Mountain View Mirror - Online
December 1999
Special World Thinking Day 2000 Preview
Dear friends,
We are from troop #343 and we are trying to collect 2000 postcards from all over the world. We would like to to have one from every state in the US, every province in Canada, and every country in the world. We started our collection on Feb 1, 1999 and we have 806 postcards. Our deadline date is is Dec 31, 1999. If you can, please help us meet our goal.
Our address is:
GS Troop #343
7723 Gordon Way
Indianapolis, IN
46237-9664
Thank you for helping us complete our project. We are enjoying hearing from many different groups (GS, BS, and everyone else) all over the world. If you include your e-mail addy, we'll let you know when we receive your card and what # it is in our collection.
Patches, Blabber, A.L., J, Mouse, Mrs. S., and Mrs. H. (and two "live" mascots, Kitcat and Birdie)
YIGGGS-
Suz H.
Jr leader, GS Hoosier Capital Council (Indiana)
Our troop Y2K postcard project is up to #806--e-mail me to help us receive 2000 postcards by 12/31/99! We're missing postcards from 140 WAGGGS countries. gshcc343@JUNO.COM
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Here's an opportunity to join girls around the world in doing community action projects linked to six theme areas identified by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). This powerful initiative will last through the year 2003, giving girls the opportunity to have a real impact on their communities and the world. By participating, you are encouraged to think of the global impact of your local efforts.
Find out more about Building World Citizenship online at WAGGGS http://www.wagggsworld.org/build.htm
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This section is for you, the Daisy Troop Leader, to report what your troop has been doing the past month. Please let us know what you have been up to!
This section is for you, the Brownie Troop Leader, to report what your troop has been doing the past month. Please let us know what you have been up to!
This section is for you, the Junior Troop Leader, to report what your troop has been doing the past month. Please let us know what you have been up to!
In November the girls voted on a troop crest and began to work on the Healthy Relationships badge as a troop. They made turkey napkin rings to use at their Thanksgiving feasts. For service this month the girls planted bulbs at Hearthwood School.
For our December meeting the girls learned card stamping and embossing and made Christmas cards, recipe cards, and note cards for Christmas gifts. They made candy reindeer to hand out when we go Christmas caroling at the hospital.
They helped with registration at the PSU/Girl Scout Council Basketball clinic in November. Over 200 Girl Scouts attended.
There last meeting for 1999 was December 7th. They made Christmas crafts which were a candle with candy cane holder and a snowman made out of a sock. The next meeting will be January 11 where they will be getting psyched to sell Girl Scout cookies.
This section is for you, the Cadette or Senior Troop Leader or Cadette or Senior Girl, to report what your troop has been doing the past month. Please let us know what you have been up to!
# = Council Event - not all events listed. Please check your G.R.E.A.T. Guide for more information.
Neighborhood Co-Chairs
Deb W / Roxanne G / Judy C
Membership Team
..Carol J / Lynn K / Virginia S / Suzanne B
Leader Support Team
(Brownie) Natalie L / (Daisy) Nichole J / (Brownie) Sue F / (Cadette) Roxanne G
Communications Team
...Carol H
Finance/Cookie Team
...Linda S / Jan A / Deb W
Awards & Recognition Team
..LeAnn C / Helen S / Diane K
Events Team
..Zina Y / Diana A
Community Resource Team
......Lisa P / Mary Beth J / Carol H
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The idea for a special day each year on which Girl Guide/Girl Scouts around the world think of each other originated at the 4th International Conference held in the USA in 1926. The date chosen for Thinking Day was 22 February, the joint birthdays of the Founder, Lord Baden-Powell and the World Chief Guide, Olave, Lady Baden-Powell.
The idea was further developed at the 7th World Conference held in Poland in 1932. A Belgian delegate at that Conference suggested that since birthdays usually mean presents, a way way of showing appreciation and friendship would be for all Girl Guides/Girl Scouts to offer a voluntary contribution in addition to their thoughts on Thinking Day. This was the origin of the Thinking Day Fund as it was then called.
