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- From historian and St Joseph's records caretaker Chip LANDRY on 29 Nov 2007: Tallulah Maria Arbour, d/o Henry Arbour and Anna Brian, bn. 30 May 1899, bt. 14 Aug 1900, sponsors Stella Allain (St Joseph Catholic Church, Baton Rouge, LA, Baptismal Register #92, pg. 84)
According to David Rowland ARBOUR, Tula's birth date was 21 May 1900.
According to the Social Security Death Index, Tula's birth date was 21 June 1900.
Tallulah May never married nor had children. In 1962, she lived in Baton Rouge with her invalid mother at 352 St Louis Street.
In April 1999, while still living in Baton Rouge, she reflected back upon the Depression Era, when she could not remember any real suffering. Her simple explanation for these sentiments was, "We had Huey LONG." Apparently she was quite fond of the Louisiana Governor who was assassinated in 1935 by those who did not feel quite as positively as she did. According to David Rowland ARBOUR, dear Tallulah May was still living inMay 2000, around the time of her 100th birthday. All of the LouisianaARBOURs apparently owe her a debt of gratitude for her strength and skill in remembering and recordingthe family history. "Tulie" was still enjoying birthdays in following years. She was mentioned in the Baton Rouge Advocate as having celebrated her101st birthday in May 2001 and her 102nd in May 2002.
The Baton Rouge Advocate (LA) -- 24 Apr 2003
ARBOUR, TALLULAH "TULA"
Miss Arbour was born 21 May 1900, and died at her home on Saturday, 19 April 2003. She is survived by three nephews and their families, JosephH. Arbour Jr. of Baton Rouge, and Frank Brian Arbour andWillard L. Arbour, both of Atlanta; caregivers, Rozelia Thomas, Barbara Talbert, Verla Scott, Betty Howard, Emma Davis, and Jessie Watts; and special friend, Dorothy Hernandez. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Arbour; a sister, Clara L. East; three brothers, Joseph H. Arbour Sr., Frank Brian Arbour, and Willard L. Arbour. Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., from 9 am until funeral at 10 am Thursday, with the Rev. Donald Blanchard officiating.
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Bio from Facebook on 30 May 2010:
30 May 1899 -- Our profiled person today is unique in her own right. Asfar as we know Tallulah May ARBOUR lived longer than any other ARBOUR ever has . . . 102 years! Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,Tallulah May -or Tula as she was affectionately known - was the 3rd of 5 children born to hardware store associate Henry Anthony ARBOUR and his wife Anna Ernestine BRIAN. Tula never married nor had children. For most of her life, she lived in the ARBOUR family home in Baton Rouge, located at 352StLouis Street. With her parents and various other extended family members, Tula lived in this housefrom at least 1900 through her mother's death in 1963. In April 1999, while still living in Baton Rouge, she reflected back upon the Depression Era, when she could not remember any real suffering. Her simple explanation for these sentiments was, "We had Huey Long." Apparently she was quite fond of the Louisiana Governor who was assassinated in 1935 by those who did not feel quite as positively asshe did. According to family historian David Rowland ARBOUR, dear Tula was still living in Baton Rouge in May 2000, around the time of her 100th birthday. All of the Louisiana ARBOURs apparently owe her a debt ofgratitude for her strength and skill in remembering and recording the family history. Having lived in 3 different centuries, Tula no doubt witnessed many amazing changes. Tula was still enjoying birthdays in the years immediately following. She was mentioned in the Baton Rouge Advocate newspaper as having celebrated her 101st birthday in May 2001 and her 102nd in May 2002. Sadly, shedid not live to have another birthday. Tula passed away on 19 April 2003 in her native city.
