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Juliette Gordon Low

These items were collected on the Web and various print materials.

Meet Our Founder, Juliette Gordon Low

My Life

I was born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 31, 1860. I am the second o six children

in my amily—I have three sisters and two brothers.

When I was young, I went to a boarding school in Virginia. When I got older, I went to a FrenchSchool in New York City. I loved the arts—I designed my own clothes, painted china, and

perormed skits with my riends.

But I was also a tomboy—roughhousing with my brothers, getting my hair braided with tafy,

even cementing my fingers to a soap dish!

I always loved animals—I was always coming home with a stray cat or dog. Well, to be honest,

they weren’t always strays—some belonged to people, but I elt that they were being neglected,

so I took them home. Momma always made me take them back.

A Turkey Tale

When I was a girl, cooking was very diferent rom what it is like now. I you wanted a turkey

dinner, you’d have to go outside and get a live turkey—then cut its head of, pluck of the

eathers, and cook it. That was the only way to get resh meat! We only had cold storage,

but no real rerigerator or reezer. When our ice melted, ood went bad.

One year or Thanksgiving, we raised a turkey and we all became very ond o him—even called

him “old Tom.” When the day came or Tom to become Thanksgiving dinner, I begged my papa

or the turkey’s lie, and, i not, then at least or anesthesia.

So we got some chloroorm, put poor Tom to sleep, plucked him, and put him in the cold

storage. We did not, however, cut of his head. So the next morning when we went to get him

or cooking, he was very much alive and very, very mad. He chased Mama and the cook round

and round, until finally he was caught, and had to lose his head. It really was a Thanksgivingto remember!

How Girl Scouts Began: An Important Friendship

I married William Low when I was 26 years old. He was an Englishman, so we lived in Great

Britain during most o our years o marriage. While I was in Scotland in 1911, I met two very

important people—Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes. We became very close and

remained riends or the next 16 years. Sir Robert started the Boy Scouts in England and it

seemed like such a purposeul activity that girls would be interested in it too. And so they

started the Girl Guides. I ran my own Girl Guide troop that year.



My Own Girl Guide Troop in Scotland

My original idea was that girls could learn the same things boys were learning—knot tying,

signaling, first aid, etc. But while people saw such military skills as being beneficial to boys,

they viewed them as rivolous or girls.

The area where I lived was very poor, and many girls had to leave their homes and go into the

cities or work in order to help their amilies make a living. City actories were very filthy and

unsae back then. I thought that there ought to be some way the girls could help their amilies

earn money without having to leave home. I thought that they might raise poultry to eed the

rich people who stayed at the nearby hunting lodges. This was very successul. We branched

out and learned how to spin wool which the girls went on to sell.

How I Started Girl Scouting in the U.S.

When I came back to America, I called my cousin and told her that I had “…something or the

girls o Savannah, and all America, and all the world…” and that we had to get started on it right

away. And we did!

It wasn’t easy—people seemed convinced that this would be one more thing I’d start and then

lose interest. And money was always a concern. At one point I even sold my pearls to finance

the organization.

But I never had any doubts that it would be successul. Ater all, I knew that girls could do any-

thing they set their minds to. What started out as a group o girls meeting to study nature or

learn to play basketball in my backyard grew quickly.

When America entered into World War I, I wrote to President Wilson and ofered him the Girl

Scouts’ services. Girls went to help out the Red Cross, planted victory gardens, and helped to

sell millions o war bonds.

Watching the Seed Grow

I had 15 years to watch my program grow. In January 1927, I lost my battle to cancer. I had beenfighting it or the last ew years, and had kept it a secret rom all but my closest riends. I ound

that I had to spend less and less time actually running the

Girl Scouts, and more time creating an organizational structure that would ensure that the

Movement didn’t die with me. I guess I succeeded.

In 1927 there were 167,925 Girl Scouts and now there are over 3.7 million girls and adults! I you

want to learn more, come visit the house I grew up in! It’s called the Birthplace. It’s a national

center in Savannah, Georgia. When Girl Scouts visit the Birthplace they can try things I did

when I was their age.

Source: http://www.gogirlsonly.org/spotlight/juliette/default.asp



Juliette Low Quotes

This quote attributed to a letter written by Juliette Low in 1925

I realize that each year it has changed and grown until I know that, a decade rom now, what I

might say o it would seem like an echo o what has been instead o what is.

