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Girl Scout Timeline

The first hundred years.

This supplement gives a sampling o the first hundred years o Girl Scout history, plus important

highlights beore the organization began.

This set is a brie timeline only and can be beneficial in planning events or helping review the

highlights o our history.

Inormation or this timeline has come romA Girl Scout Time Line: 1908-2000 rom the Girl

Scouts o Kentuckiana, Highlights in Girl Scouting: 2002-2008, Years of Transformation romGSUSA, and numerous printed and online resources.

There is an additional supplement SUPP_GStimeline_Year.pdfwhich has each years activities

printed on a single sheet o paper. This is to help girls visualize what one hundred years look

like, which is something a mere timeline cannot do.

I you have any adjustments, suggestions or comments to add to this timeline, eel ree to email

me so I can include additional inormation in uture releases.

Thank you.

Laura Rajsic-Lanier

[email protected]


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Girl Scout Timeline

1860 On October 31, Juliette Gordon is born.

1876 Juliette Gordon starts a club called Helpul Hands to use her sewing skillsto help others in need.

1885 Juliette Gordons earache is cured with silver nitrate that destroys mosto her hearing in that ear.

1886 Juliette Gordon marries William Mackay Low. A piece o rice lands in her goodear and the doctor injures her ear removing it. She has no hearing in that earor the rest o her lie.

1887 The Lows move to England rom Savannah, Georgia.

1889 Olave St. Clair Soames is born in Stubbing Court, Chesterfield, England.

1899 A typical housewie spends six hours a day on two taskscooking and cleaning.

1905 William Mackay Low dies, leaving everything to his mistress.

1907 Robert Baden-Powell holds a camp or boys at Brown Sea Island in Dorsetto test his Scouting ideas. Scouting is born.

1908 Lord Robert Baden-Powell ounds Boy Scouting in England.

1909 At a Boy Scout Rally in Crystal Palace, London, girls present themselves askingto participate.

1910 Agnes Baden-Powell (Lord Robert Baden-Powells sister) starts Girl Guidesin England (on request rom Lord Baden-Powell) or a similar organizationor girls.

Agnes adapts the Boy Scouts handbook or use with girls and titles itHow Girls Can Help Their Empire.

1911 Juliette Low is 50 years old when she meets the Baden-Powells duringthe summer and immediately becomes a Girl Guider.

Juliette starts a Girl Guide company (troop) in the Scottish valley where sheis spending the summer. They ocus on activities that can bring money into theamily without working at unsae actories.


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1912 Juliette Low boards a cruise ship with plans o beginning Girl Guides in Americaand heads home to make the dream come true. Lord Baden-Powell boards thesame ship to begin a world tour o visiting Boy Scout units. While on board,Sir Robert meets and becomes engaged to Olave Soames. In December,Sir Robert and Olave marry at a small church in Poole, England. She is 23,he is 55.

Ive got something or the girls o Savannah, and all o America, and all the

world, and were going to start it tonight! On March 12, 1912, Juliette Lowgathers 18 girls to register the first troop o American Girl Guides in Savannah,GA. Margaret Daisy Doots Gordon, her niece and namesake, is the firstregistered member. One hundred eight (108) girls enroll as members ollowingthe first troop meeting.

Six troops orm during this first year, some troops having as many as 60 - 70members. The uniorm is navy blue with a light blue scar.

The Tenderoot Pin, (the treoil), is chosen as the symbol to be used byGirl Guides. The Thanks Badge, an adult award, is introduced.

Camp Juliette Low is established in Georgia the only camp personallyestablished by Juliette Low.

1913 In June, the first national headquarters is located in the Munsey Building,Washington, D.C.

In July, Girl Guides in America is changed to Girl Scouts and the uniormchanges to khaki.

The first Girl Scout handbook, How Girls Can Help Their Country anadaptation o the original Girl Guide book is printed. It is prepared byW. J. Hoxie. The handbook includes proficiency badges, and covers such titlesas Knowledge or Treatment o Snakebite, Ivy Poisoning and Frostbite, Howto Stop a Runaway Horse, and What to Do in Case o Fire.

Edith D. Johnson is employed as the first Girl Scout staf member. Her titlewas National Secretary. This title will eventually evolve to National ExecutiveDirector.

Jessamine Link establishes Magnolia Troop One, the second Girl Scout troopin the United States.

Registration o Girl Scout troops begins.

1914 Olave Baden-Powell learns to drive so she can act as her husbands chaufeur.She also becomes a warranted Scout leader at her home where she starts atroop or their staf.

The Girl Scout treoil is patented and is used on the first membership insignia the Tenderoot badge (pin).

Girl Scout uniorms are manuactured or the first time (by the same companythat manuactures uniorms or Boy Scouts).

Membership has exceeded 1000.


