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Spelunking Sister: Empowering Women Through Cave Exploration and Conservation

In the summer of 2023, a good friend of mine told me about P.E.O. and asked me if I would like to join an organization dedicated to encouraging women to…

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Vitality Blooms in P.E.O.

My dear friend and soul sister, Claudette Greene Apperson, M, Huntsville, Alabama, approached me about P.E.O. six months after my husband passed away in 2007. I was still a caregiver…

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A Library Born from Sisterhood: One P.E.O. Chapter’s Lasting Legacy

AT A MEETING IN 1923, then three-year-old P.E.O. Chapter FL in Bellevue, Iowa, broached the idea of establishing a public library for their community of 1,660 citizens. A committee was…

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In Their Own Hand

When was the last time you sent or received an honest-to-goodness handwritten letter? This method of communication is so intentional and requires time, care and effort to conduct. The discovery…

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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 BE, Waitsburg, Washington Organized: May 9, 1924 Celebrated: May 9, 2024 First row, from the left: Deanna Coulston, BethAn Wood, Linda Stonecipher, Lynna Larsen, Anita Baker, Barbara Danforth, Ruth…

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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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