First Girl Scout

by Ginger Wadsworth

  [>] "You are not only making..." "I do hope...": Shultz, p. 269.

  [>] "It comes and goes like the fog.": Interview with Katherine Keena (JGLB).

  [>] "It was a tricky device...": "My Aunt Daisy Was the First Girl Scout" by Arthur Gordon, Woman's Day, March 1956, p. 111.

  [>] "warm brown eyes...": "My Aunt Daisy Was the First Girl Scout" by Arthur Gordon, Woman's Day, March 1956, p. 33.

  [>] "With delightful recollections...": Gordon House Guest Book (JGLB).

  [>] "while brushing her teeth...": Shultz, pp. 87–88.

  [>] "I find friends everywhere.": Shultz, p. 290.

  [>] "I am just an idle woman...": Shultz, p. 260.

  [>] "The road which led from you to me": Choate ("As Her Family Knew Her" by G. Arthur Gordon), p. 58.

  [>] "modeling": Shultz, p. 288.

  [>] "Much of her work reveals real power...": Choate ("As Her Family Knew Her" by G. Arthur Gordon), pp. 57–58.

  [>] "The impression he makes on one...": Juliette Gordon Low journal, May 30, 1911 (JGLB).

  [>] "A sort of intuition comes over me...": Juliette Gordon Low journal, June 1, 1911 (JGLB).

  [>] "No doubt about his magnetism....": Juliette Gordon Low journal, June 17, 1911 (JGLB).

  CHAPTER ELEVEN – AN IDEA FOR ALL OF AMERICA

  [>] "The Girl Guides is a sort of outcome...": Shultz, p. 299.

  [>] "Girls must be partners and comrades...": Girl Guides of Canada, Fact Sheet, "The Three Baden-Powells: Robert, Agnes and Olave," p. 4.

  [>] "I am getting up a corp[s] of Girl Guides here...": Shultz, p. 300.

  [>] "'Then that is settled'...": Choate ("Juliette Low Meets Sir Robert Baden-Powell and the Girl Guides" by Rose Kerr), p. 69.

  [>] "And I should like you to give them...": Choate ("Juliette Low Meets Sir Robert Baden-Powell and the Girl Guides" by Rose Kerr), p. 70.

  [>] "genius for not hearing any excuses...": Choate ("Juliette Low Meets Sir Robert Baden-Powell and the Girl Guides" by Rose Kerr), p. 71.

  [>] "the seeds of the Girl Guide movement...": Choate ("Daisy Low as I Remember Her" by Olave Baden-Powell), p. 195.

  [>] "There was something magnetic about her...": Transcript of Olave Baden-Powell recording, 1968, p. 1 (GGUK).

  [>] 'There we met on board ship...": Transcript of Olave Baden-Powell recording, 1968, p. 1 (GGUK).

  [>] "Imagine a woman, delicate...": Choate ("Juliette Low Meets Sir Robert Baden-Powell and the Girl Guides" by Rose Kerr), p. 70.

  [>] "a moth-eaten specimen...": "My Aunt Daisy Was the First Girl Scout" by Arthur Gordon, Woman's Day, March 1956, p. 110.

  [>] "Come right over...": Choate ("Juliette Low Brings Girl Scouting to the United States" by Edith D. Johnston), p. 82.

  CHAPTER TWELVE – LAUNCHING A DREAM

  [>] "I may become...": Letter from Daisy to her mother, March 2, 1912 (JGLB).

  [>] "I am deep in Girl Guides...": Letter from Daisy to her sister Mabel, March 12, 1912 (UNC).

  [>] "Here are the girls....": Choate ("Juliette Low Brings Girl Scouting to the United States" by Edith D. Johnston), pp. 82–83.

  [>] "'You've made me a what?'...": Shultz, p. 308.

  [>] "sitting perched on a high stool...": "Juliette Low: Juliette Low as I Knew Her" by Daisy Gordon Lawrence, The American Girl, October 1938, p. 5.

  [>] "We played games...": Choate ("Juliette Low Brings Girl Scouting to the United States" by Edith D. Johnston), p. 83.

  [>] "The rooms were packed with them...": Letter to Daisy from her father, May 14, 1912 (JGLB).

  [>] "filled with quaintly misspelled words": Choate ("Juliette Low Brings Girl Scouting to the United States" by Edith D. Johnston), p. 84.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN – THE DREAM BUILDS

  [>] "Her heart, kidneys, liver...": Shultz, p. 312.

  [>] "I don't think it helps to write..." "lost, in Papa..." : Shultz, p. 314.

  [>] "could tell ghost stories...": "Juliette Low: Juliette Low Grown Up" by Daisy Gordon Lawrence, The American Girl, December 1938, p. 19.

