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Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls
Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls
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Keugene48
49 posts
Aug 21, 2009
2:57 PM
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I was a Campfire Girl, my mom was my leader. Unlike the scouts we worked for beads instead of badges. Each bead was a different color and we sewed them on vests. We had Indian names for ourselves and I wish I could find the peanut butter pillows we used to sell for 50 cents a can. I went to camp for a week and hated every minute of it.
My brothers were scouts, my mom was den mother for them (she was involved in all our lives and we loved it). I knew the "law of the pack" better than my brothers did and attended all of the Blue & Gold banquets.
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rodat6
61 posts
Aug 21, 2009
3:16 PM
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I joined the boy scouts when I was around 10 in 1952, couldn't afford a uniform, the troop gave me a hat and scarf, our leader's name was Ralph.
Our first camp out was in the fall at Lake St. Mary, it was cold, did not know about camping out, did not have a sleeping bag and knew none of the tricks for staying warm such as two blankets are better than one for insulation. Someone loaned me a sleeping bag liner, it was wool, WWII issue, we camped at picnic area on a concrete base, probably WPA built. Kept waking up during the night freezing, I was very cold, the concrete pad sucked the heat from my body and the sleeping bag liner was fairly thin and nothing to trap the warmth like a second layer.
I made it through the nigh and we took a row boat across the lake, there were tornado warnings and it was quite windy, it was my first time in a row boat and first time at a big lake. The water was choppy and once back to camp we took off back to Dayton to avoid the tornado.
Another time we spent a week at Camp Cricket Holler just north of Dayton on Dog Leg Road. I worked on merit badges and went from a tenderfoot to a scout, second class.
All in all it was a good experience over the year or so I was a member. I earned camp money with a morning paper route.
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Becky73
151 posts
Aug 26, 2009
7:09 PM
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How did I miss this topic? I was a Girl Scout starting in Brownies in early 1963 right after the 50th anniversary of Girl Scouts. My Mother was one of the leaders. I managed to stay in through Cadettes but quit when I didn't like the leader that replaced my Mom. ( She was tired and ended up needing heart surgery a few years later. ) I have a picture of me with three other girls looking in the Brownie pool for our Investiture. It was printed in the paper. We did crafts and went camping and took hikes in various nature centers.
Years later, I had three girls and they were all in scouts. I was my oldest daughters leader. She stayed in through high school as did my middle daughter. My middle one earned her Gold Award ( equivilent to Boy Scouts Eagle award ) Youngest didn't fare so well and her leaders moved away when she was going to be a Junior scout and she quit. Despite the controversy with the pledge and various other issues, I still think scouting is quite valuable.
I also loved it that my old elementary school building, Shoup Mill, was Buckeye Trails Girl Scout council. I got the tour the building again because of that. Now it is a charter school again.
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nancy121
30 posts
Dec 15, 2010
12:47 PM
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I was a Brownie back in 1951 or 1952 can't remember for a couple of years. My Mom was the leader. We did crafts never went to camp. Can't remember our name or how many girls was in our division.
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Curt Dalton
413 posts
Dec 15, 2010
8:20 PM
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I may have told this story once before. If so, please forgive me.
As a Cub Scout I was allowed to attend a Boy Scout camp once. This was due to sympathy of me not having a father in my home, I'm sure. Anyhow, the rest of the kids resented me being there, so the first day I was tied up between two trees and left there. I was able to kick off my shoes and stand and get loose. (I was ten at the time I think).
We later had a milk drinking contest. Whoever was able to drink the most milk won. I came close, but I had white milk and a couple of other kids had chocolate milk and they didn't get tired of drinking it as quickly as I did. But, being the little kid and coming in third teed them off, so when I was swimming in the pool that evening one of them hit me in the stomach. To his amazement I sprayed him with milk as it came rolling out of my stomach... I was too sick to see if they closed the pool after that. I was led to a tent and slept the evening away.
Ah, the great memories of childhood...
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Curt
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AllenN71
132 posts
Dec 16, 2010
12:06 PM
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I must have been in the equivalent of "F-Troop". We had one patrol called the "Rabbits" who had a shoulder patch of a silhouette of the Playboy Bunny logo. No joke, and they (unsucessfully) petitioned the Miami Valley council for a variance to have a white silhouette on a black background. They wore smoking jackets around their campfire and thought they were oh-so-sophisticated and elite. One of my brothers was in the Cobra patrol. They were famous for things like experimenting with rolling a boulder down a mountainside, never mind it took an odd roll and tore through the campsite, taking out a five-gallon pot of stew bubbling on the campfire before ending up in the lake. My other brother was in the Rat Patrol, named of course after the TV show where guys tore around Northern Africa in jeeps with .50-Caliber machine guns mounted on them and blew the bejeezuz out of German Tiger tanks (With a Ma Deuce? Sure.) These guys just generally raised hell and did terribble things like teaching the little retarded kid in the troop songs with dirty lyrics and telling him to sing them to the Scoutmaster. I was a Den Chief and JASM (and a good one) and had to participate in a Court of Honor where my own brothers were drummed out.
Later some friends of mine and I began an Explorer post with combined membership from three different troops. I wanted to make our theme Law Enforcement, but the only thing we achieved was when I had to cover their stories after they TP'ed the entrance to Mammoth Cave in the middle of the night. Sheesh.
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