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Show THE READER'S DATE BOOK Girl Scouts and Ccrnpfire Girls Observe Birthday Anniversaries During the month of March two organizations that have groups in many of the home towns of the nation will observe birthday anniversaries. an-niversaries. The organizations, the Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls, have been instrumental in building better citizenship in thousands of communities across the country. The Girl Scouts are observing their 40th anniversary throughout 1952, with March 12 as the focal point of the celebration. It was on this day in 1912 that the first troop was organized by Juliette Gor- aon l,ov in savannan, ua. The organization's membership on the eve of its 40th anniversary is at an all time high, totalling 1,770,000 girls and adult leaders. Local councils coun-cils number 1,423 and exist in every state and U.S. territory. In addition, there are 216 Girl Scout troops in 26 countries made up M&fe'i of the daughters of fKvfa families assigned or JfJiC&f employed abroad. FEATUHE Under the anni- versary slogan, "Girl Scouts a Growing Force for Freedom", special spe-cial emphasis will be given to a series of nation-wide projects dur- and develop self-expression; to give her an opportunity for enriching en-riching new experiences and to develop in her a sense of personal per-sonal responsibility. Easter Seal Campaign To Begin March 13 The National Society fr Crippled Children will conduct its annual campaign for funds from March 13 to Easter Sunday, April 13. As a result of Easter Seal contributions, contrib-utions, direct services to more than a quarter of a million crippled children chil-dren and adults were given in 1951 in the form of treatment and training, train-ing, convalescent care, special education, edu-cation, recreation, employment opportunities op-portunities and counseling. ing the 40th anniversary year. They inelude recruiting 500 new professional profes-sional workers to fill posts in Girl Scout councils throughout the country; coun-try; recruiting approximately 80,-1 80,-1 O00 volunteer workers to serve as leaders so that new troops may be formed to absorb waiting lists of would-be members; training girls and their adult leaders in skills useful use-ful in civil defense; extending program pro-gram for handicapped children; and expanding the program of international interna-tional exchange of campers and adult personnel with Girl Scout and Girl Guide organizations of other countries. Mr. Roy F. Layton, national president, explains that the recruiting re-cruiting program has been made necessary by three factors: the rising birth rate, population shifts, and Girl Scouting's history his-tory of growth and expansion during all of its 40 year history. The Camp Fire Girls have selected se-lected the slogan Design for Friendship Friend-ship for celebration of their birthday birth-day week, March 16-22. Camp Fire Girls was founded in 1910 by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick and a group of educators. Emphasizing Empha-sizing the importance of home and family life, it has a membership of 365,000 girls in 2,900 communities through the United States and an alumnae of 3,000,000 representing all religious, racial and economic backgrounds. The slogan Design for Friendship Friend-ship is concerned with Camp Fire groups discovering themselves. them-selves. Its underlying theme is taken from the rJamp Fire Handbook for Guardians: to give each girl assurance and dispel any feeling of isolation; to give her a feeling of being a necessary, neces-sary, wanted member of the group; to help her make friends National Hobby Week To Begin March 17 National Hobby Week will be observed ob-served this year beginning March 17, marking the fifteenth annual observance ob-servance of the special hobby holiday. holi-day. The celebration will take the form of an extensive promotion campaign and offers numerous opportunities op-portunities for tie-ins by local merchants. mer-chants. Local department stores, art and hobbycraft shops, camera stores, music shops, stamp dealers, deal-ers, book stores, sporting goods dealers, hardware store, and toy stores can secure promotional promo-tional tie-ins from the Hobby Guild of America, 34 West 33rd Street, New York, sponsors of the event. |
