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Show Black President A First For The Girl Scouts I Gloria D. Scott looks like a 17 year old Girl Scout but in 1 reality is a 37-year old newly I elected president of the Girl 1 Scouts of the U.S.A. Dr. Scott, I Houston born professor of I education and director of institutional research at North Carolina A&T State Univer- sity, is the first black president I of the Girl Scouts of the I U.S.A., elected last October at the 40th Session of the I National Council of the Girl Scouts in Washington, D.C. 9 Gloria Scott worked her way I up through the ranks, joining Scouts at the age of 14 and even married a former Boy I Scout. Dr. Scott traces her first I real contact with white people J to the Girl Scouts, which sent her to a statewide convention a in Austin, Texas, when she I was 16. As a child, Gloria Scott I learned that because the options open to a black child a were limited, she would have I to try harder. She feels the two most important influences in her life were her mother and her first grade teacher. Her teacher knew what education was for the black child and knew that for black kids to succeed the system demanded that they be superior. Her mother helped her to accept herself and to know that anything she wanted to do she could. She attended Indiana University Uni-versity on a E. E. Worthing scholarship and majored in zoology. In 1960 Mrs. Scott received a masters in zoology, and in 1965 a doctorate in university administration, both from Indiana University. In 1964 she was the recipient of the Indiana governor's award as "outstanding student." stu-dent." She is a member of the Southern Education Foundation's Founda-tion's board of directors and actively involved in the Baptist Church. As President of the Girl Scouts (a volunteer un-paid three year position) Mrs. Scott will have the opportunity to review programs three times a year at meetings held in the National Headquarters in New York and will also preside at conferences called throughout the year. |