Girl Scouts of America
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Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) |
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| Age range | various age ranges | ||
| Founded | 1915 | ||
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| Girl Scouts of America | |||
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| Headquarters | Des Moines, Iowa | ||
| Founded | 1910 | ||
| Founder | Clara A. Lisetor-Lane | ||
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| Boy Scouts of the United States | |||
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| Owner | National Highway Protective Association | ||
| Founded | May 5, 1910 | ||
| Defunct | 1910 | ||
| Founders | E.S. Cornell Peter S. Bomus |
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| Chief Scout | Peter S. Bomus | ||
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| LifeSaving Guards-Boys | |||
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| Owner | The Salvation Army | ||
| Founded | 1913 | ||
| Founder | William Booth | ||
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There were other Scouting and Scout-like organizations that arose over the years in the United States.
Bee-Hive Girls was the Scout-like program for girls run by the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (YLMIA) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).
Initial in 1913, the Ensign Stake YLMIA and Box Elder YLMIA used some portions of Camp Fire Girls' and Girl Guides' programs respectively. The Church indicated to Dr. Luther H. Gulick, the Camp Fire Girls founder, that it would not be officially involved with them, for a number of reasons related to the need of the Stake and General Boards to administrate all activities. Despite this, Dr. Gulick still met with a Bee-Hive committee representative with welcoming attitude. The Bee-Hive Girls was official founded in 1915.
For its Silver Jubilee Year, a years worth of activities were planned for 1940 under General Bee-Hive Committee led by chairman Ileen Ann Waspe. In May 1943, the Bee-Hive Girls was reported to have 20,000 members.
For the organization's war time efforts starting in June 1943, Bee-Hive War Emergency (BHWE) Swarms were formed of all three levels in each ward under one of the Bee Keepers so as to efficiently hand these efforts. Special honor badges were issued for each 12 hours of war time work. Earning three such honor badges, or 36 hours of war service, earn the girl a BHWE pin. 900 BHWE pins were issued by May 1, 1943.
Bee-Hive Girls were organized into Swarms for each level in a stake which were headed by a Bee Keepers. Busy Bee Girl Characters of the program included Commando Rosy-Bee-Ready.
Girl Scouts of America (GSA) was an early USA girl Scouting organization that operated starting in 1910.
The Girl Scouts of America was established in Des Moines, Iowa by Clara A. Lisetor-Lane in 1910. In 1911, the GSA and the Girl Guides (Spokane, Washington) planned to merge with the Camp Fire Girls to form the Girl Pioneers of America, but relationships fractured and the merger failed. That year, Lisetor-Lane had published her group's manual based on the Girl Guides handbook.
Juliette Gordon Low attempted in 1913 to merge her organization with the GSA. With the groups similarities, Low thought this would be easy, but Lisetor-Lane felt Low copycatted her organization and threatened a lawsuit. With Low's group's growth, Lisetor-Lane thought that Low used underhanded tactics to lure troops away. The GSA never grew beyond a few troops as Lisetor-Lane had limited social connections and no financial resources to grow the organization on a national level. The GSA eventually died out.
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