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Girl Scouts in 1920 from a 4x5 in glass negative. From the National Photo Company
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Girl Scouts in 1920 from a 4x5 in glass negative. From the National Photo Company

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Darraugh is a 2011 Young Woman of Distinction for making a video and documenting voices of Holocaust survivors before they are gone forever.

Girl Guides circa 1910’s 1909 - Following the creation of the Boy Scout Association, Robert Baden-Powell organized a gathering of Scouts at the Crystal Palace in London, the first Boy Scout Ralley. A significant number of self-styled Girl Scouts attended the event seeking to imitate their brothers and join in with the Scouting phenomenon. They requested that Baden-Powell offer ‘something for girls too’. Robert Baden-Powell publishes “Pamphlet A: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls” and “Pamphlet B: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls”. These were precursors to the Girl Guide handbook.
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Girl Guides circa 1910’s

1909 - Following the creation of the Boy Scout Association, Robert Baden-Powell organized a gathering of Scouts at the Crystal Palace in London, the first Boy Scout Ralley. A significant number of self-styled Girl Scouts attended the event seeking to imitate their brothers and join in with the Scouting phenomenon. They requested that Baden-Powell offer ‘something for girls too’.

Robert Baden-Powell publishes “Pamphlet A: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls” and “Pamphlet B: Baden-Powell Girl Guides, a Suggestion for Character Training for Girls”. These were precursors to the Girl Guide handbook.

Juliette Low and her first Girl Scouts.
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Juliette Low and her first Girl Scouts.

Girl Scout Troop,  (?) Alaska, c. 1946-1955.
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Girl Scout Troop,  (?) Alaska, c. 1946-1955.

Marin County Girl Scout Hospital Aides 1947 After completing a set number of hours in training, the girls would receive their Hospital Aide patch to sew onto their pinafore. This patch was offered from late 1945 until 1952. Some programs also offered a “capping” ceremony, where the girls would receive a nurse’s cap to wear while working.   Activities included assisting with ward duties such as feeding patients, or clerical or secretarial work, messenger service, making surgical supplies, care of hospital equipment, clean and make beds, carrying trays and making dressings.After 1952, Senior Girl Scouts working as hospital aides would wear the Senior Scout Service patch. In 1953  “program bars” were offered for uniformed wear, color-coded to the type of service given. Hospital Aides wore a red bar.
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Marin County Girl Scout Hospital Aides 1947


After completing a set number of hours in training, the girls would receive their Hospital Aide patch to sew onto their pinafore. This patch was offered from late 1945 until 1952. Some programs also offered a “capping” ceremony, where the girls would receive a nurse’s cap to wear while working.
 
Activities included assisting with ward duties such as feeding patients, or clerical or secretarial work, messenger service, making surgical supplies, care of hospital equipment, clean and make beds, carrying trays and making dressings.

After 1952, Senior Girl Scouts working as hospital aides would wear the Senior Scout Service patch. In 1953  “program bars” were offered for uniformed wear, color-coded to the type of service given. Hospital Aides wore a red bar.

These photos were submitted by Ward Ryan of his mother when she was a Hospital Aide, showing her smock with the Senior Service Scout patch.
 
GSUSA never offered an official uniform for this program, so some creative Girl Scouts sewed pinafores out of green and white striped fabric, to look similar to the “candy stripe” hospital volunteers. Others wore armbands, or simply their Senior Girl Scout or Mariner uniform with a white smock.

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Also!! As an added bonus, read about this camp’s history here! -EY,GS

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Laura Michelli interviewed 17 World War II veterans and produced a video DVD for her Girl Scout Gold Award project. She is shown in the library of the Homewood at Crumland Farms in Frederick where many of the participant live. Each veteran received copies of the video and it can be viewed there. Michelli is now a freshman at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg.
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Laura Michelli interviewed 17 World War II veterans and produced a video DVD for her Girl Scout Gold Award project. She is shown in the library of the Homewood at Crumland Farms in Frederick where many of the participant live. Each veteran received copies of the video and it can be viewed there. Michelli is now a freshman at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg.

First Lady Bess Truman with a Delegation of Girl Scouts Original Caption: First Lady Bess Truman at the White House with a delegation of Girl Scouts, who are presenting her with a glass paperweight in honor of her service as their organization’s honorary president since 1945, as two unidentified Girl Scout leaders look on: (left to right) Loretta Gallegos, 8; Susan Schneider, 11; Joanna Rodman, 8; Marian East, 16., 12/03/1952 From: Series: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, compiled 1957 - 2004, documenting the period 1849 - 2004
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First Lady Bess Truman with a Delegation of Girl Scouts

Original Caption: First Lady Bess Truman at the White House with a delegation of Girl Scouts, who are presenting her with a glass paperweight in honor of her service as their organization’s honorary president since 1945, as two unidentified Girl Scout leaders look on: (left to right) Loretta Gallegos, 8; Susan Schneider, 11; Joanna Rodman, 8; Marian East, 16., 12/03/1952

From: Series: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, compiled 1957 - 2004, documenting the period 1849 - 2004

Miss Seth-Smith takes senior Girl Scouts to England in the summer of 1949 to provide post-war community service
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Miss Seth-Smith takes senior Girl Scouts to England in the summer of 1949 to provide post-war community service