Girl Scouts Celebrate Birthday on the National Mall

14 June 2012

Tens of thousands of young people on the National Mall celebrate the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts of the United States

JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.

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I’m June Simms. This week on our program we tell about a new blog we just launched...

We also play some break-up songs that you wrote to say were your favorites…

But first, we visit with some American Girl Scouts celebrating the hundredth anniversary of their organization…

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Girl Scouts’ Hundredth Anniversary

JUNE SIMMS: Girl Scouts from around the United States gathered in Washington last weekend to mark the group’s one hundredth anniversary. Organizers say over two hundred thousand people attended the celebration. There were Americans from every state, including actress and singer Mandy Moore. Barbara Klein has more.

BARBARA KLEIN: Girl Scout officials say the first Girl Scout meeting was held on March twelfth, nineteen twelve. That is when Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low met with eighteen girls from the southern city of Savannah, Georgia. Daisy Low believed that all girls should be given a chance to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Brownie Girl Scouts celebrate on the National Mall

Those early Girl Scouts learned to climb mountains and play sports. They also went camping, studied first aid and learned how to tell time by the stars.