31 October 2008
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Posted by admin under: meetings .
The 51st National Girl Scouts Convention is important to more than just the girls and the leaders and the professionals employed by them. It is also important to the businesses in Indianapolis where the event is being held. Inside Indiana Business says there’s gold in them thar girls!
More than 10 thousand girls, adults, celebrities and exhibitors are in Indianapolis this weekend for the national Girl Scout Leadership Institute. For the first time in 78 years, Girl Scouts of Central Indiana is hosting the event at the Indiana Convention Center. The “Live healthy, Lead healthy” conference is expected to pump $10 million into the local economy. The National Council session is held every three years, so voting members can make policy decisions.
The story goes on to list all the celebrities, events and sponsors of the event. And just for the record I’m not a big fan of the new (or old I don’t really know) term “Girl Scout Movement”. It makes me clench. I think it’s supposed to be some marketing thing to make it seem like an active and growing throng of people flocking to Girl Scouts. It sounds political to me. I know I’m being oversensitive. It’s a fine term, but now I’ll have to come up with something else to call my camp visits to the KYBO.
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3 Comments so far...
LauraB Says:
31 October 2008 at 7:56 pm.
“Movement” has been used for as long as the organization has existed, and in Guiding as well. It is used by WAGGGS: (from their website) “The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a worldwide Movement providing non-formal education…..”
It was also used by BP. In “Scouting for Girls”, a handbook published in 1920 in the forward, on page 17, he wrote in a discussion of the history of Scouting: “It is thanks to Mrs. Juliette Low, of Savannah, that the movement was successfully started in America….” The term is also variously used in other parts of that book to describe the organization. That’s the earliest record I have access to, but it must have been used earlier due to the frequency of use in there.
So…it’s an old term! I think it fell out of use for awhile and the calls for traditionalism have brought it back somewhat. Scouting is a movement, a new type of social movement when it began and still one today!
admin Says:
31 October 2008 at 8:03 pm.
Yeah. It still makes me giggle, though. I have a juvenile sense of humor.
LauraB Says:
31 October 2008 at 8:28 pm.
I had just been curious as to how old it was myself so did a little bit of research into it awhile ago. It’s a somewhat strange term, but it works, I suppose. There’s nothing wrong with a juvenile sense of humor, especially in Scouting!
