Girl Scout Council of Hawaii

History :

Girl Scouting was founded in the United States of America by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia with 12 original members. The movement was chartered by the United States Congress on March 16, 1950 and today numbers over three and three-quarter million members. Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. is one of the 87 member countries of the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides.

In Honolulu in 1917, five years after Girl Scouting began, Miss Florence Lowe, a teacher at Kamehameha School for Girls organized the first Girl Scout troop in the Hawaiian islands. Another group of girls in Kaka‘ako (a Honolulu factory district at that time) met and calling themselves Girl Scouts claimed the distinction of having been the first troop. However, the Kamehameha girls completed their organization first. Their papers reached the New York Girl Scout Headquarters first and they were considered Troop One officially.