Highlights fromOur 100th Anniversary

March 12, 2012!

Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana

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With the 100th year anniversary

of Girl Scouts approaching on

March 12, I think it’s a great time to

reflect on the impact this great

organization has made on today’s

girls. Even though I haven’t been a

part of Girl Scouts for 100 years, I

can say that Girl Scouts has given

me skills and lessons to last a life-

time. It has been a part of my life for

longer than I can remember, and I

have countless memories.

I have been afforded so many

unique opportunities like camping

with 24 women CEOs or working

with the Chicago Bar Association

Alliance for Women to learn in

depth about the law field. I even

traveled to Houston, Tex. for the

52nd National Convention of Girl

Scouts of the USA where I learned

even more about topics like market-

ing, global connections and busi-

ness while participating in the Girl

Scout Leadership Institute.

However, I still find that even

with all of these amazing leadership

opportunities, Girl Scouts still

seems to stand for cookies, camping

and crafts in the eyes of everyday

people. It is so much more. It is

clear that the Girl Scout formula is

building girls of courage, confi-

dence, and character.

However, with all of the develop-

ments, we still maintain our tradi-

tions like the annual cookie pro-

gram that is currently in progress.

There is the new Savannah Smiles

cookie, a crisp, zesty, lemony

delight made specifically for the

100th anniversary. Selling cookies

even has a technological twist now.

Girls market their cookies through

social media and people can locate

where girls are selling them by vis-

iting www.girlscoutcookies.org.

Oh, and 2012 is the YEAR OF THE

GIRL! This effort is to focus nation-

al attention on girls and the issues

they face, and, of course, celebrate

girls in this anniversary year.

Girl Scouts has empowered me to

become the fearless, courageous

young lady I am today, not to men-

tion it's where I have made many

good friends throughout the years. I

have learned to be a leader among

my peers, especially seeing that

there aren’t many Girl Scouts my

age and how eyes jump open when I

proudly exclaim my Girl Scout sta-

tus. Girl Scouts is definitely a life

changing experience.

Girl Scouts: 100 years of service

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Maria High School students delivered boxes and bags of donated non-perishable food and household

products to residents of the Saint Martin de Porres House of Hope. (Front, from left) are Vivian

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Rodriguez of Gage Park, Venessa Suarez of Cicero, Jenaun Jackson of Pullman, Brianna Terrell of

Pullman, Ruth Hollis of Bridgeport, and Zoie Sanders-Cobb of Gresham; (back, from top left) Carly

Comiskey, chaperone; Brianna Burks of Chicago Lawn, and Shayana Lanier of Chicago Lawn. Photo:

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Girl Scouts Gabriele Krych of Lyons, Phyllis Reid ofBrookfield and Rayetta Marconi of LaGrange Park at the1965 Girl Scout Senior Roundup in Farragut, Idaho.

Some of the historic items on display at the library.Promise Circle events onMarch 12To celebrate this great achievement inhistory, the week will begin on Sunday,when the Girl Scout Sabbath, on March11, will be held at local churches. Scoutsare given the chance to attend theirplace of worship and in uniform. Thisbegins Girl Scout Week.

In addition, Promise Circles are beingheld all over the United States, onMonday, March 12, at 7:12 p.m., similarto the founding year.Present Girl Scouts, alumni, families,

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Girl Scouts turn 100Brookfield's involvement goes back almost tothe very beginningBy Chris StachContributing Reporter

It scarcely seems like 100 years has marched by since Girl Scoutinghas come to the United States.On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low, of Georgia, made the historic,fateful telephone call to her friend, Nina Anderson Pape, that startedit all.

"Come right over! I've got something for the girls of Savannah, andall America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!"From that simple but forceful declaration was born the Girl Scouts of

the U.S.A., although, at first they were called Girl Guides, a nametransplanted from their Great Britain "ancestors."In 1916, Brookfield resident Ethel Bouchard, who lived at 9410

Congress Park Ave., liked the idea of Girl Scouts, so she wrote toNew York for information and was told that a troop must have aCaptain and a sponsor. She and other interested girls found bothwhen the Shroyer family moved into 4434 DuBois Blvd. in thevillage's Congress Park neighborhood, in October 1916.The woman who began Girl Scouts in Brookfield's Congress Park

section was Elizabeth Shroyer, affectionately known as "CaptainBeth" by her scouts.The Suburban Magnet newspaper made the mistake of publishingthis on its front page for Oct. 15, 1918:"The Congress Park citizens held a peace meeting on Monday night

at the schoolhouse. ...The speakers were... and [also] Mrs. H.Shroyer, who is at the head of the Camp Fire Girls."Captain Beth was not going to stand for such inaccuracy and fired

off a sternly worded letter to the Magnet editor, W. Melville, whopublished it on the next issue's front page, under the headline, "BegYour Pardon."

