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Masthead GSL 1925 01 January

Happy New Year 1925, Girl Scouts

Let us all band together to grow bigger and to grow better in 1925, and to reach out until the light of Girl Scouting shines bright in even the darkest, smallest corner.

Ann Robertson
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Girl Scout National President, poet, and suffragist Birdsall Otis Edey penned the following message to Girl Scouts for 1925:

Leader Magazine (January 1925): 1

Mrs. Edey (and was there EVER a better name than “Birdsall Otis Edey”) is referring to the Girl Scout headquarters at 670 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Funds for the building came in part from the “buy-a-brick” campaign associated with “Dorothy,” the yellow brick girl.

buy a brick
Birdsall Otis Edey at a Girl Scout Rally in Central Park, 1920 (GSUSA NHPC)

Happy New Year from the Girl Scout History Project!!

© 2026 Ann Robertson, writer, editor, Girl Scout historian, but NOT a Girl Scout employee.

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