Cadette Girl Scout Handbook Overview

1963

Motto
Be prepared.

Slogan
Do a good turn daily.

Promise
On my honor, I will try: To do my duty to God and my country, To help other people at all times, To obey the Girl Scout Laws.

The Girl Scouts Law

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. A Girl Scouts honor is to be trusted. A Girl Scout is loyal. A Girl Scouts duty is to be useful and to help others. A Girl Scout is a friend to all and a sister to every other Girl Scout. A Girl Scout is courteous. A Girl Scout is a friend to animals. A Girl Scout obeys orders. A Girl Scout is cheerful. A Girl Scout is thrifty. A Girl Scout is clean in thought, word, and deed.

The Challenge Course

What will be your pattern as you progress through the Challenge course of Cadette Scouting? No two girls will travel in the exact same way. The course has: Six atmospheres to explore Arts Home Out-of-doors International friendship Citizenship Health and safety Proof of exploration Earn a badge from each atmosphere Four challenges to pursue Challenge of social dependability Challenge of emergency preparedness Challenge of active citizenship Challenge of the Girl Scout Promise Proof of attainment Earn insigne for each Challenge There are opportunities to learn to manage troop affairs and to serve others along the entire course. As you pursue each of the Challenges you will cross in and out of the six atmospheres. Most of the time you will work with other girls in the troop, perhaps with your own patrol. From the time you start, you will have many opportunities to take part in intertroop, councilwide, and intercouncil events and activities. Remember your most important navigational instruments are the Girl Scout Promise and Laws. Target First Class. And then? Take off for Senior Scouting.

The Challenge of Social Dependability

Can you prove yourself to be a gracious, competent hostess and also a considerate, friendly guest?

Purpose To show that you have the understanding and skills to get along well with peopleolder and younger, family and friends, boys and girls, those you already know and new peopleand that you can bring them enjoyment and happiness in a social situation.

Challenge Preps Prepare for this Challenge by developing three aspects of your personal lifeHealth and Good Looks, Know-How as a Hostess, Technique as a Guest. 1. Your health-and-good-looks plan Develop and follow a personal health and appearance plan that keeps you attractive and t. The right kinds and amounts of food to keep you feeling and looking ne. Enough fresh air and exercise to keep you feeling vigorous. Enough sleep to keep you wide-awake and energetic all day. A system of daily care for your hair, skin, nails, and teeth. The use of makeup, hair styles, clothes, colors, and accessories most becoming and appropriate to you. Practice in the development of a pleasant speaking voice, a pleasant manner. Application of good posture habits for good health and good looks. 2. Your know-how as a hostess Develop the attitudes and skills that make you a gracious, competent hostess. Extend invitations appropriate to a variety of social events. Plan and arrange an attractive setting in harmony with the spirit or theme of the occasion. Plan a menu, shop for food and supplies, help to prepare the food, set the table attractively, and organize the service for at least four of these occasions: A family meal A buffet luncheon or supper A party for young children An out-of-doors meal A teenage party An event for a larger group, such as a troop supper Make a plan which is detailed but exible, with ideas for alternative activities if they are needed, for a party for: Younger children A group your own age Parents and adult friends Establish guides of etiquette at to chaperons, curfew hour, and so forth, and convey these rules tactfully to your guests. Help your guests have a good time through your understanding of their tastes, interests, personalities. Welcome guests hospitably, and say a cordial Good night and come again. Organize and direct songs, games, and quiet fun with a group of younger children. Help produce an informal dramatic presentation. Organize at least two ice breakers, two games or contests, one folk dance, one square dance, one social dance.