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The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) -- Sunday 18 Mar 2012 -- by Carol Anne Blitzer
A century of Scouts -- Girl Scouts mark 100 years of courage, confidence and character
This March, some 3.2 million Girl Scouts celebrate the 100th anniversary of the organization whose mission it is to build girls of courage, confidence and character to make the world a better place. With them in spirit will be the more than 50 million Girl Scout alumnae who enjoyed Girl Scouting during their childhood. "Once a Girl Scout, always a Girl Scout," said 94-year-old Janice Carpenter, former Girl Scout leader, board member and two-term local council president. Girl Scouting in America started with one very traditional Southern woman, Juliette Gordon Low, who found herself with a host of nontraditional problems. Low, who was known as Daisy, lived a charmed childhood in a wealthy Savannah, GA,family. In 1886, she married a dashing British aristocrat, moved with him to England andset out on a life of travel and pleasure. Somehow things did not turn out the way Daisy Low had planned. She was childless, almost completely deaf, thousands of miles from family and friends, andburdened with a philandering husband who left her and then died beforetheir divorce was final. In her misery, Low was determined to find something worthwhile to do. In 1911, she met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the former English general and war hero who had founded the Boy Scouts in 1908. The movement was so successful that Baden-Powell asked his sister,Agnes, to form a similar organization for girls.They called it the Girl Guides. The new Scouting movement became Low's life work. She returnedto Savannah and called a friend saying, "Come right over. I've got something for the girls of Savannah and all America and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight." That first Girl Scout troop meetingwas held 12 March 1912. By the time the United States entered WWI in April 1917, Girl Scouting had spread across the country, and its membershad become active volunteers for the war effort. According to a history of the first 50 years of Girl Scouting in Baton Rouge compiled byBetty Fentonin 1971, a group of girls who had camped near Port Vincent in the summer of 1921 met at the home of Mrs. L.U. Babin that November to form Baton Rouge's first Girl Scout troop. Their captain was Judith McGregor Pillow, who was assisted by Mildred Kearly, Rosalie Knox Creaghan,Marie Conrad, Margaret Reymond, Evelyn Sanders, TULAH ARBOUR, Edna Arnold Warner and Estelle Van Dervort Weimer. Three months later, the troop held its first fundraiser, a benefit performance at the Elks Theater ofamusical comedy, "The Houseboat on the Sticks." Proceeds from the event helped provide 100 steel cots for the Scouts to use at summer camp. A State-Times editorial for 27 May 1922, called the Girls Scouts "a step in the right direction" and a movement that "should have the encouragement and support of thepublic generally." The Girl Scout organization, the editorial said, "is based on the same high principles of honor and service (as the Boy Scouts); it requires the doing of definiteand practical tasks and rewards proficiency; it teaches the girls simple homeduties; it opens to them, as to the boys, the great out of doors, and inculcates truths that can be learned only at Nature's own school." In August 1922, the Girl Scoutsheld its first summer camp on the Amite River near Port Vincent. The camp was led by Claire Ramires, one of the early leaders of Scouting in Baton Rouge, with head nurseMaude Chambers. It lasted 10 days at a cost of $15 for each Girl Scout attending. The State-Times described the camp in detail and even reported on the only accident when Lucille Kean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Selby Kean, stumbled over a rope as she rushed to meet her parents and suffered a broken arm. The Scouts learned firstaid, participated in flag exercises, said grace at mealtime, and repeated the Lord's Prayer around a campfire eachnight. According to written accounts by each tent, also published in the State-Times, the girls enjoyed hiking, fishing, swimmingandrowing; had two dances; and did "stunts." Tent IV wrote that "one special fad ofthe camp was to have a small pipe in your mouth all the time." In 1926, Ella V. Aldrich was hired