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Holloway was the first African-American employed by the Girl Scouts in Middle Tennessee. In the 1976 celebration of the US bicentennial, she was given the "Hidden Heroine" award. [4] In 1991, the Girl Scout headquarters opened the Josephine G. Holloway Historical Collection and Gallery. [4]
Property was donated to the local Boy Scout and Girl Scout councils with the Girl Scouts later ceding their half to the Ozark Trails Council, BSA. Frank Childress Scout Reservation: Ozark Trails Council: Diamond, MO: Sold: The property was sold to a non-profit founded by area scouts. H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation: Heart of America Area Council
Camp Holloway is 76 acres (31 ha) in Millersville, Tennessee, and established in 1951 as a camp for "Negro girl scouts"; it now serves all girls. It is named for Josephine Holloway who founded the first official African-American Girl Scout troop in Nashville in 1942 (some 18 years after establishing one unofficially and 9 years after first ...
Back when it was Camp Steiner, it was the highest-elevation Boy Scout camp in the country at 10,400 feet, and campers had to hike a mile to get into the camp. The camp's buildings date back to the ...
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
Cadettes are Girl Scouts who are in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades (around ages 11–14). [3] [13] Their uniform is a khaki vest or sash with white shirts and khaki bottoms. [2] They wear the official Girl Scout Membership Pin on their uniform. The Girl Scout Membership Star is worn with white membership disks. [5]
The camp had its last summer camp in 1988 and closed in 1989 after 66 years in operation. [2] [5] [6] A Girl Scout camp to the north, Camp Ross Trails, also closed in October 1988 due to concerns about Fernald. [4] In 1995, local developers purchased the land from the archdiocese.
Scout’s board of directors includes Dr. Gernot Doellner, Volkswagen’s head of group strategy; and Peter Bosch, a member of the Bentley Motors Board for Manufacturing, according to news releases.