3 December 2008
Good Make-up for Connecticut’s Girl Scouts
Posted by admin under: Girl Scout Reorganization .
MarketWatch has another press release and this one relates to the Board of Directors for the Girl Scouts of Connecticut. You know, some day I’m going to have to figure out exactly what the board of directors does as opposed to the president, CEO, and all those other acronym positions. That’s where the Scout shop and cookies are and sometimes they tell us what we’re not allowed to do. Pretty much everything else seems to be people I know who are parents like me. But in Connecticut, they’ve figured out who is leading their new council.
Representing every county in Connecticut, the board consists of life-long Girl Scouts, prominent community leaders, nonprofit and corporate executives, two university presidents and many board veterans. The 27 members who comprise the new board will draw from their extensive experience in Girl Scouting, banking, finance, communications, government, education, technology, marketing and strategic planning to lead the state’s largest girl-focused organization.
Members also have deep Girl Scout connections. More than half of its members have served on one or more Girl Scout council boards. Most of its female members were Girl Scouts as children, and served on the Girl Scouts of Connecticut’s interim board or nominating/development committee.
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Continuing the Girl Scouts’ commitment to diversity, the board includes members from the African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American and Indian-American communities.
Meh. I know this is important to some people, but I was told as a kid that race doesn’t matter so I pretty much stopped paying attention to it and it kind of shocked me how incredibly excited people were when our new President was elected. I mean, I understand the significance, but I just don’t think that way very much. I use the King approach: content of his character, rather than the color of his skin. One of my pet peeves with the Girl Scouts is they are so interested in what color everybody is. Nearly all the forms about registration and events ask what color and from which region somebody’s ancestors were. I wonder if the white South African kid in my Boy Scout troop gets to put African American on his BSA registration form?
The Connecticut Girl Scout page doesn’t even have the board announcement yet, which I found amusing. They do have this link to their reflections on the recent convention, though. I liked it, but it seems like most of the accounts about this subject make the convention sound more like a party than a business meeting. That’s fine. After all, the Boy Scout Jamboree is basically just one big party, with a little merit badge work if you want it. It just seems like the GSUSA can’t make up their mind if they want to party or work at the convention so they mix liberal doses of business and pleasure. It’s a good thing, just a little frustrating when you try to get details. Fortunately, we had Mary Ann Chick Whiteside keeping the info flowing so we got the details we needed.
Good luck to the new Connecticut Board of Directors. E Pluribus Unum.
- Additional Girl Scout Board Information
- Top Cookie Seller Elected GSUSA Vice-President
- BSA McWebsite
- Girl Scouts Win Gold Award. Not That One.
- Girl Scout Convention Snapshot
One Comment so far...
Eric Says:
3 December 2008 at 5:02 pm.
I agree with you about the King philosophy. The Girl Scouts seem to be almost obsessed with “diversity”. Diversity is a good and needed thing, but it becomes warped when it’s the sole focus.
