Any Former Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts Here?

[AmberWaves]

Hey All, I was a girl scout from age 8, until I graduate High School. It was very hush hush, because in my school it wasn''t the coolest thing. Wasn''t it a surprise to find our Troop Leader had put a page of our Troop (complete with names and pics) in the back of our yearbook when we graduated! It was sweet to think of us, but soooo embarrassing. Most of us were 18 and still selling cookies.

I actually sold cookies in my AP Lit class in high school! Here I am, proud (now

) member of Troop 4! Oddly enough, one of us is now an "Adult Film" actress!!

 

[aphisiglovessae]

Daisy Scout here! I was one while I was in the Phillippines if I remember right.

 

[Caribou]

ME! *jumping up and down, raising hand*

I was a Brownie, then a Girl Scout.

 

[Momoftwo]

Me 2nd through 11th grade. Hush hush is right. I was a varsity cheerleader and it definitely wasn''t cool to be a girl scout. My whole family has been scouts as well as DH and his brother both being Eagle Scouts.

 

[njc]

I was a Brownie in Troop 862 while i was in elementary school. I dont know why i didnt keep doing it after that, I certainly enjoyed it... guess i was too busy with sports?

DH was a cub scout as well. I saw a picture recently of him in his uniform... such a little cutie!!!

 

[Ann]

I was in Sea Scouts (div. of Boy Scouts, I think, been way too long ago)

I learned to sail, couldn''t do it now to save my soul.

 

[sistagrl2004]

I was as girl scout through the 6th grade. It wasn''t "cool" in Jr. High.

 

[EdSkinner]

I was a cub scout and a boy scout. Didn''t have to much ambition in those days, it took me 4 years to graduate from tenderfoot to second class. I was there mostly just to go on the camping trips. I also enjoyed sending out the rookies to find left handed smoke shifters and on snipe hunts. It was fun.

 

[AmberWaves]

Date: 2/24/2006 2:02:33 PM
Author: Momoftwo
Me 2nd through 11th grade. Hush hush is right. I was a varsity cheerleader and it definitely wasn''t cool to be a girl scout. My whole family has been scouts as well as DH and his brother both being Eagle Scouts.

It was very shameful to have to sell cookies in front of grocery stores, with people you want to go to Prom with going in and out!

 

[Erin]

Me too. I thought the uniform was so cool. The socks and those garters with the orange flag. The beanie cap. The orange cross bowtie. I had the dress and the shorts.

The last time I saw one of those uniforms was last Halloween. My friend was 32 and she was slutty

 

[AndyRosse]

I was a brownie and a girl scout until HS. I don''t think we had any girl scouts in HS.

 

[AmberWaves]

We got rid of the uniforms when we got into high school.That''s when we got purple t-shirts (not a GS color) with Girl Scout Troop 4 written in teeny tiny white letters over one breast (which didn''t help distract attention from a group of 18 year old girls), and we met maybe once a month. Come to think of it, we still ahve a couple of thousand dollars in the treasury that we''ve yet to spend. I want my cut, darn it!

 

[GGLW]

Ha ha ha...this totally takes me back! I was a brownie and then a girl scout. I think I stopped around 5th or 6th grade because all the girls in my troupe were a year older and they graduated from school.
I want some cookies! That is the main memory of GS...selling cookies.
Though I did go to that 75th Jubilee over at Glen Helen Pavilion in So. Cal a million years ago. Dusty as hell, but fun...
Thanks for giving me something to do other than work on a Friday!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I was a brownie in elementary school. I still have my old uniform. Hard to believe I was ever that tiny.

 

[AGBF]

Brownie then "flew up" to be a Girl Scout . As an adult had a boyfriend who was a very active in the Boy Scouts, even after his son had become an Eagle Scout and left high school.


Deb

 

[momothree]

I was a Brownie too! My daughter is now a Brownie and just for kicks she occasionally tries on my old uniform, which is *infinitely* uglier than hers...

 

[AmberWaves]

Date: 2/24/2006 5:15:33 PM
Author: momothree
I was a Brownie too! My daughter is now a Brownie and just for kicks she occasionally tries on my old uniform, which is *infinitely* uglier than hers...

I know! The uniforms now are so much cooler than when I had to wear them. These horrific green pants, with the pleat down the front of them, I felt like I was in band camp.

 

[AGBF]

Date: 2/24/2006 5:24:46 PM
Author: AmberWaves
These horrific green pants, with the pleat down the front of them, I felt like I was in band camp.

