The Barbara Anderson Girl Scouts Museum

The most famous image from the 1939 royal visit to Washington didn’t feature the king or queen–it was a Girl Scout!

When Girl Scout Leah Burket Met Queen Elizabeth The most famous image from the 1939 royal visit to Washington didn't feature the king or queen--it was a Girl Scout!

In 1933, a 23-year old Girl Scout leader from Belgium, Françoise May, became the 10th queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.

Françoise May, the Belgian Apple Blossom Queen In 1933, a 23-year old Girl Scout leader from Belgium, Françoise May, became the 10th queen of the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.

You never know what you’ll learn from a Council’s Own badge. It could be oceanography, journalism, llama breeding, even a new language.

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Girl Scout Bliss in Any Language You never know what you'll learn from a Council's Own badge. It could be oceanography, journalism, llama breeding, even a new language.

Inside the Edith Macy Center Cornerstone

Edith Macy chaired the Girl Scout National Board’s Executive Committee from 1919 until her unexpected death in 1925. She had campaigned for a permanent school to train adult Girl Scouts–both volunteers and professional staff–and her husband donated land and funds to realize her vision.

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Inside the Edith Macy Center Cornerstone What items were placed in the Macy Great Lodge cornerstone in 1925? Letters, Camp Andree Clark pins, and something special from Mr. Macy.

Valuing Girl Scout Volunteers

Volunteers at any organization seek training, open communications, proper training and equipment, and above all–respect.

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Valuing Girl Scout Volunteers Volunteers at any organization seek training, open communications, proper training and equipment, and above all--respect.

From Macy’s opening in May 1926, the center’s symbol has been the lamp of learning.
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Macy Merch: The Lamp of Knowledge The Lamp of Knowledge has always been the symbol of the Girl Scout Edith Macy Training Center. Why was it chosen and how was it used?

BIRTHDAY MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDER

Dear Girl Scouts:
It seems only yesterday that I sent a message to you on my birthday for birthdays come around very quickly when one is old! And much has happened since October 31st, 1923.
To me, one of the most important and interesting events of all the year just past is the purchase of our new National Headquarters. I am like the old woman who lived in the shoe! And now the shoe has become too small for the many children and we must have a building that will be large enough for us all.

At this birthday time of mine, it has been your custom to have Founder’s Day programs in your troops. It has been an inspiring thought to me to imagine these troop meetings of yours, Girl Scouts ready to do your share in this splendid Scouting of ours.
This year we have before us a most important task, that of helping to raise money for our own National Headquarters. Our Committees, our Commissioners, our Officers are busy with plans for this. But what, you ask, can Girl Scouts do? A great deal. You may stand ready to give service when you are called upon. But most of all you may constantly show the older friends of Scouting how much it means to you to be a Girl Scout.

Our older friends are being asked to buy bricks for our new Headquarters that they, too, may have a real share in our building. These bricks will cost ten dollars apiece and we are hoping that many of our friends will wish to buy more than one brick. You may be sure that your Commissioner, your Captain, your father, and mother will be far more interested in buying these bricks if they know that you are interested in having them do it.
Yes, our National Campaign Committee needs the help of us all. And to raise the money which we need we must apply the Scout spirit, that rare and precious quality which enables a Girl Scout to accomplish anything she undertakes to do.

I am thinking of you today and in spirit I am with you. On Hallowe’en which is my own birthday, I shall be joining in your games with you. For it cheers me to think that the Founder’s Day of the Girl Scouts and All Hallowe’en which brings us so many charming games are so associated. For Scouting is a game, too.
I hope that during the coming year we shall all remember the rules of our Scouting game of ours. They are
To play fair,
To play in your place,
To play for your side and not for yourself.
As to the score, the best thing in a game is the fun and not the result for
“When the Great Recorder comes
To write against your name,
He writes not that you won or lost
But how you played the game.”

Girl Scouts, I salute you.
Your friend and founder,
Juliette Low