And I’ve been doing that for about 40 years. I primarily train leaders in outdoor skills. What sort of Scouting work is typical for individuals like you who remain a Girl Scout into their adulthood?Īmong other things, I am an adult learning facilitator - what we used to call trainers. This interview has been lightly edited and condensed. Xpress sat down with Smith over Girl Scout cookies to discuss her Scout work over the years, the lifetime achievement award and her favorite camping spot in the area. Additionally, Smith meets weekly via Zoom with the Girl Guide Trefoil Guild in Aberdeen, Scotland, presenting programs on topics including her 80-plus-year history with the organization. Smith is also active in the Trefoil Guild of Western North Carolina, a group of adult Girl Scouts who meet regularly for fun, fellowship and service. To this day, Smith remains a Girl Scout, working as a member of the Council Archives Committee, helping to collect, catalog and display Girl Scout memorabilia. Both my sons are Eagle Scouts, and my husband was a scoutmaster for 11 years.” “Both my girls went as far as they could in Girl Scouts. Decades later, in 1980, Smith and her husband purchased her childhood home, where the two raised their own family. Smith’s parents, the Lashleys, moved to Arden in 1936. “We didn’t actually learn to fly, but we learned all about flight and about planes - the parts of planes, why they could fly and that sort of thing. “Our leader was a flying instructor,” she remembers. But she says she had the most fun as a Wing Scout. Later, she became a Girl Scout Mariner and learned about water activities. entered World War II, Smith was an established Girl Scout. I don’t remember my Brownie leader at all, but that’s a funny coincidence.”īy the time the U.S. Smiling, she says, “And my husband’s name was John. Years later, she found an old membership card from that time and discovered that her leader’s name was Mrs. Barbara Smith, winner of the Girl Scouts of the Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Juliette Gordon Low Lifetime Achievement Award, began her journey with the organization as a Brownie in 1938.

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