Tuesday, June 26, 1928

I didn’t get the letter from Bess. But I did get Bettee’s commencement card and a letter from Gault. Still no history or English teacher. Helen wore Alice’s Kappa Sig sister pin to school. It’s beautiful. Charles is a Kappa Sig. Helen had finger waves in her hair that Alice had put in. They looked plenty keen, as Bettee would say. I saw Alice for the first time since she came, this noon when Helen brought me home. At 3:30 I went with Frenchie and we sent Alto a Radio. At four I was due at a Camp Fire meeting at Mrs. Stagg’s and I got myself in for all kinds of things. Mom had the Eastern Star G Officers in to tea. After Camp Fire I took the car and went for a ride. About 6:20 I saw David G. and Johnny T. and picked them up. We rode around until 10 to seven.

Jane’s Notes: Camp Fire - Mom was a member of Camp Fire Girls. The organization started in 1910 so she was a member pretty early in it’s existence. It still exists, now called Camp Fire USA and includes boys and girls. When Mom belonged you had to be 12 to join. The earliest reference in the scrap book is March of 1924. It’s a letter. “Dear Litahni. This past year has brought new experiences, new joys. I imagine chief among them has been your association with campfire. I know I have heartily enjoyed having you as one of my own campfire girls, and trust that this simple gift may express my desire for you this year - that you may “be pure in your deepest desire, be true to the truth that is in you and follow the law of the fire.” With Love, Guardian Wawona.” I assume Mrs. Stagg must have been the adult leader or Guardian “Wawona”. Everyone took sudo indian name. Mom’s was “Laitahni”. So it would seem that the earliest Mom might have been a member was 1923. The Camp Fire tradition continued. All three of us girls (Missy, Edee and I) were in Camp Fire as well. And Mom served as the volunteer swimming instructor at Camp Onalee in Molalla, Oregon when she was a young bridge before she had any children.