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October 31, 2017 ·

Guest Editorial: Girl Scout Alumna Megan Gardam

Two years ago I was in Savannah, GA, and decided to visit Juliette Gordon Low’s grave site. I mapped out how to get there and set out on my run. The distance wasn’t far for me, but the journey that brought me there was. While there I said to her tombstone “Did you have any idea what it was that you started, and could you have ever imagined how many lives you were going to touch?”

My Girl Scout journey started in first grade and proceeded through my senior year of high school. Girl Scouting opened the doors of possibility and exploration to things I might never have seen otherwise. It helped me to develop my planning and leadership skills, along with my social interaction skills. Those years as a girl member started to plant the seeds for me to find and develop my passions ...
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