with about 100 Boy Scouts and about 220 other boys and girls; and 

 YMCA Day (April 19), with approximately 480 YMCA fathers 

 and sons along with 200 other children. 



Thirty-two Girl Scout Museum Aides were trained to help with 

 both Girl Scout Day and Brownie Scout Day. These girls did a 

 remarkable service in taking the visiting girls on tours of the Museum 

 (97 tours with 2,200 persons). Sixteen Camp Fire Girl Aides were 

 trained to help with their girls on Camp Fire Girl Day. They 

 directed their girls to the Museum exhibits that correlated with 

 their theme for 1958. We are grateful to the Aides for their help. 



More and more frequently requests are made for programs for 

 leaders — these are often for teachers-in -training in universities and 

 colleges or for teachers' meetings in school. Teachers and leaders 

 who are better trained in use of museums and community resources 

 are worth all the time and effort we put into such assistance. An 

 unusual program for leaders was our workshop for Cub Scout 

 Mothers called "The Birds' Christmas Tree," which showed how to 

 use the family Christmas tree as a feeding station for winter birds. 



Museum Journeys were continued for children to take by them- 

 selves or with their families at the time during Museum hours most 

 convenient for them. In January 155 children completed the 1957-58 

 Winter Journey (no. 12), "Animals in Winter." The Spring Journey 

 (no. 13), "Animals of the Bible," totaled 530 completed; the Summer 

 Journey (no. 14), "Nature Around Us," totaled 217 completed; the 

 Fall Journey (no. 15), "Plants the Indians Used," totaled 283 

 completed; and the Winter Journey (no. 16), "Chicago — Winter 

 Resort for Birds" (which carried over into 1959) totaled 53 com- 

 pleted in 1958. 



Awards were presented in the spring and fall to those boys and 

 girls who had successfully completed Museum Journeys as follows: 

 38 completed their first four Journeys and became Museum Trav- 

 elers; 13 completed a second group of four Journeys and became 

 Museum Adventurers; and 13 completed a third group of four 

 Journeys and became Museum Explorers. Beginning with the 

 Summer Journey, each Journey was made available for three months 

 and thus, with four Journeys presented a year, there is always a 

 Journey scheduled — 1,238 Journeys were completed this year. 



For the first time Raymond Foundation had the help of an 

 Antioch College student (see page 90), Miss Marcia Dun well, who 

 gave able assistance in April, May, and June with the programs in 

 the Museum for students. Her duties ranged from checking coats 

 and lunches and directing the students to their regions of study in 

 the Museum halls to helping with the actual programs. 



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