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1915 The Girl Scout organization is incorporated as Girl Scouts o America onJune 10. A Constitution and Bylaws are adopted at the first annual convention,held in Washington, D.C. National o cers are elected and Juliette Low servesas president until 1920.

Juliette sells her pearls to support the Girl Scout Movement.

Annual registration is begun and dues are instituted at 25 a year.

Membership is expanding at a rapid rate and is now at over 5000 in 150 cities.

1916 The first gathering o Girl Guide Commissioners is held in London, England,and Olave Baden-Powell is elected Chie Commissioner o the Girl GuideMovement.

The Girl Scout National Headquarters is moved to New York City. The firstNational Board o Directors is elected at the second National Council session.

The first Brownie troop is organized in the USA (Marblehead, Massachusetts),establishing two registration levels: Brownies (ages 7 - 10) and Girl Scouts(ages 10 - 17). Brownies are oten reerred to as Junior Girl Scouts, and they

do not become an o cial level o Girl Scouting until 1938.

The Golden Eaglet o Merit Award is established as the highest awardGirl Scouts may earn. It retains its status until 1938.

1917 America enters World War I. Girl Scouts are involved in many aspects o aidingthe war efort on the homeront, and they develop new skills that areprogressive or the period. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is elected the first honorarypresident o the Girl Scouts, a tradition that continues today.

The national Equipment Department is organized to meet the demands oruniorms, badges, and other items that are described in the Girl Scouthandbooks.

The first local Girl Scout council charter is issued to Toledo, Ohio (May 6).

The first Girl Scout magazine, The Rally, is published or girls and leaders.

The first National Training School or Girl Scout leaders is established in Boston.

A uniorm or Brownies is introduced - khaki in color and similar in style to theGirl Scout uniorm.

The first troop o physically disabled girls is organized in New York City.

The first troop or Arican American girls was ounded.

There are now approximately 9,000 registered Girl Scouts.


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1918 Olave Baden-Powell is elected Chie Guide o the United Kingdom Girl Guides.She receives the Silver Fish Award, made in gold especially or her.

The Golden Eaglet, the first Girl Scout movie, is made.

Juliette Low adapts the Girl Guiding book written by Sir Robert Baden-Powellinto the first Scouting For Girls handbook.

Design o the Girl Scout pin is adjusted to include the letters GS.

Citizen Scouts or Senior Scouts is proposed or girls over 17.

Membership reaches almost 10,000.

1919 The Golden Eaglet, a black-and-white silent film, premiers in New York CitysFine Arts Theater on January 16th. It is believed to be the first motion pictureproduced by a public service organization.

Lady Baden-Powell ounds the International Council to provide a way to keepin touch with the Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement around the world. The womeno the Council correspond with any country that interests them.

The first celebration o Girl Scout Week takes place beginning on October 31and including the first part o November.

First Blue Book o Rules is published.

The Golden Eaglet Award replaces the Golden Eaglet o Merit Award.(They were diferent.)

Girl Scout membership in the USA has risen to 41,225.

1920 The First International Conerence o Girl Guides and Girl Scouts holds its firstconerence (England). Delegates and visitors rom 15 countries attend. Lord

Baden-Powell is elected Chie Scout o the World.

Taps is introduced at the First International Conerence in Oxord, England.

October 31 (Juliette Lows Birthday) is declared Founders Day. Juliette Lowretires as president o Girl Scouts o America but remains active in theorganization until her death in 1927.

The Rallyis renamed The American Girl, and it continues in publicationuntil 1979.

Camp Andree Clark is established as the first national Girl Scout Camp, BriarClif Manor, NY.

Girl Scouts achieves 100 groups (councils) in 11 states and Hawaii.

Girl Scout membership exceeds 50,000.

1921 The first all-American Scouting For Girls handbook is printed. It will be revisedin 1927 but will not be replaced by an entirely new handbook until 1933.

The Onondaga Reservation Troop, the earliest documented American IndianGirl Scout troop, is established in Syracuse, New York.

National membership dues are raised to 50 cents.

Membership has increased to over 95,000, and Girl Scout councils have beenorganized in every state and in Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico.


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1922 The first American Brownie Girl Scout Pow Wow is held in Maryland markingthe o cial program or younger girls in Girl Scouting.

A magazine named Field News is launched, a monthly bulletin or Girl Scoutleaders. In 1923 it is renamed the Girl Scout Leader. It was originally asupplement to The American Girl.

The first suggestion to bake and sell cookies appears in The American Girl.

The first troop or Mexican Americans is ormed in Houston, Texas.

1923 Formal training is made a requirement or leaders to insure that high leadershipstandards are maintained.

Annual Girl Scout Intestate held at Rice University (Houston), adult coursesinclude Brownie Pack, Beginning Leader Training, Advanced Leader Trainingand Leadership Association.

