RUNAROUND SUE BACK HOME BEARING GIFTS.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Runaround run·a·round n. 1. Informal Deception, usually in the form of evasive excuses. 2. Printing Type set in a column narrower than the body of the text, as on either side of a picture. Sue, a little stuffed bear with a big message, arrived home this week by Federal Express after spending nine months on the road shrinking the country down to kid size. By the looks of her, Sue received an ambassador's reception on her Girl Scout Brownie Troop tour from Northridge to Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Hawaii, Texas, New York Texas is a hamlet in Oswego County, New York, USA, near the southeastern corner of Lake Ontario. It is officially part of the town of Mexico. Geography Texas lies on Little Salmon Creek, about one-half mile above the mouth of that stream on Lake Ontario, on an east-west , and Colorado. She came home wearing a lei from Hawaii, a cowboy hat from Texas, and wrapped in a Girl Scout blanket from Las Vegas with a snapshot of Sue riding on a float in a Christmas Day parade in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The bear had been a big hit. She went out Parcel Post parcel post, sending of packages through the mail service. At the congress of the Universal Postal Union in Paris in 1878, an international parcel-post system was established. last September in one box, and came home Fed Ex in two boxes - one for her and her crammed cram v. crammed, cram·ming, crams v.tr. 1. To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff. 2. To fill too tightly. 3. a. To gorge with food. backpack, and one for all the pictures, postcards, gifts, and mementos from hundreds of little girls in five states. Yeah, Runaround Sue got around alright - shinking the size of this country down to kid size for some 7- and 8-year0old girls from Brownie Troop 101 in Northridge. I like this little story because it delivers big things - simple, good things that we should pause and reflect on sometimes to help balance out the shotgun of negative news we get blasted with everyday. The story of Runaround Sue delivers the kind of message most adults want kids involved in group activities to learn, whether they're playing in youth sport's leagues or joining scouting and fellowship organizations for boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. . A message that kids are kids no matter where they live, how they look, or what their daddies or moms do for a living. Sometimes we get a little sidetracked on that concept because we're so busy dissecting dis·sect tr.v. dis·sect·ed, dis·sect·ing, dis·sects 1. To cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study. 2. this country, separating south from north and east from west and writing about all the perceived differences between the races, sexes and religions. Then you hear about a stuffed bear named Sue hitting the road and getting little girls in Northridge corresponding with little girls in other states - finding out they've got plenty in common, no matter what anybody says or writes to the contrary. They laugh and giggle at the same things, they enjoy earning badges and being part of their Brownie troop, and they all love and want to hold a stuffed bear from California named Runaround Sue. This message was all part of the lesson plan that mothers Fedelia Hennings and Cheryl Noda, co-leaders of Brownie Troop 101, mapped out for the girls in their troop last September. But they never imagined in their wildest dreams that it would succeed so grandly, and leave such a deep impression on the minds of so many little girls all over this country. ``By staying with Brownie troops from all over, Sue allowed our girls to meet hundreds of other little girls they would never have met, allowed them to share their feelings with each other by postcard and scrapbooks, and develop long-distance friendships,'' Hennings said. Allowed them, in nine short months, to shrink a big country down to kid size. Caring, sharing, and peoples of the world. Those were the badges the Northridge girls of Brownie Troop 101 girls were trying to earn last September when they threw the big bon voyage party for Runaround Sue. Sue's backpack was crammed with snapshots, a scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. , disposable cameras, letters and mementos the girls wanted other Brownies to share when she arrived in their state to pay a visit. ``We had contacted the Girl Scout councils in five states to get in touch with individual Brownie troops to see if they wanted Sue to visit,'' Hennings said. ``We were amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. at the response. So many troops wrote us back saying they couldn't wait.'' So off went Sue, parcel post, with an itinerary also in her back pack so each troop knew where to ship her next after their visit was over. ``Each of the troops was asked to write about itself in Sue's journal, and send along swatches, pictures and postcards of their own to share with us,'' Hennings said. On Thursday afternoon, Troop 101 threw a homecoming party for Runaround Sue in Room 6 at Beckford Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Northridge. The held and hugged their mascot, glad to have her back. They read the letters and postcards from Brownies just like them living 3,000 miles away - and they giggled at all the funny pictures Runaround Sue had taken of her on her goodwill tour. The little bear has traveled this country by parcel post and Fed Ex - shrinking it down to kid size. MEMO: Dennis McCarthy's column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Brownie Troop 101 look through the items received fr om other around the country Thursday. David Sprague/Daily Days |
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