as the first paid local director, and St James Episcopal Church donated space for headquarters in its Parish House. That same year, Joyce Washburn received a silver lifesaving cross, the second highest recognition a Scout could receive from the National Council of Girl Scouts, for saving her younger sister froma fire, and a troopwas organized at the Louisiana State School for the Blind. Girl Scouts learned such homemaking skills as canningand preserving from mothers as well as experts including Eva M. Pender, of the Douglas Pectin Corp., who taught members ofTroops 1, 2,3,6, 7, and 8 how to make jellyand jam from fresh fruit, dried fruit and vegetables. According to Fenton's history, summer camp was cancelled in 1927 because of the historic flood. The decade of the 1930s saw an increase in membership and participation in Girl Scouting. Headquarters moved to a room in the home ofEleanor Witter on Lafayette Street. Troop 1 held an annual junior flower show, and a telephone was installed at the Girl Scout headquarters. By31 Dec 1936, membershipwas 242 girls in13troops and 25 Brownies in one Brownie troop. In July 1939, Baton Rouge's first black Girl Scout troop of 19 girls from St Francis Xavier School was organized under the leadership of Mary P. Bird assisted by Theresa BirdandEuniceRichard. Laterthatyear, a Girl Scout hut was built at St Joseph's Academy to be used by six troops, and a room and kitchenwere designated at North Highlands School for use by three troops. The 1940s saw an increase in blacks participatingin GirlScouting withnew troopsat Hall's Chapel, St Mark United Methodist Church, and Mount ZionFirst Baptist Church directedby Mrs. I.N. Givens, Mrs. V.D. Perkins, Mrs. M.D. Huggins, Mrs. M.N. Ringgold, Mrs. E.E. Baranco and others. In 1945, the firstGirl Scout cookie sale brought in $710 with cookies sold in cans at 40 cents each.Members of the black troops made Christmas cards for soldiers overseas. Bythat December, there were 212 girls in 11 Brownie troops, 581 girlsin 37 intermediate troops and 5 6 girls in five senior troops. At the annual meeting on 28 April 1947,Helen Wilkerson announced that a permanent campsite of 100 acres had been donated to the Girl Scouts by Lloyd J. Cobb, a St Francisville cattleman and businessman. Theproperty, part of Clover HillPlantation on Alexander Creek, was namedCampMarydale. In a simple ceremony on 15 Jan 1948, Cobb's daughter, Mary, 12, presented the deed to the property to Betty Fortenberry, Margaret Morgan and MarthaCatchings, who received it on behalfof theGirlScouts. On 15 May 1948, the GirlScouts begana citywide drive to raise $40,000 for a deep water well, a sleeping unit of three cabins, restoration of the plantationlodge to provide kitchen and dining facilities, a director's room and office, and a workroom. Members of the EastBaton Rouge Parish Medical Society Auxiliary pledged funds for a two-bed infirmary. Funds from the I.H. Gottlieb Memorial Association provided the Rebecca Gottlieb Cottage, with the understanding that in alternate yearsan orphan fromtheProtestant Home or the Catholic Orphanage would be sent to camp for two weeks. Camp Marydale was officially dedicated on 19 June 1949. In October 1952, the lodge at Camp Marydale was destroyed by fire. Because the campwas notfullyinsured,thelocal Girl Scout organization was forced to hold another major fundraising campaign for a new dining hall and kitchen, an infirmary, staff living quarters, and an administrative office as well as a new unitof five camper cabins, astaffcabin,acentral washhouse and a lodge. In1959, 11-year-old Toni Bienvenu won a contest to select a new council name for the Baton Rouge Girl Scouts. She chose Audubon Council because the previous summer, while atMarydale, she had toured Oakley,where John James Audubon lived and taught. Durinda Robinson became a Brownie Scout in 1949 with a troop at the Southern University Lab School. When that troop disbanded, she moved to Camphor Memorial United Methodist Church, which sponsored four troops. "I went all the way up in Girl Scouting," said Robinson, who participated for 11 years. Whenshe started in Scouting, the troops were segregated by race, and blackGirl Scouts were not welcomed at Camp Marydale. Thatchangedin the summer of 1966, when79 girls attended a session at the camp. "It was a bigthing," Robinson said. Her camp experience was almost ruined when she cut through her