Paz Q. Arguelles-Abasolo can be remembered as a pioneer Girl Scout troop leader, educator, social worker, community leader and successful mother. She was born in Ivisan, Capiz on January 20, 1899. She is the youngest child of Telesforo Arguelles and Obdulia Quiachon. A graduate of the University of the Philippines, she holds the degree of H.T.C. and B.S.E. She was sent to the National Catholic School of Social Service in Washington, D.C. in 1926 on a scholarship offered by the Archdiocesan Council of San Francisco, California. She earned an M.A. degree from the Catholic University of America and a Diploma in Social Work in 1928 from the National Catholic School on Social Service, where Girl Scouting was a phase of the physical education and leisure time activities. She found Girl Scouting so fascinating that in the summer of 1928 she attended a training course for Girl Scout leaders at Camp Edith Macy up in the Kaatskill Mountains in New York. However, Paz failed to complete the course, for the sudden illness of her mother forced her to rush home. Upon her return to the Philippines in 1928, she taught at the Capiz High School. Two years later she married Maximo F. Abasolo, a fellow teacher she had previously met in Washington, D.C. It was while teaching at the Capiz High School that Paz organized her Girl Scout Troop, among the most active members of which were Felipa Belo, daughter of Ex-Senator Antonio Belo, Mary Andrada and Mary Ubas, thus earning for herself a distinction of being the first Filipino Girl Scout Leader to accomplish such. When the Abasolos were transferred to Tacloban City in 1932, Mrs. Abasolo was assigned to the Leyte High School and subsequently to the Leyte Normal School. During summers she taught at the Cebu Vacation Normal School. Word got around about her training in Girl Scouting and she was elected member of the Leyte Girl Scout Council; for some time she served as chairman of the Public Relations Committee. At the outbreak of World War II, Lt. Maximo F. Abasolo was wounded in line of duty and was permanently disabled. Mrs. Abasolo was to prove to all that with courage and determination, nothing was impossible. Somehow the family managed to support and rear five children during the war years. In addition to the task of supporting the family, she found time for social work and community and religious affairs. She was president of the Catholic Women''s League, the Women''s Club, Legion of Mary (Leyte Comitium) and Hermana Mayor during the feast of the Miraculous Medal in 1944. She was also member of the Provincial Girl Scout Council and she holds the distinction of being the first dean of the College of Education of the Divine Word University (formerly St. Paul College) in Tacloban City. It was during her term as dean of the College of Education that the present First Lady of the Philippines, Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos, was elected president of the student government (the first coming from the College of Education in that school). In 1955, when the Abasolo children were finishing their secondary course, the family decided to move to Manila. With all the children in college and her husband a disabled veteran, Mrs. Abasolo opened a boarding house in España Street and somehow succeeded in sending all her children through college. They are now successful professionals. As a mother, Mrs. Abasolo, impressed in the minds of her children that nothing is impossible with prayers, that it would be better for one to go hungry than to do something morally wrong, and that success is not always measured by material gains but by how one can look into another man''s eye and be proud of not having done anything wrong.