Design o the Girl Scout pin changes the eagles shield now has seven stars,placed in two rows and seven stripes.

1924 The first World Camp and third World Conerence are held together in theUnited Kingdom. Forty countries are represented.

National headquarters moves to 670 Lexington Avenue in New York City,New York.

The first manuactured uniorm or Brownies is introduced. Its color is brownand it takes on a style o its own.

November 6 Norman Rockwell draws Girl Scout cover or Life Magazine.

1925 The World Association begins publication on a magazine titled The World

Bulletin as a way or WAGGGS members to remain current on happeningswithin the Girl Guide/Girl Scout movements.

V. Everit Macy donates land to be used as a national training school in memoryo his wie. Camp Edith Macy opens in May 1926.

1926 Olave Baden-Powell spends three months touring the USA, visiting Girl Scouts,as well as six months in South Arica.

Camp Edith Macy (later renamed Edith Macy Training School) opens just in timeor the 4th World Conerence to be held there. It is the first World Conerenceheld in the United States. At the conerence the idea o establishing a ThinkingDay (to think good thoughts and to think o one another with love andriendship) is proposed and accepted. February 22 is chosen, as it is thebirthday o both Lord and Lady Baden-Powell.

The Girl Guides Brownies, ounded in 1914, is introduced in the United States togirls 7-9. The first guide or Brownie leaders, Brown Book or Brown Owls, isprinted and distributed, the first Brownie uniorm is put on the market, and thefirst Brownie Wings are produced (and will not be altered until 1935).

Brown Book for Brown Owls is published as the first o cial leaders guideor USA Brownie Scouts.


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1927 On January 17, Juliette Gordon Low dies as a result o breast cancer. She isburied in her uniorm along with the telegram that she received rom the Boardo Directors that she received a ew days earlier that read: You are not only thefirst Girl Scout, but the best Girl Scout o them all. Her grave site is atLaurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah. The Juliette Low World Friendship Fundis established in her memory.

The first group o Girl Scouts goes to an international event in Switzerland.

The World Bulletin is renamed the Council Fire, and it will remain in publicationuntil mid-1983.

A newly-revised Scouting For Girls is released.

In June the first registration o United States Girl Scout Troops on Foreign Soil(its common reerence will become TOFS) takes place. They are establishedin China, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Syria or American girls living in othercountries.

First celebration o Thinking Day, February 22.

1928 The World Association o Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (commonly reerred toas WAGGGS) is ormed, replacing the International Council. A new WorldCommittee is elected by the Association, and the World Bureau is begunin London.

1929 At the World Committee meeting in the Netherlands it is decided to opena World Center in Switzerland.

Girl Scout membership has reached approximately 200,000.

1930 Olave Baden-Powell is elected World Chie Guide. She is also awarded theGrand Dame o the British Empire by King George V. The World Flag design

is adopted.

In the US, long-term planning is recorded in two five-year plans - one to reacha goal o 500,000 members by the end o 1935, and the other to organize thecountry into 12 Girl Scout regions.

The first recorded all-Native American Girl Scout troop is registered at theIndian Boarding School in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

1932 The first World Center, Our Chalet, opens near Adelboden, Switzerland, onJuly 31. The first session (in August) includes girls rom 7 countries, includingthe USA.

Belgian delegates to this years World Conerence suggest giving a penny withtheir thoughts on Thinking Day, and it is the beginning o the Thinking Day Fund.

1933 The 1933 Handbook is the first one that was available in both Braille and largeprint, or vision-impaired Scouts: the American Red Cross provides the Brailleversion, and the National Society or the Prevention o Blindness provides thelarge-print one.


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1934 The Mariner Scout program is o cially launched or older girls interestedin boating and sailing. By the end o 1934, 12 Mariner ships are registered andthe first two handbooks, Launching a Girl Scout Mariner Ship and Chartingthe Course of a Girl Scout Mariner Ship were published. It ends in 1963.

The first documented council-wide cookie sale o commercially baked cookies,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1935 The Brownie Wings are redesigned - a design still in use in 1996.

1936 In March the first international conerence o leaders o disabled Girl Scoutsand Girl Guides is held in London, England.

The Girl Scouts introduce the first nationally-ranchised cookie sale.

1937 A Silver Jubilee Encampment (in celebration o the 25th Anniversary oGirl Scouting) takes place at Camp Andree Clark. It is the first internationalgathering o girls hosted by Girl Scouts o America on US soil. Ninety-nineGirl Scouts rom the United States and 26 Girl Scouts and Girl Guides rom

other countries attend.

Three levels o Girl Scouting are established: Brownie Girl Scouts (ages 7 - 9),Intermediate Girl Scouts (ages 10 - 13), and Senior Girl Scouts (ages 14 -17); andthe first o cial Senior uniorm is produced.

