The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-04

| a W estern STATE graduate, is an
expert musician and added much
to the musical phase OF camp. Miss
Frances Anderson Of the physical
education department of Fordson
High School took Mrs. Eleanor
Bowen Cases place. Others on the
camp staff we're: counselors, Miss
Frances Bell. Miss Edith Goyette,
Miss Virginia Harding, Miss Shir-
ley Nepodal Miss Mary Power,
Miss Louise Sweet, and Miss Pat
ricia Rust Miss Bernice Ringman
acted as counselor when she ac-
companied her group OF Girl Scouts
from the special education depart
ment Miss Gertrude Campbell also
was counselor when she accompan-
led the girls from the Harriet
School She was assisted by Miss
Clemmah Clark. General counselors
were Miss Margaret Pillsbury, Miss
Charlotte Cullen. Miss Ruth Heath
and Miss Peggy Burke. Miss Wilma
Byers was head dietician and she
was assisted by Mrs. Otis Lee and
Miss Arlene Graybach. Mrs. Alfred
Allen was camp nurse. Robert Allen
acted as handy boy until he was
called to Ypsilanti 10 accept a posi-
ton with the Central Specially Co..
and was then replaced by James
Barnes
Four different groups of girls en-.
Ioyed camping periods, twenty-five
girls from the Harriet School in
the first group. sixty.two in the
second group. seventy in the third
and sixty-nine in the fourth and
last group Those furnishing trans
portation for the first group of
girls were: DR.. L. c. Perry, Herbert
Francois. Mr. and Mrs. II. Wycliff.
Mrs. H. r. Leyerett and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Vanden Belt. Those TAX
ing out the second group we're:
Mrs. Louis Hubbard, Mrs. l.. 6.
Lewis Marietta Bentley. Mrs Ralph
Wagner, Mrs. John Slater, Mrs.
George Blackburn, Mrs. R. c.
Scrivens. Mrs Fred Dupont. Jr.
Mrs. Martin Benson Gerald Mead,
Mrs. D. J. Levitt and Mrs. Carl
Curtis.
Through the courtesy of John NJ
Munson. president of the Normal
College, a large truck was furnished
for transportation of baggage for
each group of girls by the Normal
College The city furnished a large
truck and driver to take groceries
and supplies out to camp.
Different organizations furnish
ing transportation for the four
groups of girls were. Pythian Sis
ters. Congregation Mayflower
Guild, Ladies' Literary Club. Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary. Daughters
of the American Revolution. League
OF Catholic Women, Roosevelt P T.
A.. Methodist Ladies Aid Society,
Women's Study Club, Harriet P. T.
A.. Business and Professional Won.
EMS Club. and the Prospect Child
Study Club.
= Sunday being the last visiting day
at camp, one hundred parents and
friends took advantage OF the
chance TO visit Camp O. The Hills.
and were graciously entertained by
the girls. A program consisting OF
boating and canoeing was enjoyed.
Lois Hopp. Betsy Bsttelle. Edith
Steere and Mildred Campbell held
galloping canoe contest, and Ann
Winter and 10 Pat Haig won
canoe fitting contest against Beat
rice Walton and Edith Steere. There
was a general swim with diving
and water aerobaties afterwards.
Then all Joined at the lodge for a
pageant. written by Miss Louise
Sweet, depicting what the different
units were doing and what they
stood for in regard to scouting. The
Indian Unit pictured what the In
dams had brought into { cir lives,
and interesting things regarding ma
ture. and sang Indian songs and
demonstrated Indian dances. The
reader was Mary Chapman. The
Gypsy Unit sang Gypsy songs, and
Ellen Camp and Betty Scrivens read
old Gypsy stories. Alice Groosbeck
read for the Viking Unit. She told
OF the vikings love Of boating and
OF the water, and the Unit sang sea
songs and danced. Jean Parsons
read for the Pioneer Unit, and the
girls danced several Of the old