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9 unusual facts about Girl Guides


A Quick One, While He's Away

When the song was performed live, instead of "girl", Townshend and Daltrey would make a point to sing "Girl Guide".

Ernest Henry Lee-Steere

He was the son of E. A. Lee Steere and his wife Bridget Yelverton O'Connor (the youngest daughter of C. Y. O'Connor; she was prominent in her own right, as Commissioner of Girl Guides in Western Australia for about 17 years).

Falfield

The village also includes St George's Church, The Huntsman Inn, a village hall, a small shop, a car dealership and several farms as well as 1st Falfield Scout Association who are celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2013 and include a branch of the Girl Guides.

Federation of Galaxy Explorers

Similar in some respects to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, FOGE sponsors monthly after-school (or evening) "Mission Team" meetings and periodic field trips, where adult volunteers teach space subjects and lead the participants in projects in space science, earth science, engineering and rocketry.

Jocelyn Hay

Hay worked as a freelance journalist, writer and broadcaster, and then in public relations, particularly for the Girl Guides.

Marge Green

The broadcasting commission said the EastEnders Brownie episodes "came near to parody," were unfair to the Brownies and harmed the Girl Guides' image.

Mary Stevenson

After the war she was elected to the board of Canberra Community Hospital, and also served on the ACT Tourist Bureau Advisory Board and as Girl Guides Divisional Commissioner.

Sarah O'Flaherty

She was a member of the Girl Guides, during which time she learned "good team player, listen to and help others" and put her in good stead for the workplace.

St Margaret's Church, Burnage

Also dating from 1950 is a window in the baptistery depicting Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brownies.


Bella Sidney Woolf

During her years in Hong Kong she was active in community work and was commissioner of the Girl Guides from 1926 to 1936.

Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France

The Eclaireuses et Eclaireurs israélites de France (EEIF, Jewish Guides and Scouts of France) is a Jewish Scouting and Guiding organization in France.

Mount Barker, Western Australia

Mount Barker has a hospital and medical centre, police station, TAFE College, a Community college catering for K-12 schooling, childcare facilities plus Scouts and Girl Guides.

Taney Parish

He founded a Dundrum Company of the Boys’ Brigade also, which was replaced in 1922 by troops of Boy Scouts (SAI, now Scouting Ireland) and Girl Guides.

Tengku Budriah of Perlis

As an active person in extra-curricular activities, she was appointed as committee member in Brownies and Girl Guides, and would later attend the 1950 Girl Guides Jamboree in Australia.

The Girl Guides Association of the Kingdom of Tonga

The first Brownie pack was started in 1957, and during the next few years, Guiding spread to the islands of Ha'apai and Vava'u, and to ʻEua in 1971.

Walking day

Children play a big part through their churches, schools, the Boys' Brigade, the Scouts and the Girl Guides.


see also

100 Years of Girl Guides

The show interviews a number of former Girl Guides from veterans to such household names as Kelly Holmes, Clare Short, Kate Silverton and Rhona Cameron.

Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby

Colby accepted the position of Chief Scout of the Nyasaland Boy Scouts, and his wife became President of the Girl Guides, giving both these organizations a boost.

Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska

In 1932 she was leading VII World Girl Guides Conference in Bucz, where she was elected to the Girl Guides World Committee.

PPÖ

Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs (Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of Austria, PPÖ), is the largest Scouting and Guiding organization in Austria

The Nigerian Girl Guides Association

Oyinkansola Abayomi, former head of the Nigerian Girl Guides Association and the first native Nigerian woman to work for the organization