Janet E. Tobitt

Janet Evelyn Tobitt (24 March 1898, in Reading, UK – 19 February 1984, in New York, USA), also known as Toby, was a British-American author, editor, publisher, music director, collector of folk songs and dances, playwright, teacher, Girl Guide and Girl Scout leader and shepherd's pipe player.

Janet E. Tobitt
A white woman with fair skin and dark hair wearing a Girl Scout of USA adult uniform with metal buttons
Janet E. Tobitt from a 1953 newspaper
Born(1898-03-24)24 March 1898
Reading, England
Died19 February 1984(1984-02-19) (aged 85)
New York, USA
Other namesToby
OccupationGirl Guide leader

Family and education

Janet E. Tobitt was born in Reading, Berkshire, UK. She was the first child of Percy Wesley Tobitt, a commercial traveller for Anglo American Oil Co.[1] and Janet Tobitt, née Day. She had family in Ohio and Kentucky.[2] She attended St. Joseph's High School in Reading. She received an LLA (Lady Literate in Arts) diploma from the University of St Andrews[3] in 1922 and graduated from King's College London with a B.A. Pass in 1923.[4] From 1923 to 1924, she studied at the Sorbonne, and then privately in Switzerland.[5][6]

England: 1924–1929

Upon completion of her studies, Tobitt's principal employment was as a teacher in various schools in England and on the continent[7] and as a music educator.[8] She spent one year on the staff of The Times.[9] Tobitt was a leader with 1st Hurst Green Girl Guides[10] and was also a Brown Owl in East Sussex.[11] She served as Assistant Camp Director and spent six months as Assistant Island Commissioner in Malta.[12] Through these roles, she discovered that folk songs and dances were well suited to the needs of youth groups, and began collecting them whilst travelling in Europe.[13][14] She was a member of London's Royal Choral Society[15] and the Robertsbridge Minstrels.[16]

Between England and USA: 1930–1939

Tobitt travelled to America for the first time in October 1929 to work as a camp counselor and consultant for the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA).[17]

From 1930 to 1931 she taught sports, accompanied school singing and lead the folk dance club and walking club at the Mary C. Wheeler School.[18] She co-authored the first of 34 books, One Act Trips Abroad,[19] with Alice M G White, a Scottish woman who she met at the school.[20] They would go on to write four books together.

In 1933, she taught the class A Survey of Folk Songs at The New School for Social Research in New York.[21]

Shepherd's pipes

Tobitt introduced the shepherd's pipes to the Girl Scouts.[22] She was also the first person to play them on American radio, as part of a program dedicated to international music that was broadcast nationally from the newly opened Rockefeller Center in November 1933.[23] She also directed a group of Girl Scout leaders playing the shepherd's pipes as part of a birthday celebration for the Girl Scout movement on Alma Kitchell's Let’s Talk It Over radio program in 1939.[24] In the same year, she co-authored Making and Playing Shepherd’s Pipes[25] with Barbara Embury for the Girl Scout Equipment Service. Of the pipes she said "You should always carry your pipe with you. If you do, it becomes your comrade. So soothing and satisfying. So soft. So easy on the listener. It is too quiet to bother others, yet in the country the flute-like music carries a good half mile."[23]

Girl Scouts and Girl Guides

In 1934 Tobitt was the music supervisor for singing and folk dancing at the Girl Scout National Training Camp Edith Macy[26] in Pleasantville, NY and the Pine Tree Camp in Massachusetts.[27] She was on the council of the Folk Festival in New York,[28] and in a letter to the Spirituals Society from January 1936, she is referenced as being "from the Program Division, Girl Scouts, NYC".[29] In autumn 1936 she returned to the UK for 18 months, in part to be in the country for the coronation of King George VI.[14] Of her trip, it was reported, "Toby writes that she is being kept as busy as a cranberry merchant by the Girl Guides - sleeps in a different bed every night and is working on a new collection of songs for Guides, because importation problems make the use of Singing Together[30] in England impractical."[31] "Toby" was Tobitt's nickname in Girl Scouting circles.[31] During this period, Tobitt was the British Girl Guides Association's trainer in campfire singing,[32][33] travelling around England and Scotland giving workshops to Girl Guides and their leaders.[34] In this role, she led the campfire singing after a Coronation Service at Beverley Minster.[35] She also took a year's sabbatical to carry out a survey of music and music-based recreational activities in 200 towns and hamlets across the UK.[36][37] She returned to New York in May 1938. The passenger list indicates her profession as ‘writer’ and notes that her country of intended future permanent residence was the U.S.A.[38]

