It’s a funny thing: in my day (the late 50s), Catholics (probably of a certain ethnic origin if I have my guess) were discouraged from joining the Girl Scouts as it was considered...a Protestant organization, lol. So I never got to wear the cute uniform or learn how to make a fire. Maybe my crazy family were on to something...
Interesting comment as I’m similar age.
In Catholic grade school they told us we couldn’t go to the YMCA because it was run by Protestants.
Then I got to Catholic high school and the swim team did all their practices at the YMCA, LOL.