Once a scout, forever a scout

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Marie Rypáčková was born on July 16, 1950, in Jičín. Her family ran into problems as it consisted of many self-employed persons, scouts and members of the Sokol organisation. Her uncle Jan Drahota was sentenced to death in a political trial, later the sentence was mitigated. After his release his home served as a meeting point for former political prisoners. In the late 1960s, she and her mother Marie Mazánková renewed the girl scout unit in Mladá Boleslav. She continued to lead the unit even after it was integrated under the Pioneer banner. She studied Faculty of Electrotechnology at Czech Technical University. In 1989 she contributed to the reopening of the scout centre in Mladá Boleslav.