Girl Scout Oral History project 1996 Interviews cover scouting in the 1930s-1950s.

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Girl Scout Oral History project 1996 Interviews cover scouting in the 1930s-1950s.

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Erica Hill completed this Girl Scout oral history project in the summer of 1996 and was given the highest scout honor, the Gold Award, for her work. The project includes 3 interviews with former scouts and their reminiscences of scouting from the 1930s-1950s.

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...

Hill, Erica

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