Greendale Girl Scouts: Celebrating the Past, Inspiring the Future

In 2012, Girl Scouts celebrated their 100th birthday.  This year, Greendale Girl Scouts celebrate a similar anniversary.

The Greendale Review tells us that Girl Scouts have been a part of our community for all of Greendale's 75 year history.  In fact this story from 1939 shows Greendale scouts were participating in that most delicious tradition, the cookie sale, right from the start:

Girl Scout Cookie Day March 25th
The Girl Scouts will take orders for the Girl Scout butter cookies until March 18th. Scouts will deliver and collect for the cookies on March 25th.  Let’s give the girls a big hand in this venture. The money will go to help continue Girl Scout work. --Greendale Review March 11th, 1939

Thanks to the Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Historical Collection, today's Greendale Girl Scouts will be marching in the Village Days Parade wearing authentic uniforms from years gone by.  But today's Girl Scouts aren't the whole story of scouting in our community.

Sunday August 11th, in the Greendale Village Days Parade, former Girl Scouts from Greendale are all invited to join us to show Greendale the big picture of scouting in our community.  If you've been a Greendale Girl Scout in the last 75 years, come march with us!  Join the line up at 11:30 in the Southridge parking lot off Grange (by Macy's.)