[16401] in APO-L
History of Scouting and APO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Mon Mar 10 18:20:03 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:15:32 -0500
Reply-To: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
>Questions:
>1. Girl Scoting was founded only 2 years after the BSA. I know very little
>about Girl Scour history. Was the foundings at all collaborated or totally
>coincidential?
From the history on the Girl Scout's web site ( http://www.gsusa.org ):
After her husband's death in 1905, Juliette spent several years drifting
without a sense of direction. All this changed in 1911 when she met Sir
Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and became
interested in the new youth movement. One year later she returned to the
United States and made her historic phone call to a friend saying, "I've got
something for the girls of Savannah, and all America, and all the world, and
we're going to start it tonight." Thus, on March 2, 1912, Juliette Low
gathered 18 girls together to organize the first two American Girl Guide
troops. Daisy Gordon, her niece, was the first registered member. The name
of the organization was changed to Girl Scouts the following year.
[the URL for this document is http://www.gsusa.org/history/history.html
>2. When was the scouting requirement to join APO dropped?
This officially happened in 1967 when a constitutional convention was held
to re-write the bylaws. Juding from the rather detailed notes my home
chapter's delegates kept, it doesn't look like removing the requirement was
seen as a big deal.
I know the requirement wasn't being strongly enforced before that it many
areas. I've also seen a really 'cute' interpretation of the rules to
justify allowing non-scouts to become members: you needed to be a member of
the BSA or an affiliated organization to become a brother. APO was an
affiliated organization. By pledging you became a member of APO.
Therefore, there was never any reason to check on a prospective brothers
scouting affiliation.
>4. How many brothers/pledges online here have been members of GSA or continue
>to be involved with the organization? If you are, is that an APO service
>activity or is it totally separate from fraternity service?
I was a Brownie & a Junior, but dropped any involvement in Jr. High.
Y.I.S.
c.c.
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