USA: 1940 onwards

Tobitt became a naturalized American on 29 May 1940.[39]

She held several more roles within the Girl Scouting organization, including National Music and Folk Dancing Consultant[40] where she was credited with creating "a strong musical culture for the organization"[8] and music director, where she was considered "principally responsible" for the "national movement towards keener appreciation of music by Girl Scouts."[41] On her recommendation, girls and leaders were encouraged to sing, and to offer constructive criticism of others’ singing at both national camps and within troops. There were singing competitions where the girls acted as the judges and selected the elements of performance (such as tone quality, accuracy, light and shade of expression) on which to base their judgment.[41]

In 1941, Tobitt and Alice M. G. White taught intensive folk-dance and dramatics courses at Purdue University, Indiana.[42] She also taught at Columbia University, New York.[7]

In the same year, when commenting on the value of teaching music, Tobitt said, "the morale of Girl Scouting helps in the shelters in England and France in teaching the people songs while waiting for the all-clear signals."[43] Whilst leading a singing session at the Lansing Institute, she "told of the conduct of recreational activity and its importance under war conditions in London."[44]

She was the music director of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and in 1945 recorded five songs (Girl Scouts Together, Merry Lark, O Beautiful Banner, Our Chalet Song, Swiftly Flowing Labe) with "the Manhattan choral group... to be used as theme music for local broadcasts" by the GS National Organization.[45] She was also the director of Girl Scouting in Tarrytown, NY.[46]

From 1947 to 1948, she traveled through more than 100 American communities, including high schools, universities and churches, leading song and dance sessions for 16,000 men, women and children in total. Of the tour, she wrote, "it proved to be not a mangling experience, but a rejuvenating one".[47]

During her Scouting career she travelled to 40 US states, leading workshops with groups of up to 1,000 people at a time.[48] She visited many states several times and was called an "itinerant Scout executive".[49]

Her final positions within GSUSA were Assistant to the Director of the Program Department from 1954 to 1955 and Special Camp Consultant in the Camping Division from 1956 to 1958.[50]

She resumed her freelance writing career in 1955, but continued to be a frequent contributor to the Girl Scout Leader magazine. Of her Girl Scouting experience she observed "I was struck by the extraordinary vitality of our Girl Scout program, its genius and its universal appeal, its adaptability to all kinds of circumstances and needs, and over its underlying seriousness of purpose the element of fun so attractive to the young in heart."[51]

Teaching

Tobitt believed "any adult equipped with some basic recreational material, plus sound teaching principles, can go forth as a leader and have fun."[52] She was an advocate for the teaching of rounds,[53] stating that they "afford a painless, even joyful introduction to part singing".[54] Her training sessions with youth leaders included instruction on presentation, leadership, the use of source material and the correlation of music with other activities.[55]

Girl Scouts overseas

Tobitt was the first staff member of GSUSA to represent the organization overseas.[56] From 1951 to 1952 she was based in Heidelberg, Germany as the Community Advisor for the North Atlantic Girl Scouts (NORAGS).[57] In this role, she trained 650 women and organized activities for 3,000 girls from more than a hundred Girl Scout troops at 17 American bases throughout Germany and Austria.[58] She also coordinated efforts to get basic supplies, such as clothing, sheets, blankets and yarn from the States to children in hospitals, schools and nurseries in Germany.[59] As result of her efforts, the Army granted her the civilian equivalent of a Colonel's rank.[58]

From 1953 to 1954, she was the Director of the Far East American Girl Scout Association in Japan.[60] Of this organization she wrote, "These wives and daughters of our security forces' personnel, State Department officials, traders and clergymen have a unique opportunity as ambassadors of goodwill to effect understanding and to bring back to their homeland their broader knowledge of the world."[61] The role also involved trying to get Japanese women into scouting. Of this, she said: "Our objective was to give understanding, not to change Japanese women."[62]

In 1955, she traveled to Sri Lanka as Community Advisor for American Girl Scout Troops on Foreign Soil (TOFS)[63] for a Round Table Training Conference, sponsored by WAGGGS.[59]

Hiroshima Maidens

Tobitt supported the Moral Adoption program established by the journalist and peace advocate Norman Cousins in 1949, which enabled Americans to help raise children orphaned by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the provision of financial support, gifts and letters.[64]

