FOUNDERS
Mary Allen, Alice Bird, Alice Coffin, Hattie Briggs, Suela Pearson, Franc Roads, Ella Stewart
Who are the founding members of P.EO?
The letters PCE stand for this project.
What is Project for Continuing Education.
P.E.O.—Where women motivate, educate and celebrate women.
What is the P.E.O. Mission Statement?
"She loves me, she loves me not"
What is the Marguerite?
These sisters are recognized for 50+ years in the PEO Sisterhood.
Who are the Golden Girls?
January 21.
When is Founders Day?
Provides scholarships for international women students to pursue graduate study in the U.S. or Canada.
The year P.E.O. was founded.
What is 1869?
The name of the P.E.O. publication.
What is the P.E.O. Record?
The PEO emblem is worn here.
What is the left side of the chest over the heart?
This founder was the first to propose forming the society now known as PEO.
Who was Hattie Briggs?
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 P.E.O. Scholar Award?
Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
What is the birthplace of the P.E.O. sisterhood?
As the word spread around campus, Some thought P.E.O. stood for this.
What is "Pigs, Eat, Out"?
International, State/Province/District, and Local.
What are the three levels of P.E.O. chapters?
This founder was active in the Feminist Movement and was a friend of Susan B. Anthony.
Who was Franc Roads
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.
This state was organized as the first state chapter in 1890.
What is Nebraska?
Her P.E.O. pen is the only one of the original seven still in existence.
Who is Ella Stewart?
Des Moines, Iowa
Where is the International office of P.E.O. located?
Alice Coffin looked to the skies and saw the star and these points of light.
What are Faith, Love, Purity, Justice and Truth.
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)?
Written by Alice Bird, the seven women gathered in the music room at Main Hall and took this.
What is the Oath?
This member generously gifted this institution to the PEO sisterhood.
Who was Virginia Alice Cottey and what was Cottey College?
A term of endearment for the significant other of a PEO sister.
What is a BIL?