Evening star., 1946-03-03
Campfire Girls
viii Celebrate
34tb Birthday
Potomac Area
In Ceremony
By Gretchen SmifI
women's Club Editor.

March Is q month Of unusual in
terest for Camp Fire Girls as it is
birthday month for the international
organization whose objectives in
clude promotion of home interest,
cultural persuits and a love of the
.out-of doors for girls from first
grade to high school senior age.
The 34th birthday will be observed
beginning March II when Camp Fire
Girls of the Potomac Area will open
the celebration with tour of Wash
ington Cathedral at pm, conclud-
ing with an evensong service at 4
pm. Girls from the District of Co.
lumbia, Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. Md, and Alex
andria, Fairfax and Arlington
Counties, Va, will attend the
service, In uniform, marching in
formation into the Cathedral where
seats will be reserved for them.
Birthday Honor Award.
During birthday week, the girls
are given opportunity to win the
birthday honor. announcement Of
which is made May l. Competitors
for the award are given program
which outlines seven distinct efforts
In which the girls must participate
to qualify for the honor.
These include: l, "At Home In
the Community; 2, "At Home in
Music; 3, "At Home in Art; 4, "At
Home in the Out-of Doors; 5, cat
rar,n Il, tha DoHo;o,,e yuor1dD. |
AT Home in the Foreign World"
and 7, "At Home in Camp Fire"
The program offers opportunities
for girls to take cooking lessons;
visit community buildings or places
Of interest: attend concerts and de-
velop music appreciation; visit art
galleries and, for talented members,
take up sketching or. painting or
handcraft; develop love of outdoors
by hikes with others and cookouts;
learn swimming; attend church
services; further interest in foreign
affairs by inviting speakers to ad-
dress meetings on other countries,
and expanding the Camp Fire Or
ganization by recruiting members,
guardians, assistants or sponsors.
Edith M. Kempthorne Day.
March 20 will be observed as
Edith M Kempthorne day when
Miss Kempthorne, national adviser
to Camp Fire field workers. will be
specially honored Born in New
Zealand, Miss Kempthorne grad
uated from the Royal Academy of
Music, London, following which she
went to Juneau, Alaska, where she
formed two Camp Fire Girls groups
in 1918, the year after the organiza-
ton was founded. In celebration Of
the day, Camp Fire Girls will do
nate penny for each year of their
age to the Kempthorne Extension
Fund which is used to extend Camp
Fire activities among young girls.
Birthday week will conclude with
tour of the Pan American Build
ing on March % when groups from
all districts in the area will be !
greeted by Senor Don Marcial Mora,
Ambassador of Chile. {
All kinds of special events and
activities are now being planned by
the 81 local groups of Bluebirds (the {
little girls of Camp Fire. the Camp
Fire Girls (next in age group and
the Horizon Club girls, Camp Fire !
Girls of High School age, in order to s
win the birthday honor during {
birthday week which has as its
theme, "At Home in the World"
Leaders are asked to collect out
standing handcraft articles and
note books compiled by Camp Fire !
Girls to be placed on exhibit dur
ing birthday week.
AS part of the foreign world" .
program, Camp Fire girls are en-
couraged to correspond with girls
In Greece, who are so badly in need ::
of outside assistance The Camp
Fire girls are invited to send boxes
Of clothing and other needed articles
10 the girls overseas.
Members of the organization are
also urged to collect Christmas
cards, which are sent to children in
rural areas, for use in art and hand
craft projects. over $4,000 Christ
mas cards have been collected by
girls of the Potomac Area and for
warded to the Save the Children
Federation" which distributes them