Members of Chapter DF met for their regular meeting on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at the State Bank of Toledo Community Meeting Rooms. Hostess and Co-Hostess were Charlene Wells-Kenkel and Sarah Kenkel The meeting was opened by President Marilyn Rippy and Chaplain Kim Nelson lead members in devotions and prayer using Isaiah 52, Cards were signed for our sisters and daughters who are attending College and Universities to help support them in their studies. President Rippy informed members that a care package had also been sent to our Cottey College student. Business included the reading of the yearly President’s Letter; details on Opera Iowa, which will be coming this spring to the STC Elementary and the Wieting Theatre; and an applicant for the Program for Continuing Education Grant was interviewed by three members. Our program was presented by Charlene Wells-Kenkel. She asked members to fill out a multiple-choice quiz after which she went through each answer and informed members as to which of the seven founders they had the most in common. The program was originally created by Julie Brunner, of Chapter GS of Holden, Missouri. PEO was founded in 1869 by seven young women attending Iowa Wesleyan College.

Today PEO is an organization of nearly 250,000 women across the United States and Canada that supports women through friendships, the bonds of sisterhood and through educational scholarships, grants, awards, and loans,

The next meeting of Chapter DF will be March 3, 2020.