Legacy Pearls was founded in 2015 as a tribute to individuals who exemplify excellence in Girl Scout leadership. The members of Legacy Pearls helped grow Girl Scouting within the Council boundaries into the forward-thinking organization we see today by their personal examples of integrity, dedication, mentorship, confidence, character, and/or visionary insight.
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Dr. Martha Housholder
Coleen Dyson
Sandy Remsberg
Jane Pracht Lambertz
Jan Chandler Randle
Dee Rolph
Marge Kirby
Jayne Sheils Smith
Beverly Fiedler
Shirley Mosher
Dolores Collins Crum
Joann Kamas
Gladys Wiedemann
Bertha Milbank
Carrie May Carson
Edna Mae Deines
Dr. Martha Housholder
Coleen Dyson
Sandy Remsberg
Jane Pracht Lambertz
Jan Chandler Randle
Dee Rolph
Marge Kirby
Jayne Sheils Smith
Beverly Fiedler
Shirley Mosher
Dolores Collins Crum
Joann Kamas
Gladys Wiedemann
Bertha Milbank
Carrie May Carson
Edna Mae Deines
Martha Selfridge Housholder began her Girl Scout journey as a first grader at Alcott School in 1952. Her troop leaders were her mother and Ruth Keesling. She remembers attending Brownie Day Camp at Little House in Riverside Park and camping at Seikooc Camp the first year it was open in 1954. She was a Cadette Scout at Robinson Junior High and a Senior Scout at East High school under troop leader Sally Foose. She first camped at Weidemann Camp in 1964, where Gladys Weidemann came to visit the camp with them. However, her favorite camp experiences were at Turkey Creek Camp. She also worked as a Museum Guide at Cowtown Museum under Mrs. Kirby from 1962-1964 and received her Curved Bar in 1964. Martha was the leader of a Cadette Troop from Central Junior High in Lawrence during her four years of college at KU. She remembers this as particularly meaningful as it was an economically disadvantaged neighborhood where the girls would not have been able to experience the natural world through camping without the troop.
After college, she was one of only eight women matriculated into KU Medical School. On the day she graduated from Medical School, she married Daniel Housholder. After completing an internship and one year of Internal Medicine residency they headed to Norfolk, VA where Dan would be stationed as a radiologist for his mandatory two years of service in the Navy. Martha wrote all of the dermatology residency programs in a 200 mile radius and fortunately, Johns Hopkins University had a dermatology residency spot available for her. After his military service, Dan joined her at Johns Hopkin and they welcomed their son, David. She then joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins, where she ran a Syphilis clinic and practiced dermatopathology.
In 1978, with 1 year old David and daughter Anne coming soon, they moved back to Wichita where Martha joined the Dermatology Clinic, PA where she and Marlene Mendiones, MD had to lobby the senior male partners for several years before she was allowed to buy in as a partner in 1984. In 2004 she became the sole owner of the practice, and she intends to continue to provide excellent medical dermatology and dermatopathology for the foreseeable future.
In 1986 she became her the troop leader for her daughter Anne’s troop, with her co-leader Marilyn Hulnick. The troop went to summer camps at Little House and Seikooc and spent weekends troop camping at Seikooc and Weidemann.
Martha served on the Wichita Area Girl Scouts Board of Directors in the 1990s during the capital campaign to build the new headquarters. She has served on the boards of the Wichita Area Boy Scouts, The Wichita Symphony, Old Cowtown Museum, the YWCA, and the Tack Flute Award, among others. She often cites her Girl Scout training as the ideal preparation for her over 30 trips to Africa and Asia to teach medical missionaries, which were often quite rustic particularly when she began in 1984. Missionaries have asked her for her packing lists because of their thoroughness, which she claims is due to her deep belief in the Girl Scout motto, Be Prepared. While in Kenya, she visited Paxtu and the graves of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, founders of international scouting. Martha Housholder, MD is a life-long girl scout and lives out the best ideal of girl scouting through and through.
Dr. Martha Housholder
Coleen Dyson
Sandy Remsberg
Jane Pracht Lambertz
Jan Chandler Randle
Dee Rolph
Marge Kirby
Jayne Sheils Smith
Beverly Fiedler
Shirley Mosher
Dolores Collins Crum
Joann Kamas
Gladys Wiedemann
Bertha Milbank
Carrie May Carson
Edna Mae Deines
