Shrine Girl Scout Troop Hosts 100th Birthday Party

There have been Girl Scouts active in the Shrine community for 70 years, and the tradition continues. Girl Scouts turns 100 this year on March 12, so Shrine scouts threw a birthday party! 

Cadette Troop 45732 hosted about 80 girls from seven troops, from kindergarten Daisies to fifth-grade Juniors, for a morning of games, history, songs and a craft.

Girls Scouts founder Juliette Low came and did bandana tricks with all the girls. Blanche Smith, who has been a Girl Scout for more than 65 years and a leader at Shrine for 43 years, came dressed as Juliette Low and showed the girls the many uses a bandana has, just like Juliette Low did at her meetings.

The Cadettes ran the party, teaching songs, games and Girl Scout history to 80 girls. The troops also ate s'mores around a make-shift campfire, like Girl Scouts do at camp.

The Cadettes are in sixth grade and most have been in the troop since kindergarten. They demonstrated what Girl Scouts teach: they used Courage, Confidence and Character to make the community of Shrine a better place!

The members of the troop are Janet Dotson, Jamie McVean, Angela Bonello, Maggie Ewald, Olivia Schenkel, Madeline Overla, Rebecca Gonska, Kate Lilly, Cassie Morris, and Anne Marie Franklin. 

Source: Marie Bonello