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Sorry to be taking up so much of this thread. It's also interesting to note that many sorority members are P.E.O.s. One of Delta Zeta's founders was a P.E.O. State Chapter President. Alpha Xi Delta's Ella Boston Leib was an Illinois State Chapter President. One of Kappa's founders was a P.E.O. I've written about several of them. A P.E.O. friend just gave me a copy of her book about the history of P.E.O. in Oklahoma. When I looked at the list of Oklahoma State Chapter Presidents, one jumped out at me as a Pi Phi name. After a little research, it was the same woman who presided at one of Pi Phi's early conventions. It's always fun to find the overlap between the P.E.O. and NPC groups. (Yes, the periods are always used between P.E. and O). The connection between Alpha Xi Delta and P.E.O. was especially strong in the early 1900s.