Touched in the briefest way by celebrity in 1988 was Catherine Pollard, who was the first woman allowed to be an official scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America.
Pollard had taken over a troop in 1973 due to an absence of male volunteers, but she was refused official recognition by the Scouts' national office. As a result, the troop she had been leading disbanded.
Without much explanation, the national board of BSA changed its policy in 1988, and in Milford, Connecticut, Pollard, age 69, became one of America's firsts.
The kindly, grandmotherly Pollard died in 2006 at age 88.
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