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Girl Scouts of America Troop 352

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  • This 1965 photograph, taken by Asheville Citizen-Times photographer Ewart McKinley Ball, Jr. (1918-1966), shows Girl Scouts of America Troop 352 singing in Hubert Hayes Memorial Log Cabin. Girls from left to right: Glenda Leatherwood, Jami Blythe, Judy Wynes, Kay McCall, Shirley Henderson, and Saudia Saunders. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University.