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Show Joy to Gather My Share 31 "Weha." In Madelyn's hand written Camp Fire notebook she described the requirements for honors and the dates when she earned honor beads. The group apparently began meet ing on July 3, 1914, and contin ued until the summer of 1915, when the adult leaders decided to form an LDS-oriented group called the Bee Hive Girls, to be affiliated with the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association of the L.D.S. Church. Bee Hive, from the Book of Mormon, symbolized and dedication. industry Madelyn and her companions formed the first unit of the Bee Hive organization." Madelyn and her fellow Camp Fire members were required during the summer of Madelyn, at fourteen, was a member of Aunt Annie's Camp Fire Girls group as the Church tried to find a program for girls sim ilar to the Boy Scouts. The Camp Fire Girls organization was unwilling to be flexible enough for the Church, so Ann M. Cannon, as chairman of the Young Women's General Board committee to develop a girls' pro gram, became responsible for creating the Bee Hive Girls. 1914 and the winter and spring of 1915 to prepare and serve two meals for meetings of the camp, including purchase of the food, cooking, and serving the meal and care of the fire; mend a pair of stockings, a knitted undergarment, and hem some necessary article requiring at least a yard of hem; keep a written classified account of all money received and spent for at least one month; tie a square knot correctly and without hesitation five times in succession; sleep with wide-open windows or out-of-doors for at least one month (the day of central heating had not yet arrived); and take an average of at least half an hour of outdoor exercise daily. The girls also were required to abstain from chewing gum, candy, sundaes, sodas, and commercially manufactured beverages between meals and know the chief causes of infant mortality and tell how and to what extent these deaths had been reduced in the community. They were to know what to do |
