My sister and I early in the morning before the 1973 Memorial Day Parade in Holden, Massachusetts. She was about eight and I was about twelve years old. I was a Girl Scout until my junior year of high school when I earned the Gold Award (the equivalent of Eagle Scout for boys). I then joined an Explorer Troop (run by the Boy Scouts, this program is co-ed). As a student teacher in college I helped out with a Brownie troop run by my dorm.
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| Our big Senior Girl Scout trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1975 |
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| Yes, before genealogy blogging I was writing up stories on Girl Scouting activities for the Derry News! This story is from September 2003 |
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-22-thinking-day.html
Click here to read about the time I attended a Scouting Thinking Day ceremony at Westminster Abbey
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/westminster-abbey-family-connections.html
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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
I've got to get my act together and do a Girl Scout post. As a long-time Girl Scout and later a leader, I have ample memories and pictures. I always said that I got one-third of my education in Girl Scouts. Thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteGold Award equivalent to the Boy Scouts Eagle -- well in the sense that both are the highest achievement in their respecitve Scouting organizations, yes. But as I always told my two Eagle sons and the boys in my Troop when I was Scoutmaster, the Gold Award is much more rare than Eagle and so a Gold Award recipient should be viewed as very special indeed!
ReplyDeleteGreat article. Thanks for the info, it’s easy to understand. BTW, if anyone needs to fill out a boy eagle scout, I found a blank form here
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