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P.E.O. Authors

To be included on the Authors page, your book must have been published within the last year. Send the author’s name; their chapter letter(s), city, state/province/district; the title of the…

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Centennial Chapters

Chapter AB, , South Dakota Organized: April 21, 1924 Celebrated: April 23, 2024 From the left: Connie Halverson, Sandy Zinter, Doneen Hollingsworth, Jan Lester, Arline Hammer, Bonny Schroyer, Connie Palmer,…

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A Torchbearer for Cultural Heritage: P.E.O. Pat Johnson Receives National Heritage Fellows Award

Pat Johnson, AR, Pocahontas, Arkansas, remembers the day late last year when she received a phone call from Arkansas Senator John Boozman, who told her Receives Nationalshe had been nominated…

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Janet Bratcher Creates Gourd-geous Art

When Janet Bratcher, AK, Moberly, Missouri, told her husband, “I’m going to be a gourd artist,” he took it in stride, as Janet had picked up several different arts and…

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P.E.O. Memory Rooms, Old Main, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Re-Opened

The May 2023 closing of 181-year old Iowa Wesleyan University reverberated profound sadness throughout the P.E.O. Sisterhood. Our friendship organization was founded in the university’s Old Main on January 21,…

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Honoring Our Founders with International P.E.O. Day

THE STORY SURROUNDING THE BIRTH OF P.E.O. has been lovingly passed down over the years. Seven young women, who later became known as our Founders, decided tostart a “society of…

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Centennial Chapters

Chapter CX, Burlingame, California Organized: February 23, 1923 Celebrated: February 12, 2023 First row, from the left: Barbara Barrons, Mary Anne Ward, Angela Kraft-Cross Second row: Mary Anderson, Catherine Clover,…

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P.E.O. Authors

To be included on the Authors page, your book must have been published within the last year. Send the author’s name; their chapter letter(s), city, state/province/district; the title of the…

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How the Sisterhood Supports Women Attending Trade Schools

At the 2023 Convention of International Chapter, members of convention voted to support a resolution to establish a committee that will determine the feasibility of a program specifically focused on…

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