SATURDAY .
NOVEMBER 8.1975
SECTION B
ATLANTA The Apollo-Soyuzcrew pause at the grave of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after placing a
wreath honoring King. (From-Left) Vance Brand, Deke Slayton, Aleksey Leonov, Tom Stafford and Valeriy Kubasov. The
Cosmonaut- Astronaut crews visited Atlanta on their tour of the United States. .
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WASHINGTON - Dr.
Gloria D. Scott, Greensboro,
N.C., has become the first
black person to be elected
.president of Girl Scouts of
theU.S.A.
Dr. Scott was chosen to
head the more than three
million-member voluntary
youth organization during
the 40th convention of the
Girl Scout Naitonal Council,
held Oct. 26-29 in
Washington, D.C. She
succeeds Mrs. William
McLeod Ittmann, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
A member ' of the Girl
Scout national board of
directors since 1969, Dr.
Scott has served as the
organization's first vice
president since 1972.
The new Girl Scout leader
is professor of education and
director of institutional
research, North Carolina
A&T University. She is
currently on leave to the
National Institute of
Education as senior research
assistant.
For several years; Dr.
Scott has been involved in
education at local, state,
regional and national levels
as a guest lecturer, student
advisor and consultant, and
has traveled widely in
Canada, Mexico and the
United States. Her husband,
Dr. Will Braxton Scott, is
department chairman of
sociology and social service
and professor of sociology at
North Carolina A&T State
University.
Dr. Scott received her
A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Indiana University,
where she was recipient, in
1964, of the governor's
award as "outstanding
student."
She is a member of the
Southern Education
Foundation's board of
directors, the first woman
to serve on the body since
Eleanor Roosevellt in the
forties. Her accomplishments
also include service on the
Greensboro Voluntary
Action board; the special
DR. GLORIA D. SCOTT
study committee of North
Carolina State Commission
on Higher Education
Facilities, and die technical
advisory committee to the
State Board of Higher
Education of - North
Carolina.
A Girl Scout since her
youth in Houston, Texas,
Dr. Scott believes in Girl
Scouting's invaluable
contribution to the growth
and development of all girls.
Dr. Scott was a
plannerparticipant in the
Conference on Scouting for
black girls, held in 1970 in
Atlanta, Ga., which explored
ways in which Scouting
could more fully meet the
needs and interests of all of
today's girls and women.
"All persons can profit
from good human
interactions," she said, "and
all persons have something
to contribute."
"A movement that had its
birth in 1912 during the
height of the struggle for
women's rights certainly has
an historical mission to
pursue and a significant
national role to play in the
present search for full
human development,- she
added. More than 4,500
delegates, observers and
visitors from 352 Girl Scout
councils in the United
States, Puerto Rico, the
Canal Zone and U.S.
territories attended the
National Council convention
in Washington, D.C. In
addition to holding national
elections, delegates set the
basic direction of Girl
Scouting for the next three
years.
Other officers elected
include Mrs. Elmer C.
Sproul, Newport Beach, Cel.,
first vice-president; Mrs.
Charles H. Finkdstein, Coral
Gables, Fie., second
vice-president; Mrs. OrvOk
L. Freeman,
Ardsley-on-Hudon, N.Y.,
third vice-president; Mrs.
Floyd M. Warr ,
Independence, Mo., fourth
vice-president; Mrs. E.
Robert J. FarreD, Jr.,
secretary, and Miss. Mary E
Ruddy, Washington, D.C,
treasurer.