Helen Storrow

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name = Helen Storrow

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birth_name = Helen Osborne
birth_date = September 22, 1864
birth_place = Auburn, New York
death_date = 1944
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children = James Jackson Storrow Jr.| parents = David Munson Osborne and Eliza Wright
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Helen Osborne Storrow (September 22, 1864 – 1944) was a prominent early Girl Scout leader, and chair of the World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) for eight years. She joined the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1915 and founded the first national leaders' training in Long Pond, Massachusetts in 1917. She headed the leaders' training camp at Foxlease, UK from ("unknown") to 1925. In 1929 she donated the first of the WAGGGS World centres, Our Chalet.

Besides Girl Scouts, she was also active in prison reform; her brother was Thomas Mott Osborne who had been warden of Sing-Sing. In addition she donated a city hall to Auburn, New York in 1930. She also help found the Paul Revere Pottery (aka Saturday Evening Girls) (1906 - 1942).Fact|date=September 2008

Her husband was James J. Storrow (1864–1926), a banker who was the second national president of the Boy Scouts of America.

Legacy

The Helen Storrow Heritage Award is presented by Patriots' Trail Girl Scout Council. [http://www.ptgirlscouts.org/training/helen_storrow_heritage_award.html]

Our Chalet hosts the Helen Storrow seminars that focus on international education. [http://www.ourchalet.ch/en/about/history]

References

* "Mrs. Storrow dies; Girl Scout leader", New York Times, page 50, November 12, 1944.
* [http://www.ptgirlscouts.org/events_programs/founding-women-bios.htmlFounding Women in Girl Scouting]
* [http://www.bahistory.org/HistoryPaulRevere.html Paul Revere Pottery]
* [http://209.204.238.180/times_feature3.mv?20000523 Helen Osborne Storrow: a profile in giving]
* "Scouting Round the World", John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 p. 86

Persondata
NAME=Storrow, Helen Osborne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Storrow, Mrs. James
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Girl Scouting leader
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PLACE OF BIRTH=New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH=November, 1944
PLACE OF DEATH=New York, New York, USA