The work o today is the history o tomorrow, and we are its makers.

My Purpose...

...to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand

with them, we will make our lives and the lives o the uture girls happy, healthy and holy.

My Watch

I had my avorite watch on most days. The act that it only had one hand, and couldn’t really tell

the time, never really bothered me.

Ear Problems

I had a series o ear inections and was losing patience with “traditional” medicine. I had heard

that silver nitrate was the “newest” treatment, and I insisted that the doctor use it on me.

Unortunately, it was too powerul a mixture, and it caused me to go dea in that ear. Later on

at my wedding, a truly reaky thing happened; some o the rice people threw got caught in my

other ear. I didn’t want to take the time to see a doctor, since I was leaving on my honeymoon.

Well, the rice estered in my ear and caused quite an inection. When it was finally removed, the

instrument they used to take it out made me dea in that ear too.

The Wrong Fish

I was out trout fishing one night and elt a tug on my line. I ought hard or quite a while to try

and “land” my catch. What I didn’t realize was that I hadn’t hooked a fish - rather, I had hooked

one o my guests straight through the ear. I was too dea to hear his screams, and I was so

determined to land the “fish” I never noticed that it was a human being instead.

No?

When I returned to the States and wanted to start the Girl Scouts, I knew I needed some help.The first woman I approached tried to tell me she wasn’t interested. I pretended that my dea-

ness prevented me rom hearing her reusals. And told her, “Then that’s settled. I’ve told my

girls you will take the meeting next Thursday.” I never heard a word o argument rom her again!

Fishing with Kipling

I was bored at one o the parties I was attending, and so pulled Kipling away rom his riends

and took him fishing. He kept complaining that we weren’t dressed or it (we were both in or-

mal attire), but I never saw what diference our clothes made - it wasn’t as i they were the bait

we were using!

Turkey Dinner

When I was little, people attened and then slaughtered their own Thanksgiving turkeys.

Just beore they cut of our turkey’s head, I convinced my amily that brutal decapitation was

inhuman. I argued that he could be chloroormed first, and then wouldn’t eel anything. They

finally gave in and agreed to do just that. Then they plucked the turkey and put him in the

icebox. When they opened the icebox the next day, the bird was wide awake and bolted out o

his rozen “cage.” The cook, thinking the bird had been dead, became hysterical and jumped up

on top o the stove.

Baby Rabbit

Once I showed up at my sister’s with a baby rabbit I had bought rom some children because

its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears or quite a while.

Ater all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.



A Battle of Wills

When my husband died, I ound that he had willed his entire estate to another woman. No one

was going to get away with that! Against the advice o my riends, I decided to contest the will.

and eventually I won a $500,000 settlement.

Strays

I always loved animals. I was constantly coming home with stray dogs, cats and even horses.

Sometimes they weren’t strays, but I elt that their owners were neglecting them.

From “Juliette Low’s Notes on the Laws, 1912”

HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter o the law when she really

breaks it in spirit.

LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to

her amily, her church, her school, and those or whom she may work or who may work or her.

HELPFUL. The simplest way o saying this or the very young Scout is to do a good turn to

someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older

Scout into a fine, useul, dependable woman.

THRIFTY. The most valuable thing we have in this lie is time, and most girls are apt to be ratherstupid about getting the most out o it. Health is probably a woman’s greatest capital, and a Girl

Scout.....doesn’t waste it in poor diet.....so that she goes bankrupt beore she is thirty. Money is a

very useul thing to have....A Girl Scout saves, as she spends, on some system.

FRIEND TO ANIMALS. All Girl Scouts take particular care o our dumb riends, the animals, and

protect them rom stupid neglect or hard usage.

PURE. A good housekeeper cannot endure dust and dirt; a well-cared-or body cannot endure

grime and soot; a pure mind cannot endure doubtul thoughts that cannot be reely aired and

ventilated.

This quote is taken from page 305 in the book “Lady from Savannah: The Life of Juliette Low” written by Gladys Denny Shultz and Daisy Gordon Lawrence. Added note: Daisy Gordon

Lawrence was the first Girl Scout of the United States

One hundred years ago Juliette Gordon Low made a historical phone call to Miss Nina

Anderson Pape, a distant cousin, and the Principal o a local girls’ school – “Come right over,

I’ve got something or the girls o Savannah and all America and all the world and we’re going

to start it tonight!”

