The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-06
Ypsilanti Scout Leaders Hear
National Worker at Banquet

The Ypsilanti Girl Scout Council
and leaders attended a banquet in
the ball room OF the Woman :
League, Ann Arbor. Thursday eve.
ming, when Miss Oleda Schrotky. a
National Girl Scout worker from
the dramatic division. spoke to the
Ann Arbor Girl Scout workers and
others interested in Girl Scouting
from the surrounding cities.
Miss Schrotky, having formerly
headed the dramatic department OF
Mt. Holyoke College, has spent 90
years In Girl Scouting Miss Schrot-
ky mentioned that Girl Scouting
is way Of living" saying too that
youth especially. and everyone
needs three things In life, appTecia-
ton. adventure and security, or a
sense Of belonging. In closing Miss
Schrotky remarked Il don't say
there is nothing better than Scout
ing, but do say there is nothing
like Girl Scouting. Girl Scouting is
the one thing OF the moment; it is
the here and the now"
Preceding the banquet the Ann
Arbor Girl Scouts put on style
show modelling all kinds of Girl
Scout uniforms and clothing.
Leaders who attended this ban
quet were Misses Marie Arnet, Cor
nelia Everard, Wilma Byers. Gladys
Whitmer. Bernice Ringman. Edith
Goyette, Virginia Olmstead and Mrs.
Frederick Steiner. and councitmem-
bers who attended were Mrs. Har~
old Leverett. Mrs. Clarence Loesell.
Mrs William Winter, Mrs Fred
Dupont, Mrs Martin Benson and
the Ypsuanti Girl Scout Commits.
sioner, Mrs. Ben NandenBelt
lnvestiture Service Enjoyed
Troop No. II, Brownies at Central
Grades School, led by Mrs. Avis
Dundon, enjoyed their investiture
ceremony in their kindergarten
room Thursday afternoon at $50.
In the center of the room was
fairy pool. made by a mirror and
surrounded by green, with pine
tree in the Background. Around
tnis were grouped five Brownies
who were invested last year. but
who have not become OF Girl Scout
age, Betty Henneke, Dorothy Houck,
Joan Fanslow, Elaine Hayden and
Pattie Wiltse. together with their
leader. Mrs. Dundon.
Betty Henneke played the intro
duction- on the piano. then the new
Brownies were admitted to the
room, blindfolded, and led to the
fairy pool. When their blindfods
were removed they found them
selves reflected in the pool and
they were wearing Brownie aprons.
They gave their promise and sang
their Brownie Smile Song. accom-
panied on tiny three octave organ,
by Dorothy Houck. Mrs. Ben Van
denBelt presented the girls with
their Brownie pins, and gave each
girl the Girl Scout salute and well
come. Then the girls all joined in
singing the Goodnight Brownie
Scout song.
The 10 girls invested were Doris
Decker, Florence Fish, Jeanne
Gotos, Patricia Green. Marlene
Hutton, Bernadine Lore. Joyce
Lauer, Marilyn Meersserran, Char.
lene Niles, Joan Roe, Ruth Ann
Schaab, Joan Townsley, Joyce Wal
ters, Frances Wolter, and Betty
Jean Young.
Guests besides the Girl Scout
Commissioner Mrs. VandenBelt, in
cluded former Brownies of troop
No. II, and Mrs Alfred Schaab,
Mrs. Thurman Walters. Mrs. Mar.
tin Benson, and Miss Xema Skeels
Mrs. Lester Philbin is assisting
Mrs. Dundon as leader OF this new
Brownie troop.
Twenty-Five Invested
Another investiture ceremony was