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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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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 to start a “society…

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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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