  [>] "Girls will do no good by trying to imitate boys....": How Girls Can Help Their Country: Handbook for Girl Scouts, p. 12.

  [>] "welcome all obstacles...": "Juliette: In Her Own Words," Leader, Spring 2006, p. 27.

  [>] "I selected the name 'Scouts' because...": Savannah Morning News, not dated but probably February 1913 (JGLB).

  [>] The Girl Scout Promise and The Girl Scout Laws: How Girls Can Help Their Country: Handbook for Girl Scouts, pp. 3–6.

  [>] "I could not refuse her...": Choate ("Juliette Low Brings Girl Scouting to the United States" by Edith D. Johnston), pp. 86–87.

  [>] "give a [damn]...": Shultz, p. 322.

  [>] "a little old lady with snapping black eyes...": Shultz, p. 344.

  [>] "Everything is done up new...": Shultz, p. 331.

  [>] "Mam[m]a says she likes my...": Shultz, p. 331.

  [>] "I must save every penny...": Shultz, p. 342.

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN – THE ORGANIZATION GROWS

  [>] "rushing through factories...": Savannah Morning News, May 7, 1916.

  [>] "Daisy's Scouts are booming!...": Shultz, p. 337.

  [>] "I do not know how she lives...": Shultz, p. 341.

  [>] "I never use the word...": Letter from Daisy to her mother, June 4, 1914 (JGLB).

  [>] "I want to arrive by the eighteenth...": Shultz, p. 341.

  [>] "motor": Shultz, p. 265.

  [>] "didn't think it would be polite...": Shultz, p. 266.

  [>] "She had ways of her own in driving...": Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Arthur Gordon, October 14, 1928 (FHQ).

  [>] "just pin on badges...": Choate ("Girl Scouting Gets Under Way" by Anne Hyde Choate), p. 96.

  [>] "Well, you [had]...better accept the position...": Choate ("Girl Scouting Gets Under Way" by Anne Hyde Choate), p. 98.

  [>] "The girls must always come first": Shultz, p. 357.

  [>] "Oh, is my trimming sad?...": Shultz, p. 342.

  [>] "I have seen her come into a room...": Choate ("Adventuring in Egypt with Daisy" by Eleanor Nash McWilliams), pp. 153–54.

  [>] "I'm not dead yet!": Shultz, p. 346.

  [>] "I didn't walk down the stairs...": Shultz, p. 347.

  [>] "quicksilver and pepper...": "Getting to Know Juliette Gordon Low" by Ed Levy, Leader, Fall/Winter, 2009.

  [>] "I can see from my front windows...": Shultz, p. 352.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN – BUSY ON BEHALF OF GIRL SCOUTS

  [>] "Everyone [in England] dances...": Shultz, p. 353.

  [>] "the greatest surprise of my life....": Message from Daisy to Girl Scouts (GHS).

  [>] "loved her whole uniform": Shultz, p. 351.

  [>] "the Girl Scout literature...": Choate ("Girl Scouting Gets Under Way" by Anne Hyde Choate), p. 103.

  [>] "hard to straighten her out" "rarest of human beings...": Shultz, p. 356.

  [>] "I realize that each year it has changed...": Daisy's annual birthday message, The American Girl, October 1925, p. 11.

  [>] "Girl Scouting, to Daisy...": "My Aunt Daisy Was the First Girl Scout" by Arthur Gordon, Woman's Day, March 1956, p. 111.

  [>] "so that mothers...": "An Anniversary to Remember" by Susan Einarson, Girl Scout Leader, Summer 1995, p. 28.

  [>] "going with us on our hikes...": Choate ("Juliette Low Goes Camping" by Dorris Hough), pp. 111–12.

  [>] "she read the palm of every person...": Choate ("Juliette Low Goes Camping" by Dorris Hough), p. 112.

  [>] "dashed out...": Savannah Morning News, April 13, 1922.

  [>] "I did not realize when the first patrol...": Daisy's speech notes, May 1922 (GHS). "A few years ago in my ignorance...": Daisy's speech notes, May 1922 (GHS).

  [>] "My Dear Girl Scouts, Little did I dream...": Daisy's annual birthday message, The American Girl, October 1923, p. 13.

  [>] "To put yourself in another's place...": Daisy's annual birthday message, The American Girl, October 1923, p. 13.

  [>] "I look forward to s
eeing the parents...": Shultz, p. 362.

  [>] "mean nothing in themselves..." "Scouting is the cradle...": Leader, Spring 2006, p. 27.

  [>] "Aunt Daisy confided to me...": "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low" by Peggy Graves, not dated, p. 9 (NHPC).

