Frances Hesselbein, former Girl Scouts CEO, dies at 107
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Frances Hesselbein, who rose through the Girl Scout ranks and eventually became the organization's first CEO, has died at the age of 107, the University of Pittsburgh announced Sunday. Following her time with the Girl Scouts, she founded a career-focused nonprofit and was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Hesselbein, born in 1915, started her career in the Girl Scouts in the 1940s, when she helped out a neighbor by becoming the leader of a 30-girl troop, the Girl Scouts said in a blog post Sunday. Eventually, what was meant as just a favor, became nearly a decade of service before she took on more responsibility within the organization, the Girl Scouts said.
Her motto, according to the University of Pittsburgh, was "to serve is to live."