Girl Scout leaders are found everywhere - on filed trips, camp-outs, square dances and contests.  They are always preparing for, sitting through, participating in, or recuperating from a meeting of some kind.  They're tireless consumers of cookies, experts at threading needles, and peerless leaders of songs and games.  They have a telephone stuck in their ear, a jar of glue at their fingertips, ashes in their hair and blisters on their feet.

A Girl Scout leader is many things - an artist making a display for an event, a nurse patching up a skinned knee, a counselor at camp, a lawyer filling out reports and a shoulder to cry on when a project just didn't work.

Nobody else is so early to rise and so late home at night.  Nobody else has so much fun with such a large family of girls.  We sometimes forget them, but we can't do without them.  They receive no salary, but we can never repay them.

They are "Angels in Green", "Saints in Sleeping Bags".  Their only reward is the love of the kids and the respect of the community.  But when they look around them at the skills they've taught and the youth they've built, there's an inner voice from somewhere that says, "WELL DONE".