Girl Scout Trails

Houston, 1967. Very good.. Eight-six issues, each between [4] and [8]pp. All issues broad-bound together. Some wear to first few issues around fasteners, light chipping and edge wear. Minor soiling. Many issues printed in green ink. An extensive midcentury run of the newsletter "Girl Scout Trails," a publication of the Houston and Harris County Girl Scouts (with later issues noted as published by the San Jacinto Girl Scouts). Present here are issues from March 1958 (Volume 17, No. 7) to June 1967 (Volume 26, No. 9), encompassing a decade of scouting in the Houston area. The issues report on a wide variety of news, activities, and events, with articles by prominent scouts, Board meeting minutes, "Troop Talk," and more. Some issues include inserts listing "Service Projects" for the coming year. The earliest issues in this run discuss opportunities for "Negro Scouts" of all ages to attend camps separate from white scouts. The January 1959 issue features a profile of Mrs. F.D. McDonald, an African-American math teacher at Phillis Wheatley High School, and the leader of her daughter's Brownies troop. At some point in this decade, the Girl Scouts in Texas integrated, and later issues feature stories on troops with both Black and white members. We locate no issues of this ephemeral production in OCLC. A wonderful glimpse into the world of adolescent girls in Texas Scouts during the 1960s.