[UKRAINIAN DIASPORA – GIRLS EDUCATION AND SCOUTING] Plastovi Ispyty Vmilostei v U.P. Iu. Vytiah iz Pravyl'nyka U.P. Iu [Skills tests of the Plast scout in the Union of Young Scouts. An excerpt from the rulebook of the Union of Young Scouts].
New York: Vydala bulava Kraiovoi komandantky plastunok ZDA, 1956. Oblong octavo (14 × 22 cm). Original side-stapled printed green wrappers; 56, [1] pp of hectographed text and illustrations. Very good. Item #55350
An illustrated skills assessment handbook, with guidelines for assessing the competence of “Plast” girl scouts in a variety of tasks and skills. The girls were members of the Union of Young Scouts (ages 11–18) of “Plast”, a patriotic Ukrainian scouting organization which was founded in Lviv in 1911, and continued to operate during WWII and after, in displaced persons camps in Germany, with the introduction to this handbook written in Munich in 1947. After the dispersion of Ukrainian DPs in the early 1950s, many Ukrainians settled in the United States, with this handbook printed in New York. The skills to be tested fall into six categories: physical (swimming, rowing, horse racing), artistic (embroidery, dance, photography), sanitary (hygiene, sanitation, disabled care, childcare), professional skills (typewriting, shorthand, translation), Plast skills (camping, natural science, cooking), practical skills (tailoring, weaving, hairdressing). The handbook introduction notes that the skills would help girls with finding work in “unfavorable and difficult conditions”. The girls who successfully completed each task earned the right to wear an embroidered emblem on the sleeve of their uniform, with the handbook providing hand-drawn illustrations for each emblem.
As of October 2025, not in KVK, OCLC.
Price: €350.00