Alumnae Story
Kleenex Carnations For an Assistant Leader in Need

By Jayne Hengl Kranc
Girl Scouts of the Calumet Council
formerly of Girl Scouts of Chicago

I am now 50 years old, but the first memory I have of the close-knit aspect of Girl Scouts was from when I was a first-year Brownie.

My mother, who was an assistant to the leader, was having surgery, and everyone in the troop made carnations out of Kleenex for her. It was an interesting bunch of flowers, as some of us were more talented than others! (Does anyone remember how to make Kleenex carnations? I know you put glitter around the edges, and I think they were held together with pipe cleaners.)

Oh, well, I have been a leader now myself for 14 years, but I've never needed any of them. Knock on wood! I just wish I still had my old '60s Brownie book.