October 31 2018

To You, Girl Scouts

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Daisy with the Silver Fish. This award symbolizes the fish that swims upstream against the current instead of one that allows itself to flow with it.

Happy birthday J-Low and Happy Founder’s Day!  This message comes to you thanks to the lovely Ann Robertson who pointed out the History section of GS University via one of her blog posts.  Thanks Ann!  Unfortunately, it looks like the History portion of this website didn’t get very far, and I hope GS University in general isn’t going away because I think it’s a good start to something.  Maybe it can get a new makeover and integrate with whatever mega-system GSUSA is creating right now.

But back to the History section of GS University!  There’s not much on it, but there are a few neat entries like this one featuring a letter from J-Low in an The American Girl magazine issue from 1925 which features a nice surprise at the end.  Continue reading

October 9 2018

This and That

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There’s no overall theme or topic here other than to catch everybody up on some outstanding questions and updates to the blog.  And some random and nonsensical thoughts about whatever.

GSWAC (Not a Council) Survey Update

GSWAC (Not a Council) Surveys went into early retirement. No GSUSA pension plan though.

I decided to ditch the GSWAC (Not a Council) Survey series.  For them to have any validity, I need at least a thousand respondents at the very minimum.  The two largest Facebook groups – one with 29,000 members and the other almost 19,000 – do not allow polls to be posted.  In fact, one doesn’t even allow links to blogs!  I had to really scrape and beg to get over 800 for the last survey, so I think it’s going to be too hard going forward to get what’s needed in order to make this series worthwhile.  I’m bummed, because I thought it had a lot of potential, and I know the answers were used by people in various levels of Girl Scouting.  And I had gone to the trouble of making a cool graphic for the series too!  Oh well.  Continue reading