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AP Photo/Stephen Morton Third generation Girl Scout Kathryn Hoersting, 11, right, is joined by her grandmother Amy Gerber and mother Wendy Hoersting, left, in front of a circa 1920 portrait of Juliette Gordon Low, at the Juliette Gordon Low birthplace in Savannah, Ga. Still thriving with a membership of 2.3 million girls nationwide, the Girl Scouts will celebrate their 100th birthday March 12. SAVANNAH, Ga. — Recruited over tea at the mansion of a Georgia widow, the first Girl Scouts went on to earn proficiency badges for c...
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Recruited over tea at the mansion of a Georgia widow, the first Girl Scouts went on to earn proficiency badges for cooking meals and caring for babies. In a nod to their changing times, they also learned to shoot rifles and self-defense tactics such as "how to secure a burglar with eight inches of cord." Now a century has passed and millions of Americans have taken the Girl Scout promise, sold Samoas and Thin Mints by the truckload and gone on to careers from CEOs to astronauts. As they celebrate their 100th a...
