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July

Photo of Our Chalet in Adelboden, Switzerland. © GSUSA. All rights reserved.
 
Our Chalet, the WAGGGS world center in Adelboden, Switzerland.
   
  Photo of the Girl Scouts fo the USA headquarters in 1992. © GSUSA. All rights reserved.
 
Girl Scouts of the USA headquarters, 1992.
   

July 1912
Lowlands, the first Girl Scout campsite, is purchased by Juliette Low.

July 23-28, 1920
The first International Conference of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is held in Oxford, England.

July 31, 1932
Our Chalet in Adelboden, Switzerland—the first world center established by the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)—is formally opened by Lord and Lady Baden-Powell. Our Chalet is a gift to WAGGGS from Helen Storrow of Boston, Massachusetts.

July 1977
Worlds to Explore: Handbook for Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts is published. Program activities for Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts are newly divided into five broad interest areas known as Worlds.

July 1992
Girl Scouts of the USA relocates its national headquarters to 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.

 
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