The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-28
Girl Scouts Encamp
 For Silver Jubilee
Connecticut to Be Represented By New Canaan and
 Hartford Delegates Aug. at Briarcliff Manor, N Y.

New Yerk, July 2e-(U.P)-The first international encampment for Girl Scouts and Girl Guides ever held in this country will open Au- gust 9 at Camp Andree, national Girl Scout camp at Briarclid Manor, N. Y. Twenty-Five delegates from as many foreign countries and 72 Girl Scouts representing every state, territory and district of the United States, will spend two weeks together in the silver jubilee camp organized as a feature of 25th an- niYersary celebrations marking the founding of the Girl Scouts in the United States.
 Preparations are now under way for the ceremony which will mark the official opening of the encanp- ment on August 10. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, honorary president of the Girl Scouts, is expected to be present to greet the delegates. Other speakers will be Mrs. Mark Kerr, in- ternatienal Girl Scout commission CT; Mrs. Frederick Edey. national commissioner of the Girl Scouts; Mrs. Arthur o. Choate, chairman of the Juliette Low Memorial Commit tee, and Mrs. H. D. Warren, com- missioner of the Canadian Girl Guides.
 Pageant to Be Presented A pageant entitled Hands Around the World" which dramatizes the significance of this international meeting, will be presented in the Cathedral, a natural out-of-door theater at Camp Andree. All of the foreign delegates to the encamp- ment will participate, as well as a selected group of Girl Scouts who will represent various regions of the United States.
 Following the opening ceremonies, delegates will settle down to the routine of the silver jubilee camp becoming acquainted, exchanging ideas, adding to their knowledge of scout and guide lore, and in general contributing through their close as- sociation to international under standing and goodwill. They will spend their days together under the normal Girl Scout camp program, cooking, eating, working, playing al talking in the small groups that foster friendships.
 In order to be In readiness for their foreign guests, the hostess delegates from this country will as- semble at Camp Andree August 2. The. s. s. Queen Mary, which docks in New York August g, will bring the major contingent of Girl Guide delegates, under the chaperonase of officers of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
 From Far Countries
 Those delegates who come from the far corners of the earth, how ever, have been on the seas since early in July.
 The following countries will be represented by Girl Guide delegates: Australia. Belgium, Brazil. Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland. Irish Free State, Japan, Lithuania, Luxem- bourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Suomi Finland Sweden, and Switzerland.
 Following the two weeks at Camp Andree, the delegates will spend another week together at Pine Tree, the Girl Scout camp near Plymouth, Mass, where they will be the guests of Mrs. James J. Storrow, of Boston.
 According to the present plans, the delegates will 90 to Boston Au- gust 30 as guests of the New Eng land Girl Scout Mandate, and sail for New York that night. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., chairman of the Girl Scout Federation of Greater New York, is in charge of the sightseeing and entertainment plans which will occupy the dele- gates until the Aquitania sails Sep- tember 1, when the foreign delegates will say goodbye to America and to their Girl Scout hostesses.
 Hostesses Are Selected
 The American Girl Scouts who have been selected to represent their states and to act as hostesses at the encampment are:
 Ellen Harriet Thomsen, New Canaan, Conn.,: Rita Lula, Port land, Me-; Antoinette Hunter Meyer, Newtonville, Mass; Dorothy Cush- ing, Lebanon, N. H.: Helen Frances Henderson, Rumford, R. l.: Anna Katherine Pease, Rutland, Vt.; Man. cy Orne Chapin, Lowell, Mass; Faith Haviland, Hartford, Conn; Eleanor Fagans, Trenton, N. J.; Elsa Fraser, Rockville Center, N. Y.; Marjory Hersch, Elmira, N. Y.; Kay E. Handley, Railway, N. J.: Virginia Graham, Wilmington, Del; Florence Farwell. Washington, D. O.; Betty Meese, Baltimore, Md: Millicent Landmseser, Harrisburg, Pa; Mary Negley Scully, Winchester, Va: AHAWx, Anss DhAdne otffchlsrOh pa