Who started Girl Scouts?

Answer 1

Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts in the USA. Her nickname was Daisy.

Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts.

Before starting the first troop in the US, Juliette Gordon Low helped organize Girl Guide troops in Scotland. However, it would be difficult to find out who started the first Girl Guide or Girl Scout troop because many girls were starting troops in various countries because they saw what the Boy Scout troops were doing.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell started the Scouting Movement in 1908 in the United Kingdom. He felt that girls should have their own organization, so Robert Baden-Powell chose the name "Girl Guides" and thought that an organization for girls should be run by women so he asked his elder sister, Agnes, to help and, in 1910, the Girl Guide movement was formally founded.

Answer 2

Girl Scouts of America (GSA) was founded in 1910 in Des Moines, Iowa by Clara Lisetor-Lane. GSA's growth was limited by a lack of financial resources and social connections which led to its eventual demise. It never grew beyond a few troops.

Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the US on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia and is recognized as the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.

Answer 3

Lord Robert Baden-Powell started the Scouting Movement in 1908 in the United Kingdom. He felt that girls should have their own organization, so Robert Baden-Powell chose the name "Girl Guides" and thought that an organization for girls should be run by women so he asked his elder sister, Agnes, to help and, in 1910, the Girl Guide movement was formally founded.

Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA, Juliette Gordon Low, organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts of the USA was chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 16, 1950.

Answer 4

Lord Robert Baden-Powell started the Scouting Movement in 1908 in the United Kingdom. He felt that girls should have their own organization, so Robert Baden-Powell chose the name "Girl Guides" and thought that an organization for girls should be run by women so he asked his elder sister, Agnes, to help and, in 1910, the Girl Guide movement was formally founded.

Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts.

Answer 5

It started as the Girl Guides by the sister of the man who created the Boy Scouts (Lord Baden-Powell).

In addition:

Lord Robert Baden-Powell started the Scouting Movement in 1908 in the United Kingdom. He felt that girls should have their own organization, so Robert Baden-Powell chose the name "Girl Guides" and thought that an organization for girls should be run by women so he asked his elder sister, Agnes, to help and, in 1910, the Girl Guide movement was formally founded.

Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts.

Answer 6

Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later, the name was changed to Girl Scouts of the United States (GSUS).

Because she started the first troop in the USA and continued to support the Girl Guide and Girl Scout Movement the rest of her life, Juliette Gordon Low is considered the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA).

Girl Scouts of the USA was chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 16, 1950.

Answer 7

Internationally, there isn't an official "first" troop. Once Lord Baden-Powell started Boy Scouts, girls also wanted to be scouts so troops for girls were started in many places. Lord B-P decided that girls should have their own organization so he asked his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, to start Girl Guides.

In the US, Daisy "Doots" Gordon, Juliette Gordon Low's niece, was the first official American Girl Guide, even though she was not even present at the initiation meeting. Another member of that first troop included Florence Crane, who did not turn 11 until March 12, so Juliette waited to hold the induction meeting on Florence's birthday so that she would be old enough! Page Anderson, the daughter of Juliette's cousin, was another member of the first patrol, and Page's mother was one of the first leaders. Due to Juliette's poor record keeping skills, there is no accurate list of the other girls who were inducted into American Girl Guides on the 12th of March, 1912.

Answer 8

Girl Scouts of the USA started in Savannah, Georgia on March 12, 1912. The first meeting in the USA was held on that date by Juliette Gordon Low, with eighteen members.

Answer 9

The first Girl Guide (they were called Girl Guides of America until 1913) registered in America was Margaret Eleanor (Daisy Doots) Gordon, the niece of Juliette Gordon Low.