32 students, teachers join 1st Georgetown Girl Guide Company

The Young Leaders of the Georgetown Secondary School were able to realize another of their objectives on Friday, February 15, when 32 of the school’s students and two teachers were enrolled as members of the 1st Georgetown Girl Guide Company.{{more}}

The enrollment ceremony was held at the school’s auditorium under the theme “Through Guiding Hands and Creative Minds, Influencing Hearts and Transforming Lives”.

The feature speaker was Dr Monica Davis, Vice President of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Girl Guides Association.

Also present at the enrollment ceremony was the Chief Commissioner Rechanne Brown-Mathias who advised the Girl Guides to strive for excellence at all times. She also encouraged them to strive for the Commissioner’s Award in the next three years, which she said is the highest award in guiding. Her challenge to them was to learn sign language.

The ceremony was chaired by Maria Burke, Area Commissioner. Burke gave snap-shots of the history of guiding in St Vincent and the Grenadines, highlighting the fact that guiding was started in Georgetown in 1914 by Reverend Arthur Cox, an Englishman and Methodist Minister in the Georgetown Circuit.

The enrollment was conducted by Jacqueline Soso-Vincent, District Commissioner for the Windward Division.

The newly enrolled girls participated in a candle lighting ceremony, which concluded with singing of the Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World”.