[19504] in APO-L
Re: APO & Girl Scout Cookies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Mon Oct 26 13:45:03 1998
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:39:34 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981026120831.15978B-100000@alpha3.csd.uwm.edu>
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Julianne P Hartl wrote:
> Brothers,
> After spending twelve years in Gisl Scouts, there are a few things
> that I belive need to be explained to those here who obviously have had
> limited contact with them. First, this isn't like basketball where teh
> boys' and girls' have basically the same rules and the game is played in
A better comparison might be Baseball/Softball, I guess. Same number of
bases, different number of players(?)...
> the same fashion. Girl Scouts are NOT related to Boy Scouts, in many
> counties the program isn't even called Girl Scouts! They have different
I presume here you mean "Countries" not "Counties"...
> ways of doing things. One way that Girl Scouts are notably different from
> Boy Scouts is that they are very self relant. The Girl SCouting
> organization tends to be very self contained. The girls are suppoesed to
> do the fund raiseing for their trips, provided their own leadership, and
> use their own facilites. I'm not saying that there is no place for Alpha
> Phi Omega in Girl Scouts, but I am saying that the roles are going to
> differ greatly.
Agreed, Alpha Phi Omega at a National level has sought a better
relationship with GSUSA and has not had much progress... GSUSA has its
own College Program called College Girl Scouts. There are chapters were
Alpha Phi Omega and CGS do work well together (SUNY-Oneonta), but at this
point there really is no National organization for CGS, each chapter(?)
is under their local council rather than a National CGS. (Check out
<http://www.girlscouts.org/girls/How/Campus%20GS%20Groups/campusa-m.htm>
for the CGS groups in your area.)
Another way that APO & GSUSA can work together is through badge days for
Cadettes and Seniors. Depending on the views of the local council, it
may make more sense to have a group like Society of Women Engineers take
point and assist them.
YiLFS
Randy Finder
>
> In L, F, &S,
> Julianne Hartl
>
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