[nfbwatlk] Fw: Attention Federationists Interested in scouting

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
I was a Brownie and a Girl Scout.
Thanks
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR)" <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Fw: Attention Federationists Interested in scouting


> Oh, Carl.  There certainly are *many* girl scouts, and scouts of girl
> scouts.  Pricilla Farris is most famous for her girl scout exploits.
> She's known as the girl scout that can dig a latrine in a hurricane.
> And, I must say there are a plethora of boy scouts too.  I myself was in
> a troop of scouts with my brother at our local school.  My mom and dad
> were active troop leaders, etc.  Of course, mom was the den mother in
> cub scouts, and dad was a leader of my troop at times too.  There have
> been troops of blind folks as boy scouts, troops mixed, and troops of
> sighted folks with a blind person or two in them.  In fact, *i* Bennett
> Prows was the first ever blind person to receive "Boys Life," in
> Braille.  Got my mane in the paper for that one, ..., way back in the
> 1950s, I believe.
>
> Bennett Prows
>
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> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:23 PM
> To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Fw: Attention Federationists Interested in
> scouting
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> As a long time member of the Boy Scouts of America, I was always far
> more
> interested in the Girl Scouts of America.  I even tried to join, but
> couldn't pass the physical.  Flat feet!  Darn!.
> Seriously, are there no girl scouts in the ranks of the NFB?
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
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