The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-07-29
GIRL SCOUTS
ENCAMPMENT
OPENS AUG. II
GIRLS FROM ALL PARTS OF
UNITED STATES WILL At
TEND CAMP NEAR SPRING
FIELD. MASS.

isphere Encampment will open
August II at Camp Bonnie Brae.
near Springfield, Mass, with a
capacity registration of 100 Girl
Scouts from all parts OF the
United States and Girl Guides
from fourteen Western Hemis-
phere countries, it was announced
today at Girl Scout national
headquarters. The encampment
will continue through August rs.
Every section of the United
States will be represented at the
encampment, officials of the
Girl Scout organization stated.
The foreign Girl Guides, who
are coming to this country as
the guests of the Girl Scouts of
the United States, are official
delegates from the following
countries: Argentina, Barbados.
Bermuda, Brazil, British Guiana,
British Honduras, Canada, Cuba,
Guatemala Jamaica. Mexico,
Newfoundland, Puerto Rico,
Trinidad, and the Virgin Is
lands. Their expenses will be
paid, in part, by the Juliette Low
Memorial Fund to which Girl
Scouts throughout the United
States have contributed pennies
to be spent in promoting inter
national friendship and good
will.
High spot of the ecampment
will be the visit of Mrs. Franklin
d. Roosevelt, honorary president
of the Girl Scouts, on August IL,
Mrs. Roosevelt will join a lunch
con party in her honor, visit
with the various camping units
and speak to the entire group at
a special assembly She will
bring with her the greetings of
the President to the campers.
Other events scheduled for
the encampment period include
at the concerts given
by the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira under the direction of Sergei
K oussevitsky, at nearby Tangle-
wood; supper party at which
the entire group will be the
guests of the Lenox, Mass, Girl
Scouts on Aug. IT; Springfield
Day., Aug. 81, when Girl Scouts,
leaders and council members
from Springfield. Mass, will be
guests at the camp, and Juliette
Low night. The latter event,
scheduled for Aug. 10, will in
clude the presentation of special
Girl Scout pins to the foreign
guests by Mrs. E. Swift Newton,
of Daylesford, Paa., chairman of
the Girl Scout International Com
mittee, and presentation of cop
les of ''JuIiette Low and the Girl
Scouts, an official history of
Girl Scouting in the United
States, by Mrs. Arthur O. Choate,
of New York City, chairman of
the Juliette Low Memorial Fund.
During the two-week encamp-
ment period, the girls will live
together in the informal atmo-
sphere of typical Girl Scout
camp. sharing chores, swapping
ideas, showing each other how
things are done in their part of
the world. Each delegate is COM
ing to the encampment prepared ]
to cook a meal typical of her
country or state, and nearly all
the foreign delegates are bring
ing samples of local handcrafts
and native costumes.
This will be the second time
that the Girl Scouts of the Unit
ed States have sponsored a get
together of members of their or
SANITATION in the Western world
Last year, when world condi-
tons made it impossible for the
GIRL Scouts to hold their annual
International meeting at Adel-
boden, Switzerland, they institut-
ed the Western Hemisphere En-
campment at Camp Andree
Clark, near Pleasantville, N. Y, |
which was attended by over one
hundred oirls