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Individual Girl Scouts were known in the early years of Girl Scouting as Lone Scouts and later as Juliettes; they attend activities independently and work individually on badges and awards. In 2015–2016, the term Juliette was phased out at the national level, in favor of the term Independent Girl Scouts, although some councils still use the ...
1.1 Early history (1908–1950) ... In 1970, the former ... 19] Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania was created by a merger on April 28, 2007 between the Girl Scouts ...
The Girl Scouts of America was established in Des Moines, Iowa by Clara A. Lisetor-Lane in 1910. [5] In 1911, the GSA and the Girl Guides (Spokane, Washington) planned to merge with the Camp Fire Girls to form the Girl Pioneers of America, [6] but relationships fractured and the merger failed. [5]
1940s through the 1970s. The next few decades saw major changes in how and what the Girl Scouts sold. The shortage of ingredients during war times meant the girls had to pivot to sell calendars ...
The Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys announced in July 2012 that they would be selling Girl Scout cookies for $4 per box, the Star Tribune reported. Linda B. Keene, CEO of the ...
While boys were invited to Camp Fire Girls Horizon Conferences in the late 1960s and early 1970s, official membership was not offered to them until 1975, when the organization became co-ed. Camp Fire decided that boys and girls should be together in one organization, so that they learn to play and work alongside each other and appreciate their ...
Holloway was the first African-American employed by the Girl Scouts in Middle Tennessee. In the 1976 celebration of the US bicentennial, she was given the "Hidden Heroine" award. [ 4 ] In 1991, the Girl Scout headquarters opened the Josephine G. Holloway Historical Collection and Gallery.
Current Fortune 500 CEOs who are Girl Scouts alumnae ... spent several years as a Girl Scout in the early 1970s. ... Plus, every female secretary of state in U.S. history was a Girl Scout or Girl ...