Combined Families — Girl Scouts

This is the latest in an occasional series of posts about the daughters of Samuel Pruyn and their families that lived in the three houses that now are the campus of The Hyde Collection art museum in Glens Falls.

Mary Hoopes and Nell Pruyn were members of the advisory committee that organized a Girl Scout council in the Glens Falls area.

“About thirty enthusiastic Glens Falls citizens met last evening in the Common Council chamber with Mrs. Flora Mundy, national field captain of the Girl Scouts, and, after listening to a most interesting outline of the prospects of the organization pledged themselves to work for and support a local council which probably will include Glens Falls and adjoining towns,” The Post-Star reported on Dec. 11, 1920.

“Mrs. O. B. Bromley, who has been most active in Girl Scout circles, presided over the meeting and gave a comprehensive review of the work thus far accomplished along scout lines … and that there is every prospect of seven or eight troops being organized in the very near future.”

In other historic Combined Families news:

Lake George vacation

The Lake George Mirror on Aug. 29, 1896 reported that Mary Pruyn vacationed at the Hundred Island House.

Endowment

The Post-Star reported on Nov. 15, 1920 that Maurice Hoopes was on the local committee to raise a $10 million endowment for Cornell University.

Glens Falls Home

The Post-Star reported on Dec. 3, 1920 that Louis Hyde was elected to a four-year term on the Glens Falls Home board of directors.

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