For 62 years Girl Scouting has grown and survived in the communities of our Nation. not as a selfcentered group seeking its own virtues but as an organization which reaches out to other groups and individuals as partners in the business of making this a better world. The activities of the Girl Scouts are truly innovative. They still hike. camp. and learn some basic home management skills. but they are also involved in programs which aid the disadvantaged children in the innercity areas and migrant labor camps. they work with handicapped children and they assist the elderly. Their councils conduct drug education programs and enlist the aid of civic and service groups to make local communities aware of the opportunity and the need for effective action against drug abuse. The cooperative effort between the Girl Scouts and communities takes as many different forms as there are Scout troops.