TO THE|point Honor our Founders Planning a Order your New Member on January 21 Chapter Fundraiser? Welcome Kits for this Year Wear your pin and share Be sure to reference the To help chapters onboard the P.E.O. story! Think of ways small P.E.O. Fundraising Policy found in their initiates, New Member Welcome groups of chapter members can be the Policies section of Instructions Kits are available for order. Packaged visible in your community. Take time to Officers of Local Chapters (IOLC) in a convenient carrying case suitable in your chapter to remember the BEFORE your chapter invests time, for laptops, tablets and binders, seven Founders. Refer to the P.E.O. energy or money on your ideas! these kits are a simple and stylish Brand Tool Kit on how to answer way for members to keep all their “What is P.E.O.?” “To express a loving P.E.O. meeting essentials together The P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded concern for each sister” in one place. January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan These words from our College, Mount Pleasant Iowa, by Objects and Aims are recited at the The kit contains an eco-friendly Mary Allen (Stafford), 1848-1927; Ella beginning of each chapter meeting. notebook with an inspiring Franc Stewart, 1848-1894; Alice Bird (Babb) While not every member can Roads quote on the cover, a yellow 1850-1926; Hattie Briggs (Bousquet), participate fully in chapter life, we can pen with stylus, star-shaped luggage 1849-1877; Franc Roads (Elliott), 1852- each ensure all sisters know they are tag, vinyl sticker, stationery, Spirit 1924; Alice Virginia Coffin, 1848-1888; a valued member of our Sisterhood. of P.E.O. card, New Member Guide, Suela Pearson (Penfield) 1851-1920. Show each member our loving concern P.E.O. Constitution and a packet of Members may also find information by affirming, through our actions, that daisy seeds. This kit is only $15 and regarding the Founders on the P.E.O. Every Sister is a VIP (Very Important is available to any member interested. member website by visiting http:// P.E.O.). If a sister needs extra loving It is also a great way to welcome members.peointernational.org/ care, consider paying her dues for your transferring and reinstating founders. Biographical information, her this year. For more information on members! To order, visit the P.E.O. images and recipes can be located care for nonparticipating members, Online Ordering site or call the here. guide for an unaffiliate member, dues Supply Department. reminder or what to say to a sister Initiations and considering inactive status, visit the Natural Disaster Relief Transfers in February red Membership Toolbox at https:// Our thoughts and prayers go It is perfectly okay to members.peointernational.org/ out to everyone affected by initiate new members in February; membership/membership-toolbox. the various natural disasters of fires, give the gift of LOVE. However, due floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, powerful to the annual report process and per Listen to The winds and derechos that have affected the Constitution, invitations to transfer P.E.O. Record on Your many of our sisters, families and may NOT be extended or accepted Smartphone or Computer friends. If you are thinking of making a during the month of February. Since the late 1970s, Chapter donation or offering assistance, please DO, Kansas City, Missouri, has recorded contact the Red Cross, United Way or New Student an abridged audio version of The P.E.O. any reputable local agency. Support Visit Experience Record for visually-impaired sisters. for P.E.O. members may be available Cottey is providing high Tapes and CDs were sent to sisters free through a specific state, provincial or school girls a new campus visit of charge as a service to the Sisterhood. district (s/p/d) chapter that has been opportunity called “Experience Recent technological advances impacted. Please contact the president Cottey.” This individualized have allowed Anne Vaeth and other of the s/p/d chapter to see if an effort year-round visit includes a free members of Chapter DO to move away is being coordinated. hotel room for students traveling from physical media and they are now over 100 miles (based on availability), producing digital (MP3) files. Located lunch on campus and a visit with a on The P.E.O. Record page of the faculty member. Students who visit member website, https://members. and subsequently enroll will earn peointernational.org/news-events/ a $1,500 annual scholarship for peo-record, MP3 files are available up to four years, a total of $6,000! for any sister to stream or download! To register, students should complete the form on the Cottey website at cottey.edu/visit. WWW.PEOINTERNATIONAL.ORG January–February 2022 | THE P.E.O. RECORD 49
Send completed form, including your former address printed in the upper right corner (or give address at which magazine was last received), six weeks in advance of your move. Mail Membership Dept., P.E.O. Executive Office 3700 Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50312-2899 Fax The P.E.O. Record, 515-255-3820 Call 800-343-4921 (Automated line available 24 hours a day. May not be available in all areas of Canada.) Email [email protected] Web peointernational.org (Log in as a member and click on ‘manage membership’) Automatic Address Change: The P.E.O. Record may be mailed to two different addresses if the same seasonal address is used at the same time every year. Address or Name Change (please print) Chapter letter(s)_______________________________State/Province/District_________________________________ Date address effective_______________________________ Name_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Email address_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Street or box address_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ City____________________________________________State/Province/District________________________________________ ZIP/Postal code_______________________________ LEARN WITH COTTEY Sign up today for specialized P.E.O. courses focused on personal development and enrichment. Each online course will last four to five weeks and is taught by a Cottey faculty member. Upcoming Courses: June 6 - July 3, 2022 Sept. 6 - Oct. 3, 2022 APRIL 4 - 30, 2022 Managing Discovering Change Your Purpose Leading Highly EEective Virtual Teams Learn more and register at www.cottey.edu/learn-with-cottey
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