17 November 2008
Mergers Are Moving In
Posted by admin under: Girl Scout Reorganization .
The Girl Scout council mergers are starting to take more of an effect than a simple name change, lately. Paul Luce at the Delco Times reports on how the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania have fulfilled part of that promise to ensure that the larger councils take advantage of the combined resources of the older councils. They’ve got new digs.
Nearly 200 Girl Scouts from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania helped to open their new Delaware County Service Center in grand fashion on Sunday.
The ceremony celebrated the service center’s move to a spacious building next to Strayer University and out from a tiny room underneath the Borders Bookstore on Baltimore Pike in Springfield.
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U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, D-7, of Edgmont, and state Rep. Greg Vitali, D-166, of Haverford, were also on hand to show their support of the Girl Scouts’ new location.
“The mission of the Girl Scouts is to teach young women who have taken up the challenge to become leaders in our society,” said Sestak, whose daughter was involved in the Girl Scouts before she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
I can’t begin to understand Rep. Sestak’s pain. I have so much respect for him being able to honor his daughter with his support of Girl Scouts. It’s good to see the positive side of the mergers. We have just a couple weeks until my local council merges and gets bigger. All of the staff are worried because no one knows who is going to have a job after the change takes effect. It’s not a great frame of mind for the professionals, but in Pennsylvania they’ve dealt with the bitter and now are enjoying the sweet smell of new paint and carpet.
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