Celebrate Girl Scouting

Girl Scouts Mural

From CNN, May 31, 1997, http://www.cnn.com/US/9705/31/girl.scouts/ :

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Girl Scouts took the nation's capital by storm Saturday, dancing the Macarena on the Mall to mark the organization's 85th anniversary.

Scouts, both in and out of uniform in the hazy heat, swapped stories, remembered their heritage and, of course, sang at the gathering billed: "Still singing after all these years."

The idea behind it is to, number one, celebrate this extraordinary 85th anniversary of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., where the values are just as good today as they were in 1912," said Ellie Ferdon, national president of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.

Inspired by the Girl Guides of England, Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia, started the Girl Scouts with a troop of 18 members. Since then, more than 50 million girls have been Scouts, among them a number who grew up to hold prominent positions.

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