  [>] "Darling Peggie, Don't imagine...": "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low" by Peggy Graves, not dated, p. 8 (NHPC).

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN – CAMP MACY

  [>] "Hullo Peggy, I'm home...": "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low" by Peggy Graves, not dated, p. 9 (NHPC).

  [>] "Champagne is for parties...": "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low" by Peggy Graves, not dated, p. 10 (NHPC).

  [>] "spent each day with her...": "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low" by Peggy Graves, not dated, p. 12 (NHPC).

  [>] "Every place I visit...": Shultz, p. 365.

  [>] "enrolled Mrs. Coolidge as a Girl Scout!...": Shultz, p. 365.

  [>] "Why, so I am!...": Shultz, p. 265.

  [>] "I have a wonderful new plan!...": Shultz, pp. 365–67.

  [>] "without stopping once, the traffic...": Choate ("The World Camp" by Mary Lagercrantz), p. 184.

  [>] "strolled along the sandy lane...": Choate ("Daisy Low as I Remember Her" by Olave Baden-Powell), p. 195.

  [>] "We bowed the plasterers out...": Choate ("Her Dream Comes True" by Jane Deeter Rippin), p. 169.

  [>] "Let her alone. If she wanted...": Transcript of speech by Arthur Gordon at the Juliette Low Dinner, Conference of Girl Scouts of Region Three, April 30, 1935, p. 8 (NHPC).

  [>] "We mustn't lose sight of the girls.": Shultz, p. 357.

  [>] "I have a wonderful plan...": Shultz, p. 377.

  [>] "Daisy has only six weeks to live.": Shultz, p. 377.

  [>] "There won't be any left for the funeral...": Shultz, p. 378.

  [>] "[Aunt Daisy] was always...": "My Aunt Daisy Was the First Girl Scout" by Arthur Gordon, Woman's Day, March 1956, p. 33.

  [>] "I trust I have left no enmities...": Shultz, p. 379.

  [>] "How nice it is to believe...": Letter from Daisy to Mary Gale Carter, January 16, 1927 (JGLB).

  [>] "stood at attention and saluted...": "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low" by Peggy Graves, not dated, p. 15 (NHPC).

  [>] "You are not only the first Girl Scout...": Shultz, p. 378.

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – A BIG LITTLE WOMAN'S LEGACY

  [>] The Girl Scout Promise and The Girl Scout Law: Copyright GSUSA.

  [>] "Girl Scouting builds girls of courage...": Copyright GSUSA.

  [>] "a big little woman": Choate ("Here and There with Juliette Low in Girl Scouting" by Josephine Daskam Bacon), p. 138.

  [>] "dauntless little Joan of Arc...": Choate ("Here and There with Juliette Low in Girl Scouting" by Josephine Daskam Bacon), p. 138.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  BOOKS

  FOR ADULTS

  Biegert, Melissa Ann Langley. "Woman Scout: The Empowerment of Juliette Gordon Low." PhD dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1998.

  Choate, Anne Hyde, and Helen Ferris, eds. Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts: The Story of An American Woman, 1860–1927. New York: Girl Scouts National Organization, first published in 1928. A collection of stories, poems, letters, and recollections written by Juliette Low or about her by her family, friends, or Girl Scouts.

  Cordery, Stacy A. Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts. New York: Viking, 2012.

  Degenhardt, Mary, and Judith Kirsch. Girl Scout Collector's Guide: A History of Uniforms, Insignia, Publications, and Memorabilia. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005.

  Hoxie, W. J. How Girls Can Help Their Country: Handbook for Girl Scouts. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, not dated. Originally written and published in 1913 by Juliette Low.

  Kinzie, Mrs. J. H. Wau-Bun: The "Early-Day" in the North-West. New York: National Society of Colonial Dames in Wisconsin, 1975. Originally published in 1856.

  Schriner, Gertrude, and Margaret Rogers. Daisy's Chicago Heritage. Vernon Hills, Ill.: Girl Scouts-Illinois Crossroads Council, 1976.

  Shultz, Gladys Denny, and Daisy Gordon Lawrence. Lady from Savannah: The Life of Juliette Low. New York: Girl Scouts of the USA, first published in 1958. Daisy Gordon Lawrence was a niece of Juliette Gordon Low's.

  FOR YOUNG READERS

  Aller, Susan Bivin. Juliette Low. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 2007.

  Brown, Fern. Daisy and the Girl Scouts. Morton Grove, III.: Albert Whitman, 1996.

  Fradin, Judith Bloom, and Dennis Brindell Fradin. Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy. New York: Clarion, 2006.

  Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography. New York: Clarion, 1987.

  ———. The War to End All Wars: World War I. New York: Clarion, 2010.

