This Month in Girl Scout History
September

	The American Girl Book of first date stories

September 25, 1929
A Girl Scout loan exhibit of Colonial and early Federal furniture, portraits, glass, and porcelain opens at the American Art Gallery for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, Inc. The guidebook published for this exhibit goes on to become a major antiques reference.

September 1940
The Irving Berlin Foundation announces that royalties from the song "God Bless America" will be allocated to the Girl Scout and Boy Scout organizations.

September 1943
The first official Girl Scout calendar, dated 1944, is produced by the national organization for council and troop fundraising in place of cookies, which most bakers were unable to supply due to war-time rationing of ingredients.

September 1945
Senior Girl Scouting, the first complete Senior Girl Scout handbook, is published. It incorporates all materials on aide work, training programs, and the 10 program fields.

September 9, 1963
Four new handbooks (for the newly established age–levels), introducing a completely redeveloped Girl Scout program, go on sale. It is the first and only time that four handbooks are designed, written, and edited simultaneously.

September 2000
The Girl Scout Research Institute launched its first study, Girls Speak Out: Teens Before Their Time, which found that contemporary pre-teen girls were maturing faster mentally and physically, but not emotionally, than previous generations.

September 2001
Girl Scouts respond to the terrorist attacks on September 11 by performing community services, hosting remembrance ceremonies, and writing thank-you letters to rescuers.