Now one hundred years later you are carrying on her dream.

Right is right, even i no one else does it.

When asked what the girls should do, Juliette responded “What do the girls WANT to do?”

Every badge you earn is tied up to your motto. This badge is not a reward or something you

have done once or or an examination you have passed. Badges are not medals to wear on your

sleeve to show what a smart girl you are. A badge is a symbol that you have done the thing it

stands or oten enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to BE PREPARED to give service

in it. You wear the badge to let people know that you are prepared and willing to be called on

because you are a Girl Scout. And Girl Scouting is not just knowing.....but doing.....not just doing,

but being.



Why should my daughter become a Girl Scout - FUN

I you asked her daughter, she would probably reply because the Girl Scouts have real un, but

i I were to analyze the results o Scouting I would tell that mother that the most valuable asset

her girl would gain is a sense o Individual Responsibility. She makes her Promise (1) To do her

duty to God and Country (2) To help others at all times (3) To obey the Scout Laws. This

promise is taken seriously and the individual responsibility is brought about by Team Work.

Every girl living up to a standard and seeing that her [comrades] in her patrol live up to it also.

Ours is a circle o riends united by ideals.

A Tree for the Future

Every spring

The sap rises in the trees

From root to branch

And makes a tree that looks dead

Blossom with green leaves

And lie.

So it is that the Scouting Spirit

Rises within you andInspires you to put orth

Your best.

By Juliette Gordon Low

Juliette Gordon Low’s Chicago Connection

One o the ounders o the city o Chicago was Juliette Low’s great-grandather, John Kinzie.

Arriving in 1804, he purchased the original home built by Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable on the

north bank o the Chicago River. Kinzie, his wie Eleanor, and their children survived the mas-sacre o Fort Dearborn in 1812. Their oldest son, John Harris Kinzie and his wie Juliette Magill,

were prominent citizens o the growing new city and their only daughter was Juliette Gordon

Low’s mother, Nellie. The Kinzies are buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

Source: “Daisy’s Chicago Heritage” by Gert Schriner and Peggy Rogers



Juliette Low and the World Friendship Fund

Juliette Gordon Low, known to everyone as “Daisy,” was a joyous, lively, talented and inspiring

young woman. Ater she worked with the Girl Guide movement in England, Daisy knew the

program was important to bring to the girls o the United States. On March 12, 1912, Girl Scouts

was ounded: Juliette organized the first troop with 18 members in Savannah, Georgia.

From the start, one o Juliette Low’s aims was to bring an international aspect to Girl Scouting.She enjoyed working with Girl Scouts and Girl Guides rom many lands. She attended

international meetings abroad and even helped to pay or the expenses o other delegates

rom countries where Girl Guiding was just starting.

Part o her dream o international riendship was to hold an international Girl Scout and

Girl Guide gathering in the United States. In 1926, Girl Scouts rom all parts o the USA and

delegates rom 29 countries came together at the newly-ormed Camp Edith Macy near

New York City. For Daisy, the international encampment was her dream come true; even Lord

and Lady Baden-Powell, the ounder o Boy Scouts and his wie, were in attendance. At this

gathering, the delegates decided to make February 22nd, the birthday o both Lord and Lady

Baden-Powell, a special Girl Scout and Girl Guide day called Thinking Day.

Ater Daisy Low’s death in 1927, her Girl Scout and Girl Guide riends wanted to do something

special to honor her memory. It should be something, they elt, that would express her ideals

and hopes, something that would keep on growing. At last it was decided to start a

memorial und “to promote Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding throughout the world as a

contribution to peace and good will,” and the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund (JLWFF)

was begun.

The Fund’s main purpose is to promote global understanding and riendship. The JLWFF helps

to pay travel costs or United States Girls and adults to go to other countries or conerences,

encampments, International Destinations, and service activities. The Fund also pays or girls and

adults in Girl Guiding or Girl scouting in other countries to visit in the United States.

Other moneys are sent to the World Association o Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)so this international organization can provide training and development in other countries.

Some money is also used to help in emergencies, such as replacing a national o ce washed

away in a flood.

Many troops decide to give to the JLWFF on either Juliette Low’s birthday (October 31),

or on Thinking Day (February 22) or on Girl Scouts birthday (March 12th).

NOTE: Before contributing to the Fund, explain what it is to your girls (age appropriate) and

decide together how you will give money.



