![]() Cordery’s biography, Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, published just last month, provides an intimate look, through diaries, letters, institutional correspondence and photographs, at Low’s life and the personal challenges, including the loss of her hearing and a failed marriage, that she overcame on our way to establishing the organization. ![]() Rightly so, much is underway to celebrate the centennial of the Girl Scouts. ![]() With over 3.2 million members, the educational organization has the distinction of being the largest for girls in the world. One hundred years later, more than 50 million girls have made the same Girl Scout Promise-to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law. The inductees signed an official register and hoisted up mugs of hot chocolate to toast the momentous occasion. On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low gathered 18 girls in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and swore them in as the first Girl Guides (later called Girl Scouts) in the United States. ![]()
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