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The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
The Ruan Center is a high-rise office building located at 666 Grand Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa, which was built by Ruan Transportation. [4] The building was completed in 1975 and stands at a height of 459 ft (140 m), and was the tallest building in Iowa until the completion of 801 Grand in 1991.
Dec. 13—If you got your letters to Santa Claus and holiday cards off in the mail but you're still itching to send good wishes to someone, sign up for Operation Holiday Cheer. You don't actually ...
John Ruan (February 11, 1914 – February 14, 2010) was the former Chairman and CEO of The Ruan Companies and Chairman Emeritus of the World Food Prize.. At the Ruan Companies, Ruan represented a diversified group of businesses with activities that include transportation, commercial banking, financial services, international trading and real estate development.
Girl Scouts of Japan: full 34,927 1952 1919 girls-only Jordan: Jordanian Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides: full 9,080 1963 1938 girls-only Kenya: Kenya Girl Guides Association: full 159,399 1963 1920 girls-only Kiribati: The Girl Guides Association of Kiribati: associate 2,833 1990 1926 girls-only South Korea: Girl Scouts Korea: full ...
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).
Singing Girl Guides at the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007 in Cologne, Germany. A Girl Guide or Girl Scout is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 10 and 14. Age limits are different in each organisation. Robert Baden-Powell chose to name his organization for girls "the Girl Guides".
Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909, when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout Movement .