Dawn and Mary Anne became friends soon after Dawn moved here, and soon after that they discovered that their parents had been high school sweethearts! Mary Anne's dad and Dawn's mom started to date again, and before long they were married. Isn't that a romantic story?

Dawn, by the way, is the BSCs alternate officer. That means she can fill in whenever any other officer can't make it to a meeting. For example, on Friday she'd take over Stacey's job.

Dawn has long, long pale blonde hair (it's almost white, really) and big blue eyes. She dresses in this way cool casual style, and she is very mellow and laid back. She's also a health-food nut, and will not touch any of the snacks that Claudia provides. Instead, she usually brings an apple or some stone-ground wheat crackers to our meetings.

When Dawn moved here, she moved into this neat old farmhouse with a secret passage and maybe even a ghost. Now Mary Anne and her dad live there too. But unfortunately, Dawn's brother does not live there. Jeff just couldn't adjust to life in Stoneybrook, and he ended up going back to California to live with

his dad. Dawn misses him like crazy, but she understands. She wasn't nuts about Connecticut, either, when she first arrived. She hated the snowy cold weather for one thing. But I think being part of the BSC has made all the difference, and now Dawn considers Stoneybrook her home (or one of her homes).

I haven't told you yet about the treasurer of the BSC. that’s Stacey, the one I was going to New York with. She's a math whiz, so her job is a breeze for her. She keeps track of the money in our treasury, and also collects our dues. We pay dues every Monday, and even though it's just a small amount we always give Stacey a hard time. We hate to part with our money, and she loves to collect it and save it up! She likes the idea of having a little "nest egg" set aside for a rainy day, but we always end up spending what we save. For one thing, we pay Kristy's older brother to drive her to meetings, since she now lives too far away to walk to Claud's. We also use it to buy stuff like Magic Markers and stickers for our Kid-Kits. And once in a while, we have a pizza bash — that is, if we can worm the money out of Stacey!