  Kudlinski, Kathleen V. Juliette Gordon Low: America's First Girl Scout. (Women of Our Time). New York: Viking Press, 1988.

  Pace, Mildred Mastin. Juliette Low. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. This out-of-print biography was written in gratitude to Mrs. Samuel C. Lawrence, Juliette Gordon Low's niece and namesake.

  Peavy, Linda, and Ursula Smith. Dreams into Deeds: Nine Women Who Dared. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.

  MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, GIRL SCOUT HANDOUTS, AND MISCELLANEOUS

  Bagnall, Ralph. "Girl Scouts Founder Was Also a Woodworker." Woodworker's Journal, June 2007.

  Clancy, Jacqueline E. "Hell's Angel: Eleanor Kinzie Gordon's Wartime Summer of 1898." Tequesta 63, 2003.

  Edmondson, Jolee. "Scout's Honor: Juliette Gordon Low and the Founding of the Girl Scouts." Delta Sky, February 2003, pp. 68, 70–71.

  Einarson, Susan. "An Anniversary to Remember." Girl Scout Leader, Summer 1995, p. 28.

  Gordon, Arthur. "My Aunt Daisy Was the First Girl Scout." Woman's Day, March 1956, pp. 33, 109–14.

  Graves, Peggy. "In Proud Memory of My Aunt Juliette Gordon Low." Girl Scouts of the USA, National Historic Preservation Center, New York, N.Y., not dated.

  LaPorte, Léo F. "Lou Henry Hoover: A Woman of Independent Thinking." University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, not dated. Girl Scouts of the USA, National Historic Preservation Center, New York, N.Y.

  Lawrence, Daisy Gordon. "Juliette Low." The American Girl, serialized in October, November, and December 1938.

  Levy, Ed. "Getting to Know Juliette Gordon Low." Leader, Fall/Winter, 2009.

  Liddell, Alix. "More About Juliette Gordon Low." The Guide, April 22, 1949.

  Low, Juliette Gordon. Birthday Message, The American Girl, October 1923, p. 13.

  ———. Birthday Message. The American Girl, October 1924, p. 11.

  ———. Birthday Message. The American Girl, October 1925, p. 11.

  ———. Birthday Message. The American Girl, October 1926, p. 10.

  Lyon, Nancy. "Juliette Low: The Eccentric Who Founded the Girl Scouts." Ms. Magazine, November 1981.

  McPherson, Eleanor Wayne. "1942 recollections." Girl Scouts of the USA, National Historic Preservation Center, New York, N.Y.

  Savannah Morning News. Various dates.

  Saxton, Martha. "The Best Girl Scout of Them All." American Heritage, June/July 1982, pp. 38–46.

  Staff editors. "Juliette: In Her Own Words." Leader, Spring 2006.

  WEBSITES

  Andrew Low House: www.andrewlowhouse.com

  Girl Guides of Canada: www.girlguides.ca

  Girlguiding UK: www.girlguiding.org.uk

  Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia: www.gshg.org

  Girl Scouts of the USA: www.girlscouts.org

  Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace: www.juliettegordonlowbirthplace.org

  World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: www.wagggsworld.org

  OTHER SOURCES

  Baden-Powell, Olave. Transcript of recording. 1968. Courtesy of the Girl Guides, United Kingdom.

  Gordon, George Arthur. Transcript of speech given at the Juliette Low Dinner of the Conference of Girl Scouts of Region Thre
e. Richmond, Va., April 30, 1935.

  Lawrence, Daisy Gordon, and Ethel Rusk Dermady. Transcript of conversation. Savannah, Ga., December 1965. Girl Scouts of the USA, National Historic Preservation Center, New York, N.Y.

  PLACES TO VISIT IN THE UNITED STATES

  Andrew Low House, Savannah, Ga.

  Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Ga.

  Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia, First Headquarters, Savannah, Ga.

  Girl Scouts of the USA, National Historic Preservation Center, New York N.Y.

  Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Savannah, Ga.

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, archive of the Gordon Family Papers, 1810–1968.

  INDEX

  Page numbers in boldface indicate illustrations.

  Addams, Jane, [>]

  Albert Edward (Prince of Wales), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Albright, Madeleine, [>]

  American Girl (magazine), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Andrew Low House, [>], [>]

  Arcadian, SS, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Archbold, Anne Mills, [>]

  Bacon, Josephine Daskam, [>], [>]

  Baden-Powell, Agnes, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Baden-Powell, Olave Soames, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Baden-Powell, Robert, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Bateman, Anna, [>], [>], [>]

  Boy Scouts, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Brownies, [>]

  Camp Edith Macy, [>], [>]–[>]

  Camp Juliette Low, [>], [>]

  Carter, Mary Gale, [>], [>]