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.
