Juliette Gordon Low by Stacy A. Cordery5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() When she went to a doctor for relief, he inadvertently ruptured her eardrum. ![]() The “Daisy” nickname? Her family called her “Crazy Daisy,” due to her ebullience, optimism, and predilection for joking and silliness.īut the nickname also came to reflect other troubles Daisy was having a series of ear infections she suffered throughout her youth affected her hearing. I vaguely recalled that she’d been nicknamed “Daisy,” and I had a memory, based on a half-remembered painting, that she was beautiful.īut there was plenty I didn’t know, things (understandably) glossed over in the bio we learned in Girl Scout meetings. I knew that she’d been born to a wealthy family in Savannah, Georgia just before the Civil War, and had a life of privilege. I knew, of course, that in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low had founded the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, inspired and encouraged by her friend Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who had established the Boy Scouts, and the “Girl Guides” program in England. Geez, the things my Girl Scout handbooks never mentioned. ![]()
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