dec. 27 The case for no scheclule-lngwersen May 8 Historical bus tour ...... Mar. 26 Plunging into creative dramatics Trends in day camping- Bi.ggio . . . . . Dec. 8 National Headquarters tours ...... May 19 -Templeton ...... Jan. 4 \•Vhy council fees for troop camping? "Of Today for Tomorrow" ...... Nov. 22 Potpourri of poetry- Templeton ... . . May 22 -Barrett ...... Nov. 29 Seniors camp in Pu\')rto Ri co ...... Oct. 25 Second steps in creative dramatics vVicle-age-range units in camp ...... June 9 "The time of their lives" ...... June 28 -Templeton ...... iVIar. 14 vVinter campout ...... Feb. 29 Singing as we go-Deyo ...... Mar. 12 Winter hiking ...... Dec. 26 RESOURCES Snow White and the Girl Scouts -Carvey ...... Dec. 14 Spotlight on staging-Hess ...... Oct. 12 Promise and Laws (foundation) Art appreciation ...... Oct. 34, Nov. 21 Girl Scout books and fih11s ...... Every issue "Studio Stay" ...... J u~1e 28 Action on the Promise-Malsin ...... Dec. 5 The birth of a flag ...... May 26 Has your council requested the Petit larceny in the troop .. . Apr. 26, June 22 AMERICAN GmL filmsh·ip? ...... Apr. 19 Roundup greetings from the late Adlai Just what you wanted ...... Every issue E. Stevenson ...... Nov. 19 Citizenship (foundation) Pinpointers-AMERICAN GIRL Magazin ~ Those open-end questions-Cook .. . . May 16 Action in Akron ...... Mar. 27 in Girl Scout Program ...... Every issue· Badges on citizenship- Collins · ...... Oct. 16 Science Cadettes : active citizens ...... Nov. 23 UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA Challenge of Active Citizenship . ... May 28 Adventure in ecology-Moler ...... June 18 Girl Scouts on stamps-McKinney . . . Feb. 15 Know before you nibble-O'Learu ... June 6 Operation Hoots Ya-Koo- Hakkinen . . Jan. 15 Marine biology at camp ...... May 27 Badge sash tip ...... Jan. 22 The birth of a flag ...... May 26 New h·oop crest chart ...... May 18 "We love a parade" ...... Oct. 24 TOFS identification emblem ...... Apr. 20 Seasonal Cawlers ahoy! ...... Dec. 25 WORLD ASSOCIATION OF Conservation How to make a papier mache angel . Dec. 28 GIRL GUIDES/GIRL SCOUTS Adventure in ecology-Moler ...... June 18 Ornaments of colored tissue ...... Dec. 27 "Peace . . . good will" ...... Dec. 25 A Promise remembered ...... Dec. 26 Handicapped girls Full circle-Edgar ...... Feb. 5 Service (foundation) Going to England? ( Olave House) .. June 25 ~app~e~s i~ Tt;?OP 885-Cole ...... June 12 No llimtatwns ...... May 27 A community resource-Rockwell ... Mar. 9 Journey for sharing-P?"i.ce ...... Oct. 9 Xenophobia: have I got it?-Bunda .. Apr. 14 All-States aftennath-Alleu ...... Mar. 13 Service holiday in Kenya-Campbell .Jan. 24 A play and a pii1ata ...... Mar. 26 The essential gift-Whateley ...... Feb. ll A very_ s~ e sjal clay .. ,-, ...... June 4 W odd Bureau Director ...... Oct. 36 Health and safety (foundation) Browmes Grandma ...... Apr. 28 Badges on health and safety-Weeks . Dec. 16 Capital caravan ...... Apr. 28 This index will not be available separately. Emergency Preparedness-a real challenge Case of the liquidated litterbug .. .. Nov. lO Girl Scout councils may duplicate it locally. -Chw·chill ...... June 14 Clothing for refugees ...... Dec. 24 THE END

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D.. You and your troop can find .r:. fresh program ideas and re­ "'C"' sources in each month 's issue 'E c >. "' 41 41 of American Girl Magazine c~ E ·;: ~ through the use of this handy ..... 41 u.. en c checklist of contents. * "'C - c 0 ..."' c c D.. c "'"'C 0 c c 0 c .r:. 0 c Solid dots indicate " primary 41 :E t c 41 "'c c u - 41 relationships" with Girl Scout "' D.. 41 c 0 E ·:;: 0 ...... :E - 41 E program; open circles show 0 ... 0 c .!!! ... 41 ... :~ 41 0 :t ~ :I: - "secondary relationships." 1- u :I: Page Title NOVEMBER 1965 "' ..