Northville Girl Scouts Volunteer in Vintage Uniforms

Girl Scout Seniors from Troop 40737 of Northville, dressed in retro uniforms,  served as guides at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing on March 31.

The Scouts wore uniforms that Girl Scouts in the 1950s and 1960s would have worn.

Here's more from a Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan press release:

The girls said they liked wearing the hats and gloves.

“I feel like a flight attendant!,” said Jillian Stacer, 14, wearing the 1960 Girl Scout Cadette uniform with dark green skirt, white blouse and green tie. 

“I’m the highest ranking Girl Scout here,” joked Emily Koswick, 13, in an Intermediate Girl Scout uniform with both the First Class and the Curved Bar awards (the highest awards in Girl Scouting at the time).

As volunteer docents (tour guides), the girls greeted visitors at the museum’s special exhibit of Girl Scout memorabilia, “Follow the Girls: 100 Years of Girl Scouting.” The displays document the first century of Girl Scouting in Michigan. Troops from all regions of Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan will volunteer as docents all summer. The exhibit closes August 26, 2012.

The girls are pictured with today’s Girl Scout look at their own Silver Award ceremony as well as in the uniforms of the Junior, Cadette and Intermediate Girl Scouts of decades past. The uniforms belong to current Girl Scout volunteer Cherie Cornick, her sister, Brenda Travis, and their mother, Irene Murphy. Troop 40737 Leader Denise Stacer also lent her Girl Scout badge sash to Megan Gutherie’s outfit.

Troop 40737 learned that, although uniform styles may change, Girl Scouting remains the world’s premier leadership development organization for girls. The troop reserved the Northville District Library’s display case a year in advance so that they could set up a display for the month of April about the fun things girls can find in Girl Scouting and to celebrate  the 100^th anniversary.

On March 12, 1912, Juliette Gordon Low started the first Girl Scout troop in Savannah, Georgia, with 18 girls and these famous words, “I have something for the girls of Savannah, and all America, and all the world, and we are going to start it tonight”. 

Today, the girls in Troop 40737 are among 3.2 million American girls and women who are Girl Scouts.  An estimated 50 million American women are Girl Scout alumnae. Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan serves 22,000 girls in 33 counties across southwest, central and northeast Lower Michigan. For more information on Girl Scouting, visit www.gshom.org or call 1-800-497-2688 (49-SCOUT).