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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…
Read MoreMy 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…
Read MoreAT 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…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MorePat 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…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MoreThe 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,…
Read MoreTHE 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…
Read MoreAt 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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