Juliette Low Birthday Action Story (Short Daisy Version)Katie Cox, USA Girl SCOUTS – Kuwait

Everyone does all o these, as the words below are said:

SCOUTS or GUIDES – stand up, make the Girl SCOUT sign (hold up 3 fingers in sign)

DAISY - stand up and say “I love DAISIES!”

JULIETTE LOW - stand up, raise arms, shake open hands and yell “Adventure!”WORLD – stand up, turn around, and sit down

Once upon a time, there was a young girl named JULIETTE LOW, who lived in Savannah, Geor-

gia and whose birthday was on Halloween. As a young girl she liked to do many o the things

you and I and other young girls all around the WORLD like to do. There were no Girl SCOUTS

then but JULIETTE LOW had 5 brothers and sisters and had lots o un playing with them. JU-

LIETTE LOW’s nickname when she was a young girl was DAISY. That’s where the name o DAISY

Girl SCOUTS came rom. DAISY loved to play games, swim, play outdoors, make crats, and

write and act in her own plays and she did these even though there were no Girl SCOUTS at the

time.

JULIETTE LOW loved animals and used to SCOUT or strays including dogs, cats, and one

time, even a horse, just like many other young girls. DAISY was very adventurous as well. She

was willing to try almost anything, lots more than most young girls all over the WORLD would

try. JULIETTE LOW loved to travel around the WORLD and started to travel by reading travel

GUIDES and by going to boarding school in Virginia when she was 13. In her travels around the

WORLD, JULIETTE LOW met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who had started an organization called

the Boy SCOUTS in England. DAISY liked the idea and started a troop o Girl GUIDES in Scot-

land, o all places in the WORLD.

Soon ater that, JULIETTE LOW returned to her home in Georgia and started the very first Girl

SCOUT troop on March 12, 1912, which we now call the Girl SCOUT birthday. The young girls

went on hikes, ormed basketball teams and learned how to camp. These are some o the same

things you might wish to do with your Girl SCOUT troop, just like other young girls all overthe WORLD. So, DAISIES, aren’t you glad that JULIETTE LOW, who we call DAISY, started Girl

SCOUTS in our part o the WORLD, so we could have un being together, just like other Girl

GUIDES and Girl SCOUTS and all over the WORLD!



Juliette Low’s Birthday Action Story (Long Older Girl Version)Katie Cox, USA Girl SCOUTS – Kuwait

Divide up group into 3 groups to do each o these actions when the ollowing words are said:

YOUNG GIRLS – stand up, throw a punch up in the air with one first and say “Girl Power”

SCOUTS or GUIDES – stand up, make the Girl SCOUT sign, and say “On my Honor”

DAISY – stand up and say “I love DAISIES!”

Everyone does these:

JULIETTE LOW - stand up, raise arms, shake open hands and yell “Adventure!”

WORLD – stand up, turn around, and sit down

BIRTHDAY - stand up and Sing “Happy BIRTHDAY to you” (not the whole song, just one line)

Once upon a time, there was a YOUNG GIRL named JULIETTE LOW, who lived in Savannah,

Georgia and whose BIRTHDAY was on Halloween. As a YOUNG GIRL she liked to do many o

the things you and I and other YOUNG GIRLS all around the WORLD like to do. There were no

Girl SCOUTS then but JULIETTE LOW had 5 brothers and sisters and had lots o un playing

with them, especially on her BIRTHDAY. JULIETTE LOW’s nickname when she was a YOUNG

GIRL was DAISY. That’s where the name o DAISY Girl SCOUTS came rom. DAISY loved to play

games, swim, play outdoors, make crats, and write and act in her own plays and she did these

even though there were no Girl SCOUTS at the time.

JULIETTE LOW loved animals and used to SCOUT or strays including dogs, cats, and one time,

even a horse, just like many other YOUNG GIRLS. DAISY loved animals so much, that one time,

near her BIRTHDAY, she was worried about the amily cow, much like other YOUNG GIRLS

would be all over the WORLD, so she took her mother’s bedspread and pinned it around the

cow during the night so that it would stay warm and not get a cold. DAISY’S mother was not

happy when she ound her muddy bedspread in the barn the next morning!

