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On Alpha Xi Delta’s Founders’ Day, Its Connection to the P.E.O. Sisterhood

Alpha Xi Delta was founded at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, on April 17, 1893. Its founders are Cora Bollinger (Block), Alice Bartlett (Bruner), Bertha Cook (Evans), Harriett Luella McCollum (Gossow), Lucy W. Gilmer, Lewie Strong (Taylor), Almira Lowry Cheney, … Continue reading

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Alice Bird Babb, P.E.O. and Alpha Xi Delta

On April 17, 1893, Alpha Xi Delta was founded at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois. The founders ranged in age from 15-year old Alice Barlett Bruner to a 25-year-old widow, Eliza Curtis. For nine years Alpha Xi remained a local organization … Continue reading

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Effie Hoffman Rogers, P.E.O., #WHM2019

Effie Hoffman Rogers was not a founder of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, but she was a builder. Few people know the names of the builders, those who came after the founders and worked on making the organization into what it is … Continue reading

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Happy 150th, P.E.O. Sisterhood!

The P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded 150 years ago today, on January 21, 1869. The temperature in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where Iowa Wesleyan University is located, will be about 22 degrees. Legend has it that the temperature on this day in … Continue reading

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Iowa Wesleyan We Love Thee

Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has played a major role in the existence of two organizations to which I belong. In fall of 1868, Libbie Brook, a founder of I.C. Sorosis (Pi Beta Phi) at Monmouth College interrupted … Continue reading

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Anna Gillis Kimble on Alpha Xi Delta’s Founders’ Day

Alpha Xi Delta was founded at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois on April 17, 1893. Its founders are Cora Bollinger (Block), Alice Bartlett (Bruner), Bertha Cook (Evans), Harriett Luella McCollum (Gossow), Lucy W. Gilmer, Lewie Strong (Taylor), Almira Lowry Cheney, Frances … Continue reading

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Alice Babb Ewing, Alpha Xi Delta, #WHM2018, #notablesororitywomen

I have written posts about the connection between P.E.O. and Alpha Xi Delta, and it’s a special story. The P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded on January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Alpha Xi Delta was founded … Continue reading

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Dillon H. Payne, Beta Theta Pi, and His Role in P.E.O.’s History

On January 21, 1869, seven young women, students at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, founded P.E.O. In the early years, they called it a Society and then, later, a Sisterhood. I’ve written about this before, but it is … Continue reading

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Following in the P.E.O. Founders’ Footsteps

Last week I followed in the Pi Beta Phi Founders’ footsteps. This week I am knee-deep in the founding of the P.E.O. Sisterhood. P.E.O.s who attended the Convention of International Chapter in Charlotte, North Carolina, several weeks ago learned that … Continue reading

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Beta, Pi Phi, and P.E.O.

My life has been lived east of the Mississippi, the last half of it just miles from the river. When we first moved to Illinois, it was odd to tell people that we were five hours from Chicago, the only … Continue reading

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