The suggestion caught on quickly and the Thinking Day Fund was established for the promotion of Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting wherever the need was greatest. In 1933, £520.12s.6d was collected for the Thinking Day Fund. The suggestion of one penny "a penny for your thoughts" or the equivalent is, of course, symbolic today.
How was the Thinking Day Fund used when it was still in its infancy? In 1941, the Thinking Day appeal was for the purpose of helping Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting in countries suffering from the effects of the Second World War. Money received for the fund in 1943 included donations from Cuba and from Mexico, the first time money had been received from Latin America. Writing in "The Council Fire" that year, the then Director of the World Bureau wrote: "Thinking Day is unquestionably a reality in our World Movement. Even now, in the middle of a world war war which calls for for money and attention from every citizen everywhere, Guides and Brownies have already sent more than £130 for the World Thinking Day this year. And still the money dribbles in".
In 1945 a special Thinking Day Fund "Helping Hand Appeal" was launched to help Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in the war-devastated countries to re-establish the Movement in their countries. The target was to raise £2,000 before the end of the year and by the end of September 1945 three-quarters of this sum had already been received. The "Helping Hand Appeal" stayed open until the end of 1946. There was a wonderful response to this appeal, money being raised in a number of ways: one Guide Company sold snowdrops, another raised money with a Scottish Country Dance evening. With the donations received came suggestions and requests as to how the Fund should be used. One Brownie Pack requested their donation of one shilling and seven pence (approx. 8 pence in todays money) be divided: 1d. to Iceland; 1d. to Hungary; 1d. to Greece; 2d. to Holland; 2d. to Belgium; 3d. to Poland; 4d. to France and 5d. to Norway!.
In 1957 the Centenary Year of the birth of the Founder, Lord Baden-Powell the World Bureau produced a Thinking Day gramophone record which was recorded in the EMI Studios in London. Among the items on the record is the World Song, the Maori Stick Game, a Zulu Lullaby and a Thinking Day greeting from the World Chief Guide. We are sending you a cassette so that you can can also enjoy some part of the history of Thinking Day.
A Thinking Day song was composed in 1975 by Sue Stevens of the UK.
In July 1999 at the 30th World Conference, the new name of World Thinking Day was was adopted, emphasizing the world aspect of Thinking Day.
Finally, there is an event that takes place every year in London to mark the birthdays of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell. Each year on the Saturday nearest to Thinking Day, a Thinking Day and Founders service is held in Westminster Abbey, London. Among the wreaths laid on the Founders Memorial is one on behalf of WAGGGS made up of blue and gold flowers depicting the World Association Badge. Although there had been a memorial stone dedicated to Lord Baden-Powell in the Abbey since 1941, in 1981 a memorial stone was dedicated to Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, the first double memorial in the Abbey.
As we celebrate Thinking Day perhaps we should also also remember that anonymous Belgian delegate whose suggestion 68 years ago, to give "a penny for your thoughts" has enabled WAGGGS to further the work of the World Association throughout the world.
Depending on climates, cultures, traditions and special conditions, World Thinking Day celebrations and activities take many forms.
At local level
World Thinking Day ceremonies take place in many countries and are of many different kinds.
Thinking Day is the birthday of both Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts, and his wife Lady Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide. Girl Scouts and Girl Guides all over the world world celebrate this day in International Friendship and World Peace.
This year celebrate Thinking Day by swapping with other Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from around the world. We are currently compiling a list of troops who are interested in participating in this project. If your troop is interested in in swapping with another troop, please let us know by filling out the form so we can match you up with a troop. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 1999. To sign up online go to: http://www.zyworld.com/TDSWAPS/signup.htm
Ideas for things to swap:
Crafts, recipes, games, troop information, council information, patches, postcards, photos of your troop in uniform...anything you feel another troop would be interested in knowing about you.
Our Goal is to get 2000 or more Girls to participate. Pass this this information on to other troops.
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