JULIETTE LOW was very adventurous as well. She was willing to try almost anything, lots more

than most YOUNG GIRLS all over the WORLD would try. One time her cousin suggested they

braid some sticky tafy candy in with DAISY’S hair to see how it would look. DAISY thought thiswas a un idea, too. Unortunately, DAISY’S mother had to cut her hair very short because she

couldn’t get all o the candy out o her hair.

JULIETTE LOW loved to travel around the WORLD and started to travel by reading travel

GUIDES and by going to boarding school in Virginia when she was 13. Later, DAISY’S WORLD

travels took her to Europe or the first time when she was 22. DAISY married when she was 26

and then began to travel throughout the WORLD even more, especially near her BIRTHDAY.

In her travels around the WORLD, JULIETTE LOW met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who had

started an organization called the Boy SCOUTS in England. His sister had started the

Girl GUIDES in England because many YOUNG GIRLS in that part o the WORLD wanted to

belong to a club like the Boy SCOUTS. DAISY liked the idea and started a troop o Girl GUIDES

in Scotland, o all places in the WORLD.

Soon ater that, JULIETTE LOW returned to her home in Georgia and started the very first

Girl SCOUT troop on March 12, 1912, which we now call the Girl SCOUT BIRTHDAY. The YOUNG

GIRLS went on hikes, ormed basketball teams and learned how to camp. These are some o the

same things you might wish to do with your Girl SCOUT troop, just like other YOUNG GIRLS all

over the WORLD. So, YOUNG GIRLS, aren’t you glad that JULIETTE LOW, who we call DAISY,

started Girl SCOUTS so that we could celebrate her BIRTHDAY even in our part o the WORLD,

and have un being together, just like other Girl SCOUTS and all over the WORLD!

Happy BIRTHDAY, JULIETTE LOW!



Juliette Action Story

As the story is read, players do the action described as the ollowing words are read. Practice

the motions first so everyone understands.

JULIETTE LOW Curtsey and say “Be my riend”.

BADEN-POWELL Bow and say “How do you do”.GEORGIA Say “Hey, y’all”

DAISY Sing “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do”.

SCOUT or SCOUTING Smile and give salute

WORLD Stand up, spin around once, and sit down

On October 30, 1860, a little girl named JULIETTE LOW was born in Savannah, GEORGIA.

She was a very curious child, and loved animals. When she was a baby, her uncle gave her

the nickname “DAISY”. He looked at her one day and said “I bet she’s going to be a DAISY!”

He thought she was some ‘baby!’ Ever since then people called her DAISY.

As a young girl, DAISY did many things. She liked to climb trees, play with her brothers, sisters

and cousins, take care o animals, start and run clubs, write stories, draw pictures, tell jokes,

write and be in plays, explore places, and do many other things.

Later on, DAISY grew up and married a man named William Low. They went to live in England

and Scotland, countries on the other side o the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1912, JULIETTE LOW became interested in SCOUTING while visiting her riends, Lord

and Lady BADEN-POWELL, who lived in England and who started Boy SCOUTING and

Girl SCOUTING in their part o the WORLD. Ater leading a ew troops o Girl Guides in Scotland

with her riend Lady BADEN-POWELL, she came back to the United States and started Girl

SCOUTS.

When JULIETTE LOW came back to America, she decided to start the first Girl SCOUT troop inher own home town o Savannah, GEORGIA. This she did on March 12th, 1912, and this first little

troop o eight girls was the first Girl SCOUT troop in this part o the WORLD.

This first Girl SCOUT troop was so successul that JULIETTE LOW wanted to see SCOUT

troops all over the world because she knew that SCOUTING would help girls all over the world

to become riends and to help build WORLD peace and good will.

Girl SCOUTING grew and grew until now you are not only a member o your own little troop

but also a member o the Girl SCOUTS o America and the WORLD Association o Girl Guides

and Girl SCOUTS (WAGGGS).



The Story of Juliette Low

Divide into eight groups; these will be Little Girls, Juliette Low, Georgia, Horses, London, Lord

Baden-Powell, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

Sound efects:

LITTLE GIRLS Stand and giggle

JULIETTE LOW Curtsy and say “Be my riend”GEORGIA Say ‘Hey, you all!”