3. Your technique as a guest Discuss the obligations and responsibilities every good guest has to be hostess and all others at a social event. For your good manners. Do you: Reply promptly and correctly to invitations? Write thank-you notes? Respond properly to introductions? Reply gracefully to compliments? Greet and take leave of your hostess courteously? To start and keep up your part of a pleasant conversation with: Girls and boys your age. Parents, troop leaders, other adults. Younger children. VIPs (very important people). To enter enthusiastically into the party plans and contribute your own ideas when asked To be agreeable to: Other guests Parents, family, other adults Household help, if any Younger brothers and sisters To forget yourself, think of others, and help them to have an enjoyable time

The Challenge With others in your Challenge group, plan and carry out a social event from start to nish! The evaluation: This checklist will help you, your leader, and the other girls decide how well you have met the Challenge of Social Dependability. Are your spirits and energies high? Do you always look as well as you can? At the social event: Did you help to make each guest feel liked and welcome? Did you give each guest a chance to shine and share in the success of the occasion? Was there an activity or series of activities appropriate to the guests and the occasion? If food was served: Did it look good? Taste good? Was there enough to go around? Was it attractively served? Was it comfortably served? Did everybody, guests and hostesses, have a good time? Check the list, then check again. How did you do? Reread the Purpose. Have you met the Challenge of Social Dependability successfully? Or would you like to try it again, giving another social event for another group? Its up to you to decide.

The Challenge of Emergency Preparedness

Can you be depended on to help others in an emergency through quick, sure use of your knowledge and skills?

Purpose To show that you have a good command of the knowledge and skills needed for safe, comfortable living, both indoors and out; that you can get along with a minimum of equipment; that you are enterprising, resourceful; that you can put your skills to good use in an emergency.

Challenge Preps Prepare for this Challenge by checking your knowledge and skills in these four areas: First Adi, Communications, Comfort in a Crisis, Enterprise in Entertainment. Use the checklists on the following pages. Just before accepting the Challenge, discuss with the members of your group and your leader the purpose and the kinds of emergencies that might possibly arise in your part of the country. Take into consideration the geography, weather and local conditions. 1. First aid Learn or review the objectives of rst aid as outlined in the American National Red Cross First Aid Textbook for each of the following. Keep a record of when you practiced what to do in each case. Be prepared to demonstrate. Wounds. Shock. Articial respiration. Poisoning by mouth. Injuries to bones and muscles. Burns. Transporting injured persons. Decide what supplies should go into the following types of rst aid kits, and, if you do not already have a kit, help plan and assemble at least one of your: Family car. Troop meeting place. Patrol expeditions. Troop camping trips. Consider the hazards young children may be subjected to in the home. List at least twenty-ve and explain what should be done to protect against these hazards. 2. Communications Demonstrate skills including: Use a compass Find the North Star Draw a sketch map Follow a road map and a city street map Give directions Carry a message accurately in your head Using Scouts pace or bicycle, know how to reach the nearest: Police station Fire alarm box Public telephone Develop and use a communication plan to reach all your troop members with speed.

3. Comfort in crisis Demonstrate the safe and resourceful use of: Candles Kerosene lamps Lanterns Improvised cooking facilities Fire for warmth Fire for cooking Wash and store dishes, silverware, and cooking utensils in an efficient and sanitary way: Indoors Outdoors Using only packaged supplies feed your patrol or family: Breakfast Lunch Dinner Know one method to purify water for drinking. Demonstrate your ability to: Handle simple household upkeep and repairs indoors and outdoors. Plan, assemble, pack, and transport heavy-duty clothing for yourself for 3 or 4 days. Choose the items (including food) needed for an emergency utility kit for a 3 or 4 day evacuation of home or camp. 4. Enterprise in entertainment Using games, stories, crafts, and simple dramatics, demonstrate you can keep young children occupied: In a conned indoor area Outdoors Do the same thing for people your own age and older.