In 1953, she contacted Cousins, writing: "You probably know there is a great deal of 'anti-Americanism' propagated by the Communists, and a friend and I have been wondering what new act of goodwill might counteract it."[64] They corresponded about the possibility that the Girl Scouts might play a part in looking after the Hiroshima Maidens, 25 school-age girls who were seriously disfigured as a result of the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima, after they reached America for reconstructive surgery. Due to matters becoming 'delicate',[64] the Girl Scouts were unable to get involved. However, Tobitt was to play a personal role in the mission to fly the young women to the US. After Cousins received multiple rejections for financial support for the venture, Tobitt suggested that he make an appeal to the editor of the Nippon Times, Mr. Kiyoshi Togasaki. Cousins acted on Tobitt's suggestion, and consequently General John E. Hull of the U.S. Far East Command agreed to provide air transportation for the women.[65]

Once the women were in the US, Tobitt, together with C. Frank Ortloff of the Religious Society of Friends, was in charge of the "very substantial problem of out-of-hospital care" which involved the women staying in private homes in New York City, as they prepared for, or recuperated from multiple operations.[65][66] She was also involved in raising awareness of these women through giving talks to interested groups.[67]

Folk songs and dances

Tobitt was an "inveterate traveller",[68] and travelled widely in the US, as well as in Korea, Japan, Sri Lanka, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Malta, the UK and Canada.[69] She collected songs and dances as she went, many of which subsequently appeared in her numerous publications,[70] some for the first time in an American publication.[71] She encouraged Girl Scouts and their leaders to collect traditional songs, such as those "handed down by members of their families, or heard in out-of-the-way places".[72] Several of her self-published songbooks included blank manuscript at the back as a place to jot notes.

Of folk songs, she said, "When we sing the songs of other people we share their heritage and possibly come to a deeper understanding of their lives and thoughts."[73] In America, she collected sea shanties, including My Lover is a Sailor Boy, spirituals including Go Down Moses,[74] and folksongs from the Catskills including Poor and Foreign Stranger.[75][76]

Tobitt was still leading folk dance and singing workshops in July 1963 at the age of 65.[77]

Publications

Tobitt authored and edited at least 34 books over four decades. She self-published eight books, including the popular The Ditty Bag[78] and Yours for a Song.[79] Her books included translations from at least 15 languages: Italian, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Greek, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Russian, Czech, Armenian, Spanish, Creole and Japanese.

  • One Act Trips Abroad (1931) co-authored with Alice M. G. White
  • Making and playing Shepherds Pipes, a pamphlet; With diagram, directions, and ten airs[25] (1933)
  • Sing Together[30] (1936)
  • Skip to my Lou: 17 Singing Games[80] (1936)
  • Dramatized Ballads with musical accompaniment[81] (1937) co-authored with Alice M. G. White, contribution by Barbara Danielson
  • Notes for Song Leaders[82] (1937)
  • The World Sings: Folk Songs and Rounds from Many Countries[83] (1937)
  • The Singing World: More Songs and Rounds from Many Countries[84]
  • Yours for a Song (1939)
  • Plays for High Holidays[85] (1939) co-authored with Alice M. G. White
  • Whirling Maiden: A Collection of Singing Games[86] (1939)
  • Saucy Sailor and other Dramatized Ballads [87] (1940) co-authored with Alice M. G. White, contribution by John Rawdon
  • On Your Toes: a Compilation of Song-Dances[88] (1941)
  • Sing Me Your Song, O[89](1941)
  • Singing Games for Recreation Books 1 – 4 (1942–1952)
  • The Ditty Bag (1946)
  • Promenade All[90] (1947)
  • Sing Together: A Girl Scout Songbook[91] (1949)
  • A Book of Negro Songs[92] (1950)
  • ABCs of Camp Music[93] (1955)
  • Program in Girl Scout Camping[94] (1959)
  • 15 Austrian Folk Songs: Yodels and Carols[95] (1959)
  • Folk Songs from the Far East[96] (1959)
  • The Red Book of Singing Games and Dances from the Americas[97] (1960)
  • The Yellow Book of Singing Games and Dances from around the World[98] (1960)
  • Our World in Song[99] (1960)
  • Canciones De Nuestra Cabana[100] (1963)
  • A Journey in Song: A Choice of Songs Everybody Sings[101] (1965)
  • A Counselor's Guide to Camp Singing[102] (1971)

