SECTION I 
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN 
GIRL SCOUTS 
When Sir Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy 
Scout movement in England, it proved too attractive and 
too well adapted to youth to make it possible to limit its 
great opportunities to boys alone. The sister organiza- 
tion, known in England as the Girl Guides, quickly fol- 
lowed and won an equal success. 
Mrs. Juliette Low, an American visitor in England, 
and a personal friend of the Father of Scouting, realized 
the tremendous future of the movement for her own 
country, and with the active and friendly co-operation of 
the Baden-Powells, she founded the Girl Guides in 
America, enrolling the first patrols in Savannah, Georgia, 
in March, 1912. In 1915 National Headquarters were 
established in Washington, D. C., and the name was 
changed to Girl Scouts. 
In 1916 National Headquarters were moved to New 
York and the methods and standards of what was plainly 
to be a nation-wide organization became established on 
a broad, practical basis. 
The first National Convention was held in 1915, and 
each succeeding year has shown a larger and more en- 
thusiastic body of delegates and a public more and more 
interested in this steadily growing army of girls and 
young women who are learning in the happiest way how 
to combine patriotism, outdoor activities of every kind, 
skill in every branch of domestic science and high stand- 
ards of community service. 
Every side of the girl’s nature is brought out and de- 
veloped by enthusiastic Captains, who direct their games 
and various forms of training, and encourage team-work 
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