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Earn the Public Relations Interest Project
The Houston Chapter
of the Public Relations Society of America is helping Girl
Scouts of San Jacinto Council earn the GSUSA Public Relations
Interest Project Award. This project is sponsored by PRSA
Houston’s New Professionals Group, which supports public
relations practitioners who are in the first five years of
their careers.
To earn the GSUSA Public Relations
Interest Project Award, Girl Scouts are required to complete
activities like Skill Builders, where girls create press kits
to publicize themselves, interview public relations practitioners
about their daily responsibilities and role-play pitches as
a spokesperson for a favorite cause.
Girl Scouts also are required
to complete one or more service projects before earning the
GSUSA Public Relations Interest Project Award. Such projects
include volunteering to help a local organization publicize
its services to the community or writing an article for media
placement.
“PRSA Houston is committed
to educating our community about the importance of our profession.
We welcome Girl Scouts to learn as much as they can from our
members and to consider public relations as a profession,”
said Cindy Suggs, PRSA Houston Chapter President.
PRSA Houston’s New Professionals
Group will coordinate requests to interview PR professionals
to assist Girl Scouts with the different activity categories
( Skill Builders, Technology, Service Projects, and Career
Exploration) to earn the Award.
Girls who want to earn their
GSUSA Public Relations Interest Project Award (page 104 in
Girl Scouts of the United States of America’s Interest
Projects for Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts) are invited to
contact PRSA Houston New Pros Community Service Liaison Cheyenna
Smith at 713-627-2223 or csmith@piercom.com,
or visit www.prsahouston.org.
|  Letters
Send your letter to GSSJC, The Golden
Link,
3110 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77098.
Letters may be edited for space.
Letter to the editor:
I wanted to thank all the Scouts on behalf of
the National Cemetery Council of Greater Houston
Inc. and the staff of the Houston National Cemetery
for putting out our Avenue of Flags for the Memorial
Day Ceremony 2005. It was a wonderful tribute
to all our departed heroes that many Scouts joined
us to remember our patriots in uniform who defended
our way of life.
Hundreds of Scouts joined us on Sunday, May 29
to put out over 400 large flags throughout the
cemetery grounds. Some Scouts also joined us for
the program on Monday, May 31 and presented colors
and/or wreaths during the ceremony.
The program was a great success and we enjoyed
our usual large, enthusiastic crowd in supporting
our veterans and the National Cemetery Administration.
Sincerely,
Linda Barry for
Jorge Lopez, Cemetery Director |
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Girl Scouts Celebrate in Austin
 Austin
welcomed more than 140 Senior Girl Scouts from around the
state June 6. Everyone was in town with their proud loved
ones to celebrate a milestone in their young lives –
receipt of the Girl Scout Gold Award. GSSJC invited all local
honorees who received their Gold Award status between May
2004 and April 2005. Twenty-one young women from San Jacinto
Council decided to commemorate their awards by attending the
Statewide Gold Award Ceremony.
The celebration was held in
the House of Representatives Chamber where the floor, normally
a sea of politicians, was awash with Gold, Blue (Senior Girl
Scouts) and Green (Adult Girl Scouts). Guests were invited
to watch the proceedings from the balcony. Featured speaker,
Lark Doley, International Director of Toastmasters International,
praised the Girl Scouts for their ability to lead while remaining
true to their Girl Scout roots. The ceremony was followed
by a reception on the lawn of the Capitol building.
Meryl-Ina K. and Shefali G.,
both of San Jacinto Council, were among the four Girl Scouts
who received the 2005 Statewide Gold Award Scholarship. A
committee consisting of Girl Scout representatives throughout
Texas reviewed 30 applicants and selected these Gold Award
recipients to be among the best of their peers. Each will
receive a $500 scholarship to assist with college tuition.
Funding is derived from the state Girl Scout license plate
program.
For further information on the
Gold Award process, contact Julie Deeter, Program Manager,
at 713-292-0203 or jdeeter@sjgs.org
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For further details about the
Girl Scout license plate program, contact the GSSJC Fund Development
Department at 713-292-0231.
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