Happy Retirement, Lezlee!

Lezlee Heryford, outgoing Kansas State Chapter Executive Treasurer, has provided 24 years of dutiful service to our Kansas sisterhood. From presenting at executive board meetings to providing expertise and explanations at Kansas State Chapter Convention; from monitoring the books for Kansas Sunflower Grants to making sure KSC’s money is invested wisely; from giving expert insight to P.E.O. International’s home office staff to helping new executive treasurers from other S/P/D chapters…the list goes on and on. If you ask Lezlee a question, you know you’ll get the right answer. She has trained countless local chapter treasurers, executive officers of convention, hostess chapter representatives, incoming members of the executive board, AND the incoming executive treasurer!

But beyond any of the things on Lezlee’s list of accomplishments, she is and remains our sister. We’d love to keep her forever, but loving concern doesn’t just mean being supportive to a sister in need. It also requires us to know when to step back and let her hand her role to the next sister. This season in Lezlee’s P.E.O. life has ended, but the next, beautiful season has just begun. I have it on pretty good authority that Lezlee’s next season is called “Nana” and will be filled with lots of time holding her beloved newborn grandson.

Dearest Lezlee, on behalf of the Kansas State Chapter Board and the rest of Kansas P.E.O., I send you into your retirement with every last bit of sisterly love we have. You have given us so much of yourself, and you deserve every happiness life has to offer.

Lovingly in P.E.O.,
Aidan Koster, President of Kansas State Chapter