Hanna Girl Scouts
Exhibit by Bob Leathers
The Hanna Girl Scouts won The Union Pacific Coal Company First Aid Challenge Cup in the years 1928 -1933.
1925
1925 September: Hanna Girl Scouts
Union Pacific Coal Company Empoye's Magazine, September, 1925
Union Pacific Coal Company Empoye's Magazine, September, 1925
1926
1926 May: Hanna Girls Win It All
The Hanna team of Leone Tate, Captain; Muriel Crawford; Edith Crawford; Helen Renny; Eileen Cook; Lucille Wright and A. H. Royce, instuctor; won first place at the May 22, 1926 First Aid Contest in Rock Springs.
The Winning Hanna Team Working a problem. Leone Tate, Captain; Muriel Crawford, Edith Crawford, Helen Renny, Eileen Cook and Lucille Wright (Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, June 1926)
Girl Scout First Aid Contes in Rock Springs May 22nd
The great day arrived. For the last month most of us had been training every single evening and after school too. Our own towns had seen us off for the meet at Rock Springs with heaps of advice and many, many good wishes and more - many promises of parties in our honor and chicken dinners and treats if we brought back the prize. We'd worked problems against time and practiced answering the most difficult questions; we'd tried to keep our health rules; no tea, no coffee, early to bed, lots of fresh air in our rooms; we were so proud of having made the team in our town we wanted to do our best.
The Hanna girls arrived first with captain Leone Tate, and instructor Andy Royce. Then they met the two teams from Cumberland with captains Thelma Rock and Irene Dexter, instructors, Lyman Fearne and Mrs. T. Dodds. We were assigned to rooms in the Union Pacific Club House and in the homes of Mrs. George Pryde, Mrs James Libby and Mrs. A. Thompson, who kindly entertained some of us and we all went to bed at once in order to be ready early for the field.
Then up in the morning and to the field. It was good to see our familiar equipment waiting for us. And the other teams, whole eight of them, two from Reliance, two from Winton and one from Superior, all looking so fresh and ready and efficient in their bloomers and middies with different colored ties. Competitors worthy of our very best effort! Then it was good to see among the judges the United States Bureau of Mines Engineers who'd held us in the last weeks of our preparation and Messrs. John Sorbie and Elija Daniels of the Rock Springs First Aid teams, experts all.
The gong and to work! We were to have three problems. Here are the first two:
Problem No. 1: Reading of problem and preparation of material, 4 minutes.
Girl Scout falls over cliff and receives following injuries: Simple fracture left leg, 6 inches below knee, deep cut on left forearm midway between wrist and elbow, blood spurting from cut. Treat patient for injuries and shock. Time - 12 minutes.
Problem No. 2: Reading of problem and preparation of material, 4 minutes.
Girl Scout is riding in gasoline launch, launch catches fire, burning Scout on left hand and wrist. Scout, to escape, jumps into water and is rescued four minutes later unconscious and breathing stopped. Treat - Two members of team give artificial respiration two minutes (one minute each). Time - 10 minutes.
The end and a short wait and then Mr. George Pryde read the results: Hanna had won. Quickly teams circled their Captains and one after another, cheered the winners. Captain Leone Tate of the Hanna Team, or Lieutenant "Shorty" of the Hanna Scout troop and the Hanna camps last summer, had won.
We all had luncheon together at the Club House and learned that Team II of Reliance could not only work a problem one hundred per cent, the Reliance girls could sing. (Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, June 1926)
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, June 1926 by Mrs. H. A. Lawrence
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, June 1926
1926 August: The Hanna Girl Scouts First Aid Demonstration in Denver Colorado
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, August 1926
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, August 1926
1926 October: Hanna Girl Scouts
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, October 1926
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, October 1926
Individuals mentioned at the Elk Mt. Scout Camp: Miss Dorothy Christensen, Muriel and Edith Crawford, Leona Tate, Elizabeth Rae. Merle Hendricks, Evelyn Christensen, and Helen Renny.
1927
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, April 1927)
1927
Hanna Girls Win the Girl Scout First Aid Contest for the Second Year in a Row
Hanna Senior Girls, Winners of the Girl Scout First Aid Contest for a second time. Left to right: Muriel Crawford, Captain; Edith Crawford, Eileen Cook, Hellen Rennie, Hazel Jones, Ruby Fearn with instructor James Hearn.
Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, July 1927)
Hanna Girl Scouts Camp at Rattlesnake by Eileen Cook (Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, November 1927)
1927: Muriel Crawford Mount Elk Troop of Girl Scouts (Union Pacific Coal Company Employe's Magazine, January 1928)
1928
Hanna. Winning Teams were awarded cups (UPCCEM, July 1928)
The winner of the 1928 Girl Scout Union Pacific Coal Company Challenger Cup was the Hanna Mt. Elks. The team included: Edyth Crawshaw, Captain; Helen J. Renny, Ruby Fearn, Hazel Jones, Helen Van Renterghem and Lucy June Case
Hanna. Hanna Mount Elk Girl Scout First Aid Team (UPCCEM, July 1928)
Hanna. Hanna Mount Elk Girl Scout First Aid Team (UPCCEM, July 1928)
Hanna Girl Scout Camp (UPCCEM, September 1928)
Hanna Girl Scouts (UPCCEM, October 1928)
1929
The winner of the 1929 Girl Scout Union Pacific Coal Company Challenger Cup was Hanna The team included: Helen Rennie, Captain; Ruby Fearn, Hazel Jones, Elizabeth Crawford, Darnet Stultz and Helen Van Renterghem.
