2004-2005
Year in Review
for
Senior Girl Scout Troop 4715

Court of Awards
Juliette Low Birthplace Garden

Thursday, May 26, 2005

 

Brittany -- Second Year	Christina Gargiullo*# – Thirteenth Year
Maria -- Fourth Year	Stephanie Hoon* – Thirteenth Year
Laura – Ninth Year	Chandler Kennedy*#– Thirteenth Year
Callie-- Ninth Year	Jenny Tuggle*# – Thirteenth Year
Katie Webster*# – Ninth Year	Evelyn Unger* – Thirteenth Year
Karen – Eleventh Year	Anne Callaway* – Fourteenth Year
Diana Law* – Eleventh Year	Audrey Gargiullo* – Eighteenth Year
Elizabeth Lott*– Eleventh Year	Marie Lott* –Nineteenth Year
Rossie Kennedy* – Twelfth Year	Pat Callaway* –Twenty-Third Year
Tabby Khan* – Twelfth Year	Beth Unger* – Twenty-Fifth Year

 

*Now Registered as Adult Girl Scouts
# Not Present, But in Our Thoughts

 

On my honor, I will try

To serve God and my country,

To help people at all times,

And to live by the Girl Scout Law

 What We Did This Year

June 2004  Our big trip finally was really here!  We flew away on June 4^th to Pax Lodge in London for eleven glorious days of seeing the sights, the plays, and other Girl Scouts and Girl Guides.  It was entirely worth four years of planning and saving!

August 2004  School started so early this year!  It was August 9, and we were already in class.  We didn’t get started right away with Girl Scouts, but Rossie and Elizabeth were already working on their Gold Award project, which was to beautify & naturalize the cross country trail at Lakeside.  Tabby was starting to think about what she wanted to do for her project, and Evie had just finished her paleontology boxes and turned in her Gold Award paperwork before she headed off to Pennsylvania for college.  Chandler, Anne, Katie and Christina were all packing and setting off for school.

September 2004  At our first troop meeting we had to complete the Athena Olympia Badge as we promised our Pax Lodge friends we would.  One of the onerous activities was to make an Olympic flag.  Ours was edible: taco makings, in fact, with blueberry salsa by Mrs. Unger, black olives, tomatoes, corn chips, sour cream, and shredded cheese.  We also sang the Olympic Hymn after finding a copy of it on the Internet and got busy planning our October camping trip.

October  2004   Mid-October can really be cold!  Platform tents at Misty Mountain are not as snuggly as our beloved bunkhouses.  We not only survived - we thrived, and the scenery was just a beautiful as it always is.  We packed goodie boxes for our girls away at college, worked on the Women’s Health IPP, which is easy when you have a pathologist, a geneticist, and an occupational therapist along on the trip.  We rode some horses, took some archery target practice, and decided that we wanted to work on the Creative Cooking IPP.  A couple of weeks later we met again and made a coloring book for Brownies to help them “understand healthy habits, such as choosing good foods and handling stress”.  We posted it on our website for any leader who wants to download it.

November 2004  We visited Senior Troop 2879 to tell them how we planned our Pax Lodge trip.  We think they should go, too!  We started choosing recipes for our IPP, we decided that the Service Unit Bridging Ceremony in May should be exactly like last year’s, and we planned our trip to volunteer for the Empty Stocking Fund.  Naturally we also had to draw names for Secret Santas.

December 2004  The first Saturday of this month was spent at Michael’s Automotive in Tucker courtesy of our friend James Unger who arranged for us to work on the Car Sense IPP with Michael and his wife Stephanie.  We tried out changing oil and tires and learned a lot about car innards.  They were so great to us!  Later in the month we staffed the Empty Stocking Fund distribution center downtown.  It was really fun, and afterwards we ate again at Camelli’s pizza parlor nearby.  Diana finished up her paperwork for the Senior Girl Scout Challenge and Leadership Pin and made the final Career Exploration trip with Maria she needed, too.

January 2005  Cookie time again.  Rossie hates this so much, but guess who sells the most cookies!  We spent part of the MLK Holiday cooking a meal to serve at the Nicholas House Shelter for Women and Children that evening.  We repeated our old faithful menu of chicken nuggets with honey mustard, crunchy coleslaw, potatoes au gratin, and brownies, and fed twelve adults and thirty-three children!  More cooking later in the month when we explored Greek culture by preparing a meal of Greek salad, baked feta squares, sautéed shrimp with feta and tomatoes, plus two delicious Greek cakes.  Our guest was Dr. Mildred Cody of the GSU Food Science Department, who put some of the chemistry we study in school into real life perspective for us.  Wonder girl Callie became a freshman starter on the Lakeside Women’s Varsity Basketball team.

February 2005   Tabby’s Gold Award project was a seminar for middle-school-age girls called Striving for Success.  It was a panel discussion for middle school girls on how to excel in school, sports and life with a panel of successful high school seniors and college students.  The girls loved it, and their leaders wanted it to happen every year.  Well, maybe!  Our winter camping trip was to Timber Ridge first time since we were Brownies, but luckily many of us have staffed Junior and Brownie weekends because our fearless advisors got lost getting to the (heated!) Troop House.  Our cuisine again was part of our Creative Cooking IPP, and under the expert guidance of our own Pennsylvania Dutchwoman Mrs. Unger, we made corn pie, potato leek soup, chicken pot pie, apple dumplings, and doughnuts.  We had to hike a lot after eating all that!

March 2005   Cookie Booths again!  Oh, how we love them, but we got all our cookies sold.  We welcomed Laura as a new member.  Maria and her Dad worked the warehouse as our troop reps, and Mr. Webster helped pick up cookies.  Mrs. Webster says she really misses Katie but it helps to spend time with us!  Naturally we invited her to our service project for our Creative Cooking IPP, which was a tea honoring our Moms on the Girl Scout Birthday, March 12, the fourteenth celebrated by our troop.

April  2005   We worked on plans for the Bridging Ceremony, which is larger this year with nine troops instead of five.  Our Gold Awardees were honored at the Council Ceremony downtown, and we found out that Tabby, Liz, Rossie, and Evie were four of the eight Gold Award girls from the DeKalb-Clayton-Newton-Rockdale Cluster.  We are so cool!

May  2005   Diana, Brittany, Maria, Laura, Karen, and Callie joined Mrs. Gargiullo in helping a young Junior Troop go on their first camping trip.  All of a sudden the end of the year is here.  We kept our record of holding the Three Leaves Bridging Ceremony in 45 minutes flat and partied hearty at the luau.  Our five seniors bridged to Adult Girl Scouts.  Liz, Rossie, and Evie were pinned with their Gold Award pins.  Tabby had to miss because she went and won the National Science Fair and had to be at the International Science Fair in Phoenix.  Darn!  The next weekend was graduation.  Liz is going to Furman in SC; Tabby is headed for Columbia in NYC; Diana is going to the opposite coast to Stanford, Stephanie plans on either SCAD or the Atlanta College of Art, and Rossie will carry on family tradition at UGA. We manage one last trip to the Birthplace in Savannah where we had a wonderful couple of days staying on the beach at Tybee Island & having fun at the Birthplace with an interest session on Victorian fashions, Court of Awards in the garden and a fancy dinner inside the Birthplace at night.

I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.

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