IMPORTANT DATES
January 21, 1869
When was the original "Founder's Day" that started P.E.O.?
"Let's start a society of our own."
What Hattie Briggs said to Franc Rhodes as they sat on the Iowa Wesleyan College stile?
Alice Bird Babb
Who was the first president of P.E.O.? Who wrote the constitution and oath.
Only founder who attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the P.E.O. Memorial Library in 1927 on Iowa Wesleyan campus.
Who is Mary Allen?
This philanthropy offers $12,000 to $20,000 loans at 2% interest
What is the Educational Loan Fund (ELF)?
First philanthropy created in 1907
What is the Educational Loan Fund?
"New times demand new needs. Evolution & growth mean life to an organization."
Who is Franc Rhodes?
Alice Virginia Coffin
Who proposed the star as the emblem of P.E.O.?
This artistic founder supported the women's suffrage movement and often spoke out for women's rights.
Who is Franc Rhodes?
Its location is in Nevada, Missouri
What is Cottey College?
She gifted Cottey College in 1927 to the P.E.O. Sisterhood
Who was was Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard?
"It is for each of us to make the world better and happier than when we found it."
Who is Mary Allen Stafford?
Ella Stewart
Who read the 1st oath to Alice Bird who was the first member of P.E.O.?
Only founder who did not complete her college education.
This was established in 1949 to provide scholarships for women from other countries for graduate studies in the USA.
What is the International Peace Scholarship (IPS)?
Established in 1973 to assist women whose education is interrupted.
What is the Program for Continuing Education (PCE)?
"Let us start a compact to perpetuate our friendship; to seal our love, for all time, for all eternity."
Who is Hattie Briggs?
Mary Allen's Home
Where was the first meeting of P.E.O. held?
After graduation, this founder left for Ohio and did not participate in P.E.O. activities ever again.
Who is Suella Pearson Penfield?
This is a merit-based award to women pursuing a doctoral level degree.
What is the Scholar Award?
What is the STAR Scholarship?
"....may...we indeed, be stars among women in whatever vocation we fulfill."
Who is Alice Coffin?
Franc Rhodes' mother
Who helped design and sew the original aprons?
This founder wrote the oath and the constitution upon which the objects & aims are based and served as associate editor of The P.E.O. Record in the early years.
Who is Alice Bird Babb?
This need-based scholarship is for Ohio Women who are pursuining an undergraduate or master's degree
What is the Ohio Scholarship?