HORSES Say “Neiighhh”

LORD BADEN-POWELL Bow ormally and say ‘How d’ya do”

LONDON Sing “London Bridges Falling Down”

BOY SCOUTS Make the Scout sign and say “Be Prepared”

GIRL SCOUTS Sing one line o “Girl Scouts Together”

Once upon a time there was a LITTLE GIRL named JULIETTE LOW who lived in GEORGIA and

loved to ride HORSES. Ater she grew up she went to LONDON where she met LORD BADEN-

POWELL who ounded the BOY SCOUTS. She was ascinated by the work he was doing. She

studied with him a while and decided to ound a troop o GIRL SCOUTS or her little riends

who liked to ride HORSES in GEORGIA. So JULIETTE LOW said goodbye to the BOY SCOUTS

in LONDON and came home with the idea that LORD BADEN-POWELL gave her. She ormed

a group o LITTLE GIRLS, who liked to ride HORSES and be together, into a troop o GIRL

SCOUTS. And they loved it so much that the idea spread and now there are troops all over the

world.

Aren’t we glad that a (speed up here)

LITTLE GIRL named

JULIETTE LOW rom

GEORGIA who liked

HORSES went to

LONDON and metLORD BADEN-POWELL, ounder o the

BOY SCOUTS, and came home to start

the wonderul world o GIRL SCOUTS.



Juliette Low and Girl Scouting Action StoryGirl Scout Resource Center GSSWPA

As the story is read, players do the ollowing actions on the ollowing words. Practice the mo-

tions first so everyone understands.

JULIETTE LOW – Say the Girl Scout slogan “Do a Good Turn Daily”.

SCOUT OR SCOUTING – Give salute and say “Be Prepared”.WORLD – Stand up, spin around once, and sit down.

Girl SCOUTING in the United States was ounded by a most remarkable woman named

JULIETTE LOW. JULIETTE LOW was born into the wealthy Gordon amily o Savannah, Georgia,

on Halloween – October 31, 1860. JULIETTE LOW was known to her amily and riends as Daisy.

JULIETTE LOW married and moved to England. Ater the death o her first husband, she

met Lord Baden-Powell, an English general and war hero who had ounded the Boy SCOUT

movement only three years earlier. The Boy SCOUT movement caught on rapidly and girls

wanted a similar organization. Lord Baden-Powell asked his sister, Agnes, to give them an

organization o their own. So Agnes o cially established an association o Girl Guides in 1910.

The Girl Guides or SCOUTS quickly spread to many other countries.

The new movement was just the sort o thing that appealed to JULIETTE LOW, and she wanted

to bring it to America. She thought Girl SCOUTING was so wonderul that she decided to start

the first Girl SCOUT troop in her own home town o Savannah, Georgia. This she did on March

12, 1912, and this first troop o girls was the first Girl SCOUT troop in this part o the WORLD.

JULIETTE LOW believed that girls could and should plan their own program, make their own

decisions, run their own troop. She saw their adult leaders as helpers and advisers, never as

“directors”.

JULIETTE LOW died on January 27, 1927. A ew months later the JULIETTE LOW WORLD

Friendship Fund was started to honor her and her vision o the worldwide riendship. Ev-ery year, Girl SCOUTS throughout the United States give money to this und – usually on her

birthday, October 31, or on Thinking Day, February 22. Part o the money is used to send Girl

SCOUTS to countries in other parts o the WORLD and to bring Girl Guides and Girl SCOUTS

rom other countries to the United States. Part o the money also goes to the Thinking Day

Fund set by the WORLD Association o the Girl Guides and Girl SCOUTS.

JULIETTE LOW is remembered as a woman who worked or peace and goodwill. Her dream

was to have young people make the WORLD a riendly, peaceul place. JULIETTE LOW never

had any children o her own, but her “adopted amily” o Girl SCOUTS numbered 167,925 at

the time o her death.



Juliette Low World Friendship Fund Action Story

As the story is read, all girls should perorm the ollowing actions at the appropriate times.

On the word WORLD, stand up and spin around once.

On the words JULIETTE LOW, join hands with persons on right and let.

On the words GIRL SCOUT, GIRL SCOUTING, or GIRL GUIDING, give a big smile and clap.

(Practice motions first so everyone understands what to do.)

The Story

Once upon a time there was a lady whose name was JULIETTE LOW. She became interested

in GIRL SCOUTING through her riends Lord and Lady Baden-Powell when she visited them in

England. They started Boy Scouting and GIRL GUIDING there.

JULIETTE LOW thought GIRL SCOUTING was a wonderul idea. When she returned to America,

she decided to start a GIRL SCOUT troop. So, on March 12, 1912, in her home town, Savannah,

Georgia, JULIETTE LOW started the first GIRL SCOUT troop in this part o the WORLD.