Membership has reached over 400,000.

1938 Olave Baden-Powell makes her first television appearance. She also startsto learn Swahili at a mission in Nyeri.

First Class replaces the Golden Eaglet as the highest earned award.

Over one million boxes o Girl Scout cookies are sold.

The first national Senior Encampment is held in Utah.

1939 The second World Center, Our Ark, opens near Buckingham Palace in London,and it serves as a reuge to those orced to leave their homelands at the onseto World War II. Pennies contributed by Girl Guides and Girl Scouts rom allover the world help to make it possible.

Printing is begun on a Senior Girl Scout Handbook, and the first hal is titledIdeas For Girl Scouts Book.

Safety Wise: Health and Safety Suggestions is published.

Girl Scout membership passes the hal-million mark.


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1940 The Curved Bar replaces the Golden Eaglet as the highest award in GirlScouting (1940-1963). Open only to First Class Girl Scouts, it serves as a bridgeto Senior Girl Scouting. The embroidered arc patch was used at first becauseo metal shortage during the war.

The first Girl Scout troops rom institutions or mentally and socially disabledpeople are registered.

The second hal o the Senior Girl Scout Handbookis printed and is titledPlanning Book For Seniors.

The Irving Berlin Foundation announces that royalties rom the song God BlessAmerica will be allocated to the Girl Scout and Boy Scout organizations.

1941 The United States enters World War II.

Sir Robert Baden-Powell dies on January 8 in Paxtu, Kenya. Lady Baden-Powellcontinues her work with Girl Guiding and is active in the organization until 1970.

The Wing Scout program was a Senior Girl Scout program or girls interested inflying and wanting to serve their country. It ended in the 1970s.

1943 It is recorded that Black Girl Scout membership more than doubled. (Nonumerical statistics are available.)

The first o cial Girl Scout calendar, dated 1944, is produced by the nationalorganization or council and troop undraising in place o cookies, which mostbakers were unable to supply due to war-time rationing o ingredients.

The membership slogan is A Million or More by 44.

1944 It is estimated that more than 250,000 Girl Scout members have enjoyed acamping experience. Conservation and camping are important to Girl Scout

program during the decade.

Girl Scout check or 15,430,000 hours o service given to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

A Liberty Ship, S.S. Juliette Low o the Merchant Marines is launched.

The membership goal is more than obtained with 1,006,644 members.

1945 The first complete Senior handbook, Senior Girl Scouting, and the firstWing Scout Manualare published.

Membership is expanding rapidly, and it is anticipated it will more than doubleby the end o 1950.

1946 Olave Baden-Powell begins world tour to raise unds to assist Guidingand Scouting to resume in Europe ater the war.

The World Badge is adopted at the 11th World Conerence in France.


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1947 Eight girls rom the United States are chosen to participate in the first post-warBoy Scout/Girl Guide/Girl Scout international event. Its theme is olklie, andthe American girls chosen are rom Kentucky. The event involves boys and girlsrom 13 countries and is held in London, England.

The national organization changes its name rom Girl Scouts o America toGirl Scouts o the United States o America, and national dues go up to $1.00.

1948 The 12th World Conerence - the first World Conerence that takes place in theUSA - is held at Cooperstown, NY. Girls rom Canada, Bolivia, and the USAparticipate in a primitive camping event nearby that is visited by the conerencedelegates and Lady Baden-Powell.

First Conerence or Leaders o the Handicapped held in August at CampEdith Macy.

The US Postal Service, authorized by President Harry S. Truman, issues thefirst Girl Scout stamp (a 3-cent stamp) commemorating Juliette Low. Lifemagazine covers the event. 750,000 stamps are sold in Savannah on thefirst day o issue.

1949 WAGGGS pin is introduced in the USA.

Brown remains the color o the Brownie uniorm, and the uniorms orIntermediates, Seniors, and adults take on a greener color.

The Clothes or Friendship project ends with 1,500,000 garments beingshipped overseas to help with the war recovery efort.

Girl Scout membership reaches nearly 1.5 million. By this time approximately6.5 million girls have known the benefits o the Girl Scout organization since itsounding in 1912.

1950 On March 16, Girl Scouts o the USA is reincorporated under CongressionalCharter.

1951 The first Brownie Scout Handbook is published. It is the first handbook writtenor girls; all others beore this issue have been written or leaders.

Girl Scout membership reaches 1,500,000.

1952 Rockwood, in Potomac, Maryland is dedicated as a National Girl Scoutcamping center (1952-1979).

Ebony Magazine Girl Scouts in the South are making steady progress towardbreaking down racial taboos.

1953 Olave Baden-Powell does a lecture tour in the USA, 158 talks in 57 cities.

Site o Our Cabana is acquired by WAGGGS.

Juliette Gordon Lows birthplace in Savannah, Georgia, is purchased by GSUSA.

