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Publication Date
1966
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Exercise and Sport Studies
Abstract
It is the purpose of this thesis to present the lite and contributions of Juliette Gordon Low, for
...it was largely in that one greathearted woman that Scouting took its root and gained the widespread power for good that it holds today among the girlhood of America.4
Mrs. Low, an American living in England, became interested in scouting through her friendship with Sir Robert Baden Powell. After learning of the work of the Girl Guides, she returned to her home in Savannah, Georgia, and proposed the idea of scouting to eighteen girls. Through her financial assistance and able leadership, Girl Scouting became firmly established as an educational and recreational institution in America. Juliette Low, "...whose interest lay in the development of young womanhood...,"5 was also an initial supporter of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, and her work in scouting after 1920 was almost entirely on the international level.
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Hodge, Martha Curtis, "The life and contributions of Juliette Gordon Low" (1966). Masters Thesis, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
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