Committees
This committee sends cards, flowers, gifts, and reports the needs of any chapter members as well as coordinating memorial receptions.
What is the Courtesy Committee?
P.E.O. was founded on this date.
What is January 21, 1869?
These terms are used to signify approval or disapproval during a meeting vote.
What is Pro/Con?
These words are respresented by three letters to indicate our sisters' husbands.
What is Brother-in-law (BIL)?
This number represents how many women are currently involved in P.E.O. in the United States and Canada, dedicated to advancing women through education.
What is Over 500, 000?
This committee is responsible for promoting the participation of all members in chapter activities, as well as maintaining name tags and welcoming guests.
What is the Membership Committee?
P.E.O. was founded at this Mt. Pleasant, Iowa college.
What is Iowa Wesleyan College?
This response is used to indicate meeting attendance during Roll Call.
What is Present?
The letters P.E.O. stand for this phrase.
What is Philanthropic Educational Organization?
This is the number of Scholarship Funds Chapter FH maintains to provide scholarships and to support P.E.O. projects.
Bonus: Name the Funds
What is 2?
Bonus Answer:
Ruth C Bartells Memorial Fund
Geraldine E. Kelsch/Carol M Fisher Memorial Fund
This committee shall plan fund-raising projects, collect all money for projects and turn it over to the Treasurer, and make a complete record of each project for their notebook.
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
This is the number of ladies who founded P.E.O.
What is 7?
If you wish to speak or contribute to a discussion during a meeting, you must first follow these 3 steps.
What are stand, say Madame President, and wait to be acknowledged?
The star was chosen as the official emblem to represent P.E.O. by its founders because it symbolized this ideal.
What is the search for the highest and best things that life can give?
Since 1869, P.E.O. has provided nearly 414,000 of these 4 things to help more than 122,000 women.
What are grants, scholarships, awards and loans?
This committee consists of the President and the Vice President, who attend all Eastside area meetings and report any business requiring chapter action.
What is the Reciprocity Committee?
In 1965, this symbol became a registered trademark in the U.S. Patent Office?
What is the P.E.O. Pin?
At the end of each meeting, we bow our heads while the president reads the benediction. We raise our heads when she says these words.
What are I now declare the....?
The five points of the star on the P.E.O. emblem symbolize these 5 ideals.
What are faith, love, purity, justice and truth?
This is the number of P.E.O. International Projects supporting Women's education.
What is 6?
This committee shall oversee our Foundation Memorial Funds, inform the chapter in December of the funds' financial status, and shall process applications in the spring.
What is the Scholarship Committee?
This sentimental item was carried by Buzz Aldrin to the moon, which he later presented to his aunt upon his return.
What is his Grandmother’s P.E.O. Centennial charm pin?
Our password rhymes with this word.
Bonus, this is what you should do if you forget our password.
What is Fur?
Bonus: What is Ask Another Member?
The two ways to sign off of official P.E.O. correspondence to fellow sisters are these phrases.
What are Lovingly and LIPEO?
This $2,500 award was established in 2009 to provide 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 P.E.O. STAR Scholarship (STAR)?