See also

References
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  2. "Folk Songs and Dances Aid Fight Against Delinquency, Says Girl Scout Specialist". The Courier-Journal. Louisville, Kentucky. 15 January 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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  5. "Scout Leaders Will Attend Folklore Training Session". Tucson Daily Citizen. Tucson, Arizona. 16 February 1950. p. 18. Retrieved 26 January 2022. Miss Tobitt has a degree from St. Andrew University in Scotland and has also studied in France and Switzerland.
  6. McCarthy, Deborah A. (Summer 1985). "Women in History". Girl Scout Leader. New York: Girl Scouts USA. p. 29.
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  9. "Biographical Notes". The New School for Social Research, Inc. (1933 Spring ed.). Spring 1933. p. 36.
  10. "Hurst Green". Sussex Agricultural Express. Lewes, Sussex. 26 August 1927. p. 7. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  11. "Darvell Hall Visit of Robertsbridge Minstrels". Sussex Agricultural Express. Lewes, Sussex. 6 December 1929. p. 1. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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  13. "Girl Scouts Leaders Given Instruction". The Times. Port Huron, Michigan. 28 January 1951. p. 6. Retrieved 21 September 2021. After graduation she began to collect folk songs and dances while traveling on the continent.
  14. "Folk Songs of all nations are brought to the youth of America by an Englishwoman". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 5 January 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  15. "Biographical Notes". The New School for Social Research, Inc. (1933 Spring ed.). Spring 1933. p. 36.
  16. "150 County Girls Meet Here Today". Sussex Agricultural Express. Madison, New Jersey. 3 December 1926. p. 4. Retrieved 21 September 2021. Miss Tobitt, an Englishwoman, will lead the girls in singing and in English dances.
  17. "Janet E Tobitt to give music training talk". The Daily Times. Mamaroneck, New York. 12 December 1949. p. 6. Retrieved 21 January 2022. Miss Tobitt came to the United States on a six-month visit I 1930, and remained to become a citizen.
  18. "Biographical Notes". The New School for Social Research, Inc. (1933 Spring ed.). Spring 1933. p. 36.
  19. Tobitt, Janet E.; White, Alice M. G. (1931). One Act Trips Abroad. New York, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Ltd.
  20. "Service Honor Roll" (PDF). The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Company. April 1944. p. 93. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  21. "Biographical Notes". The New School for Social Research, Inc. (1933 Spring ed.). Spring 1933. p. 36.
  22. "Troop 34 making musical pipes". The Salt Lake Tribune. Salk Lake City, Utah. 25 October 1936. p. 54. Retrieved 26 January 2022. "Shepherd's pipes" were introduced to the Girl Scouts organization a few years ago by Miss Janet Tobitt
  23. "Girl Scout Notes". The Post-Star. Glenn Falls, New York. 19 December 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  24. "Girl Scout News". Record-Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. 14 March 1939. p. 14. Retrieved 26 January 2022. On March 13, Girl Scouts will sing and play shepherd's pipes on Alma Kitchell's "Let's Talk It Over" program, Miss Janet Tobitt will direct them.
  25. Tobitt, Janet E.; Embury, Barbara (1933). Making and playing shepherd's pipes. Girl Scout Equipment Service.
  26. Hough, Dorris S. (April 1934). "Amazements to Share: National Training Camps Show How". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. XI, no. 4. New York. p. 1. Janet Tobitt, the instructor for the singing and folk-dancing section
  27. "Girl Scout Notes". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 10 August 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 21 September 2021. Miss Janet Tobitt, who is music instructor at Pine Tree Camp
  28. "Hard times do a good turn for the Girl Scouts". Lexington-Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. 25 June 1934. p. 6. Retrieved 21 September 2021. Miss Janet Tobitt of the Folk Festival Council in New York who introduced the pipe to Scout leaders.
  29. Yuhl, Stephanie E. (2006). A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. p. 240. ISBN 0807876542.
  30. Tobitt, Janet E. (1936). Singing Together. New York: Girl Scouts USA.
  31. Gaudette, Marie (January 1937). "Dear Reader". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. XIV, no. 1. New York, New York. p. 5.
  32. "Brownie Training". Hull Daily Mail. Hull, Yorkshire. 12 September 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 21 September 2021. Camp Fire Songs – Miss Tobitt , singing instructress for camp-fire songs (from headquarters) will visit Hull