What on earth are you talking about! We had no pants! (How could there be? Scouting was after school and girls couldn't wear pants to school!) For a brownie the uniform was a brown dress; for a Girl Scout the uniform was a green dress. One wore a sash for one's badges across the top of the green dress! Sheesh!

Deb

 

[momothree]

For one of my daughter''s Brownie meetings last year, the leaders managed to dredge up uniforms from a number of different eras. Sure enough, there are some wildy different styles. Mine, from the late 60s/early 70s, might possibly represent a low point in Brownie "fashion": a muddy brown dress with a brown webbed/leather belt, orange necktie and (of course) the brown felt beanie.

 

[MissGotRocks]

Date: 2/24/2006 5:39:01 PM
Author: AGBF

Date: 2/24/2006 5:24:46 PM
Author: AmberWaves
These horrific green pants, with the pleat down the front of them, I felt like I was in band camp.

What on earth are you talking about! We had no pants! (How could there be? Scouting was after school and girls couldn''t wear pants to school!) For a brownie the uniform was a brown dress; for a Girl Scout the uniform was a green dress. One wore a sash for one''s badges across the top of the green dress! Sheesh!

Deb

Uh, oh, Deb, we''re showing our age! I had the same getup as a Brownie and then as a Junior. We had alot of fun back then but I wasn''t in scouting past the fifth grade. When I started junior high (remember no ''middle'' schools back then either

) I got into cheerleading and that seemed to take up alot of my time. I will always have good memories of my Girl Scout days though!

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 2/24/2006 3:27:48 PM
Author: HAMMER
I was a cub scout and a boy scout. Didn't have to much ambition in those days, it took me 4 years to graduate from tenderfoot to second class. I was there mostly just to go on the camping trips. I also enjoyed sending out the rookies to find left handed smoke shifters and on snipe hunts. It was fun.

Pretty much the same story LOL
I remember my snipe hunt.
Everyone took off so I just moved a bit further in the woods and sat down against a tree and took a nap.
Then ignored them when they came looking a few hours later.
I got in trouble over that one LOL

We kept some old stove pipe in out kit and if someone came around asking for a smoke bender we would hand em the opposite handed one than they asked for and told them to try this.
Then we would rig the other one up over our fire and and when they came back said sorry we are using it.
Then they would go back and tell there troop that they couldnt borrow it because it was in use.
Which usualy led to a group of scouts coming over to investigate and of course by that time we had hid it :}
hehehehehe

 

[glaucomflecken]

Brownie Troop 1079 here! (and junior 1179 and cadette 1279...LOL)

I was a girl scout from first grade until the very start of my freshman year in HS. (Amazing how it was so cool in May 1990 as an eighth grader to be a girl scout and New Kids on the Block fan, and come 3 months later in August 1990 as a freshman in HS it was totally uncool to be either...)

in our school you were an "it" girl for sure if you were a GS. We got to wear our uniforms the entire day of school the days of our meetings, and I loved that. I got jipped a lot though, because I was so sick as a child with my asthma I wasnt allowed to go on the camping trips at first and always felt left out (I later was healthy enough to go and loved it...Camp Butternut Springs in Indiana!). I also loved earning patches and going on all our outings. I hated selling cookies though.

i remember the 75th jubilee! Man I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade. We were in the parade in Downtown Chicago, and our troop had a float!

I loved the brownie uniform but the one for juniors was awful in that bright kelly green! I also went through a growth spurt in 6th grade but since it was my last year in Juniors my mom refused to buy me new pants, so I had to walk around with my highwater kelly green pants. Even more uncool when Mom cuts your hair in a mullet... LOL!

I will definitely let my kids be in scouts. I think it was a great experience.

(wow this is bringing back memories)

 

[moon river]

Made it up to Cadet level. Also I was a Girl Scout Leader for 5 years. I won Outstanding Leader Award for my area one year.

 

[snlee]

I was a GS from 1st to 8th (I think) grade. Our troop fell apart after that. I remember I always sold the most GS cookies in my troop with the help of my parents. I collected lots of (now useless) prizes.

I made it to a senior GS and got my silver award.

 

[Momoftwo]

Date: 2/24/2006 5:56:56 PM
Author: MissGotRocks

Date: 2/24/2006 5:39:01 PM
Author: AGBF

Date: 2/24/2006 5:24:46 PM
Author: AmberWaves
These horrific green pants, with the pleat down the front of them, I felt like I was in band camp.

What on earth are you talking about! We had no pants! (How could there be? Scouting was after school and girls couldn't wear pants to school!) For a brownie the uniform was a brown dress; for a Girl Scout the uniform was a green dress. One wore a sash for one's badges across the top of the green dress! Sheesh!

