Tricia Scully

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  • Collection Title: Tricia Scully Collection
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  • Date Range: 1946-2018
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  • Genres: Amateur Film
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  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Color or B&W: Color
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  • Running Time: 52:53
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) shares rights with Tricia Scully during her lifetime.
  • Sound: Sound
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  • Creators: Tricia Scully
  • Collaborators & Participants: Jane Baker Rita Banner Bobie Baxter Rita Clifford Sara Jane Elliot Beth Field Sara Fleming Cookie Gibbs Margie Graham Shelly Haley Tammy Haley Deb Hall Nancy Hamilton Terry Hayes Ann Hinkle Patti Klancer Linda Luker Connie Kukla Nancy Manahan Ellen Marshall Julia Sabia Tricia Scully
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  • Format: Digital
  • Viewing Log: Opening slate: Scully Productions Girls Can Do Anything "Girl Scouts together, that is our song" Posters & memorabilia It all started with :43 Jane Baker (J.B.) Western New York just outside of Buffalo. 1:35 Sara Jane Elliot "One of the things I loved about being a Brownie was when I got to fly up and be a Girl Scout." 1:56 Nancy Hamilton aka "Buck" or "Doc" 02:33 Rita Clifford, Lincoln, Maine. First GS meeting was in 5th grade. 02:58 Margie Graham Girl Scout & Leader. 03:25 (Now they're around a campfire) Patti Klancer. "Mom became the cookie chair." She recalls a truck unloading many stacks of Girl Scout cookies into the basement. There were cookies leftover and every day after school unbenownst to their mother, she and her siblings ate a box of cookies while their mom made dinner. 04:17 Sandy "Glitter" from Michigan Womyn's Music Festival 04:38 Cookie Gibbs 05:06 Tricia Scully. "My camp name was Jangles and I was in Scouts all the way through. My mom was our Brownie leader...Went to Camp Merrywood in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 05:42 Shelly Haley, Indianapolis IN. Girl Scout from 1957-1967. 7:23 Rita Banner. A brownie first in NYC, flew up, moved to Poughkeepsie and remained in Girl Scouts "probably until first or second year of cadets." 8:17 Linda Luker Still has GS knife. 08:35 Slate "The Impact of Girl Scouting" Comments by some of the women above and a few additional women. 10:50 Terry Hayes "You made a 'sit upon' that you tied around your waist and you wore it all day." 11:24 Bobbi Baxter Girl Scouts "made me who I am." A registered scout for 62 years so far. Lifetime membership. Been on the board of directors of her local council. 13:31 On going to national park in Bar Harbor, Maine, and staying in a tent near the ocean. 15:00 Girl Scout paraphernalia -- pin, hanky, compass, ring, etc. 15:44 Being a Mariner. Learning to sail on a small lake 16:26 Ann Hinkle 17 "The Girls Scouts gave me my profession....and it gave me women." 17:36 Remembering 1965 Idaho Round Up. 18:26 Nancy Manahan, Girl Scout 1953-1965 1962 Round Up in Button Bay, Vermont at age 16. Also on 1965 Idaho Round Up 20:38 on 10,000 girls singing rounds 21:05 It was okay to love my pocket knife . . . make meals in tinfoil...." campfire cake white bread dipped in condensed milk, rolled in coconut and toasted over the camp fire 21:49 Canoeing in Canadian Wilderness 22:09 snapshot 1944 Memorial Day parade 22:28 Brownie and Girl Scout pins 24:09 On toasting a marshmallow over Sterno 24:54 Ellen Marshall 25:37 Deb Hall belonged to a troop that didn't camp. Later became a counselor to give girls an outside experience. 26:22 Beth Field remained a Scout throughout high school/ Camp name "Beetle" 27:10 Miss Cookie 1952, Portland, Maine "Once a Girl Scout, always a Girl Scout is my motto, and I carry a little knife in my pocket that has all kinds of tools on it." 28:50 TOFS Troops on Foreign Soil Junior Scout, Cadet Scout, and Senior Scout 29:41 Camp Memories Friends Slate. Having nests not tents in California. Ground cloth, sleeping bags. ""Just us under the stars." Her troop did almost the whole John Muir trail. 32:56 New experiences at camp. Flag-raising 33:42 Working at Girl Scout camp for girls with disabilities 35:08 Tunafish cans as "buddy burns." 35:57 The old canvas tents 36:15 Julia Sabia River Forest, IL Going to boundary country in Minnesota for 2 weeks "It really changed my life for the better, I think." "We all had to be able to pick up our aluminum canoe and put it up on our shoulders because we had to portage from lake to lake...." She was 5'1" , 95 pounds. "how hard it was for me." She "saw the northern lights for the first time....heard loons for the first time." "We had a native American leader...." 39:28 Camping on a highway."A camp that later turned out to be right across the street from the high school." 43:01 "At camp ... I met one of the early loves of my life... We went the same week every year so we could be together." The importance of the Girl Scout Promise and the pledge to live our lives in service to others. 45:35 Adult Scouting slate Preparing for Girl Scout Center West Training girls in wilderness skills National Girl Scout Center West -- last year was 1988 47:51 "Leader of Oldest 'Middy' Mariner Troop in the U.S." 48:42 1978 Professional Girl Scout - out of NY office. 23 years professional Girl Scout in all 40 years of being a Girl Scout 50:12 Nancy Manahan: "The Girl Scouts were really what made me strong enough to come out . . . to write the groundbreaking books I did including 'On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience (1997).'" 51:15 snapshot of girls in uniform with indian headbands, etc. and a sweet note: Thank you for sending me to camp" memorabilia bugle "All is well, safely rest, god is nigh."