Girl Scout Council of Wyoming records, 1931-2005
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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...
Girl Scout Council of Wyoming
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Girl Scouts of America was a youth organization founded in 1912 as a counterpart to Boy Scouts of America. Its purpose was to promote character and self-esteem in young women. The organization sought to develop leadership skills in girls and to model leadership by women in its own structure. In 2006 there were 312 individual councils in the United States which were re-structured by the National Board of Directors into 109 councils, at which point the Girl Scout Councils of Wyoming and Montana we...
