Girl Scouts Celebrate 100 Years as Organization

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Inc. (GSGATL) celebrated 100 years of the world’s premier organization for girls at the council headquarters in Mableton, Georgia, last week. 

The event included the participation and attendance of the new CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA, Anna Maria Chávez, the first Latina to head the international organization.

Special commemorative activities included the burial of a time capsule with 100 memories and memorabilia from the area council’s girls and alumnae that had been collected for the occasion, and for posterity. Attendees gathered in the council’s Memory Garden at GSGATL headquarters to bury the capsule.

In addition, it was announced that all girl babies born at Northside Hospital’s three hospitals on the actual 100th birthday, March 12, had been presented with a declaration, which registers them as Girl Scouts for the year 2017 - the first eligible year for newborns of 2012. The baby girls and their proud parents were presented with baby bodysuits donated by Carter’s, which is headquartered in Atlanta.

“It is clear that we are as relevant in the 21st century as we were when Juliette Gordon Low founded our organization in 1912,” said Marilyn Midyette, CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta.  “Our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence and character. We gather here today to honor that mission, and to pay tribute to the Girl Scouts of the past, present and future.”