MARCH 2017
Annual Meeting Monday, April 24 • 6 p.m. Girl Scouts of Central Indiana Leadership and Learning Center 7201 Girl Scout Ln | Indianapolis $10 per person • Open seating Reply at www.girlscoutsindiana.org/annual meeting by April 21.
Deborah Hearn Smith - CEO
Please join us as we celebrate friendships both old and new and rededicate ourselves to girls in central Indiana.
In 2016, we moved into the Leadership and Learning Center, and since our grand opening, volunteers from across central Indiana have met to share ideas, bond as leaders, and renew their passion for discovery, connection and action. We also experienced our first season with the Girl Scout Cookie distribution center.
Several significant stories happened in 2016—48 girls received the Girl Scout Gold Award, nearly 36,000 girls had the opportunity to try new things, develop leadership skills and make new friends, and several thousand volunteers introduced girls to new experiences, showing girls they are capable of more than they ever imagined. We continue to work diligently, ensuring girls receive the necessary tools and skills to succeed and embrace the incredible opportunities and challenges that await our girls at every corner.
Guest speaker April 24 will be an evening of humor and inspiration. Philip Gulley’s memoir, I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood, recounts his coming-of-age years in Danville, Indiana. It was recognized as an Indiana Book of the Year, and was a semi-finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. An eclectic writer, Gulley has now published 20 books, including the acclaimed Harmony series chronicling life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana. Gulley’s latest fictional
series continues the exploits of Sam Gardner, first introduced in the Harmony series. The new Hope series includes A Place Called Hope, and A Lesson in Hope, his most recent fictional release.
and recollections are taken from his boyhood in this small midwestern town.
Gulley attended Marian University in Indianapolis where he studied theology and sociology. He then enrolled at Christian Theological Seminary where he received his Master of Divinity in 1992. Currently Gulley resides in Danville, Indiana where he lives today with his wife, Joan, and two dogs, Ruby and Jack. Many of his characters
Philip Gulley - Author & Pastor
Spring renewal
Register for another year of adventure! Believe in the Power of G.I.R.L. represents the leadership potential of every parent and professional, adult and adolescent—every Girl Scout. This is potential that is realized by practicing grit like a go-getter, problem solving like an innovator, embracing new like a risk-taker, and demonstrating empathy like a leader.
Program and to consider using troop proceeds to pay for annual dues. Register May 1-June 30 Girl incentive: Every girl receives a spring renewal patch. Patches will be distributed at your service unit meetings by Fall of 2017.
It is the power to empower one’s self. It is the power that every member at Girl Scouts has and demonstrates through action each day.
Girls that renew by May 10, 2017, will be included in a drawing to receive free resident and free day camp. We will offer two resident camp and two day camp drawings.
Start planning your next adventure with Girl Scouts; membership is $25. Spring renewal begins May 1. Don’t miss out on the fun! We encourage your troop to use the skills they learned through the Girl Scout Cookie
Adult incentive: Troop leaders/ Co-leaders that renew by June 20, 2017, will receive 50 percent off Kaleidoscope registration and a maximum of two early bird patches per troop.
Troop incentive: Troops that renew 80% of their troop by May 12 can attend Slumber at the Speedway at no cost. Troops that renew at least 80% of their troop by June 30 may attend Slumber at the Speedway for just $5 per girl for the day or for overnight. Service unit incentive: Two service units will be given the opportunity to rent a portion of any Girl Scouts of Central Indiana camp facility free of charge based on their girl goals. The highest registration percentages of service units will be calculated from service units with less than 250 girls and from service units with more than 250 girls.
Celebrating 105 years of Girl Scouting Join us in an epic adventure! In October 2017, in fabulous Columbus, Ohio, supporters of the Girl Scout Movement will gather to experience the power of a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™. The convention title— G.I.R.L 2017—is rooted in our Girl Scout DNA, speaking to the everyday go-getters, innovators, risk-takers, and leaders who stand up, take charge, and make the world a better place.
We will bring together everyone who cares about girls and their leadership potential. This event welcomes Girl Scouts, girls of all ages, parents, families, caregivers, and influencers. The registration portal is scheduled to open the week of March 13.
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MARCH 2017
Girl Scouts in the 1930s placed cookies they sold in bags like these. Cookies were sold for 25 cents a dozen.
Cookie program fosters the entrepreneurial spirit to power amazing experiences for Girl Scouts
confidence handling money.
Well before Girl Scout Cookies were produced by licensed bakers to sell nationally, Girl Scouts baked and sold cookies on their own. Our girls were entrepreneurs going as far back as 1917!
Indiana has a rich history of Girl Scouts selling cookies. Hoosier Girl Scouts began selling cookies in the fall of 1926. For several years after that, they had two sales each year. Girls who sold cookies in the cookie sale in 1926 and the first sale in 1927 sold oatmeal cookies, but by the second sale in the fall of 1927, girls sold Trefoil shaped butter cookies. All the cookies were baked by a commercial bakery, Century Biscuit Company.
In 2017, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first known instance of Girl Scouts selling cookies and learning the basic skills and acumen they need to be leaders in business and sales, manage their personal and family finances, and gain self-sufficiency and
In celebration of this sweet centennial, Girl Scout S’mores Cookies were added to the lineup this year.
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Today, Girl Scouts in our council sell eight delicious varieties; most accept credit cards at their cookie booths; and girls are also able to provide friends and family who live far away the opportunity to stock up on their favorite varieties through Digital Cookie. While the Girl Scout Cookie Program has changed in many ways, Girl Scouts are still learning the same five skills they have been developing for a century: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics. Girl Scout Cookies are powering great opportunities for girls.
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March 13- April 8 Scouting for Food All Kroger locations in central Indiana except for Madison County
June 17 Girls of Distinction Indianapolis Marriott Downtown
May (Dates TBA)
Indiana Roof Ballroom, Indianapolis
Madison County Scouting for Food
November 11 Kaleidoscope
October 14 April 24 Latinas Taking the Lead Graduation Embassy Suites North, Indianapolis Annual Meeting Girl Scouts of Central Indiana November 7 Leadership and Learning Center Lt. Governor’s Leadership Luncheon
May 13 Girl Scouts of Central Indiana Leadership and Learning Center Girl Scouts for Old Glory Indiana War Memorial
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