FOUNDERS
OUR PROJECTS
IN THE BEGINNING
FUN FACTS
OUR SISTERHOOD
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Seven. 

What is the number of original founders of PEO?

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The letters PCE stand for this project.

Project for Continuing Education.  

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P.E.O.—Where women motivate, educate and celebrate women.

What is the PEO Mission Statement?

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A five-pointed star.  

What is the PEO emblem?

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These sisters are recognized for 50+ years in the PEO Sisterhood.

Who are the Golden Girls?

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January 21.

When is Founders Day?

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Provides scholarships for international women students to pursue graduate study in the U.S. or Canada.

What is the International Peace Scholarship?
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The year PEO was founded.

What is 1869?

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The name of the P.E.O publication.

What is the PEO Record?

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The PEO emblem is worn here.

What is the left side of the chest over the heart?

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This founder was the first to propose forming the society now known as PEO.

Who was Hattie Briggs Bousquet?

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Provides substantial merit-based awards for women in the U.S. or Canada who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university.

What is the PEO Scholar Award?

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Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.  

What is the birthplace of the PEO sisterhood?

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Cottey College is located in this city.

What is Nevada, Missouri?

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PEO chose this emblem to represent the sisterhood's values of strength, beauty, and spreading habit.

What is the Marguerite?

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This founder is known for the design on the star.

Who was Alice Virginia Coffin?  

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This project provides scholarships for exceptional women in their final year of high school to attend an accredited postsecondary educational institution in the U.S. or Canada in the next academic year.

What is the STAR Scholarship?
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This state was organized as the first state chapter in 1890.

What is Nebraska?

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International, State/Province/District, and Local.  

What are the three levels of PEO chapters?

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The PEO sisterhood is based on these five qualities.

What are Faith, Love, Purity, Justice, and Truth?

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We are the "seven."

Who are Hattie Briggs Bousquet, Franc Rhoades Elliott, Alice Virginia Coffin, Ella Stewart, Suella Pierson Penfield, Mary Allen Stafford, and Alice Bird Babb?

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This project is not a scholarship but rather lends money to qualified women students to assist them in securing a higher education.  

What is the ELF (Educational Loan Fund)?

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The year 1911 was significant to the PEO sisterhood because of this event.  

What is the first Canadian chapter to be organized in Vancouver, British Columbia?

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DAILY DOUBLE!!!!

This member generously gifted this institution to the PEO sisterhood.  

Who was Virginia Alice Cottey and what was Cottey College?
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A term of endearment for the significant other of a PEO sister.  

What is a BIL?