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Senior Girl Scouting
1945
Girl Scout Promise
On my honor, I will try:
To do my duty to God and my country,
To help other people at all times,
To obey the Girl Scout Laws.
The Girl Scout Laws
1. A Girl Scouts honor is to be trusted.
2. A Girl Scout is loyal.
3. A Girl Scouts duty is to be useul and to help others.
4. A Girl Scout is a riend to all and a sister to every other
Girl Scout.
5. A Girl Scout is courteous.
6. A Girl Scout is a riend to animals.
7. A Girl Scout obeys orders.
8. A Girl Scout is cheerul.
9. A Girl Scout is thrity.
10. A Girl Scout is clean in thought, word, and deed.
First Meetings
Most Senior troops meet once a week, day or evening, or one or
two hours, or every other
week or two or three hours. You may meet in your own clubroom,
in a community clubhouse,
in a church or school, or at your leaders house.
Some o you whose idea it was to start a Senior Girl Scout troop
should meet with the
selected leader (and troop committee i already chosen) to plan
the very first meeting. Careul
planning will insure your having a good time so you will look
orward with enthusiasm to
meeting again. The program you plan should balance necessary
inormation with un, good
ellowship, a promise or the uture, and rereshments. The ollowing
suggested ingredients
or a good first meeting should be varied to suit the needs o
your group:
1. An ice-breaking game. Make this an opportunity or getting
acquainted so that each
one o you at least learns the names o everyone present and
something about one other.
(Twenty minutes.)
2. An inspirational talk by a person who knows the history and
background o Girl Scouting.
(Ten minutes.)
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3. A talk by the leader who tells how the meeting was planned
and asks or volunteers to plan
next weeks meeting. This will undoubtedly bring up the question
o how oten the troop
is to meet, where, when, what you want to do. A secretary or the
day should be appointed
to take notes on suggestions made and decisions reached. The
discussion (which may be
directed by one o the original girl planners instead o the
leader) should give all o you
some idea o the business to be transacted next time. (Thirty
minutes.)
4. Fun and rereshments ending with a good-night song and a
reminder about the next
meeting date, place, and time.
Your second meeting will depend, o course, on the suggestions
made at the first and the plans
worked out by you and your leader. There should be some un, some
serious discussion o the
meaning o the Girl Scout Promise and Laws, the beginning o plans
or the ceremony at which
troop members will receive their pins and their registration
cards, discussion o program activi-
ties in which you are interested.
You will want to plan your first our or five meetings to include
many o the ollowing:
1. Meeting membership requirements.
2. Planning and executing the Senior membership ceremony.
3. Have un together.
4. Finding out about one anothers experiences, ideas, and all
the other activities that fill
each members twenty-our hour day.
5. Settling details about length and requency o meetings,
meeting places, mechanics
o running the group, of cers, patrols, committees, and so
on.
6. Making plans or financing your troop. Consider budget
building, agreeing on troop dues,
raising extra money o necessary, handling and spending unds,
keeping records. For
recommended procedures, see Troop Financing in Dollars and
Sense.
7. Sampling activities suggested in this handbook.
8. Visiting other Senior Girl Scouts or troops, or inviting them
to your meetings.
9. Trying out questionnaires and checklists to determine
popularity o ideas.
10. Attending any planned intertroop get-together to become
amiliar with Senior Girl
Scouting in your town.
During these first meetings you will decide what your major
interest will be. You may wish
to combine several o the program fields suggested in this
handbook. I, or example, your
troop decides to become ef cient Program Aides, you may at the
same time become a
sports group enjoying some o the activities indicated in the
Sports and Games section.
I your dominant interest is watermanship or aviation, you may,
in addition, study the art
o social adequacy as suggested in activities under Parties, You
as a Person, and
International Friendship.
