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This Project makes loans available to qualified women who desire a higher education and need financial assistance.
What is the P.E.O. Educational Loan Fund (ELF) ?
April 6, 1945
What year was Chapter C organized?
B.I.L.
What is the male spouse of a member called?
(What is Brother-in-Love, Brother-in-Law)
Seven young women
How many young women worked together as Founders of P.E.O.?
The applicant has a minimum cumulative unweighted GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
What is a STAR Scholarship?
An official act that requires three signatures during a P.E.O. meeting
What is sponsoring a woman for membership?
Star
What is the P.E.O. Emblem?
An independent, liberal arts and sciences college for women located in Nevada, Missouri, that has been supported by P.E.O. since 1927.
What is Cottey College?
Without exception, repayment of the loan principal and interest will begin six months after the borrower’s stated graduation date or withdrawal from the educational program.
What is the P.E.O. Educational Loan Fund (ELF)?
To aim at self control, equipoise and symmetry of character, and __________in opinions, speech and habits.
What is temperance?
Marguerite
What flower is the symbol used for P.E.O.?
The maximum grant is $4,000. The total grant awarded is based on the availability of funds and applicants’ individual need.
What is the Program for Continuing Education (PCE)?
An applicant is eligible in the final academic year of her secondary education and is 20 years of age or under at the end of the calendar year
What is STAR Scholarship?
The applicant has had at least 24 consecutive months as a non-student sometime in her adult life.
Program for Continuing Education (PCE)
A one-time, competitive, merit-based award intended to recognize and encourage academic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs.
What is P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA)?
January 21, 1869
What date was P.E.O. founded?
This scholarship was initially named and funded by Chapter C.
What is the Priscilla Boscoff Scholarship?
The applicant must have round-trip or return travel expenses guaranteed.
What is International Peace Scholarship Fund (IPS)?
An applicant will be required to complete and sign a document promising to return to her home country or to a location outside the U.S. or Canada upon completion of her degree program(s)
What is the International Peace Scholarship (IPS)?
Virginia Alice Cottey
Who was the founder of Cottey College?
Those in a multiple-degree program (e.g., pursuing both an M.D. and a Ph.D.) must be within two years of completing the entire program.
What is P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA)?