Re: COOKING, SCOUTS V LEADERS

Sara Jones said.... "why the GSUSA are not Guides is that when Ms Low
introduced it into the USA, Guide was not a wise choice as it meant a half
caste Indian tracker/Guide and was considered tobe deogriatry, given the
racial
tensions of the USA at the tinme (not that we were much better down here at
the
time) however, I would like to think that as a goalbal village that we are
today, we have come a lot further than this sort of thing."
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This is interesting. I had *never* heard anything about Juliette Gordon
Low calling her organization Girl Scouts instead of Girl Guides because of
racial concerns. But it brings up a question. If Girl Guides was founded
because girls started forming troops similar to their brother's Boy Scout
troops -- How did they get to be called Girl Guides instead of Girl Scouts?

Carol McLane
Carol.McLane@Commerce.state.mi.us

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