  33. "Scout and Guide Notes". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. Bath, Somerset. 23 January 1937. p. 19. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  34. "Aural Indigestion is New Disease". The Valley Daily Times-News. Lanett, Alabama. 26 February 1936. p. 9. Retrieved 21 September 2021. When she returns to England in October she will be attached to the Girl Guides Association to give courses in song-leading and music appreciation at Foxlease, Hampshire, and other training centers for leaders.
  35. "Coronation Service". Hull Daily Mail. Hull, Yorkshire. 24 April 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 21 September 2021. The service will be followed by a camp-fire on Beverley Westwood, to be conducted by Miss Tobitt from Headquarters
  36. Swetnam, Susan H. (2016). "Look Wider Still: The Subversive Nature of Girl Scouting in the 1950s". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Vol. 37, no. 1. Salt Lake City, Utah. p. 102.
  37. "Scouts to be given course". The Morning Herald. Hagerstown, Maryland. 28 September 1949. p. 4. Retrieved 21 September 2021. In 1938 she spent a year in England, Scotland and Wales in a survey of music recreational activities that took her to 200 cities and hamlets.
  38. The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; BT27 Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists; Reference Number: Series BT27-220895
  39. The National Archives at Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NAI Title: Declarations of Intention for Citizenship, 1/19/1842 - 10/29/1959; NAI Number: 4713410; Record Group Title: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685–2009; Record Group Number: 21.
  40. "Dunbartonshire Girl Guide Association". Kirkintilloch Herald. Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire. 23 February 1938. p. 5. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  41. "New Scouts' Glee Club Meets, Stresses 'Art of Listening'". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, New York. 9 February 1936. p. 41.
  42. "Summer Courses for Folk Dancing". Journal and Courier. Lafayette, Indiana. 27 March 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  43. "Miss Janet Tobitt gives instructions on folk dancing and singing". The Wilkes-Barre Record. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 9 October 1941. p. 18. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  44. "Recreation School to hear McCristol". Lansing State Journal. Lansing, Michigan. 14 April 1942. p. 2. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  45. "Girl Scouts Songs Records". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. 22, no. 7. New York. September 1945. p. 8.
  46. "Several Burlingtonians plan to attend event at Hanover". Burlington Daily News. Burlington, Vermont. 17 April 1941. p. 5. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  47. Tobitt, Janet E. (June 1948). "Sauce for the Gander". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. 25, no. 6. New York, New York. p. 1. Barnstorming through more than a hundred American communities during the past year, and giving sessions attended by a total of some sixteen thousand men, women and children, proved to be not a mangling experience, but a rejuvenating one.
  48. "38 Youth Leaders Attend Music Game Program of Janet Tobitt". The Santa Fe New Mexican. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 25 October 1949. p. 3. Retrieved 2 January 2022. Miss Tobitt estimates that she has given similar programs before 15,000 persons and song of her groups have been as large as 1,000 at a time.
  49. "Miss Tobitt meets with Dixon Scouts". Dixon Evening Telegraph. Dixon, Illinois. 4 April 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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  51. McCarthy, Deborah A. (Summer 1985). "Women in History". Girl Scout Leader. New York: Girl Scouts USA. p. 29.
  52. "Girl Scout News". Garrett Clipper. Garrett, Indiana. 28 March 1963. p. 4.
  53. Averill, Patricia (2014). Camp songs, folk songs. XLIBRIS. p. 448. ISBN 978-1493179121.
  54. Tobitt, Janet E. (1946). The Ditty Bag. New York, New York: Janet E. Tobitt. p. 177.
  55. Biographical Sketch: Miss Janet Tobitt. GSUSA Archives. 1961
  56. "Jane Tobitt Leads Workshop in Song for Scout Leaders". The Daily Item. Port Chester, New York. 7 October 1960. p. 11.
  57. Lewis, Ellen D. (Summer 1996). "NORAGS at 45". The Girl Scout Leader. New York, New York. p. 27. NORAGS's first professional staffer, Janet Tobitt, meets with USA Girl Scouts and German Guides in Wurzberg, Germany in 1951.
  58. "Army has to learn Girl Scouting, too: Forces at first helped too much, aide says, but they finally let work proceed". The New York Times. Brooklyn, New York. 25 May 1952. p. 68.
  59. "The Most Crying Needs". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. 29, no. 1. New York, New York. January 1952. p. 10. 'Toby' is at present serving as a community adviser on Girl Scouting in the American Zone. She knows from first-hand observation what things are lacking children in schools and hospitals
