Milford chronicle., 1959-04-10
Girl Scout News


Tenderfoot Rank requirements. You
may think is a strange name. 1t
was used in the pioneer days
and means someone who has just
started out in new country. The
early settlers. carrying all their
belongings, had to hike for many
hours before they found campsite
/ Their feet soon ached and the old
timers called them ''tenderfeet".
When a girl joins the Girl Scouts
she is also starting out on new
adventure She finds that there
are certain things which have a
/ special meaning to her and to all
Girl Scouts. While she is learning
/ these things, the Tenderfoot rank
requirements are being completed
There are nine Tenderfoot rank
requirements:
1. Learn the Girl Scout Promise,
Laws, slogan, and motto.
2. Learn the history of Girl
Scouting.
8. Be able to give the Girl Scout
salute, sign and handshake.
4. Learn how to display and use
the flag of the United States of
America.
5. Know about the World As
sociation of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts. Be able to explain the
meaning. of its pin.
6. Choose one activity from each
of the following groups and show
by the way you do them that you
understand the Girl Scout Laws:
a. Homemaking:
Know how to set a table and
do it at home.
Know how to make a bed and
make your own bed.
Make something useful for your
home.
Take care of a household pet.
b. Out-Of-doors
Use a compass and make a
rough sketch of the way you go
home from school and from
school to troop meeting.
Lay trail for others to follow.
Use a jacknife to make shaw
ings for a fire.
z. Pay your Girl Scout annual
membership dues and know some
thing about why you pay these
dues.
8. Attend your troop meetings
| for four or more weeks.
9. Make the Girl Scout Promise
and be invested as a Girl Scout.
At the end of the year, these
Brownies have what is known as
a "Fly-up" ceremony. This is why
you have heard third year Brown
les called ''Fly-ups". This cere-
mony can be carried out in many
different ways. Some troops have
an improvised bridge which SYM
bolizes their graduating from
Brownies into Girl Scouts.
The girls form a horseshoe and
usually start with the flag cere-
mony. After the flag ceremony, each
scout steps forward and salutes
her leader. She repeats the Girl
Scout Promise and receives her
Brownie Wings and Girl Scout
Pin from her leader, after which,
they shake hands in the Girl Scout
way. This is done by shaking hands
with the left hand while the sa-
lutte is given with the right hand.
The Girl Scout crosses the bridge
when the horses is formed a.
gain, the Scouts say the Girl
Scout laws in unison after which
they sing the Golden Sun" or
another Girl Scout song.
Occasionally parents are invited
to the 'F1y-up" ceremony, but it
is thing of reverance rather than
spectacle
News of Troop No. Ss Girl Scouts
At $50 p. M, Wednesday, April
1, two Representatives of Troop
No. SO and three representatives
Of Troop No. 7S met at the Cen
tury Club to discuss plans for their
dance. The Girl Scouts were Susan
Kirby, Judy Jefferson, Aileen La
Norge, 10 Ann Collins and Dee
Ridings. They decided refreshments
and decorations for the dance
which was held in the Kiwanis
Building on Saturday, April 6,
from 1880 p. m. to 1920 p. m, This
committee of decorations met
at the building at 10 a. m, on that
day to decorate: Frances Welsh,
Ann Hickman, Dee Ridings, Susan
Kirby, 10 Ann Collins, and Judy
Jefferson. Boy Scout Troops were
invited to attend. Those troops will
be the ones under the leadership
of Mr. GLAND Evans, Mr. George
Marshall and Mr.. Alan Edsell
Later that evening. at 1880, Troop
No. SO held its regular weekly
meeting. A Court of Awards was
held and Mrs. James Homan, lead
er, presented the Girls with their
badges. Good grooming badges
were awarded to: Judy Roberts,