Founding Sisters
The Projects
In The Beginning
Significance to P.E.O.
How It Once Was
100
Only founder who did not graduate from Iowa Wesleyan University (because she was needed at home).
Who is Ella Stewart?
100
Provides scholarships to exceptional high school women for post-secondary education.
What is the STAR Scholarship?
100
P.E.O.'s inception date.
What is January 21, 1869?
100
The music room.
What is the room thought to have occupied the northwest quarter of the second floor of Main Hall, that promised a reasonable amount of coveted privacy to the founders for establishing P.E.O.?
100
How meetings were opened.
What is with prayer?
200
Youngest founder who had a crusading spirit, calling Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton her friends.
Who is Franc Roads?
200
Makes low-interest loans available to qualified women.
What is the Educational Loan Fund (ELF)?
200
The names of the seven founders.
Who are Mary Allen, Alice Bird, Hattie Briggs, Alice Coffin, Suela Pearson, Franc Roads, and Ella Stewart?
200
I.C. Sorosis, later known by its Greek letters Pi Beta Phi
What is the secret society that wouldn't invite all seven of the founders to join, which led to the creation of P.E.O.
200
How often officers were elected.
What is every six months?
300
Founder who was engaged to Will Pearson, but eventually broke it off and never married.
Who is Alice Coffin?
300
Provides scholarships to women from other countries for graduate study in the U.S. and Canada.
What is International Peace Scholarship (IPS)?
300
The organized religion affiliated with Iowa Wesleyan University.
What is Methodist?
300
Ruffled aprons in black and white calico
What is the distinctive outfit the original founders wore into chapel when they introduced P.E.O. to the world (of Iowa Wesleyan)?
300
When the program happened.
What is near the center of the meeting?
400
Founder who spent the least amount of time as a P.E.O. because she died young.
Who is Hattie Briggs?
400
Provides educational awards to women pursuing a doctoral level degree.
What is P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA)?
400
The name of the first central governing body, organized in 1883.
What is Grand Chapter?
400
Crane Jewelry Store in Mount Pleasant, Iowa
What is the store that provided the first seven pins for the founders?
400
These two things were read aloud at each meeting.
What is the Constitution and the bylaws?
500
Two founders who shared the unfortunate history of losing a daughter to disease while she was still in childhood.
Who are Mary Allen and Alice Bird?
500
Provides need-based grants to women whose education has been interrupted.
What is Program for Continuing Education (PCE)?
500
The number of chapters that existed at the time of the first convention on January 4, 1875.
What is six?
500
"Pigs Eat Onions" and "Pleiades et Orian"
What is conjectures about the initials of P.E.O.?
500
What happened when a member was not present at a meeting to vote on a name presented for membership.
What is an investigating committee was tasked with visiting each absentee and collecting her vote?