Girls
Fred Osgood (fosgood@CI.PHOENIX.AZ.US)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:24:10 -0700
After much discussion about what the founder intended I offer the
following from my stamp exhibit "Scouting for Boys" depicting B-P's
orinal concepts in 98 years of Scouting Stamps.
Throughout Scouting for Boys Baden-Powell laid the groundwork for the
eventual adaptation of Scouting for girls:
"LADIES -- To ladies interested in the care and education of girls,
I think this scheme might supply a suggestion for an attractive
organization and valuable training."
"And there have been women scouts of the nation too: such as ...
Florence Nightingale who nursed sick soldiers in the Crimean War.
...these have shown that girls as well as boys may well learn scouting
while they are young, and so be able to do useful work in the world as
they grow older"
He quickly realized that girls were eager to throw off the restraints
Victorian society had placed on them and share in scouting:
"I have had several quite pathetic letters from little girls asking
me if they may share the delights of Scouting life with the boys. But
of course they may! I am always glad of girls patrols being
formed...."
Baden-Powell in Julia Courtney, Robert Baden-Powell The
story of the man who created the international Scout and Guide
movements, Exley, Watford UK:1990
"The Crystal Palace Rally was held on September 4, 1909.
Baden-Powell, in walking among the Boy Scouts during the competitions,
had come upon a small group of seven girls dressed in white blouses,
blue skirts and long black stockings. They wore Scout hats and Scout
scarves and carried Scout staves. `Who are you?' he asked them.
`We are the Girl Scouts', said their spokeswoman, a pert little
11-year old."
William Hillcourt, Baden-Powell, The Two Lives of a Hero,
Gillwellian Press, New York:1992
In 1910 the Girl Guides Association was formed. In 1918 he revamped
the Guides and included programs for younger girls, the Brownies, and
Senior Guides. In this exhibit, as in practice, both Boy Scouts and
Girl Guides/Girl Scouts are shown engaging in the activities described
in Scouting for Boys.
YIS,
Fred Osgood
ASM, T853, St. Matthew UMC
Mesa, AZ
fosgood@ci.Phoenix.az.us
... Bobwhite
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