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50 years of Guidii!
Let us Guide you to Exeter Legion Hall,
Come Jtme the 9th, we'll have a ball.
To celebrate Guiding in Exeter, the 50th year,
We'll expect you, whether far or near.
Reminiscing, pictures and uniforms too.
Anything to do with Guiding, we'll do for
you.
We promise on our honor to do our best.
We'll leave it to you to do the rest.
Hope to see many of you from 1-4 p.m. on
Sunday, June 9, 1996 Exeter Legion Hall,
William Street. Anyone who has been
involved in Guiding is invited.
Fifty years have come and gone since a
Girl Guide meeting was held on December 6,
1945, in the old Exeter Legion Rooms (now
the south part of
Wuerth's). A
large enthusiastic
group of girls
met and formed
five patrols
under the
leadership of
Mrs. D. (Marion)
Knowles, who
had past Guide
experience, Mrs.
R. (Ada) Dinney,
a Cub leader,
Miss Mary
Easton who had
a desire to be a
Guide as her brother Don, was a Scout and
Mrs. (Margaret) Stan Green. The Exeter
Legion susored them. SlPda7t.3►e A 4,.
marks anportant day in the livaa of past
and present Sparks, Brownies, Gut`caes,
Pathfinders and Rangers and their leaders as
they celebrate over 50 years of continuous
"Guide Movement" in Exeter.
Are you one of the over 700 members of
the Exeter Guide Movement who have joined
one of the above groups as you promised "on
my honor to do my best" and/or to "Lend a
Hand" and to "Be Prepared".
Do you remember hiking, studying nature,
laying trails, cooking over a campfire or on a
tin can or in a cardboard box oven?
Do you remember canoeing, snowshoeing
and skiing?
Do you remember helping in your
community by serving at the Blood
Clinics and Legion banquets, planting trbes,
recycling, chasing litter, caroling and visiting
at nursing homrs and the hospital, feeling
proud of flying up to Guides, receiving.
badges and cords, and attending the Mother
and Daughter banquet?
Do you remember joining for fun and
friendship around a roaring campfire, tucking
yourself snugly into your sleeping bags for a
good night's sleep
(after an hour or two
of conversation and
giggling with your
tent mates)? If.you
do come and join us
to reminisce and
share with former..
members.
Guiding has seet
many changes over
the years and the
ages of the groups
are much younger. A
great deal of old
military style
regimentation has
disappeared and Captain and Lieutenant titles
!leve ben discarded. "Spit and polish" has
1ltl1Y
to designer unitorins,,Many.,
changes have occtifted'in
badge requirements adapted to the interests /
and ages of the girls, (eg. Computer badge).•'
What remains the same in Guiding, the
largest female organization in the world, is-
that badge "work" encourages girls to attempt
something they might not otherwise be
inclined to do. From hopping stones in a
stream, preparing for a campout weekend to
The original Church Parade in 1946 had several
area participants. In the picture are Joan Hopper,
Mary Wells, Shirley Thomson, Helen Sweet, Joan
Batten, Trudy Pickard, Janet Kestle, Man Hunter-
Duvar, Pat Hay and leader Margaret Green.
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fipger spelling and first aid, the diversification is
endless as they develop the talents that God has
gjven them in a "hands on" approach to '
laming. Both the
girls and leaders
still discover new
skills experiences,
challenges and
responsibilities,
add in the case of
slag and
canoeing, they try
out activities they
may pursue in
lager life.
'Present years
hove seen the
Promise and Law
g rewritten to
odate the
rnage and all
;Members of the
'ding movement have had the opportunity to
nd camps and events in many parts of
tario and Canada as well as other countries
have hosted exchanges with girls from those
of their world. Many have attended camps
waydin, north of Goderich and Doe Lake,
of Huntsville.
e Guiding groups with the help of mothers,
and leaders, have raised funds for their ,
avities by holding bake sales, teas, fashion
ws, bottle collections, garage sales and the
ual, spring Cookie Day Drive.
�..' td ap�� i; f' ver those
nets, lairs,
camp advisers, parents and our sponsors - the
Exeter Legion and Auxiliary, Optimists, Lions,
Nomads the Times -Advocate for coverage, the
Town of Exeter for support and all other groups
and individuals who have aided us over the past
50 years.
Commissioners for our District have been
Laurette Seigner, Roberta Luxton, Jennie
Huntley, Miss McTavish, Jean Gandon,
Louise Giffen, Sylvia Smith, Roberta
Mortley, Blanche
Stewart, MaryLou
Kingham, Kathleen
Farr, and Kim
Bilcke, our present
commissioner.
Several leaders
deserve mention for
long term service
and for starting
second and third
generation
involvement. Ada
Dinney, an original
leader, has had two
daughters and three
granddaughters in
the Guide
Movement. Bobbie
Luxton with 24
years as a leader,
had two daughters in Guides and Joanne has
been a leader. Bobbie had the privilege of
helping to enrol her granddaughter last year.
Sharon Chappel, one of Bobbie's Guides, has
been involved as a Guide, a leader 'and as
parent of three daughters in Guides for 26
years - half of the time that Guides have been
in Exeter. Her daughter, Charlene is a present
leader. Roberta Mortley has 20 years as a
leader and her daughter, Barbara was a leader.
Blanche Stuart gave 20 years of service and
had one daughter, Joanne Hp , qod who, led
Br'bwnies anti
Wtriement. Marie Ne
leader, has helped her daughter, Melinda as
both a Guide and a leader. Marilyn Stasik and
Ruth Mercer were leaders whose daughters
Jennifer and Jenny have been Junior leaders.
These examples show that Guiding can be
"Like Mother, Like Daughter" and there may
be others that may have been missed.
Camping at Camp keewaydln were Back row,
Eunice Ward, Margaret Francois, Robin Smith,
Bobble Luxton (leader), Margaret Saunders, Rita
Andresen, Alice Carter, Beth Sims and Diane
Ryckman. Front, Sheila Ford, Sandra Waiper, Marilyn
Jory, Louise Hockey, Roxanne Beavers, Jane
Hamess, Donna Wells and unknown. Front: Donna
Brydges,
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