March 13 2020

An OFFICIAL SCARF SHOWCASE! For Real!

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Last week, our council had a Meet the CEO event so that we could (I bet you can guess!) meet our new CEO.   The notice said we should bring our ideas!  So I thought at first I would be funny and suggest that we dedicate a wall at our new Leadership Center to an OFFICIAL SCARF SHOWCASE! and charge admission.  People from ALL around the country would FLOCK to this SHOWCASE!, and we’d make so much money that we’d pay off all of our obligations, renovate all of our camps, and have some left over!  But when I was at the meeting, I realized that I didn’t want our new CEO to think I was insane, so I just suggested we incorporate STEM into our Leadership Center for more fund development opportunities.  How boring.  Continue reading

March 12 2020

At the Beginning

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Happy 108th Birthday, Girl Scouts!

If you follow my goofy Girl Scout Facebook profile, you’ll know that I love looking through old Girl Scout Leader Magazines and finding random bits of history and posting things that I find interesting.  I always attempt to publish a blog post on March 12th and October 31st, and admittedly, sometimes I am scrambling when I realize that I don’t have much time to think of something.  For this year though, I started browsing through issues last week, but nothing was really jumping out at me.   But today, something did!  Right in the nick of time!

I went back to the March 1962 issue of Leader Magazine celebrating the 50th anniversary of Girl Scouts and found an article by Page Randolph Anderson Platt, a member of the first Girl Scout troop.  She wrote an article about what it was like and her experiences.  You can find the article on pg. 10 including a picture of the first troop along with other pictures, but here’s the text:  Continue reading