The Challenge With others in your Challenge group, carry out the sealed orders given to you by your leader. You will be asked to deal with a specic emergency described for the occasion. Here are some examples of the kinds of emergencies you may meet: 8 girlsoutdoors A ood has left many families on your street temporarily homeless. Your patrol is asked to provide a hot meal and drinking water for four families and to take care of ten children (from four to eight years) for the afternoon. 2-4 girlsindoors An ice storm has caused an electric power failure. Your family consists of our father, who is away at work, your mother, who has a severe cold and should be in bed, and a younger sister and brother. The furnace is not working. The kitchen stove is electric. There is a replace in the living room. Take charge for a day. Provide lunch and dinner. Make your mother comfortable. Keep the children warm and happy. Use anything found in the house, basement, garage, outdoors. 6-8 girls, out-of-doors, camp The buses that take the girls home from day camp cannot get through to them. A forest re is blocking the bus route. Most of the camp staff have gone to help the re-ghters. Your patrol is assigned the job of keeping the 32 girls of the Junior Scout unit busy and happy from 2 to 6 p.m. They will need a calm atmosphere to counteract the excitement of the day, planned activities, and supper.

Evaluation Could you turn your wish to help into practical, useful action? Were you prepared? Did you meet your emergency?

The Challenge of Active Citizenship

A citizen is a person who by birth or by choice is a member of a state or nation. Do you recognize your rights and responsibilities as a citizen of the United States of America?

Purpose To show that you understand how the rights of citizenship are balanced by the responsibilities, and how you can use this knowledge for the benet of other people.

Challenge Preps With a Challenge group, review your background information, ponder your past experiences, and bring into focus your training for good citizenship by getting answers to the questions on the following pages. 1. On the basis of your experience in Girl Scout troops and camps, what do you think is needed to make the patrol system operate smoothly? 2. Using a recent student project or concern as an illustration, can you explain how the democratic process works in your school? 3. What is the purpose of local government? What is the governmental structure of your town? Your state? 4. What services are provided by government and voluntary agencies in your community for: Handicapped children? The aged? Teenagers? The emotionally disturbed? 5. How is the money raised to support these services? 6. When you want to make a constructive suggestion for the improvement of your town, how do you go about it? What steps would you take if some members of your troop: Wished to set up a display or exhibit in a public library? Were responsible for arranging for the use of a public school for a Cadette Look Wide? Wanted to use public land for an intertroop cookout? 7. What are the names and proper forms of address of those who represent you in your state government? In the United States House of Representatives? In the United States Senate? 8. What local and state controversial public issues seem most important to you? 9. What positions in public life at the national, state, or local level now being lled by women seem most interesting to you? What are the qualications for ve of these jobs? 10. In what specic ways can citizens your age demonstrate the qualities of good citizenship in daily living?

11. How can you, either individually or as a troop, through Girl Scout or other organizations: correspond with people from other countries? Entertain foreign visitors? Give help to people in other countries? Receive or exchange information, ideas, or techniques leading to increased international understanding?

The Challenge With others in your Challenge group, do something for your community in which you give something of yourself. The Challenge group compiles a list from which your leader will select one. Discover how it might be done and whether anyone else is trying to do it. Then do something about it. Show the relationship of the project you have chosen to the larger community the state, the nation, or the world. The Challenge Preps will give you good clues as to where your services may be helpful. Other troop members may participate in the project, but the leadership and follow-through are in the hands of the girls who are working to meet the Challenge. If another organization is concerned with the same need, consider the possibility of combining forces, working together, and doing a bigger and better job. Make a long-term plan for carrying your project through to successful completion. For help in planning, see Chapter 3, page 34. Evaluation As a Cadette Girl Scout, you understand that service to others is a vital part of Girl Scouting. The Promise you make, the uniform you wear, your badges and insignia, all say, I am willing, and prepared to be of service. Has your citizenship project turned the ideal into a reality for you? How well did your project fulll the purpose of the Challenge of Active Citizenship?

The Challenge of the Girl Scout Promise

This Challenge is the nal step toward First Class. Your success in meeting it will be decided by you and all the members of the Court of Honor, rather than only by the troop leader and the Challenge group, as in the other three Challenges.