hand with a kitchen knife while making Girl Scout stew."My mother was ahome economist, and here Iwascuttingmy handwith a knife," she said. The camp staff took Robinson to St Francisville for six stitches. "That cut out swimming for the rest of the camp," she said. But even with the accident, campturnedout to be awonderful experiencefor Robinson, whosecabin mates took care of her, combed her hair, andhelped her shower. "You didn't go home, but you went back to camp because that's what a Girl Scout would do," said Natalie Miller, who isserving asleaderof her fourth troop. "My first troopScoutsare all gettingmarried now," she said, "and my second troop is finishing college and graduate school." She is amazed at how much her Scouts have accomplished. "They have all studied abroad and had wonderfulinternships," she said. "Thereis no limitto their dreams. They just had it in them." Miller believes that one of the greatest learning experiences of Girl Scouting is from the cookie sales. "You set a budget, and you can earnthe money. If you doit right, the financial education itteachesthese girls isabsolutely amazing." Carpenter had served as a Scout volunteer and executive director in Oklahoma, when she and her husband moved to Baton Rouge in 1957. One day, sheran into Betty Phelps, whom she had met at GirlScout training in Santa Fe, NM. Phelps asked Carpenter to help with Scout training in Baton Rouge. "I was off and running," Carpenter said. As a board member, Carpenter was asked to speakto neighbors in Broadmoor on the value of Scouting. The neighbors said that theyneeded a leader."So I became a leader," Carpenter said. In her positions of leadership in the Audubon Council, Carpenter worked with the board to integratetheScoutprogram throughthe Promisein Action Committee to further the Scout belief in serving all girls. ForCarpenter, the most important part of Scouting is the outdoorprogram. "If you took 'outing' out of Scouting, you would take away three-fourthsof the program," she said. Nowhere is the outdoor program more successful than atCamp Marydale which, over the years, has grown from a small cluster of cabins to a first-ratecamp offering a large variety of camp activities including a top-notchequestrian program. "Janice Mackey was the executive director when we got the horses," Carpenter said. "Someof the men were more practical. They realized that the horses needed to be fed, but people donated the horses, and it has been going ever since." Camp Marydaleis one of only afewGirlsScout camps with an equestrianprogram. It is a completecamping experience with horses, archery, a new dining hall, canoeing, trails, a swimming pool, and a Challenge Course. "Camp Marydale is where dreams come true in South Louisiana,"saidMiller, whooften returns to Marydale with her former Scouts. "Even the marriedones now come with me," she said. "They always weara bandanna. Nothing says I am a Girl Scout on the way to camp than putting on a bandanna." Former Fund Development Associate Cathy Pottschmidt says that certain cabins are "almost arite of passage.""The large and roomy ones with bathroom facilities inside are for the youngerones," she said."As the girls get older, they want to be in the cabins in the trees, in themorerusticcabins." Anotherrite of passage is the equestrian program, which isopen to girls in the fourthgrade and older. "They wait and wait to ride thehorses," Miller said. About six years ago, the Girl Scouts of the USA consolidated individualcouncilsthroughout the country. "The premisewas that if wehad fewer councils,wewould have larger community support," said JackieAlexander, CEOof GirlScouts Louisiana East, the group of 23 parishes in which the old Audubon Council troops nowbelong. As part of the consolidation, some309 councilswere combined tocreate 109councils."One reason is to offer a more unified Girl Scout leadership experience," said MarianneAddy, vice president of communications and development. "Some girls insmaller groups might not get the same leadership experience." She believesthat oneofthegreatadvantages of Girl Scouting is that it is "extremely affordable." "The cookie program is the way to earn the money to do the wonderfulthings they can doin Girl Scouting," Addysaid. "Financialassistance isavailable.No girlis turned away because shecannotafford to be a Girl Scout."
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1899 - 2003 (103 ans)