Annual Girl Scout Week celebration is changed rom October to March.

Membership figures show over 2 million registered Girl Scouts.


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1954 The annual Girl Scout Week celebration is changed permanently romOctober 31 and early November to the week that includes March 12.

Approximately 250 executives and 450 o ce personnel have been hired in thenational headquarters (now located in New York City) and in Girl Scout councilsthroughout the 12 regions.

Juliette Low is honored in Savannah, Georgia, with a school named or her.

1955 Both the Mariner and Wing programs become part o Senior Girl Scouting.

Interest patches are introduced or Senior Girl Scouts. The first five were TrailBlazer, Mountaineer, Mounted, Wing and Explorer. They are discontinuedin 1979.

1956 Our Cabaa, the third World Center, is dedicated on Thinking Day.

The first Senior Roundup, the largest national encampment to date, brings5,000 girls and 1,000 adults together at Pontiac, Michigan. They representevery state and territory in the United States.

The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace (Savannah, GA) is dedicated as a NationalProgram Center or Girl Scouts.

The site where the 8th national headquarters will be built is purchased inNew York City.

One o the first desegregations, is accomplished by Murray Walls in 1956,was Camp Shantituck in Kentucky.

Martin Luther King, Jr. describes Girl Scouts as a orce or desegregation.

1957 The Girl Scout organizations 45th birthday coincides with the 100th

anniversary o Lord Baden-Powells birth.

Our Cabaa o cially opens in Cuernavaca, Mexico as the first world centerin the Western Hemisphere.

National headquarters moves into its new building at 830 Third Street,New York City. It will remain there until 1992.

Girl Scout membership reaches 3 million, the 1960 goal.

1959 Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states.

New quarters are needed or Our Ark, and it is relocated to larger acilitiesin Earls Court, London. It remains in this location until 1990.

The second Senior Roundup is held in Colorado Springs with 10,000 peoplein attendance.

1960 The Centennial year o Juliette Lows birth is celebrated all over theUnited States.


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1962 Girl Scouts around the country celebrate the fitieth Anniversary o GirlScouting.

The Girl Scout Rose and Brownie Girl Scout Marigold are developed to honorGirl Scouts.

The third Senior Roundup is held in Vermont with 10,000 people in attendance.

A 4-cent US postage stamp is issued in celebration o Girl Scouts 50thanniversary.

1963 The second World Center, Our Ark, is renamed Olave House as a tributeto Olave, Lady Baden-Powell.

Under the new program introduced in 1963, the old Intermediate Girl Scoutbadges are divided into two groups to fit the interests and abilities o Juniorand Cadette Girl Scouts. Junior Girl Scout badges (green borders) are aimedat exploration, rather than concentration on any given skill. Cadette Girl Scoutbadges (yellow borders) emphasize intensive work in particular areas ospecialization.

Girl Scouting changes to our levels: Brownies (ages 7-9), Juniors (ages 9-11),Cadettes (ages 12-14) and Seniors (ages 14-17).

First Class replaces the Curved Bar as the highest Girl Scout award (1963-1980).To receive the award, a Cadette Girl Scout had to earn several badges and meetour challenges, each o which is recognized with a pin. A challenge was aselected real lie situation designed to test a girls ability to use knowledge andskill based on Girl Scout ideals and values.

Junior program to include the Sign o the Arrow and the Sign o the Star.

1964 Ryukyu Islands Girl Scout stamp is released to mark the 10th Anniversaryo the Ryukyu Girl Scouts. (Japan)

First Readers Digest Foundation Grants are provided or Senior Girl Scoutsto do community service projects.

1965 A new Saety-Wise is published and it standardizes the expected criteriaor saety or all Girl Scout activities.

1966 Sangam (a Sanskrit word meaning going together) is opened as the ourthWorld Center in Poona (later Pune), India. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts rom all68 WAGGGS member countries attend the opening.

1967 A national conerence or Senior Girl Scouts is held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Itstheme is Girl Scouting Makes the Diference, and its subject is the inner city.

1968 Girl Scout National Center West opens at Ten Sleep, Wyoming, or travelingtroop camping experiences and outdoor events or older girls. Fourteenthousand acres are purchased, and 640 additional acres are donated by theUnited States or the program center.

Campus Girl Scouting is o cially recognized as a level o Girl Scouting orcollege students.


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1969 A national Girl Scout initiative called Action 70 is created that aimed toeliminate prejudice and to build better relations.

Eco Action, a nationwide environmental education and improvement project,is launched.

130 Senior Girl Scouts rom across the country are invited by NASA to viewthe Apollo 12 moon shot at Cape Kennedy, FL.

National membership dues are raised to $2.00.

Membership reaches an all-time high o 3,900,000.

1970 30 millionth member o GSUSA is registered.

