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Originally posted by BetaRose
I'm really not familiar with PEO enough to say, but if they are a sorority, I'd be happy to add them to the list. 
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Yes, the P.E.O. Sisterhood is a sorority.
www.peointernational.org will tell you a great deal.
Here is what I recently posted under the thread "Non-collegiate Sororities."
P.E.O. (always written with periods after the letters!) was founded at Iowa Wesleyan University in 1869. The Original Seven had become fast friends during their college years. A chapter of I.C. Sorosis (now Pi Beta Phi) was chartered in December, 1868. Not all seven were invited to join I.C. and they refused to affiliate without their friends. So, they created "a society of their own," which was publicly announced to the campus on January 21, 1869. P.E.O. expansion took the community route as sisters graduated and wanted to perpetuate their sisterhood in the towns to which they moved. As the years passed the IWU rules for student orgs conflicted with the P.E.O. Constitution. After much deliberation, the collegiate members chose to become the Beta chapter of Alpha Xi Delta which was chartered on June 7, 1902.
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P.E.O. chapters are in every state and in Canada. There are many, many NPC members who are P.E.O.s. It's fun to discover "double" sisters!
AGDAlum