"I published a biographical article about her in a book about American philanthropists. "I was discouraged from pursuing this topic."īut she never lost interest in Low, who was known to family and friends in her native Savannah as Daisy. "The Girl Scout national headquarters in New York had a very different take on outside researchers at the time," Cordery says. Unfortunately, the one organization that would seem most likely to support such an endeavor didn't allow it. "When I was in graduate school, I wanted to write my doctoral dissertation on Juliette Gordon Low." I think the magnitude of Girl Scouts in her life was obvious."Ĭordery herself enjoyed being a Brownie and later, a Girl Scout. "She moved it from house to house, state to state. "Except the one glaring exception to my mom's rule was this - her Girl Scout uniform," Cordery says. "I moved around a lot as a girl, and my mother's rule was 'If you haven't worn it in two years, donate it.' "The long story is I was a Girl Scout, my mom and grandma were Girl Scouts," Cordery says. Cordery had many reasons for writing her book "Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts."
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