  60. Cousins, Norman. "Hiroshima Maidens" (PDF). www.hibakushastories.org. Youth Arts New York. Retrieved 26 January 2022. Miss Janet Tobitt, one of the "moral adoptions" parents who had recently returned from a year in Japan, suggested that Mr. Kiyoshi Togasaki, resourceful president of the Nippon Times, might be persuaded to work on the transportation problem.
  61. Tobitt, Janet. E (February 1955). "The Twain Shall Meet". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. 32, no. 2. New York, New York. p. 10.
  62. "Girl Scout Executive Tells of Work in Foreign Lands". The Post-Standard. Syracuse, New York. 9 December 1955. p. 13. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  63. "TOFS, Troops on Foreign Soil Rare International Pin Today – "Girl Scouts Overseas"". www.worthpoint.com. Worthpoint Corporation. Retrieved 26 January 2022. As early as 1951, Girl Scouts meetings were being held on military bases overseas. At the time, these troops were called Troops on Foreign Soils, or TOFS… this title was used until 1980 when it was changed to Girl Scouts Overseas.
  64. Chisholm, Anne (1985). Faces of Hiroshima. London: J. Cape. p. 67.
  65. Cousins, Norman (1 April 1955). "The Hiroshima Maidens". Des Moines Tribune. Des Moines, Iowa. p. 4. Retrieved 26 January 2022. Miss Janet Tobitt, former director of the American Girl Scout Association, Far East… would be in charge of the very substantial problem of out-of-hospital care.
  66. Frazer, Marj (1 April 1960). "Hiroshima Maidens Not Living Secluded, Local Visitor Says". Palladium-Item. Richmond, Indiana. p. 4. Retrieved 26 January 2022. Assisting in the project… Janet Tobitt of the American Girl Scout Association
  67. "Officers' Wives to Hear Speech". Daily News. New York, New York. 31 May 1955. p. 246. Retrieved 26 January 2022. A talk by Janet Tobitt, Girl Scout Executive, on special medical care being supplied to victims of the 1945 Hiroshima a-bomb blast.
  68. "Series of workshops planned for Girl Scout Leaders, Adults". The Sebawaing Blade and Unionville Crescent. I=Sebawaing, Michigan. 18 April 1963. p. 5. Retrieved 26 January 2022. An inveterate traveller, Miss Tobitt has covered the length and breadth of the United States and has gone into remote areas in five continents to collect material for her books.
  69. "Miss Tobitt to speak to Girl Scout Council". The Lexington Herald. Lexington, Kentucky. 3 May 1942. p. 27. Retrieved 26 January 2022. She has collected her material by travelling in the picturesque villages of France, Belgium, England, Scotland and Wales.
  70. "Folk Dancing to be taught. Girl Scouts sponsor the appearance here of noted tutor". The Escanaba Daily Press. Escanaba, Michigan. 20 March 1947. p. 12. Retrieved 26 January 2022. A great deal of the material in her books has been collected by her in the country of their origin.
  71. "Have you a song?". The Girl Scout Leader. Vol. XVI, no. 5. New York. May 1939. p. 77.
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  73. "To present scout games and songs". The Portsmouth Herald. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 2 January 1940. p. 10. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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  76. "Teaching of folk lore to be demonstrated". The Herald-Press. Saint Joseph, Michigan. 13 February 1947. p. 4. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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  83. Tobitt, Janet E. (1937). The World Sings: Folk Songs and Rounds from Many Countries. London: The Year Book Press.
  84. Tobitt, Janet E. (1947). The Singing World: More Songs and Rounds from Many Countries. London: H.F.W. Deane.
  85. Tobitt, Janet E.; White, Alice M. G. (1939). Plays for High Holidays: With Incidental Music and Dancing. New York, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
  86. Tobitt, Janet E. (1939). Whirling Maiden: A collection of Singing Games. New York: Janet E. Tobitt.
  87. Tobitt, Janet E.; White, Alice M. G.; Rawdon, John (1940). The Saucy Sailor and other dramatized ballads. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
  88. Tobitt, Janet E. (1941). On your toes: A compilation of song-dances. New York: Janet E. Tobitt.
  89. Tobitt, Janet E. (1941). Sing me your song, O. New York, New York: Janet E. Tobitt.
  90. Tobitt, Janet E. (1947). Promenade All. New York: Janet E. Tobitt.
  91. Tobitt, Janet E. (1949). Sing together: A Girl Scout Songbook. New York: Girls Scouts of USA.
  92. Tobitt, Janet E. (1950). A book of Negro songs. New York: Janet E. Tobitt.
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Further reading
  • Camp Songs, Folk Songs (ISBN 1493179128)
  • Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills (ISBN 087395582X)
  • An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice – Issue 76 of Music Reference Collection (ISBN 0313305773)
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