Year in Review 2001-2002

Anne	Elizabeth
Jessie	Jamie
Christina	Jenny
Stephanie	Evelyn
Chandler	Aisha
Rossie	Katie
Diana	Nicole

June 2001 Many of us set off for distant places as soon as school was out. Anne and Pat were lucky enough to be headed for London, and were able to stay at Pax Lodge, one of the four International WAAGGGS centers. As it turns out Jessie and her mom will get to do the same thing in June, 2002.

July 2001 This year we didn’t have anyone leaving on a Wider Opp in the summer, but 180 girls from all over were coming to Atlanta for Peachy Days and Starry Nights, and we helped out by making door decorations for their dorm rooms at Ga Tech.

August 2001 In August things started again – school, service unit meetings for the leaders, and regular troop meetings. We began with a whitewater rafting trip as our official bridging activity to Senior Girl Scouts, and had a great camping trip in North Carolina with council tents that were a real challenge to set up, but were fun to crowd into. Pat nearly took the skin off some of the girls who were still talking and giggling at midnight. You really don’t want your advisors (formerly leaders) to have to get our of their tents and walk across the road to tell you to be quiet! The best part was awarding the Silver Award to Katie and Nicole.

September 2001 At our first meeting we divided up responsibilities for the rest of the year so that teams of girls would plan and prepare each meeting. We looked at all the work that is ahead of us for the Gold Award. Each girl decided to try for the Gold Award, and it would be really wonderful if we were all able to achieve that honor together. We decided to get started at once on the Leadership Hours! Girls signed up for the committees they wanted to work on during the year.

October 2001 In October Jamie and Aisha led the meeting. We had leftover dump cake makings from our trip, so we decided that we should plan to cook ourselves a snack at each meeting. We got started on some of the Girl Scout Challenge activities. What a lot of paperwork! Aisha, Anne, Diana, Evelyn, Elizabeth, Jamie, and Rossie all got started on their Leadership Hours by helping to staff the Junior Weekend at Camp Timber Ridge. It’s interesting to see younger girls and remember ourselves.

November 2001 Some of us were able to attend a Gold Award Workshop and receive our notebooks that will help us work toward the award. Jenny and Diana led the meeting, and we made some progress on the Girl Scout Challenge.

December 2001 More of us made it to a Gold Award Workshop, and we had a really fun meeting, headed by Rossie and Liz that featured a Secret Santa gift exchange. Anne took off on her Wider Opp trip which was an Outward Bound dog sledding adventure in northern Minnesota on the frozen Boundary Waters lakes.

January 2002 Cookie time again. Evelyn, Christina, and Stephanie headed the meeting and we worked along on different parts of the Challenge and Career Exploration.

February 2002 February was busy as usual. Anne and Chandler scrounged enough computers for us all to make resumes during the meeting as part of Career Exploration. Some of us are registered to attend the Council Mentoring Event, which sounds really exciting. We signed up for cookie booths next month, and went up to Pine Acres to check out the new bunkhouses there and take our traditional freezing trail ride. We really worked hard on the From Stress to Success IPP, and we completed two service projects, one for Jewelry and the other for All About Birds! We made our calendar for trying to finish everything we need to do for our Gold Awards. We worked on our New Zealand display (heavy on Lord of the Rings movie lore) for Thinking Day, and again helped Mrs. Jennings’ Junior Troop 3559 with the event by taking the passport photos.

March 2002 Our cookie booths sold all our cookies again in short order. We tried a new place at Pike’s, but it doesn’t compare with our trusty old Kroger booths. Something new this year was helping to staff CPR Saturday with the Red Cross. We helped to register people and to grade the tests at the end, and all of us who went also got our own CPR certification. Jamie and Aisha led the meeting, and we made some more progress with our work toward the Girl Scout Challenge. Some of us went up to the opera to see Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Gondoliers.

April 2002 Diana and Jenny headed up the meeting and both did a great job. We had girls staffing the Brownie Adventure and Junior Adventure at Camp Timber Ridge to knock out more of those Leadership Hours. A committee worked hard to get a park clean-up planned for Henderson Park, and the troop voted to do individual service projects for the From Stress to Success IPP. Two of our trusty advisors had to attend the Council Annual Meeting to receive their twenty-year pins.

May 2002 All of a sudden the year is over. We’re doing our Court of Awards and helping with the Service Unit Bridging. Our park clean-up was held in conjunction with the big Bridging service, and we bridged Jessie into Senior. More of us staffed Brownie and Junior Adventures, and we have a meeting planned to finish up most of the From Stress to Success IPP, and we’re planning summer Gold Award notebook sessions to get all our paperwork in order. Mrs. Lott was given the Volunteer of the Year Award by the Service Unit, and we have four more ten-year Girl Scouts.