Elisa Colberg

Infobox Person
name = Elisa Colberg


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birth_date = April 25 1903
birth_place = Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
death_date = 1988
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occupation = Teaching, Scouting
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Elisa Colberg (April 25 1903 - 1988) was the founder of the Puerto Rican Girl Scouts, the first troop of which formed in 1926 in Cabo Rojo. She continued as head of the Girl Scout organisation in Puerto Rico for 27 years. [United States Government Printing Office "United States Congressional Serial Set" p. 54] Camp Elisa Colberg, in El Verde in the El Yunque Hills, is named in her memory. [United States Government Printing Office "United States Congressional Serial Set" p. 45]

Baptised as Elisa Esther Colberg Ramirez, Colberg was the fifth child of Rodolfo Colberg Pabón and Castora Ramirez Colberg, born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. She attended a series of schools, including Carbonell, Curry and Salvador Brau, graduating from university in 1925. A year later, after founded a leadership course with twenty enrollees which went on to become the Girl Scout organisation of Puerto Rico. Becoming a qualified teacher in 1928, Colberg retired in 1971, at which time the Scouting organisation had grown to 14,000 children in 654 troops.

ee also

*Juliette Gordon Low

Notes

External links

* [http://www.elisacolberg.com Elisa Colberg] (in Spanish)

Persondata
NAME =Colberg, Ester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =Colberg Ramirez, Elisa Esther
SHORT DESCRIPTION =Teacher, founder of Girl Scouting in Puerto Rico
DATE OF BIRTH =April 25 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH =Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
DATE OF DEATH =1988
PLACE OF DEATH =Puerto Rico