The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-07
COURT OF AWARDS OF GIRL SCOUTS AND BROWNIES iS HELD

 bers, committee members and lead CTS Sunday afternoon at the Elks Hall in the observance of the fall court of awards for the Juneau- Douglas group. Through the cour- tesy of Radio Station KINY the program was broadcast for the first time in the history of local scouting.
 The girls and their leaders, under the direction of Mrs. Raymond Nevin, marched into the main audi torium from the balcony singing their traditional hiking and tramp ing song. The scouts formed a large horseshoe, with the Brownies forming a large and a small circle within the scout horseshoe.
 Arrangements for the pledge of allegiance to the flag were super vised by Mrs. Richard Green, fol- lowing the placing of the United States flag, the Alaska and Girl Scout flags in their bases. Flag bearers were Katherine Bavard, Gloria Anderson, Lynn Bedding, Sylvia Lister and Loretta Keithahn.
 Wings Are Awarded
 Mrs. Raymond Nevin awarded wings to 12 Brownies, who flew up from the Brownie circle to the Girl Scout horseshoe, which opened its ranks to admit these joyous new members, who were. Adela Warner, Mary Ca h bert, Louise Grant, Audrey Feero, Joan Rhodes, Peggy Lesher, Donna Jewett, Sylvia Davis, Connie Williams, Alberta Carlson, Elsa Johnson and Beth Daigler.
 Eleanor Havdahl quoted the Brownie promise, after which the Girl Scout promise was given by Mary Thibodeau, Alyce Jean Davis, Sarah Linehan, Patricia Oakes and Jeannette Casperson.
 The Girl Scout laws, by which more than a million girls work and play, were given by Patsy Jones, Peggy Forward, Roberta N1esserschmidt, Joan Sabin, Iva Jean Schuttpeltz, Geneva Ann Par sons, Gloria Anderson, Rae Peters, Donna Brown and Paula Kay Cook
 Awards To Scouts
 Mrs. Earl D. McGinty, Girl Scout Commissioner, presented awards to scouts with the leaders of each group pinning the awards on the deserving girls.
 Members of Troop No. ? who received badges were Mary Nordale and Doris Ann Bartlett, both out door cook and second class badges; Connie William. Evelyn Hollmann, Sylvia Lister and Beth Daigler, second class badges.
 Troop No. awards went to Lynn Bedding, basketry; Rae Peters, transportation and commercial, out door cook, star finder, tree finder; Ann Louise Henning, junior citizen ship, bibliophile, tree finder, reader, scribe, book finder, rock finder, cook badge, first and second class badges; Joan Lesher, outdoor cook, Pat Waugh, second class.
 Patsy Jones of Troop No. 4 was awarded the outdoor cook badge. Outdoor cook badges were also given to Alice Jean Davis, Jacque- line Martin and Patricia Oakes of Troop No. 3.
 Second Class Ranks
 Connie Williams explained the meaning of second class rank, say ing that girls in this group must complete some approved work in each of the 10 fields, which were explained as follows: arts and crafts, Virginia Baggen; community life, Deana DeGroot; health and safety, Elsa Johnson; homemaking, Alberta Carlson; international friendship, Evelyn Hollmann; lit erature and dramatics, Doris Ann B artlett; music and dancing, Connie Williams; nature, Sylvia Lister; the out-of-doors, Mary Nordale; sports and games, Beth Daigler.
 Josephine Hared told how she won her badge as outdoor cook; Ann Louise Henning explained the meaning of first class rank. OPA awards were presented to Joan Sabin, Rosemary Theile, Susanne McMullen, Girl Scouts, and Nancy Mcdowell, Brownie, by Miss Mary Alshouse.
 Senior Scouting was the subject of an interesting talk by Miss Als- house, who is captain of the senior scout troop. Miss Gail Tomlinson, who had a solo flight license in Arizona, is working with the troop as technical director.
 The program concluded with the forming of the wishing circle and the singing of taps.
 Troop Leaders
 Leaders and members of the various troops are as follows: '
 Troop No, I-BrOWnies