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Conrad, Beatrice T. (est. 1966)
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Mrs. C. P. Conrad came to Davenport in 1946 from Washington, D.C. when her husband was named chairman of the board of Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co., now MidAmerican Energy Company She was born in Escondido, California and married Mr. Conrad in 1920. He died in 1956.
Beatrice Conrad was a member of the National Board of Girl Scouts of America and helped establish the local River Bend Council. She served as a Girl Scout troop leader, volunteer, trainer and commissioner. On April 22, 1964 Mrs. Conrad was honored by the local Girl Scout council, now Mississippi Valley Girl Scout Council, when the dining lodge at Camp Conestoga was named the Bea Conrad Lodge. From 1925 through 1940 she served the Girl Guides to Sao Paulo, Brazil as leader, camp counselor, camp director, district commissioner and division commissioner. Before returning to this country in 1942, she had been badge secretary for the Girls Guides of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. Mrs. Conrad also served as president of the Women’s Association of the First Presbyterian Church in Davenport, and in 1969 she was a member of the White House Conference on Children and Youth.
At the time of her death, she was on the local Girl Scouts board of directors and the finance committee, and was also on the Board of United Community Services. On April 22, 1964 Mrs. Conrad was honored by the River Bend Council, now Mississippi Valley Girl Scout Council, when the dining lodge at Camp Conestogo was named the “Bea Conrad Lodge.” It was fitting that thirty years later the Mississippi Valley Girl Scout Council was the first organization fund to be established in the Community Foundation.
Mrs. Conrad was the first donor to the Community Foundation. She became aware of the formation of the Community Foundation because she was on the United Community Service’s, now United Way of the Quad Cities, committee that determined the necessity of establishing a endowed fund for the community. Her will states “ to the Davenport Community Trust Fund or similar agency established by the Davenport Community Chest.” Shortly after her gift $20,000 from the local United Community Services was contributed to the Community Foundation.
In 1960 Mrs. Conrad was a member of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. A note from Mrs. Price, the President of National Girl Scouts, wrote of Bea Conrad when learning of her death. “We honor the memory of one who brought to Girl Scouting profound love of the movement, quiet wisdom, and tireless service. She gave of herself without thought of self, even when illness was hers to bear.” A fellow Field Committee member stated,” I recall a sense of pleasure and surprise that such a dignified woman recounted (In a report of her training mission in the Philippines,) with such obvious delight, the variety of experiences she had enjoyed, including spending a night in a tree house.” Later she wrote, “ When I roomed with her just before she left for a visit to Brazil. where she had first been a Girl Guide, I learned more of her capacity to live life to its fullest and to savor every moment of it living, its remembrance and its anticipation.”
Picture provided by Girl Scouts of America of the U.S.A. Archives
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