1971 Accident insurance or Girl Scouts is introduced and included as a benefito membership.

A publication, Runways, describing national wider opportunities or older girlsis issued or the first time. This magazine is renamed Wider Ops in the late

1980s.

Pants become part o the o cial adult uniorm or the first time.

1972 Ryukyu Girl Scouts are united with Japanese organization, ater the returno the Island to Japan.

New wording o the Girl Scout Promise and Law are adopted. The law becameone sentence, ocusing more on the qualities expected o every human being,and not just a woman. The last change to the law prior to 1972 was in 1917.

Eight new Cadette Challenges are introduced.

1973 Portrait o Juliette Low is presented to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Brownie membership o cially includes first-graders (6-year-olds) or thefirst time.

Brownie Bs are introduced.

1974 Bust o Juliette Low is placed in Georgias Hall o Fame.

TheDaisymagazine begins publication or Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts.

Girl Scout membership shows its first decline and recedes to 3,291,000.

1975 The World Association o Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting adopts theThinking Day symbol.

The National Council a rms that Girl Scout membership will continueto be open only to girls.

Gloria D. Scott becomes the first Arican-American National Girl ScoutPresident.

Over 123 million boxes o Girl Scout Cookies are sold.


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1976 Edith Macy National Center celebrates 50th Anniversary with more than150 Girl Scouts (14-17) serving as delegates.

1977 Olave Baden-Powell dies, and her autobiography,A Window On My Heart,is printed.

The Worlds To Explore program theme is introduced with the new Brownie

and Junior combined handbook. The Five Worlds o Interest in Girl Scoutingare introduced well being, today and tomorrow, outdoors, arts and people.

Junior Aide patch and Bridge to Juniors are introduced.

1978 A new Girl Scout Treoil design is introduced to present a contemporary image.Because o requests rom adult members, the traditional treoil pin is continuedin order that members may individually choose which treoil design they preerto wear.

From Dreams to Reality, a career exploration project or Cadette and Senior GirlScouts is published.

1979 Juliette Gordon Low is installed in the Womens Hall o Fame inSeneca Falls, NY.

The final issue o The American Girlis published in the spring.

1980 Girl Scouts o the USA breaks ground or Edith Macy Conerence Center,a year-round, residential, multipurpose training and educational acility. Theorganization initiates a capital campaign to raise the $10 million needed tocontinue building the center.

First Class is discontinued, and the Girl Scout Gold Award or Seniors isintroduced as the highest award Girl Scouts can earn. The Silver Award

is the highest or Cadettes.

Sign o the Rainbow, Sign o the Star, Sign o the Satellite and Bridgeto Cadettes is introduced into the Girl Scout program.

Membership decreases to 2,784,000.

1981 The last issue o Daisymagazine is published.

Girl Scout membership increases or the first time in nearly a decadeto 2,829,000.

1982 The World Association decides to build a new center that will replace OlaveHouse and that will include the World Bureau as well, thereby realizinga long-standing dream o Olave Baden-Powell o having the two acilities sideby side. Girl Scouts and Girl Guides become a part o und-raising or the newcenter by buying bricks (at 10 cents per brick) or the new buildings.

Edith Macy Conerence Center opens, replacing Edith Macy Training Center.The new center will accommodate both Girl Scout and proessionalnon-Girl Scout groups.

April 22 is designated Girl Scout Leader Day. This is the first yearit is celebrated.

Lietime memberships are ofered to adults or the first time.


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1983 A ederal building in Savannah, GA is named ater Juliette Low. It is the secondederal building in the US to be named ater a woman.

The final issue o Council Fire is published.

1984 The 25th World Conerence is held at Marymount College in Terrytown,New York. It is only the second World Conerence held in the US, and girls

rom across the country are selected to entertain the delegates throughoutthe conerence.

Girl Scout membership expands to include Daisy Girl Scouts (age 5), therebybeginning five levels o Girl Scouting.

Delegates vote to change the wording o the Girl Scout Promise.

1985 Girl Scout Troops On Foreign Soil is renamed USA Girl Scouts Overseas.

The first booklet in a series o program resources on contemporary issues ispublished by GSUSA. It is titled Tune In To Well-Being: Say NO To Drugs.Booklets are added periodically, and by 1993 there are 11 booklets in the series.

1986 The spacecrat Challenger exploded, killing all seven astronauts, includingschool teacher and ormer Girl Scout, Sharon Christa McAulife.

Brownie Girl Scout Try-Its are introduced.

Contemporary issues resource, Staying Safe, Preventing Child Abuse,is introduced.

Sign o the World is introduced into the Junior program.

1987 WAGGGS now includes 108 member countries.

Girl Scouting celebrates its 75th Anniversary. The theme is Tradition with aFuture. By this time, Girl Scouting has shaped the lives o over 52 million girlsand women since its inception.

