The Friends Of The Four World Centres’ Visit to U.S.A.

Diane White and friend outside the Helen Storrow museum which is on the camp site at Cedar Hill Waltham Masachusettes. Photo taken by June Webb.

Helen Storrow's House. Photo taken by June Webb.

A seed was sown whilst attending the 75th birthday celebrations at Our Chalet when I met Diane White a member of the Friends of the four World Centres from Massachusettes. She mentioned the Edith Macy centre outside New York which is used for training Girl Scout leaders.

After eighteen months in the planning a group of nineteen from the UK, three Friends from the States and three Friends from Canada attended the first international gathering of our Friends. We stayed at Edith Macy then moved onto Boston, Waltham to camp at Cedar Hill which was given by Helen Storrow to the Scouts in Massachusettes.

We planned two trips into New York to view the statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and up the Empire state building. We also visited Tarrytown where Washington Irving used to live, the Rockefeller home and Lyndhurst House.

The idea of the trip was to further interest in the Friends of the Four World Centres and this was achieved and plans are being started with ideas for further visits perhaps this time to Savannah where Juliette Low the founder of Girl Scouting lived.

To read June Webb’s full story of this great trip click on the article below.

• Friends Trip to USA

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