Deb

Uh, oh, Deb, we're showing our age! I had the same getup as a Brownie and then as a Junior. We had alot of fun back then but I wasn't in scouting past the fifth grade. When I started junior high (remember no 'middle' schools back then either

) I got into cheerleading and that seemed to take up alot of my time. I will always have good memories of my Girl Scout days though!

Same for me. Yes, we are all showng our age. We couldnt' wear pants either. By HS we refused to ever wear the green senior uniforms anywhere. Yuck. Those cotton blend short sleeve uniform dresses were not that warm in winter. But, we did have our uniform cardigans.

 

[fire&ice]

Date: 2/24/2006 9:03:18 PM
Author: moon river
Made it up to Cadet level. Also I was a Girl Scout Leader for 5 years. I won Outstanding Leader Award for my area one year.

Hah! I was a Scout leader for 2 years until we moved. It was fun. I was a Girl Scout until about 8th grade. Green was not my color.

Hubby was an eagle scout. He still amazes me how much he uses the practical life skills he learned in Scouts.

 

[Regular Guy]

Starting in boy scouts, made it through Life (couldn''t do swimming to get Eagle), and Order of the Arrow. Now, my two boys are in cub scouting from the ground up, Tigers through Webelos.


Also...

Date: 2/24/2006 6:10:39 PM
Author: strmrdr

Date: 2/24/2006 3:27:48 PM
Author: HAMMER
I was a cub scout and a boy scout. Didn''t have to much ambition in those days, it took me 4 years to graduate from tenderfoot to second class. I was there mostly just to go on the camping trips. I also enjoyed sending out the rookies to find left handed smoke shifters and on snipe hunts. It was fun.

Pretty much the same story LOL
I remember my snipe hunt.
Everyone took off so I just moved a bit further in the woods and sat down against a tree and took a nap.
Then ignored them when they came looking a few hours later.
I got in trouble over that one LOL

We kept some old stove pipe in out kit and if someone came around asking for a smoke bender we would hand em the opposite handed one than they asked for and told them to try this.
Then we would rig the other one up over our fire and and when they came back said sorry we are using it.
Then they would go back and tell there troop that they couldnt borrow it because it was in use.
Which usualy led to a group of scouts coming over to investigate and of course by that time we had hid it :}
hehehehehe

Really appreciate these recollections, having not been sure we all did those pranks. I never did the pranking, though...just got pranked on.

Hey, my lead scouts also helped us create some bogus animal footprints with plaster of paris, faking the impression, for a certain set of merit badges. I''m betting THAT was a unique local innovation. Kahn, consider yourself outed!

 

[monarch64]

Brownie Scout here...maybe three patches, lol! I remember selling a blank load of cookies, though! My mom was the troop leader at the time, and I remember hating to share her with all the other Brownie Scouts. We''ve always had a very close relationship, and I''ve always been way too possessive of my mom! I dropped out of the scout world for piano and dance lessons...stuck with piano all the way! The first thing my husband and I furnished our first home with (per my urging) was a gorgeous upright piano!

That being said, I can never, ever, turn away a Girl Scout or any Scout for that matter, who comes to my door. I think it is a wonderful way for children to learn life skills.

 

[msdarlinjoy]

I was a GS too! 7th grade was my last year though. Our troop was all older girls and once they left, there wasn't more than a handful ... and then one by one ... us girls stopped going. Yes, definately did not want anyone to know or figure out in Junior High we were GS! The troop leader was cool ... we would have our meetings around 6 pm every Monday at the Methodist church.

I still have my uniform, sash & wow! I didn't realize how many badges I really had. I just threw away to the rag pile a beach towel that I won one year for selling the most cookies, that was in the 70's. I also still have my mess kit! Crazy huh?

I lived in San Diego, and I always had fun at the jamborees! My favorite was the underground BBQ pit! And ghost stories at summer camp!

It was a very healthy expericence for me growing up, and I am thankful I had the opportunity! Can you all believe how much they want for a box of cookies now?! I remember when I first started to sell them, they were .75 a box, and then there was a huge price increase one year, and people were like ... You want $1.25 a box ... well I guess I will only be able to get two boxes now. How times change!

ETA: I also still have a gold and green enamel GS locket in my jewelry box!

Does anyone still have their green beret? Mine got lost when I moved from SD to OR.

 

[monarch64]

Mmmmmm, Samoas.... that''s all I can think about, lol! My husband gets them from his office, and he only brings home Thin Mints and whatever the Shortbread ones are called..I get a little upset when he doesn''t bring home Samoas (do they even sell those anymore?), but I figure it''s better for my waistline if he doesn''t!