Purpose To show you that you have a true understanding of the Girl Scout Promise and its meaning in your daily life; that you are guided by its high standards in relation to yourself and to all other people; that it serves as an ever present guide to you in beliefs and conduct. This Challenge is different, for you began to prepare for it the moment you became a Girl Scout. The rst three challenges test your knowledge, skills, and experience. This Challenge searches your mind and heart, your feelings and attitudes, to discover whether the Girl Scout Promise has become part of you, part of everything you do. You can see the difference between this Challenge and the others. It is much easier to evaluate your skill in baking a pie or storm-lashing a tent than it is to evaluate your qualities as a person of integrity, It takes time, it takes a sense of values, it takes courage and honesty to learn to live up to the Promise. In some ways, you may nd this harder than mastering any specic skill. But the rewards are greater. They are conviction and inner strength, spiritual accomplishments which enrich your life and the lives of everyone around you. There are no Challenge Preps as such for this Challenge. However, here are two suggestions for you to show the impact that the Girl Scout Promise has made upon you. One. With others, make up a list of ten or twelve kinds of situations that girls your age meet in which there may be conicting opinions about the truly ethical way to act. Discuss with the others how your understanding of the Girl Scout Promise helps you decide how to rise to the occasion with honor. Two. Take an active part in planning and carrying out a Scouts Own which highlights the ways in which the Girl Scout Promise helps you decide how to act. After you have completed the other requirements for First Class by earning a minimum of six badges and successfully meeting the three other Challenges, make application to your troops Court of Honor. At a meeting which you do not attend, the court of Honor will decideon the basis, of your everyday actions in and out of Scoutingwhether you are ready to accept this Challenge. It will consider the following points: Have you demonstrated a real understanding of the Promise and Laws? Have you applied this understanding in day-to-day living and thinking? Have you shown that you are capable of working, planning, sharing with a group? Have you shown through action and attitude, your personal integrity and honor? Meanwhile, Prepare yourself to answer all the questions below. After the Court of Honor has agreed that you are ready to accept the Challenge, you may be asked to answer or demonstrate, during a troop meeting or other troop activity, or before the Court of Honor, alone or with others, one, a few or all of these questions. The court of Honor will determine how this will be handled.

1. Explain the difference between a movement, an organization, and an institution. Why do you think you join a movement when you become a Girl Scout? Why do you think adult members as well as girls subscribe to the Girl Scout Promise? 2. What is the role of women in the religious group of your choice? What are its marriage customs? What are the purposes and activities of the womens organizations in this group? 3. Explain how the idea for a meaningful service project starts, grows, and changes from the Brownie age, through the Junior, Cadette, and Senior age. What service projects in which you have taken part seemed especially satisfying to you? Why? 4. Explain how a ceremony in a troop or camp can convey your feelings about duty to God and your country, and your pledge to be a good citizen. In what way do you think feelings differ as experienced by participants and members of the audience at such a ceremony? Describe an especially satisfactory ceremony in which you have taken part.

The Challenge Show that you understand and practice the Girl Scout Promise in everything you do and are. There are no quick and easy short-cuts to successfully meeting the Challenge of the Girl Scout Promise, and no one else can do it for you. For this reason when the time arrives for you and your troop members to recognize that you have achieved that inner strength, that priceless ingredient of your life, you may be justiably proud. It may be that your Court of Honor will wish to make the meeting especially memorable by planning a special feature for it. As you successfully meet the challenge of the Girl Scout Promise, you will become a First Class Girl Scout and a rst class person of whom the entire movement will be proud!

Badge List
Animal Kingdom Aviation Campcraft Ceramics and Pottery Chef Child Care Clerk Conservation Creative Writer Dressmaker Explorer Family Camper Family Living First Aid First Aid to Animals Folk Dancer Food Raiser Games Leader Good Grooming Graphic Arts Handywoman Hiker Homemaker Home Nurse Horsewoman Hostess Interior Decoration Language Life Saver Metal Arts Minstrel Music Maker My Country My Government Outdoor Safety Painting Photography Pioneer Plant Kingdom Player-Producer Public Health Puppeteer Radio and Television Reader Reporter Rock and Mineral Science Small Craft Social Dancer Sports Stamp Collector Star Swimmer Textile Arts Traveler Weather World Heritage World Trefoil World Understanding Our Own Troops