A third US Postal Service commemorative stamp (22-cent) is issued to honorthe worlds largest voluntary organization or girls.

1989 The National Historic Preservation Center opens at National Headquarters.

National Center West in Ten Sleep, Wyoming is closed.

1990 The 27th World Conerence in Singapore is attended by Eastern Bloc countries,most o which had been orced out o World Association membership byAdolph Hitler beore World War II or by their political change to Communism.

Girl Scout membership has increased to 3,268,630, and membership duesincrease to $6.00.


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1991 There are now 118 member countries in WAGGGS, including the reinstatemento Czechoslovakia - one o the ounding members o the World Association -which had resigned its membership when it became a Communist country.

The newly-built Pax Lodge (named or the Latin word meaning peace) andOlave Center open in London, replacing Olave House and the World Bureau.

Earth Education programs introduced.

1992 Girl Scouts o the United States o America celebrates its 80th Anniversary.

Juliette Low is honored as one o the first Georgia Women o Achievementand a bust o her is displayed in the State Capitol.

GSUSA moves its o ces to a location not ar rom site o the first New Yorknational headquarters o ce in 1916.

Pilot program began at the Maryland Correctional Institution or Womenor the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program.

New wording or Girl Scout law is adopted, adding in courageous and strong.

Girl Scout membership increases to nearly 3.5 million. The largest adultmembership in the history o the organization is recorded this year. Onein every nine girls ages 5 - 17 is a Girl Scout.

1993 The 28th World Conerence is held in Denmark. There are now 128 membercountries in WAGGGS.

The National Council Meeting is held in Minneapolis, MN and the delegates voteto allow the word God in the Promise to be substituted - in recitation - oranother spiritual word that is appropriate to an individuals religious belies,thereby making the Promise applicable to all religions. The wording o thePromise will continue to contain God as representation o higher spiritual

guidance.

New Daisy and Brownie resources are introduced. For the first time Daisy girlsbooks are available - Who Is A Daisy Girl Scout?/The Story of Juliette Lowand My Daisy Girl Scout Activity Scrapbook.

GSUSA collaborates with Scholastic, Inc. to publish a new magazine, G*I*R*L*,appropriate or Junior and Cadette age levels. The magazine is introducedat the National Council Meeting, and the first issue o the magazine is printedin 1994.

Good Housekeeping presents its first Seal o Community Service to GSUSA.

1994 WAGGGS is included in the first world-wide conerence or women heldin Beijing; an International Year o the Family award is presented to WAGGGS.

GSUSA emphasizes a strategy toward institutionalizing pluralism inGirl Scouting through a Think Tank module (introduced in 1993).

New Junior program resources and uniorms are introduced.


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1995 The World Association combines eforts to aid in a worldwide Peace Packproject. Girl Scouts and Girl Guides gather supplies or use by children inreugee camps around the world.

New resources and uniorms or Cadettes and Seniors are introduced;handbooks are printed separately or each age level.

Health issues take the oreront in GSUSA initiatives, and sports, fitness,

and nutrition are emphasized. The first Be Your Best Day is held.

1996 The 29th World Conerence is held in Nova Scotia, Canada, and there arenow 136 member countries in WAGGGS. Special assistance is ofered toRussian countries ollowing the reconstruction o the United Soviet SocialistRepublic.

Girl Scoutings 47th National Council Session is held in Fort Worth, TXand delegates vote to adopt new wording or the Girl Scout Law. Nationalmembership dues are increased to $7.00.

Publications on science and technology are introduced, and Girl Scoutingplaces an emphasis on encouraging girls to explore the sciences. Emphases

are also being placed on gender issues and literacy.

GSUSA establishes new wording or the Law.

The GSUSA web site (www.gsusa.org) debuts.

G*I*R*L* magazine is discontinued ater 1.5 years o publication.

New, separate handbooks or Cadettes and Seniors are published.

Membership shows an upswing and reaches over 3,340,000.

1997 Girl Scouts rom all across the United States meet on the mall

in Washington, DC, to sing songs in honor o 85th anniversary.

New interest project book or Cadette and Seniors is published, stressingcommunity service and career exploration in every badge.

Girl Scouts continues to be the largest voluntary organization or girlsin the world.

1998 Post O ce issues a stamp honoring Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts (32-cents).

Membership includes over 2.5 million girls and 800,000 adult members.

1999 The 30th World Conerence takes place in Dublin, Ireland. There are now140 member countries in WAGGGS. Plans to open a World Center on theArican Continent are postponed due to political unrest.

A new honorary troop is ormed consisting o women members o Congress.The event celebrated the act that two-thirds o all the emale members oCongress serving today are ormer Girl Scouts.

Girl Scout membership exceeds 3.7 million.


