CAMDEN – The cookies might be ubiquitous, but household recognition of
the Girl Scouts’ pioneering founder sadly isn’t as widespread. That is soon to
change as acclaimed historian Stacy A. Cordery’s new biography Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder
of the Girl Scouts (Viking Feb 20, 2012) continues to gain national attention during the Girl Scouts’ centennial.

Cordery, a professor of history at Monmouth College in Illinois, will
offer expert insight into Low’s inspiring life during a free, public talk at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 7 at
Rutgers-Camden. The discussion, featuring images from throughout Low’s life,
will take place in the Multi-Purpose Room, located on the main level of the
Campus Center on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin
Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden campus.

Ever since Cordery was a Girl Scout herself, she developed a deep
affection for Low, who at 51 founded the organization that has impacted
millions of girls and women. A Southern belle with an independent spirit, Low
survived a cheating husband, hearing loss, and childlessness.

“Nobody but her could have founded this group. If she hadn’t had the bad
things happen to her, she wouldn’t have been open to the fairly radical concept
of preparing girls for careers,” says Cordery.

The author of Alice, a biography
of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a New York Times Notable book in 2007,
Cordery’s latest book has been listed by the Christian Science Monitor as one of the
20 Non-Fiction Books to Watch in 2012 and by USA Today as
one of “This Winter’s Biggest Books.”

To register for this free event, visit http://events.camden.rutgers.edu/StacyCordery.