"Editor, Magnet: In the report of the peace meeting at Congress Parklast week ... you spoke of Mrs. H.W. Shroyer as head of the 'CampFire Girls.' Mrs. Shroyer is Captain of the Red Clover Troop of theGirl Scouts ... organized in August 1917 ... and has 24 members.[Signed] Beth Shroyer, Captain."This-60 member troop was known to be the first on the Chicago-Aurora C.B. & Q. railroad route. Was it the first troop in Chicagoand/or Cook County? That is uncertain. Around 1916 a few otherlone troops were forming in the Chicago area, but the Red CloverTroop was certainly among the first.The first patrol (sub-group) of the troop was the Whippoorwill. The

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Gloria Kim, a fourth-grader of Troop 41610, gets special instructions

from Stina Krist of Evanston as they test pH levels. (Photo by Heather

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100 Years!

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Emily Bartusiak has shadowed

attorneys and CEOs, tried

archery and played golf.

She’s camped, volunteered,

sold cookies and learned how

to be a leader.

She’s done all this — and more

— as a Girl Scout.

“Girl Scouts isn’t just having fun

and doing things girls don’t

normally do,” says Bartusiak, a

16-year-old high school junior

from Lake Forest, who first

joined the organization as a

kindergarten Daisy. “It also

prepares you for life.”

With a determination to build

girls of “courage, confidence

and character,” Girl Scouts

celebrates its 100th

anniversary this March.

The organization has grown

and evolved since its official

beginning March 12, 1912,

when founder Juliette Gordon

Low hosted her first troop

meeting with 18 girls from

Savannah, Ga.

Through the years, Low’s goal

— to give all girls the

opportunity to develop

physically, mentally and

spiritually — has continued to

live on in an organization that

now has a membership of

more than 3.2 million girls and

adults throughout the country.

Considering the Girl Scouts organization was created at a time when women weren’t even allowed to vote, the

impact the organization has had is quite significant, says Maria Wynne, chief executive officer for Girls Scouts of

Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, which includes Lake County.

“It’s incredible,” she says. “It means that the relevance of the organization is alive and well. As we look at the next

100 years, we’re very focused on making sure girls are ready to face the world they’ll be participating in as adults, as

leaders of their communities and leaders of their families.”

Ranging in age from 5 to 17, the girls now learn from guidebooks called “Journeys” that spell out various projects

they can complete to earn badges.

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In addition to traditional media impact, our anniversary generated a viral reach of 2,365 on Facebook with 40 new fans engaging on March 12 alone. Twitter featured 50 tweets about the anniversary throughout the day, and more than 2,000 unique visitors logged on to our website.

100th Anniversary Promise Circles!

Jeanne Reynolds, Tim Stevens and Maria Wynne, Daley Plaza

Friendship Center, Country Club HillsWestfield Chicago Ridge Mall , Chicago Ridge

Approximately 10,000 girls, volunteers, alumnae and family members gathered at nearly 70 Promise Circle locations throughout our council on Monday, March 12, 2012. At exactly 19:12 military time (7:12 p.m.), everyone joined in circles to recite the Girl Scout Promise

and Law and celebrate being a “sister to every Girl Scout” exactly 100 years after Juliette Gordon Low called together 18 girls in Savannah for the first meeting. Our Green Ribbon Campaign invited alumnae to reconnect with us, and nearly 50 sites hosted displays of historical uniforms, handbooks, badges, and pins that called forth memories and stories from women of all ages.

Thank you to all the volunteers serving on the Promise Circle Subcommittee andthe 100th Anniversary Committee for your dedication!

100th Anniversary Promise Circles!

Valley Forge Park District, Chicago

Westfield Fox Valley Mall!, Aurora

“Our troop participated in the Flashmob at Stratford Square mall in Bloomingdale. What a great time. The place was shoulder to shoulder with Girl Scouts. Our troop theme this year is friendship, and we just began a pen pal relationship with scouts from another school in our district. Some of the pen pals got to meet each other at the event, and all the girls were thrilled about that. Before we parted, we had a friendship squeeze with our new friends. Fun!” – Beth, via Facebook

Inwood Park, Joliet

Stratford Square Mall!, Bllomingdale

2012 Tribute to Achievement!

On March 12, we honored the memory of our founder Juliette Gordon Low by hosting our annual Girl Scout Leadership and Innovation Awards: A Tribute to Achievement. We extend

sincere thanks to Mary N. Dillon, president and chief executive officer of U.S. Cellular, for serving as chair of the event.

Inspiration filled the room as Anne R. Pramaggiore, president and chief executive officer of ComEd, accepted the Luminary Award; Karen Tandy, senior vice president of public affairs, accepted the Centennial Award on behalf of Motorola Solutions Foundation; and Cheryl Pearson-McNeil, senior vice president of public affairs and government relations, accepted the Corporate Appreciation Award on behalf of Nielsen. Thank you for your leadership.

The event raised $854,866 to benefit Girl Scouting in our communities, with 617 attendees.

Thank you!

Maria Wynne, Mary Dillon Anne Pramaggiore, Joanne Dynak, Ellen Costello

Maria Wynne, Cheryl Pearson-McNeil , Connie Lindsey

Connie Lindsey,Karen Tandy