Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These leaders represent a great movement, for there are now 370,860 Girl Guides in England, 70,410 Girl Guides in the remainder of the Commonwealth, 115,926 Girl Scouts in the U. S. and 56,013 in other countries. They assembled in the lodge on Camp Macy - a great rough-stone building. Mrs. Rippin, natty and good-looking, unveiled a bronze bust of Edith Macy (wife of Valentine Everit Macy, Manhattan philanthropist, who gave the camp) and explained the necessity for such a camp...
...Moreover our camps are too large. They resemble nothing more than orphan asylums transplanted to the woods. . . . The best camp we have is far in the woods of Minnesota, where the girls have a canoe portage of several miles to the nearest village, and where they often meet bears on the trail...
Around the camp lodge are several log cook-houses, where some of the American delegates made gingerbread for scout leaders from Poland and Latvia. All over the 281-acre camp tents were pitched where the leaders slept, even on a wet rainy night which fell during the conference. One of the youngest leaders, a 19-year-old girl from Latvia, was afraid and wanted to be locked in one of the cabins for the night so as to be safe from Indians. Mrs. Wynaendts-Francken of Holland, relative of Edward Bok, went about in the mud wearing sabots. A young...
...problems were discussed. For example, in Costa Rica and in Portugal, Girl Scouts cannot camp out - in the one case because of snakes, in the other because tradition forbids girls to sleep away from home...
...special invitation to attend these services is extended to the Harvard men who participated in the Civil War to the Shannon Post of the American Legion, to the Leslie H. Hunting Camp of the United Spanish War veterans, and to the local Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic...