Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 May 1937, p. 12

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NO Wonder Gils in Evansfon fo PARTY FROCKS pattis of its music. Winston Wilkinsonn, whO lu a- fel- low i folk music in the University of Virginia-andl-who pcrmitted the Girl Scouts to use in "Sing Together" three of the songs - c lias collected, says lie cat iImagine no fine,, gift to our young citizens-to-be than an op- portuttity to learti these incomparable folk songs which have their roots i our renlote past and whicli belong to the children by right of birth." Girl Scouts sig folk songs in their meetings, camps; and i many, a camp one may hear the clear notes of the. shephcrd's pipe playing an old ballad while groups of minstrels and actors sing the words and pantomime the action.- Iound in M vulu3P- -- -- country-soflgs and dances that bave kept something of their. original char- acter and yet havé taken on the im- print of the different generations wbo have sung them. Kentucky mountaineers sing bal- lads that originated i England:- folk gongs heard in Soutliett Califortila and New Mexico mnay be traéed to Spain; in tlie Great Lalces reglon many a song is reminiscent of- the Swedes and NJorwegiafls wlio settled here. The' preservatioti of this pricelesi motarolbar uiil 1 yrecntliibeen of concert' mainly tos music and customs,1 whose comhpilation of Aunalachian niotuta the The memor.y of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scoutingin the United States, is honoDred ecdi year by an international encatnpment wliere girls from Mayctisia.y meet and share the prograin whtch was started by Lord Baden-Powell i Great Britain. For several years the ýFund lias .enabled Girl Scouts f rom the United States and Girl Guides f rom otlier countries itlie World Association to attend an international meeting at "Our Chalet" in Switzer- land. This lu the. firit time such a group.lias. met in America. like Ccil Sharp, Mrs. Frederick Edcy, Girl Scout f songs frôm the national commissiotier and chairman LifS mrke anof the international conimittee, is in hitoy f me-charge of aIl arrangements for the ý'G1vi tels he ofeËtivfltôrs. Mts.ýRutth tfrirnd at there bas re- Fraser, member of the GirlScout na- 'akening interc*st tional staff, wiIl be in charge of the i this folk musc, encaznpment .program. preservation . and M s 'H l n P d e f K n s a h whole bdy o isa freshman at Lawrence. college, s of colleges and has been chosen a midwest represen- en doing valuable tative at the international jamboree rM states,, seeking of Girl Scouts. She will represent Ilii- tare traditional no's, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michi- bit. gan. niber of "Recrea-- Qffers You a DAY CAMP and BOAU1DING CAMP for boys and girls 6 to 14. la an opportunt'Iy to give f/ot4ger chtld a reai oamnpÎ1 A* t 4L Rame *hn your 40 ex- irg (Tecxas) 'mi Lônd Acadian groups g their songs to Ina of thc harp or IbI ' tend the international en- to be held in America this were chosen for this sig- ion by a çormmîttee licaded

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