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The Golden Promise: A Fiftieth Anniversary Ceremony for Girl Scout Councils (1962) [52] It’s Up To Us! A Ceremony for Girl Scouts (1963) [53] (an adaptation of the closing ceremony used at the 36th National Convention at Miami Beach) Brownies’ Own Songbook (1968) [54] with music by Martha Coe. It sold over 150,000 copies [55]
The ceremonies are viewed by many people, including veterans, school groups, and foreign officials. Taps also is sounded nightly in military installations at non-deployed locations to indicate that it is "lights out", and often by Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Girl Guides to mark the end of an evening event such as a campfire. [2]
The Campfire ash ceremony (also known as a Friendship Ash ceremony) is a ritual associated with Scouting meant to convey the long history and fellowship associated with the movement. Attributed to Lord Baden-Powell , it is said that he would take a small amount of the ashes from the campfire he was at, and would take them to add to the next ...
Note that the first two lines are different from either the contemporary version or the "Wilderness" version. This original version is copied here verbatim from a handwritten copy of The Worth Ranch Grace written on a small piece of note paper by James P. Fitch, Region Nine Scout Executive, during a trip to Worth Ranch in the 1930s.
The Cub Scout programme of the Boy Scouts of America and Brownies of the Girl Scouts of the USA [24] have used the traditional Grand Howl as a "special recognition ceremony" with the person being honoured (a guest, parent or member of the Pack), standing in the centre of the circle. [25] In addition, a Short Grand Howl can be used as follows:
This is a public ceremony that officially recognizes scouts that have been elected to be candidates for membership in the Order of the Arrow. This is an opportunity for the Lodges who organize it to present the OA to all the scouts present, its history, recognize the candidates and challenge the scouts who are not elected to strive to uphold ...
Girl Scouts raising the flag at a Municipal Band concert in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2]
In 1926, The Times newspaper of Munster, Indiana, printed that, during a Girl Scout outing, the scouts sat around a camp fire and "it was solemnly announced that John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith after a long and useful life had died from overwork on the way to Whiting. He was buried with due ceremony and his ghost is not to be seen until October ...