Who Were the Other Seventeen?
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Today marks the 111th birthday of Girl Scouts! If you’re a die-hard Girl Scout, you know the story of Juliette Low making the famous phone call on March 12th:
I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!
And the story goes that local girls were gathered for a tea party and told what they could be doing as Girl Guides (the name Girl Scouts didn’t come into play until 1913). Eighteen girls were signed up that night, but the first name on the list, “Daisy Doots” Gordon, who was also Juliette’s niece, wasn’t in attendance.
So who were the first girls other than Daisy Gordon? Here’s a document from 1936 with their signatures:
Source: First Girl Scout – The Life of Juliette Gordon Low, pg. 119
My ADHD brain can’t help but notice something was wrong with the lowercase w key on the Savannah council’s typewriter, but I digress.
I can’t make out all of the names though. Does anyone know who they are?
Hi Amy. I have become friends with a woman named Nell Riviere-Platt on Facebook. She wrote me: “I am the granddaughter of one of the girls in the first troop, Page Randolph Anderson Platt, 1899-1985.” She commented here a couple years ago! Nell Platt. I just looked and it’s your March 12, 2020 post.
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The staff member at the Birthplace who’s been doing all the history posts could probably tell you more.
Thanks!
MY OCD brain noticed that the Carnation patrol had 10 girls while the White Rose patrol only had 8.