=- < 0 8 Movie Spotlight • Michelangelo's struggle with the Sistine Chapel frescoes 17 Storm at the Horse Show (f) • I • Coincidence reunites a gi rl and her horse 20 Easy "Build-Its" for Your Room I 0 • I Plans fo r fou r original designs 22 The Memento {f) I I o lo A girl's parting gift to her best friend 24 How Do You Rate as a Hostess? • I Polish-up pointers to help guests feel at home 25 How to Make the "Best Guest" List • I The ground rules of good guestmanship 26 Coast-to-Coast Table Treats • Food fare from all over the country 28 Don't Do Yourself Overboard • I The natural look is far ahead on the beauty scoreboard 30 Fashions Features sweaters, sportswear, and go-go accessories 34 Listening Corner A survey of the latest in long-playing pops 36 They Opened My Eyes 0 • 0 An adventure in film-making starring Senior Scouts 37 What's on Your Mind Answers on dating, dieting, and wardrobe borrowing 38 The Sign at Six Corners (Part V) (f) Nancy successfully ventures into the business world 40 By You A showcase for talented young writers 46 Books A roundup of the best in recent book releases 48 All Over the Map Spotlights Gi rl Scouts serving their communities 50 Guest Editor's Recipe of the Month The grand-prize pie winner in a national contest TEditorial material re lating to " th e home" applies * In additi on you'll find that th e e nt ire issue extends the impact of Girl Scouting. If) Fiction to home making sk ills and/ or to se lf-de ve lopme nt AMERICAN GI RL su pplements and therefore furthers th e total Girl Scout program

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A quick review of pages 26-27 of the GiTI as for the Senior project "Hostess and Guest." As the girls admire the lovely sweaters Scout Leader Notebook will remind us that Re-exanunation of the Cadette Girl Scout pictured this month, the leader could ' guide activities in the home include far more than Handbook will show how closely these articles the talk to the different styles and to which .the traditional cooking and sewing. The supplement the handbook material. See pages are most suitable for each type of figure. November AMERICAN GIRL illustrates the 56-57 on parties and pages 243-244 on taking broad scope of home activities. a trip. Girls might find it fascinating to com­ Home furnishing In the monthly food features Juniors, work­ pare page 215, on the responsibilities of group, ing on their Cook badge, might find just with the individual hostess responsibilities "Easy 'Build-Its' for Your Room" is full of the dish they would like to try, and Cadettes described in the article. practical ideas and directions for making and and Seniors will discover an ample supply of decorating furniture. Look again at the pages ideas for their entertaining. Grooming and clothing in the Leader Notebook on activities in the home, and you will see included things such Family relatio!IS and hospitality Regular fea tures, fashion and grooming arti­ as carpentry and maintenance, equipment and cles, relate quite closely to the Good Groom­ furnishings, home construction and planning. Learning how to be a good hostess as well as ing badge for Cadettes and the project Here is some first-hand help for this phase of good guest should be part of every girl's grow­ "Clothing" for Seniors. All Girl Scouts, how­ home activities. ing-up years. Juniors who are acquiring the ever, whether or not they are currently knowledge and skill to help them earn the working on a grooming badge or project, Money management Hospitality badge, or requirement #6 of the should be encouraged to take an interest in Sign of the Star, should read "How Do You their appearance. Girls who tend to overdress Look back to the September issue for "Let's Rate as a Hostess?" (a down-to-earth quiz) or go to extremes in makeup might be shocked Talk About Money" for some good dollar-and­ and "How to Make the 'Best Guest' List." into moderation by "Don't Do Yourself Over­ sense information. And, if that isn't enough, These companion articles are also made to board," while those who are not yet con­ take a leaf from "The Sign at Six Comers" order for the Cadette Hostess badge and for scious of their appearance will find some and the home-management skills of the young the Challenge of Social Dependability, as well guidance. heroine. THE END Just imagine her eyes lighting up when she FOR A Watch 12-229 ... 11..95 D Brownie GS Watch sees her Girl Scout gift! Whether it's a watch with red leather strap 12-223 ... 7.95 D Three or a camera, you can be sure these pres- cameras to help memories stay alive- ents will be cherished for years ... and CHRISTMAS in color or black-and-white-Brownie .always remembered. Left to right: GS Camera 11-818 ... 2.50 D GS Carner~ Three Timex watches that keep her SHE'LL AT '111 1\ 'YS Kit with flash 11-817 ... 4.75 D Senior on time, all shock-resistant with one- I..IWWI'l. GS Camera Kit with built-in flash year guarantee-Dainty "Squared" REMEMBER unit 11-815 ... 6.50. Visit your local Girl GS Watch 12-231 ... 9.95 D Elegant GS Scout agency for more gift-giving ideas.