Events The Led Up to the Founding of Girl Scouts
"Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best."
~Juliette Gordon Low
In 1911, Juliette Low met Sir Robert Baden Powell, who would influence the course of her life and the world. The two youth advocates formed an instant friendship through their common background of enjoying adventure. Low was intrigued with Powell's organization, Boy Scouts, and interested to learn about the female counterpart, Girl Guides, which was led by Powell's sister. Juliette Low was almost completely deaf in one year, but that did not inhibit her enthusiasm for starting an organization like Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts. Low felt it was her responsibility to be disciple of Baden-Powell's morally upright organization and deliver it to the world. Enamored with the values Girl Guides sought to pass on to underprivileged girls, Juliette Low founded troops in Scotland and England. Juliette Low began American Girl Scouts with a phone call to a friend. “Come right over,” said Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low on a famous phone call that launched the organization. “I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah and all America and all the world and we’re going to start it tonight!” She knew her future organization "is not just knowing... but doing... not just doing, but being" the best opportunity for girls, which is why Juliette Low invested the majority of her personal assets into it. Girl Scouts was christened in Savannah, Georgia on March 12, 1912 with 18 girls in the first troop.