With the Troops. Mrs. Albert Crawford (UPCCEM, May 1929) 1
Hanna Girl Scouts (UPCCEM, May 1929) 2
Hanna Mout Elks. Girl Scouts. (UPCCEM, Aug.. 1929)
Hanna Junior Girl Scouts (Upccem, August 1929)
Hanna Girl Scout Team Gives Demonstrations Before International First Aid Contest at Kansas City (UPCCEM, October 1929)
Hanna Girl Scout Team Gives Demonstrations Before International First Aid Contest at Kansas City (UPCCEM, October 1929)
Hanna Girl Scout Team Gives Demonstrations Before International First Aid Contest at Kansas City (UPCCEM, October 1929)
1930
The winner of the 1930 Girl Scout Union Pacific Coal Company Challenger Cup was the Winton Senior Girl Scout team. The team included: Murial Crawford, Captain; Betty Hanks, Jessie Aguilar, Evelyn Jolly, Josephine Black and Vaun Slaughter.
1931
The winner of the 1931 Girl Scout Union Pacific Coal Company Challenger Cup was the Hanna Girl Scout team. The team included: Hazel Jones, Captain; Ruby Fearn, Helen Van Renterghen, Elizabeth Crawford, Garnet Stultz and Marjorie Winchell.
1932
1932 Girl Scouts Union Pacific Coal Company First Aid Champions
​Senior Girl Scouts, Hanna Mountain Elks : Irene Lucas (Captain), Thelma Penman, Mildred Mellor, Margaret Renny, Annie Tate , Dorothy Cook (UPCCEM, July 1932)
1941
Hanna Girl Scouts - Marjorie Bailey, Catherine Freeman, Margaret Bamber, Marjorie Wright, Ellen Cummings and Phyliss Hapgood, patient. (UPCCEM, Nov. 1941)
1944
Girl Scout Activities. Brownies in Hanna. (UPCCEM, Jan. 1944)
Part of Brownie Troop No. III and Intermediate Girl Scout Troop No. I, Hanna.
Reading left to right:
Front Row--Nancy Veitch, Bonnie Veitch, Peggy Kitching, Mary Ellen Collimer.
Second Row--Dixie Milne, Irene Cummings, Linda Love, Marlene Butler, Marjorie Murray, Joan Childers.
Last Row--Lillian French, Betty Smith, Barbara Veitch, Adele Veitch, Iris Varvandakis, Betty Childers.
Reading left to right:
Front Row--Nancy Veitch, Bonnie Veitch, Peggy Kitching, Mary Ellen Collimer.
Second Row--Dixie Milne, Irene Cummings, Linda Love, Marlene Butler, Marjorie Murray, Joan Childers.
Last Row--Lillian French, Betty Smith, Barbara Veitch, Adele Veitch, Iris Varvandakis, Betty Childers.
Brownie Troop No. III started in February, 1944, with full membership. Present registered membership includes: Peggy Kitching, Rochelle Hudson, Bonnie Veitch, Marlene Butler, Dixie Milne, Linda Love, Marjorie Hearne, Marjorie Murray, Irene Cummings, Nancy Veitch, Mary Ellen Collimer, Joan Childers, Marian Tolin, Shannon Milliken and Kay Gaskell.
The Intermediate Troop No. I includes: Betty Smith, Adele Veitch, Jo Ann Jones, Iris Varvandakis, Sharleen Bowe, Patricia Shyne, Betty Childers, Lorraine Campbell, Barbara Veitch, Lillian French, Birchall Bundy. New non-registered members are: Alice Hapgood, Margaret Boam, Anna Lou Boam, and Joan Bishop.
The two troops have a total of at least 550 hours of Red Cross work, mostly cutting feathers and stuffing fracture pillows.
They collected $106.69 toward the Carbon County Honor Roll to be erected in Rawlins.
Meetings are held every Saturday and a joint “Song Night” is held once a month at which time Miss Dorothy Benedict, Principal of Hanna Grade School, teaches songs and singing games with Mrs. Marian Tolin at the piano. (UPCCEM, January 1944)
1. Hanna Girl Scouts—Winners
Left to right: Jean Marie Burford, Barbara Bailey, Katherine Varvandakis (Captain), Louise Gaskell, Joan Cook (Patient), Barbara Jean Veitch, Miss Packard.
(UPCCEM, October 1944)
1945
1945 Girl Scout First Aid Contest. Hanna Girl Scouts, third place winners. Left to right, bottom row: Katherine Vervandakis (Captain), Louise Gaskell (patient), Joan Cook. Top row: Barbara Veitch, Barbara Bailey, Jean Marie Burford. (UPCCEM, October 1945)