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At Button Bay, VtKansas Girl Scouts Travel, Work And Play At RoundupBy SANDI BECK (Girl Scout Correspondent)Before arriving at the 1962 Girl Scout senior Roundup in Button Bay, Vermont, 24 girls from Kaw Valley Council traveled, via the Canadian Special, for two days and nights. Stops en route to Vermont included Chicago and Montreal, Canada.Upon arrival at Essex Junction,582 Girl Scouts on a special Scout train, were greeted by townsfolk and the high school band. Buses transferred the girls to the 450-acre campsite.Beside the 1,700 staff members,there are 8,500 Senior Girl Scouts attending the Roundup. Twenty-one foreign countries are represented by the Girl Scouts and Girl Guides, as well as 50 states. The6.000 tents on the Roundup site compose Vermont’s sixth largest city.One of the projects of setting up camp was building a picnic table: Ann Hutchins, Mary Morse, Dorothy Hostetter, and Sandi Beck, all of the Jackie Jayhawker patrol, had the unusual (or unfortunate as the case my be) experience of making a picnic table three times —not three tables, but one table whcih had collapsed two times!Also attending Roundup during the opening days was Mrs. Charles U. Culmer, President of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. The Jackie Jayhawk patrol was one of the few patrols I she visited. Mary Mettner, com-i mentator for WIBW, also of the! Jackie Jayhawk patrol, inter-! viewed her.On Friday morning, the official j opening of Roundup, the Jackie] Jayhawk patrol participated ini the flag ceremony at the Avenue: of Flags—the 50 state flags, the i flags of all countries participating] in the Girl Guide program, the j Scout flag, World Association flag,| and the flag of the United States j of America form this avenue of] 109 flags. Participating in the ceremony were 334 Girl Scouts and Guides.Adding to the excitement of the first days of Roundup was the arrival of Hawaii. Their tents were set up next to those of Jackie Jayhawk girls. Aloha!“Honor the Past-Serve the Future,” the theme of the 1962 Girl | Scout Senior Roundup, will be car-ried out in three, all-Roundup! ® events held in the main arena at j the Roundup Site—Button Bay, Vt. jA challenge from President Ken-|^ nedy was the keynote of the first jh all-encampment campfire held on! Friday, July 20 at 8:30 p.m. Mr. | f Kennedy’s message challenged thel/“10.000 campers to develop their j individual abilities in preparation! for playing useful roles in their I w communities and in the world. |At the campfire ceremony, Girl] Guide representatives from other] Di countries were greeted by U.S.! Senier Girl Scouts in their respec- ui' tive languages Almost 500 girls! participated in the ceremony. Aj .' total of 264 American and inter-]., national flags encircled the entire: „ arena during the ceremonies. I *eyes milling around, demonstrations on square dancing and bull whipping within ten feet of us, and we eight girls sitting on the ground, singing, and making corn-husk dolls!Swimming in Lake Champlain has been another enjoyable, if not a jolting, pastime. The water is extremely low in temperature! However, swimming also gives us a chance to hunt for the geological specimens which give Button Bay its name.Along with swimming, we get exercise. And we need exercise! We cook monstrous-size meals here at Roundup. And our figures are beginning to show it as we are gaining weight. After extreme wailing about this catastrophe, one of our girls received a tape measure from her gentleman-friend at home.Tuesday was the second all-Roundup event. It was a birthday party honoring the 50th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. Helim-filled balloons; birthday, patrotic and favorite Girl Scout songs; and fifty candles, plus one to grow on, highlighted the birthday party for us. If we were impressed by the first all-Roundup event, this one brought many more tears to our eyes. Ten thousand girls, with one aim for a better world, singing “America the Beautiful” is very moving.Wednesday evening, our fcropp entertained the Hawaiian patrol— perhaps we should say that they entertained us because we began our first lesons on the hula! Believe me, It’s Not As Easy As It May Look! We nearly perfected a hula which one does sitting down, but the rest will take a little practice.Well, back to the wet world at Vermont!After the lighting of an Olympic-! ar type torch, Mrs. Charles U. Culmer,president of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., welcomed and thanked the governor of Vermont, the Honorable F. Ray Keyser, Jr., and Lieutenant G eneral Garrison H. Davidson of the United States First Army. Both the State of Vermont and the First Army have prepared the Roundup campsite and are providing services.Other features of the first arena event were a 24 x 60 foot map of the U.S. with the twelve Girl Scout regions, greetings from Lady Baden Powell, World Chief Guide and widow of the founder of the Scouting movement.Hi! Once again we bring messages from the Rounduppers at the Girl Scout Senior Roundup at Button Bay, Vermont.First of all, let me mention the fact that when we haven’t been holding on our hats, we’ve been wrapped in raincoats. This has often been inhibiting to some campers, but not to us. You see, we have other occupations to fill our time. However, needless to say, the Jackie Jayhawk patrol from Kansas has had a difficult time adjusting to wet and cold weather, and even the wind!We filled one afternoon by doing an hour service project. We were fortunate in being chosen to work in the camp hostess tent—a much better job than cleaning up the arena after 10,000 girls had been there.Education has been a very big part of Roundup. We have attended forums on “Our Changing World”; interviews of Girl Guides from Canada, Ireland, Peru, and Argentina; and learned new folk dances and songs.The demonstration is a very important part of equipment” when a Scout goes to Roundup. Our demonstration, “The Art of Corn-huskery”, has presented some very interesting anedotes. First, Peg Powell of Topeka helps Ann Hutchins braid a cornhuk mat. This was all well and good until we learned that Peg was allergic to cornhuks ar-' '-egan to develop a lovely red rash.When we presented our demonstration at the Villa’ge Green, we were in the midst of chaos—five thousand interested and staring 1 hi
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Manhattan Mercury
Manhattan, Kansas, US
Sun, Jul 29, 1962
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