CAMPWARD HO!

LAWS

I A Girl Scout's Honor is to be Trusted
II A Girl Scout is Loyal
III A Girl Scout's Duty is to be Useful and to Help Others
IV A Girl Scout is a Friend to All, and a Sister to Every
Other Girl Scout
V A Girl Scout is Courteous
VI A Girl Scout is a Friend to Animals
VII A Girl Scout Obeys Orders
VIII A Girl Scout is Cheerful
IX A Girl Scout is Thrifty
X A Girl Scout is Clean in Thought, Word and Deed




FOREWORD


Someone has said, "We camp to live with Nature." If living is knowing,
let us then while we camp, learn to know the great out-of-doors, and at
the same time take advantage of being together, and learn to live as
Scouts.

It is hoped that this little book will help to solve many problems which
arise when planning for and running a camp, particularly a Girl Scout
camp. The material in this manual is supplementary to that in the
official Handbook, "Scouting for Girls," and is intended to be used in
conjunction with it.

The information given is the result of experience gained not only as a
camp Director and a housekeeper, but as a co-worker with hundreds of
Scouts whose needs are very real.

Credit is due Miss Emily McClure for her article on Activities, and Miss
Catherine Wilkeson for her account of A Deschutes River Fishing Trip.

We are glad to have permission to reprint "Water Front Protection for
Summer Camps" by Captain Fred C. Mills of the Red Cross Life Saving
Corps. The Life Saving Corps is giving the Girl Scouts the most active
sort of cooperation throughout the country.

Sincere appreciation and thanks are given to Dr. Louise Stevens Bryant,
Educational Secretary of the National Girl Scouts, for making the charts
and editing the manuscript.

CAROLINE LEWIS.




CAMPWARD HO!

CONTENTS


Foreword 7
I Planning for Camp 9
II Camp Directors and Counsellors 15
III The Camper 22
IV The Camp House 28
V General Routine from Opening to Closing Camp 40
VI Camp Records and Accounts 50
VII Equipment 64
VIII The Camp Program 93
IX General Camp Activities 98
X Hikes 127
XI Camp Health and Camp Safety 140
XII Feeding the Multitude 152
XIII A Day in Camp 174
Some Books on Camps and Camping 178
Index 183




I

PLANNING FOR CAMP

_There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal_
--_Lord Byron_


Planning for a camp is a matter of hours of thought and pipe dreaming,
every item receiving its due amount of consideration, first in general
terms, then in detail, until the whole scheme is so well formulated and
all needs so well recognized and provided for that the actual camp comes
into existence quite easily and successfully.