Children’s Flag Ceremony
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robertsprague2013
Looks like the side of the old Clayton Hospital.
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allan hawkins v.
FYI.
I can identify 3 of the older girls: Right side of photo about 8-10 girls back – there is a woman with dark hair, a white head scarf and plaid shirt – just beyond her is a blond teenage girl whose head is directly in front of the palm tree trunk: she is Grace Argo, left of Grace is Marie Blakely, left of Marie is Carole Flennekin (sp?). These 3 girls are from the Atlantic Side and attended Cristobal High School. They are 1-3 years younger (I think) than I am (Dianne Geddes, CHS 57). There is another young woman at the back of the horse-shoe, to the left of the American flag, saluting, in a white shirt – I can’t remember her name but she is also from the Atlantic Side. I think the photo time frame may be early 50’s. The flag to the right of the American flag is from Girl Scout Troop 68. The younger girls appear to be making two-finger salutes (Brownies) and the older girls appear to be making three-finger salutes (Girl Scouts). Hope this helps.
Dianne Geddes Schmenk
bkarrer2013
That’s a lot of jungle… it kinda reminds me of the entrance way to Bldg 519 on the hill at Ft Clayton where the Army had lots of offices like dentist, transportation etc… must be 1960s from the ladies clothing. I can read the word “Troop” on the flag but the number is not readable here. Perhaps on the original you can tell & that may help us. That troop banner seems to also encompass the GSA emblem too. This would then be a Girl Scouting group or maybe Brownies? I think by the 1960s or even early 1970s everybody wore pants of some kind so this is definitely not be 1940s or 1950s. What they would be doing up there at Bldg 519 for a Scouts event is not known to me. Our daughter had Brownie & GSA uniforms when we were in CZ in 1972-76 so this group is really informal. She was very proud of her over-the-shoulder badge holder where her stuff was sewn on. Bob Karrer
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allan hawkins v.
Allan, By cropping the flags, I read Troop 68 on the second flag. Because they are all mostly very young ladies I would bet on a Brownie Troop. Where the photo was taken, I have no idea except the jungle and it’s proximity to the road does look familiar. I can upload it to our website and then go out to all of our friends and see if anyone can recall Troop 68 and/or the event. David
diane staples backowski
I went to a one week camp (I think for Girl Scouts) I remember flag ceremonies, but do not know where the camp was except it was on an old army base and it was in the jungle with outside latrines that you had to travel to even in the middle of the night. I do not think the camp was in Fort Clayton. Seemed like we travelled further than Fort Clayton, but I was very young and distances were different then.
Carl N Berg of Cocoli
Location? Possibly near steps of the Admin Building in Balboa, near Goethals Memorial, where lawn meets the second-growth jungle, adjacent to circular drive….a guess. The cute young girl holding the American flag looks a lot to me like a girl in the January CLASSROOM photo–she is sitting at the back corner of the centermost table, tanned, dark hair with short bangs, white blouse or sweater with a light-colored kerchief at her neck, left arm resting on the table, holding a can or bottle in her left hand. But maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me.
Marilou Simmons
Allan, could you please post if/when if it’s identified? My mom worked for the Girl Scouts and I was in a troop too but it’s been so long I don’t about this picture. Thank you.
Marilou (Morrison) Simmons
Rochelle (Stubblefield) Thompson
It looks to me like the setting of the Girl Scout camp we attended in the summer. They are all girls and in shorts, as opposed to uniforms, and about the same age. The girl Scout camp we attended was at an old WWII army camp.We slept in barracks, had a mess hall, and bunk beds (of which I remember falling out of a top one.) It would have been in the late 40’s or very early 50’s
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carolyn rowley dillon
From their clothing it I would guess it took place in the mid to late ‘50s. I was in scouting at that time but have no knowledge of this event. It was most likely in the summer and I was Stateside on home leave. Having enlarged the photo I believe that the very blonde senior scout with her hand partially covering her face on the left is Clare White. On right side the tallest senior scout with short blond hair looks like Grace Argo. The tallest woman in the center of the group of three on the left side in back is a dead ringer for Mrs. Mason (don’t know first name). So many young kids look alike at that age I can only say I THINK I know some, but the little girl on the left, third of the smaller children in a light blouse looking directly at the camera with bangs and her hair pulled back looks like Suzie Shirk. That is if that hair is red. All of the people I mentioned were Atlantic Side residents so this probably took place in that side of the Isthmus.
Karen
It is the Girl Scout Troop 68. I was in the Brownies when we were at Ft. Clayton 70-72. It looks like the late 50’s /early 60’s by the shoes, clothing, and hair.
Peggy Huff
There was a Canal Zone Girl Scout Council camp on the Atlantic side in Gatun – Camp Caribbean. I remember a contest among all the girl scout troops to name the camp. I attended when I was 9 or 10 so it was probably established in the mid-1950s. Council-wide camporees were held there. The foliage in the background is typical of the jungle area surrounding the townsite of Gatun. The boy scout camp – Camp Chagres – was on Madden Lake.