The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-16
Miss Marion Gary of Rut-
land Northeastern
Secretary
SCHOOL GIRLS TOOK
VERMONT INITIATIVE
Green Mountain Girls Camp Estab-
lished in Brattleboro to Be Expanded
to Give All Vermont School Girls
Outdoor Advantages.

With the appointment of Miss Marion
Gary of Rutland as northeastern field
secretary of the Y. w. c. A. for Yer
mont, it has developed that from the
young girls of the state came the first
demand for Y. w. c. A. activities, and
it is the extension of this demand that
Miss Gary is now preparing to supply.
1t was the Vermont school girls who
took the initiative in their state and in
troduced Y. w. c. A. work in the form
of student organizations in the University
of Vermont and Middlebury college, be-
sides three or four other academies; and
it was the school girls about Brattleboro
who combined to form the Green Noun
tain girls camp. Now that Vermont is
represented in the northeastern field of
the Y W. c. A by appointment of Miss
Gary as field secretary it is reported that
the demand of the school girls is extend
ing to the older women, and Miss Gary
is preparing to add to the y. W. c. A.
work the assistance of all that the older
girls and young women of Vermont
can bring to it. 1t was during the
United war work campaign that these
young women first learned that the \. W.
c. 4. was seeking exactly what they had
to give, and IN return would offer them
means for living the fuller life they
were demanding. Miss Gary. is therefore
going over the entire state, seeking and
| finding leaders among the women, and
plans for the establishment of Y. w G..
A. centers in the country districts are al
ready nearing completion. Reports at the
| recent conference in New York of the
northeastern field of the Y ". c. 4. in
dicated that in Vermont are groups of
| the strongest women of New England TO
whom New England must look for help
| in bringing back the sane, substantial life
upon which the war intruded In going
| about the state Miss Gary reports that
| while doing their part for the winning
| Of the war these women began to realize
their own power and have now become
restless under old conditions. Their de.
mand that these old conditions shall be
changed Miss Gary is preparing to meet
| through the y. W. c. A., and the estab-
lishment of V W. C. A. centers is to be
her first work
| 1t is announced that as such centers are
established the Green Mountain Girls
camp is to expand until every school girl
in Vermont shall have the advantage Of
the outdoor social life that is now enjoyed
by the school girls about Bratteboro.
These advantages include a broader ac
quaintanee among the girls themselves
during the four weeks spent in sleeping
in tents. walking, picnicking, and reading
during the day. with campfire singing and
games in the evening Such advantages
also include the training in cooking. dish
washing. bedmaking and woodcarrying in
cident to the maintaining of camp life
besides daily lessons in home nursing. by
giene first aid child welfare, and dietet
les. The progress already reported in Yer
mont gives a promise of camps for every
school girl in the state by the time tho
summer makes camping possible.