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Show In Thsse United States f!ine American Women Receive Gamp Fire Girls Silver Medal NEW YORK CITY. Nine American women who have given outstanding service in the field of girl guidance have been awarded silver medals, it has been announced by Miss Martha F. Allen, national executive of Camp Fire Girls, Inc. ' Determined from annual reports submitted to national headquaiiers in New York City, the awards this year, as in previous years, are based on the important contributions made by women volunteers in planning plan-ning all-around programs for their Camp Fire groups. The organization's silver medal, med-al, which bears the Camp Fire emblem of crossed logs and flame, was awarded to Mrs. Edward Ed-ward Shepter, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Helen A. Davis, St. Augustine, Augus-tine, Fla.; Mrs. Eunice Le-Blanc, Le-Blanc, Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Howard Wood, Berkeley, Calif.; Mrs. Grace Hawkins, Spokane, Wash. ; Mrs. Alma Hastings, Overland Park, Kan.; Mrs. Or-ville Or-ville Hanson, Hawley, Minn.; and Mrs. Alveda Hocker, Misha-waka, Misha-waka, Ind. The winners, who represent a cross-section of American womanhood, woman-hood, devoted themselves wholeheartedly whole-heartedly to providing for the leisure lei-sure time needs of Camp Fire girls, even though they themselves had their own families and household responsibilities to care for. In addition ad-dition to planning health and character-building programs for their groups, they also aided the many social, welfare and health agencies with which Camp Fire co-operates. During the war the volunteers directed di-rected their Camp Fire groups in many patriotic activities, which included in-cluded selling war bonds, collecting canned foods and clothing for UNRRA, assisting in the "March of Dimes" campaign, and "adopting,, war orphans. |
