Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee congratulates Rachel Fuson and Callie Cripps for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award – the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.
The youth at Rachel’s church did not have their own room for devotionals and classes, so she worked with church elders to build a youth group room. The church’s cleaning staff and quarterly youth group workdays will maintain the room. Rachel also created a book showing “before” and “after” pictures as well as a how-to guide for similar projects.
Callie created a sign for her town cemetery with grant funds she secured from the Smithville Cemetery Association. Callie was involved in all aspects of the project, including design, enlisting the help of her school shop teacher to build the frame, setting it in the ground, building a stone wall around the base and planting flowers. Girl Scout Troop 750 will sustain the project, and additional troops will volunteer at the annual Smithville Town Cemetery Day. Callie received the Chamber of Commerce Community Improvement Award for her project. She also prepared a booklet about the cemetery that dates back to 1838, with suggestions on how to conduct research for similar projects. This booklet was placed in the local genealogy room.
By earning the Girl Scout Gold Award, Rachel and Callie have become community leaders. Their accomplishments reflect leadership and citizenship skills that set them apart.
“Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award is truly a remarkable achievement, and these young women exemplify leadership in all its forms,” said Shelia Majors, director of training, volunteer relations and outreach at Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee. “They saw a need in their communities and around the world and took action. Their extraordinary dedication, perseverance and leadership is making the world a better place.”
Rachel and Callie will receive their awards at the 2017 Salute to Outstanding Leadership Awards ceremony on Sunday, April 30 at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena.
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee serves more than 14,000 girls and 7,000 adult volunteers in 39 counties. It is a part of Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), the world’s preeminent organization for girls, with a membership of more than 2.6 million girls and adults nationwide. GSUSA continues to strive to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. For more information on how you can be involved in Girl Scouts visit www.gsmidtn.org.
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