Title: P.E.O. Chapter AI Records, 1951-2000

ID: OGLMC1330

Primary Creator: P.E.O. Chapter AI (1952-)

Extent: 7.25

Date Acquired: 03/04/1996. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Grand Forks - Organizations, Women's History - Women's Organizations, Women's History - Women's Organizations - P.E.O.

Languages: English

The P.E.O. Chapter AI Records have been divided into five series:

Series 1: Yearbooks

Series 2: Conventions

Series 3: Scrapbooks

Series 4: Photographs

Series 5: Artifacts

P.E.O. Sisterhood was founded January 21, 1869, at Iowa Wesleyan University, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Seven women who attended the University met and organized P.E.O. as a philanthropic educational society. Today, the organization has numerous chapters throughout the United States. The local Chapter AI was organized April 22, 1952, by Lou Reading Gardner. Chapter AI holds meetings on the first and third Mondays of each month and members conduct their lives by the qualities of purity, justice, faith, truth, and love.

P.E.O. is a sisterhood active in charity, education, and the strengthening of future generations. Funds are raised, partly by dues, for numerous scholarships, loan programs, local charitable needs, and the support of Cottey College for Women in Missouri.

Grand Forks - Organizations
Women's History - Women's Organizations
Women's History - Women's Organizations - P.E.O.

Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections

Accruals:

Additional material was donated by Arlene Wilson on December 5, 2003 (2003-2662) and by Dr. Gordon Iseminger, UND Department of History, on November 8, 2004 (2005-2741).

Additional material was purchased from Eliot Glassheim, Rare Books Dealer, Grand Forks, North Dakota (2004-2689).

Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Harriet Thorson, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Acquisition Method: Donation; 96-2070

Related Materials:

P.E.O. Chapter D Records: OGLMC 878

P.E.O. Chapter T Records: OGLMC 1012

P.E.O. Chapter AF Records: OGLMC 1581

Related Publications: Fifty years of P. E. O. in North Dakota, 1906-1956. Grand Forks: North Dakota State Chapter, 1956

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). P.E.O. Chapter AI Records. OGLMC 1330, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in November 2014.