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Girl Scout Celebrates 93 Years of the Movement

Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org

Newark, DE, March 12, 2005:  Girl Scouts all over the Delmarva Peninsula are celebrating 93years of Girl Scouting on March 12, 2005.

Founded in 1912 in Savannah, Georgia, by visionary Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts started with a membership of only 18 girls and a dream. Low dreamed of giving the United States “something for all the girls.” She envisioned an organization that would bring girls out of their cloistered home environments to serve in their communities and experience the open air. Within months, members were hiking through the woods in their knee-length blue uniforms, playing basketball in a curtained-off court, and going on camping trips.

Today, Girl Scouts has come along way, but still are providing girls with new experiences and real life skills. Girl Scout builds girls of confidence, courage, and character, who make the world a better place. We do that with programs that address critical needs of girls such as health, emotional/physical safety, and stereotypes in math/science/technology.

The Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay, with its 24,000 members on the Delmarva Peninsula, is dedicated solely to young women. In an accepting and nurturing environment, young women build character and skills for success in the real world.
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