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2000 New publications or Daisy and Brownie age levels are available. A Daisyearned patch program is introduced (petals).

The Girl Scout Research Institute launches its first study, Girls Speak Out: TeensBefore Their Time, which ound that contemporary pre-teen girls were maturingaster mentally and physically, but not emotionally, than previous generations.

Safety-Wise is rewritten, the first major revision since 1990.

2001 Cadette/Senior uniorms change rom royal blue to khaki, light blue blouseor Cadettes, navy blue blouse or Seniors.

Bronze Award or Junior Girl Scouts is introduced, the highest awardor Junior Girl Scouts.

Independent Girl Scouts are now called Juliettes.

2002 At the Girl Scout 90th Anniversary, the first National Women o Distinctionhonors more than 1,100 guests.

Uniquely ME! The Girl Scout / Unilever sel-esteem program is launched.

2003 The Online Council Networks Idea Exchange launches in June 2003, givingGirl Scout councils and GSUSA staf a way to swap inormation and discusspertinent issues with one another, anywhere, any time.

The Hispanic Initiative succeeds in bringing the Girl Scout messageto more Latinas.

The Studio 2B program or girls aged rom 11 up to 17 is introduced throughCadettes and Seniors. This eatures Focus Books and Charms, breaking awayrom traditional badges.

Total girl and adult membership Is 3,854,202.

2004 Major renovations o the Juliette Gordon Low Girl Scout National Centerare completed in Savannah.

Girl Scouts o cially launches the Core Business Strategy to reinvigoratethe Girl Scout Movement.

GSUSA launches its first online undraising campaign.

The first Spanish-language GSUSA Web site goes live.

2005 A commemorative, bronze and granite medallion is placed in Juliette Lowshonor on the Washington D.C. Extra Mile Points o Light Volunteer Pathwaywhich pays tribute to great Americans who built their dreams into movementsthat have endured.

More than 25,000 girls are served by grantunded initiatives that includeGirl Scouts in Detention Centers, Girls in Public Housing, Girls in Rural Outreach,and P.A.V.E. (Project Anti-Violence Education).

Corporate Web site use jumps up 74% (comparing peak months); the averagetime users are online increases rom 6-8 minutes to 12 minutes.

GSUSA begins core restructure, with the major merging o Councils into

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2006 Fity-two percent o councils are slated or realignment, bringing the numbero Girl Scout councils rom 312 to 112 by 2011.

New Girl Scout Leadership Development Model defines what girls do inGirl Scouting and lays the ground work or discover, connect, and take actionand lead with courage, confidence, and character.

2007 Girl Scouts Alumnae Association begins registering and reconnectingthe estimated 50 million ormer Girl Scouts.

Girl Scout cookie program is 90 years old and holds strong as Americasleading business and economic literacy program or girls.

Girl Scout Research Institute starts quarterly e-newsletters.

2008 Transorming Leadership: Focusing on Outcomes o the New Girl ScoutLeadership Experience introduces the 15 leadership outcomes or thethree keys.

All levels are changed to have Girl Scouts as the beginning o their name,

e.g. Girl Scout Brownies instead o Brownie Girl Scouts, and all levels areby grade only instead o by age or grade.

A new level, Girl Scout Ambassadors is created or older girls. This is thesixth level or Girl Scouts including Girl Scout Daisy (Grades K-1), Girl ScoutBrownie (Grades 2-3), Girl Scout Junior (Grades 4-5), Girl Scout Cadette(Grades 6-8), Girl Scout Senior (Grades 9-10) and Girl Scout Ambassador(Grades 11-12).

Dairy Queen ofers Thin Mint blizzards or the first time in July. It also inspiresa shoe and backpack collection.

The first series o Leadership Journeys,Its Your WorldChange It! Isintroduced. Books include the Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden, Brownie

Quest,Agent of Change!, aMAZE!, GIRLtopia and Your Voice, Your World.

Girl Scout Daisies take part in the Girl Scout Cookie Program or the first time.

2009 President Barack Obama signs the Girl Scouts o the USA CommemorativeCoin Act or the 100th Anniversary celebration. The act authorizes theminting o 350,000 silver dollar coins in honor o Girl Scouts and theachievements o the 50 million women influenced by Girl Scouting duringthe last 100 years.

The second series o Leadership Journeys, Its Your PlanetLove It. is released.

2010 GSUSA announces its new branding initiative to convey the Girl Scoutso today. It includes updating the logo, color schemes, and more.

5 Skills in Action becomes part o the cookie program goal setting, decisionmaking, money management, people skills and business ethics.

2011 The third Leadership Journey Its Your StoryTell It! is released.

The Girls Guide to Girl Scouting is released or all levels, providing a unifiedprogram or all girls. While Daisies earn petals and leaves, all other levelsearn badges.

2012 Happy 100th Anniversary Girl Scouts!

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