[UKRAINIAN SCOUTING AND CHILDREN’S EDUCATION IN EXILE] Vohon' orlynoi rady. Kruh bratchykiv i sestrychok. [Fire of the Eagle Council: Circle of brothers and sisters]. Vols. I, nos. 4, 6, 7; vol. II, no. 8 (1952–1953.
New York; Toronto: Soiuz ukrains'kykh plastuniv, 1951–1953. Oblong octavos (17.5 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled mimeographed wrappers; 60 to 90 mimeographed pp. per volume. Illustrations. No. 4 in contemporary card boards, with original wrappers preserved. Light soil and creasing to wrappers of no. 6; no. 8 lacking rear wrapper. Overall about very good. Item #55332
Four issues (of 11 published) of this magazine intended for training the junior leaders of the “Plast” boy and girl scouts, edited by the leader of the Junior Scout Division (UPN) Theodosii Samotulka. A Ukrainian scouting organization “Plast” was founded in Lviv in 1911, and continued to operate during WWII and subsequently in displaced persons camps in Germany, and in the diaspora. Samotulka, who wrote for the magazine under the pseudonym “Satry orel” (Old eagle) started publishing this magazine in a DP camp in Munich in 1948. “One of the reasons for the rapid and successful development of junior scouts was that from the outset great emphasis was placed on the proper training of their scout leaders. Based on the methods he developed in the VSUM leader training camp in Kosiv, in January 1944, Samotulka created a program development board called Rada Orlnoho Kruha” (See: Orest Subtelny, Plast Ukrainian Scouting a Unique Story, pp. 133). The magazine issues contain essays on child pedagogy, history and culture of Ukraine, as well as history of the Ukrainian scouting movement. The volumes also contain hands-on materials and activities for use by scout youth leaders such as songs (with musical notation), dances, games, poems and short stories to be read out loud. Some materials are accompanied with hand-drawn illustrations such as instructions for making costumes for a Christmas party, creating scouting insignia, building toy boats or planes, as well as illustrated instructions on identifying animal footprints. Printed in a small print run of 200 copies and distributed internally, the periodical ceased publication with Vol. 11 in 1955.
As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show copies of these volumes at one institution worldwide, in North America.
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