Diane Nordmark
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Alum Spotlight
We are pleased to spotlight an exemplary Girl Scout alum and volunteer, Diane Nordmark. Diane Nordmark is a fourth-generation Girl Scout who has served as Service Unit Manager, Troop Leader, Council Learning Facilitator and has been a GSEP National Council Delegate for five national conventions. Volunteerism was highly valued in her family, and Diane came into Girl Scouting easily. Her grandmother helped with her mom’s troop, so naturally, she became a leader for her daughter. Diane was a leader for 25 years, branched out to the Service Unit event committee and team, became a Council Learning Facilitator, and helped on council events and other committees. She then served as a delegate or alternate to the National Convention. Diane said, “There are so many ways to help, and other people make it fun as we do things together.” Diane continues to try new things—she joined GSEP’s Volunteer Awards Committee just two years ago. Her work has had a lasting impact, which she likens volunteering to a small stone dropping into a pond.
“I love still being connected to many of these girls, being invited to graduations, weddings, baby showers, or just watching how their lives unfolded using some of the things they learned with our troop.”
Diane reflects that “as a leader, each year I had an effect on a troop of girls and their families. I love still being connected to many of these girls, being invited to graduations, weddings, baby showers, or just watching how their lives unfolded using some of the things they learned with our troop. The DuPont Engineering Your Tomorrow program piqued the interest of several girls, and they went on to become scientists or engineers. Others may show the foil packs they made with friends on the backyard fire circle. As a trainer, I taught volunteers that then took those skills back to their troops, to their Service Units and to all those girls, rippling out to hundreds more. Each one of them in turn passes on those skills, and that makes for quite a ripple effect in the pond!” Thank you, Diane, for creating so many ripples in our “Girl Scout pond.”
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