[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 36 (Monday, March 8, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E360-E361]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              TRIBUTE TO AMY PAGE OF GIRL SCOUT TROOP 395

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                          HON. SPENCER BACHUS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 8, 1999

  Mr. BACHUS. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to salute an outstanding 
young woman who has been honored with the Girl Scout Gold Award by the 
Cahaba Girl Scout Council in Birmingham, Alabama. She is Amy Page of 
Girl Scout Troop 395. She has been honored for earning the highest 
achievement award in

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U.S. Girl Scouting. The Girl Scout Gold Award symbolizes outstanding 
accomplishments in the areas of leadership, community service, career 
planning and personal development. The award can be earned by a girl 
aged fourteen through seventeen, or in grades ninth through twelfth.
  Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., an organization serving over 2.5 million 
girls, has awarded more than twenty thousand Girl Scout Awards to 
Senior Girl Scouts since the inception of the program in 1980. To 
receive the award, a Girl Scout must earn four interest project 
patches, the Career Exploration Pin, the Senior Girl Scout Challenge, 
as well as design and implement a Girl Scout Gold Award project. A plan 
for fulfilling these requirements is created by the Senior Girl Scout 
and carried out through close cooperation between the girl and an adult 
Girl Scout Volunteer.
  As a member of the Cahaba Girl Scout Council, Amy Page began working 
toward the Girl Scout Gold Award on August 13, 1998. She completed her 
project, Dora's first Intertribal Pow-Wow and Education Day, and I 
believe she should receive the public recognition due her for this 
significant service to her community and her country.

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