New Britain herald., 1927-07-22
GIRL SCOUT CAMP PROVING POPULAR
Hikes, Evening Fires and SWim-
 ning Make Time Pass Fast

Nine girls have earned their Red Cross beginners pin in swimming
 during the first ten days at Camp Sprague, the New Britain Girl Scout camp at Jobs pond, Port land. These girls have the right now to wear the green bathing caps, whereas before they wore red caps. They are Lila Russell. Vir- ginia Post, Helen Donahoe. Doris Scherr. Marion Hance. Mary Rob- Leavitt and Mary Ida Hannah.
 Nine othe- girls won their Red Cross swimmers pins and the right to wear the blue caps. They are Elizabeth Harwood, Mary Randell, Jessie Randell, Rhoda Weunsch, Catherine Long, Louise Carter, Mar garet Miller, Edith Raymond and Helen Hotchkiss.
 Things seem to be goinng in hines at Camp Sprague so far, as nine girls who had signed up for only the first two weeks have reg istered for another week or more. Registrations are still coming in for the rest of the camp period. The second week is just finishing with a capacity registration filling |all the tents including the new unit on the hill which has earned the name of Seventh Heaven" " The campers will miss the Jun iors" after Saturday. Only two of these ten and II year old girls be- came homesck enough to have parents come after them. These places were filled immediately by others euqally anxious for the ex- perience.
 An all-round camping program with daily variation has been working out satisfactorily this year with group activities planned for the variously aged groups.
 In addition to the regular daily instruction in swimming. hand crafts, nature study and hobby hour the following program plans for special activities to look forward to each day. On Mondays the older girls who have been in camp for nine nights or more may go with two counsellors for an overnight hike, providing the weather is suit able. For the younger girls camp songs are taught around the camp fire. Stories are told and camp tra- ditions are emphasized.
 On Tuesdays the mixers return and rest Games are planned for the evening program. On Wednes day afternoons the water carnivals are held and blue and red ribbons are given the girls winning the first and second places respectively in swimming, diving. rowing and stunts. In the evenings following swimming events a marshmalloW toast is hcld. A number of the par ents have been generous in supply ing the campers with marshmal- lows and fruit for the whole camp.
 Thursday nights are turned over to the nature claim camp fires. One of the requirements for receiving the camp green tie is to report one thing in nature carefully observed that was entirely new to the camp CT. Beginning with this week the girls are making blueprints of leaves and flowers doing spatter work and making plaster casts of footprints of animals.
 All during the week plans are in process for "Stunt Night" on Fri days at which time each patrol gives a stunt or short play. Follow ing the stunts the camp ties are ed them during the week. This is a camp tradition that has been car ried on a couple of seasons and s highly prized by the girls. The fol- lowing girls were awarded the ties the first week; Marguerite Hubert, Dorothy Comstock. Hedwig Rowin- ska, Nancy Hooker. Henrietta Bey- ser, Mary Randell and Edith R. Raymond,
 On Saturday mornings the green tie girls have a tree ceremonial which is very impressive. In the afternoon new girls arrive and the old girls act as hostesses. On the second and fourth Saturday eve nings of camp a special welcome tc new girls has been worked out with a bayberry candle ceremony, typi- cal of the baybcrry bushes so pro- fuse on the grounds and the pio- neer woman who made use of the