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Oak Ridge Community Foundation, Published 1993. Paperback, xix, 514 pp.; 22 cm; edited by Joan Wallace; First Edition; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Inscribed on the title page in black ink to a previous owner, "A fellow G.S. historian!", signed with the first name only, Joyce, presumably co-author Joyce K. Maienschein.
In very good condition. Green pictorial paper covers, front cover photograph of Girl Scouts walking below the plant works, light bumping increasing at edges and corners, mild shelf wear, some color loss along edges, creasing to the top corner of the front cover and the bottom corner of the rear cover. Binding tight. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Official publication of the Oak Ridge Community Foundation for the town's 50th birthday. Fifty years of Girl Scouting from 1943, when General Leslie R. Groves permitted the first youth group inside the fenced Manhattan Project city. Covers Army restrictions, hutments, the war's end and the council's founding. The chronology tracks desegregation year by year in what was a federal town: a challenge to segregation in the late 1940s, a colored troop, a Washington trip for negro Girl Scouts, school desegregation through the 1950s, the first integrated troop in Oak Ridge in 1962, and a Challenge to Leadership conference at Memphis on integrating troops. It also records anti-communist hysteria in 1961, fallout shelters and civil defense drills. Contents: Introduction; Girl Scouting in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, The Secret City 1943 to 1945; The Oak Ridge Girl Scout Council 1945-1955; Highland Rim Council, An Overview; Highland Rim Council, Oak Ridge, The Oak Ridge Story 1955 to 1965; Highland Rim Council Counties, Historical Accounts to January 1, 1966, covering Anderson, Campbell, Cumberland, Fentress, Loudon, Putnam, Roane and Scott counties; Oak Ridge Girl Scouts, Highlights with Tanasi Council 1966 to 1991, A Chronology; Troubled Years 1982-1992.