Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Oct 1932, p. 16

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.{ 1-Prdent for Visifing C Carrying spiked walking stick. adorned witb souvenir insignia from each of the Swiss mourItains whichl they had, climibed,, four. 'American Girl Scouts, and one leader, *ho repre- sented this country at the .,,World Chalet for Girl Scouts and Girl Guides ai Adelboden,-,Switzerlandý- in August, are home. The. girls, ail of whonx are Golden Eaglets, won the Juliette Low Menw criai. awards for 1932 . Eniroute to Switzerland they spent 'one week at Foxlease, England, the training camp 'for Girl Guide leaders, and one week in Paris. The World chalet, which is the gift of Mrs. James. Storrow, of, Boston, tq the- World Association of Girl, Scouts and Girl Guides, was officially opened on July 31,-with Lord Baden- Powell, chief sacout, as the g'uêêt, of honor. The girls from Ibhis country camped with Girl Guides froini Great Britain, France, Denmark, Finltancl, Norway, Hungary and Czechoslova- kia, who shared in the distribution oS the Juliette Low MemoriaI awards. Scale Lufty, M.iutain Quie of the high spots of the visit, was a two-day hike up Bonderspitz, one of the highest. mountains of- the Alps, more than two miles in altitude. On this trip they stopped overniglit at the chalet of a peasant, where ele- yen girls had to sleep i a hayloft *which, the American girls declared, had rooni for only two pensons. ""Ne had many amusing expert.- *ences in trying to understand oie. another at first," said Miss Elaine Clark, of Rochester, New York, the leader in charge of* the Ainerican. group. "Scouting was ýour only con-. mon language., Each nation. .wa$l represeçnted in'the patroîs, into Wiehl we divided during the day, but slee p- ing quarters in the chalet were so arranged, that the girls were wvith thein own group at night. "We. bad one international lunch- eon which was followed almnost imr Girl Scouts, leaders and fr-ids :of $cotmg ty-in ew Trier coin cil are lookingl forward eagerly to the. talk whicl, ir. .Frederick )de (aboz'e), national /'residcent, of> the Girl Scouts, will tIiv'e at a 1-litcheoit meeting in Shimu, Cowitrýy club, Wîlrnettc, Titesdavti, October,18, al 12:30 o'clock. Toadstool Club to Hold Election Friday Morning The first meeting of the Toadstool club will be held on Friday niorning, October 7, at 10 o'clock at Christ Church Parish 4bouse, in Winnetka.. This -meeting is foQr ailBirownie lead-- hoped they will ail be.present for the election >of officers of the club. -ý ATTEND N. U. CAME, rteen Kenilwortfi Girl Scq -IBetween 65 and 70 girls are.meni- bers of the tiîree Kenilworth Girl Scout troops tbis' year. Troop No. 2, composed of sixth and seventh grade girls at the joseph Sears sehool. held its first. meeting Wednesday of iast week. and elected four patrol 'leaders. Betty Schrei, Ruth Sprenger, Doro- thy Hendersonl and Susan, Wolfe. The*,first two named servedas patrol. leaders last year also--- Miss Elizabeth Macauley, assistant athletic d irector at joseph. Sears, ivho is in..charge of the Girl Scout work. said this week tbat Troop, No. 2 would. do considera ble nature. work. and that iniembers of the .troop wvould try to pass the second-class scout *tests. The troop i eeî everv' Wednesday.wl Troop. No. 1, composed of teti eighth ýgrade girls, is meeting on alternate Mondavs. Patrol leaders for~ Ibis troop have not yet lheen elected. Members of the t'roop wil ,work for the~ archer's badge, making their own arrows and targets. The girls in this troop also will wvork fo)r their first-çlass ratings. The third îroop, Troop No. 3.. is composed of. about tWenty ifthi grade girls. Namesý of patrol leaders for this troop> have bten annouiced previously. I Scribes Busy Scribes of various , Girl Scout trôops are kept busy recording the interesting activities which lend spice to the meetings now being resumed throughout New Trier counicil with. the start of the fali season. Girl Scouts, rested by .several weeks of vacation, are returning, té their work and gaines' with renewed gusto and fervor, as the followiigl reports by the scribes will indicate: Troop 13 At our Iast meeting, we divided th<le new girls into patrols. Haif of the girls- laid, a trail which led to the V i I AVc 1 LUUFUM in Wilmette Oct. 18 Mrs. Frederick Edey, the national president of the Girl Scouts, will be 'with' the- New Trier council on Tues- daOctober 18, for a luncheon ,meet- ing at the Shawnee Country club at 12:30 o'clock. .Mrs. Edey, who wvas recently re- el ected president ofAthe national organ- ization for a'thiird term, has long beeni a ssociated .with Girl Scouting and bas* served in mnany. officiai1 capacities. Shé has. been a mnember of thée executive commnittee and of the national board of directors since 1919.. As. chairmùan of. the field committee, which 'becameé the field division ini 1930-,when thé present developn'ient plan wvas iinaugurated, Mrs.ý Edey spent the, greater- part of ber tume traveling about the country, keep- ing iii 'Ccse touch.with troops and their leader s. - Slîe lias c<)ntinuie(l ber field work since she hecamne president, and.bas.a practical knowledge of What the' Girl Scout prograin -iieans to the 300,000 mnembers of the organization. The Newv Trier Girl Scouts Wish to invite anyone interested in Girl Scouting> :o attend theluincheon. Reservations may he made with the foüllowi ng persons: 'mrs. lilbert Clark. Wininetka 1679; Mrs. Raph. Mouildlig.Wilmnette 2163; Mrs. Robert Clark. Hi'ghland. Park 1824; Mrs. A Ibert Goodnow. Glencoe 431, and Miss Elizabethi Grobben, Winnetka '3147. Huniphries. We had o1n-e new scout inber.-Shirley Patterson, scribe,. Troop 6 We mnet for the first limie since va- cation at the Parish house on W&U- nesday. .We .elected temporary pa- tcol. leaders whcv.Were-Evelyni Loco and Carolyii Doane. Then we mad e patrol books.: Evelynes patrol chose pale blue and, oranige. Carolynl's Pa- trol chose yellow and pur'ple, Mi.s *MClernan is going to be our "teni-, porary leader *until Mrs. McKinnecornles back froni ber vacation. \We are very glad to have a new girl il) our troop, Mary Rae Bttrmaii, and hope she will pass, her tenderfoot test soon. After the mieeting va.s over, we had court of h9nor and de- of tne uantsn Girl Guides, andi otne-'-ý .M Onday lette with onions was added to theChitI menu by the girls froni France: oat the Norwvegiaîts. 'l'le Girl Guides Christ Clr cakes' that wene simply delicious werc froni Finland con.îribuîed pasîrv x'itl, on eIk. made by the English girls, and potatn rice and made the meal one never to 011 *theg cakes witb jelly, were prepared by he forgotteýn. nnhtrcn rParisn nouse in W in- lis course is open to anyone oorth shore interested ini çows were in one patrol, the barking dogs ini another, the quacking ducks in a third, and the ineowing cats in. a fourîh. We'Il hope the latter wvon*t be "catty.",

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