Ater that she traveled all over our country, helping to start more GIRL SCOUT troops. JULIETTE

LOW believed GIRL SCOUTING was such a fine thing that she wanted to see GIRL SCOUT

troops all over the WORLD. She knew that GIRL SCOUTING would help toward WORLD peace

and goodwill.

Ater JULIETTE LOW died in 1927, her riends decided that the greatest tribute that could be

paid to such a charming lady would be to continue working toward the realization o her dream

o WORLD riendship. A memorial und was started. It is called the JULIETTE LOW WORLD

Friendship Fund. Each year, all GIRL SCOUTS in the United States are given the opportunity to

bring money or this und, which helps GIRL SCOUTING all over the WORLD.

When you GIRL SCOUTS drop money into your JULIETTE LOW WORLD Friendship Fund box,

you can imagine the ar places o the WORLD to which this money will travel and the ways it

will help GIRL SCOUTS. Maybe your money will help buy a GIRL SCOUT uniorm or a girl in

Belgium who can’t aford one. Maybe your money will help send some older GIRL SCOUTS romour country to Our Chalet, an international camp in Switzerland, where GIRL SCOUTS rom all

over the WORLD get together to learn more about each other. Or maybe you will be helping,

with your money, to start new GIRL SCOUT troops in other countries.

No one knows to what parts o the WORLD this money may travel. No one knows the way in

which it will one day come back to us in new riends. But we all know that as we give our money

to the JULIETTE LOW WORLD Friendship Fund, we are helping to spread GIRL SCOUTING

around the WORLD.

Reprinted by permission of GSUSA. Ceremonies in Girl Scouting

©1990 by Girl Scouts of the USA. All rights reserved.



How Juliette Low Started Girl Scouts

CHARACTERS: Juliette Gordon Low (Daisy) Janet

Elinor Gordon, her sister Cindy

Mrs. Gordon Cathy

Mr. Gordon Katie

Lord Robert Baden-Powell

Narrator

(Scene 1) Juliette Low’s Living Room; Mrs. Low and Lord Robert Baden-Powell chatting

as Mrs. Low works on clay figure.

NARRATOR: The scene is a castle in Scotland, the time, several years ater the death

o Juliette Low’s husband. When Mrs. Low’s husband died, she elt that

everything was over or her. She tried to do the things that she and her

husband had done, but she didn’t enjoy the riding, the hunting or the

parties. Her riends told her she needed a new interest. One weekend one

o her guests was Lord Robert Baden-Powell. At this moment they are in

Mrs. Low’s living room. Lord Baden-Powell is admiring the figure Mrs. Low

is sculpting.

JULIETTE: Oh, it’s good enough. But my heart isn’t in it. How I wish there was something

new to do!

LORD POWELL: New things are not always easy and pleasant. I’ve discovered that in my work

to establish the Boy Scouts in England.

JULIETTE: Oh, I’ve heard about the program, Robert. People are calling it a great game

or boys. Tell me about it.

LORD POWELL: You are really interested?

JULIETTE: Very much. I love young people and this sounds like such a splendid thingor boys.

NARRATOR: Lord Baden-Powell told Juliette how the idea had come to him when he was

in the army stationed in South Arica. The new soldiers he had to train knew

little about nature or outdoor living, and could not stand the hard lie. He

described the games and activities he used to teach the boys how to be

sel-reliant and resourceul. He explained how his program would build

character, promote riendship and an understanding love or the outdoors.

Juliette is obviously very interested. Suddenly she interrupts Lord

Baden-Powell.

JULIETTE: Robert, why should a program o this kind be limited to boys? Girls could

benefit rom the same program. I would like to begin such a program or

Scottish lassies here!

LORD POWELL: Funny, my sister Agnes elt the same way. She has already organized

the sisters o the boys in our troop. They call themselves Girl Guides.

JULIETTE: That’s splendid! I could start a troop here in Glen Lyon. Robert, I could even

take Scouting across the ocean to America. I know eight or nine little girls

in Savannah who would adore it.



(Scene 2 ) The Gordon Living Room. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon and Elinor, Juliette’s parents

and sister, reading letter.

NARRATOR: Our scene changes to Savannah, Georgia, Juliette’s hometown. When Juliette

announced her plan to her amily, they wondered i she would be successul

in carrying it out.

