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I went to Girl Scout camp, and we were arranged into units by age. Happy Hollow was the youngest, then Fox Glen, then Indian Rock, and Tall Timbers was for the oldest campers.
There was a girl at camp I knew who was a year older, so she was in Indian Rock while I was in Fox Glen. One day at lunch she invited me to sit with her and her Indian Rock friends. I felt very special getting to sit with a whole table of older girls. UNTIL....the end of the meal when each unit stood up and sang their theme song (such as “Fox Glen, Fox Glen, we’re heroes til the end…” I don’t remember the rest of the words, but it was to the tune of “Hi Ho, Hi Ho” from Snow White & the Seven Dwarves”). When it was Fox Glen’s turn, I was the only one standing up at my table, and I felt incredibly self-conscious standing there singing by myself. I remember my friend seeing I felt awkward, and she sang along, sitting, to make me feel better. I guess it worked, because I still remember it. And that was a long time ago.
Another thing from camp that has stuck in my brain all these years is that every day the counselors would inspect our tents, and whoever had the neatest tent would get to have “Rusty the Bear” (a stuffed animal) stay in their tent that night. It was a big deal each day at lunch or dinner. And whoever did the “voice” for Rusty when he announced the winner would always say that the winning tent looked “B-E-A-U-tiful!” So to this day, every time I spell the word beautiful, I am hearing it in my head as “B-E-A-U-tiful.”
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