Growing Membership Prompts First Funds Appeal in 31 Years
The girls scouts who have been paddling their own financial canoes around here for 31 years are finally asking for help.
They’ll open a two-month campaign Nov. 15 for $425,000. That’s the minimum. They’d like to get $500,000.
“What? Why?” you ask. “Don’t they get money from the Community Chest?”
True enough, the Greater Cincinnati Girl Scout Council, Inc., which includes Hamilton and Clermont counties, is receiving $65,000 from the Chest this year - to operate existing facilities.
BUT, THE COUNCIL is growing - it now includes 1012 troops and 16,837 giirls - and, leaders contend, desperately needs another camp. That’s the purpose of the girl scouts’ first capital funds appeal.
A 300-acre site has been purchased. The money is needed to complete it.
The campaign will be limited, with solicitations sought from about 750 industries and their executives and the parents of girl scouts.
It’s headed by John R. Bullock, chairman, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Leedy, co-chairmen, who are in charge of the girl scout family solicitation committee. Mrs. Dorothy Lammers is executive secretary for the drive.
The council, incidentally, is the second oldest in the country, having been established in 1917 with Mrs. Max Hirsch as the first president.
HERE ARE SOME facts the girl scout leaders cite as reasons for needing the new camp:
The proposed new
campsite, on which improvements have been started, is in Butler county,
a little more than a mile north of Ross.
Work on the No. 1 camp project, a 10-acre lake, was begun Friday when workmen under ... contractor for the lake, and Al Windholtz, subcontractor, began cleaning a wooded area.
C.H. Allendorf & Associates, consulting engineers, are the general contractors.
SELECTED AFTER a three-year search, it’s ideal for scout purposes. The land is rolling and wooded, even includes a lake.
When completed, the new camp is expected to provide summer camping for about 1200 girls. In addition, construction will be of the type so that the site can be used year-around for troop trips, cookouts, campings and hikes. This means that about 12,000 girls will be using it during the course of a year.
The only problem is the cost - between $625,000 and $700,000. And that’s the reason for the $25,000 campaign.
The other $200,000? That’s already been raised by the girl scouts themselves through cookie sale profits accumulated over many years.
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