Girl Scouts Put Their Heart on Display

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana is sharing its heart with everyone in the greater Chicago area! Eager to show our vibrant brand to the world and provide our support for a heart-health awareness campaign from Northwestern’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, we are participating in the very visible, prominent "Hearts a Bluhm" public art display and awareness campaign. Our Girl Scout-themed, five-foot-high ceramic heart, painted with a bright green sash and trefoil shape, was painted by a student from Columbia College and is on display for all to see on North Michigan Avenue, between Ontario and Ohio streets through the month of February. We hope you have an opportunity to view our heart and all the other creative hearts on display to call attention to heart health in February!

July 2011 - I've been busy over the last few days.
    New Section - Our Ladies in Khaki and Green
    New pages - Girl Scouts on TV
                        The Girl Scout Anniversaries are divided into a page for each anniversary; 25th, 50th, etc
    Updates to the Bicentennial page - does anyone have a color image of the official GSUSA Bicentennial candle?

Apparently it was ok to wear the pin or the patch of the International Women's Year (a stylized dove with the women's symbol ) on the Girl Scout uniform for a short time.


  This October 1975 cover of the Girl Scout Leader helps us to date two items. The girl is wearing a Macy Bolo tie and one version of the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund pin.




Did the new age level  in Girl Scouting - Ambassador  - have a familiar ring to those of us with older ears? Yep - remember these?

   

The Ambassador and Ambassador program was launched in 1975, for Girl Scouts who move and for the new troop that accepted the moved Girl Scout. This brief program (gone by 1979) encouraged any Girl Scout who moved to share with her new troop something about her old community; local customs, unique celebrations, etc. This would qualify her to be an Ambassador. The troop accepting the new girl would share information about her new community. This would qualify them for the Ambassador Aide patch. There is no indication in the October 1975 issue of the Girl Scout Leader magazine that this program was limited to any certain age level of Girl Scouting.


Bummer - found this little tidbit. Did they ever tell Rebecca they went with a younger Girl Scout? At least she got to meet the (future) President!

Tears of Sadness - I started working on updating the Camp Scrapbook, listing all the camps and showing patches, postcards, etc. I was heartbroken to see how many camps are closed or are closing. Soon all we will have are photographs and memories.



April 13 - Researching the Girl Scout Committee/Associate pin that was offered from 1920 and gone by 1957.Official Adult-Level Girl Scout Pins   It seems that the G.S. was added to the pin prior to 1933 - which is what the date the Girl Scout Collector's Guide states. The GS catalog from 1927 clearly shows the GS on the pin. Also - any idea why the cost of the pin dropped from 75 cents to 25 cents? Were the first ones of real gold? Looking for an image of the pin made prior to the GS being added.

April 10 - Donna K. of New Jersey was kind enough to send me some images of patches and other things from her adventures in Girl Scouting. Check out the following pages to see - MACY (photo & patch), Our Chalet (patches, silk and local pin), Our Cabana (silver spoon), New Jersey Camps page (multiple patches), Sangam (patch), Our Ark (patch) and Rockwood.

March 20th - new page added, Cadette Girl Scouts from 1963 forward  - not completed yet, I was getting tired. It goes up to 2000. It's an overall look at the Cadette program and the uniforms. I'll finish it up when I can.

March 2011 - The Vintage Girl Scout Online Museum has gone through a much needed update of the web-building program. I have retired the old Front Page program and have rebuilt the museum in Expressions Web 4. As you will see as your wander through the museum, there are new things to see, some things that have moved, and some thing waiting to be launched. My goal was to make the website formatting up-to-date. Front Page was woefully out of date. My hope is that updating this website will go faster. Old bookmarks will no longer work.
New things added: Links to old Girl Scout videos; see First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1937 Silver Jubilee, the 1959 Senior Roundup, etc. Look for the symbol on pages.

Information on the S.S. Juliette Low, more World War 1 service work by Girl Scouts, historic Girl Scout trees.