ELINOR: But Daisy is so impractical.

MRS. GORDON: She isn’t really impractical. She just does things diferently than most people.

ELINOR: Won’t her deaness be a handicap in such a project?

MRS. GORDON: I don’t think Daisy’s deaness has been a handicap to her when she has

wanted to complete a specific task. Anyway, she will never hear the word

“no” even when it is shouted very loudly.

MR. GORDON: Daisy’s always been willing to give a great deal o hersel to make young

people happy. I think it is a splendid idea or her to start this work with girls.

We mustn’t discourage her.

(Scene 3) Juliette with a group o girls at tea.

NARRATOR: On reaching Savannah, Juliette wasted no time getting her plans underway.

First she phoned several o her riends, told them what she wanted to do

and asked or their assistance and support. A ew days later she invited the

girls rom a nearby school to tea. She showed them pictures o the English

Girl Guides and told them about the organization as she had seen it working.

The Savannah girls were enthusiastic and eager to orm a troop. So many

girls asked to join Juliette Low’s Girl Guides that two troops were ormed

on that aternoon o March 12th, 1912. Soon there were 6 active troops in

Savannah. That all it became necessary or Juliette Low to return to England.While she was gone, the Savannah troops worked hard.

(Scene 4) A Girl Scout meeting.

JANET: Do you suppose this is the right blue or our uniorms?

KATIE: No, I think this is closer to the blue in this picture.

CINDY: I really like this color best, and I think the material would make a better

looking uniorm.

CATHY: All right, let’s get material and try to make a uniorm just like the one in the

picture.

NARRATOR: So with the help o the picture given them by Juliette Low, uniorms

were made. They also used the English Girl Guide handbook to plan their

meetings.

KATIE: We can start our meeting by saying our Promise and the Girl Guide Laws.

CINDY: We can plan to go on hikes, as the English girls do, and I’d like to keep

a notebook o the birds we see on our hikes.



JANET: Maybe we can meet with some o the other troops once in a while.

This handbook has some games that would be good or us to try with other

troops in Savannah.

NARRATOR: The girls had a great deal to report when Juliette Low returned. She

attended their meetings and with great interest she watched the activities

o her first troops o Girl Guides. She saw that they had their first experience

at camping out — five days o sleeping under the stars, cooking over open

fires, fighting mosquitoes and avoiding poison ivy. In 1913, Juliette Low

changed the name to Girl Scouts. Soon girls rom other parts o America

heard o the Girl Guides and asked Mrs. Low or inormation to start troops.

Other people who had learned about Scouting in England brought

Girl Scouting to their neighborhoods. A national Headquarters was set up in

Washington, D.C. and the name, Girl Scouts o the United States o America,

was adopted. So Juliette Low’s dream o bringing Girl Scouting to the

United States came true.

To Juliette Low

Adapted from the poem by Birdsall Otis Edey

More than a score o years ago, a torch was lit.

A beacon whose glow shone or the joy o youth,

And you, sensing its brilliancy, beneath your roo

Kindled a kindred flame, that girlhood in your land

Should live within its light and with your hand

You tended it and kept its whiteness pure;

Prayed that its bright promise might endure

And waked yoursel uprightly in its gleam.

And we who have had aith in this your dream

And come to give account o our brie stewardship.

Millions o girls share your ideals today,Millions o women walk with them your lighted way.

With lives enriched and broadened rom its treasury

And glad hearts consecrated to your memory.

RecompenseTo Juliette Low

Hers was a golden vision; or looking down the years

She understood the questions and needs that would arise

In the lives o little girls and big girls growing to womanhood,

And clothed her understanding in adventurous disguise,

Taking as recompense the laughter in their eyes.



Girl ScoutsFounder’s Day, October 31

In 1924, Juliette Low sent a message to “her” Girl Scouts. It is appropriate today as it was then.

Dear Girl Scouts,

I am thinking o you today, and in spirit I am with you especially on Halloween, which is mybirthday. I shall be joining in your games – or Girl Scouting is a game, too. I hope that during

the coming year, we shall all remember the rules o this Girl Scouting game o ours. They are

to play air, to play in your place, to play or your side and not or yoursel, and as or the score,

the best thing in a game is un and not the result.

Girl Scouts, I salute you.

Your riend and ounder,

Juliette Low

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