In 1998 Sister Glenda Peyton was serving as Grand Adah for Sister Mittie Small, WGM, and asked permission to begin an Arkansas Grand Chapter website. Sister Mittie was excited about the prospect and gave hearty support.
Sister Glenda's daughter, Renee Perry, was teaching Multimedia and Web Design at Gentry High School in Gentry, Arkansas. Her class developed the website as a class project and won several awards for their efforts.
In 2000, Sister Nancy Lindsey, WGM, gave full support to the website and asked Sister Glenda to oversee the continuing project. In 2001 Sister Roberta Fooks, WGM, appointed Renee officially "WebMaster". The following WGMs continued the appointment.
When Renee got a teaching job in Pine Bluff and her class could no longer help, Sister Glenda started making all the updates and corrections to the page, and Renee developed the pages, backgrounds, etc.
For three years the website was on a free website server. Ads were constantly popping up on the free site. Renee was extremely irritated by the pop-ups and felt some were not appropriate to be seen on an OES website. She found that for $4.95 a month the website could stay intact with no ad pop-ups. She began paying the monthly charge and did so until 2006.
In 2006, Sister Glenda Peyton was serving as WGM and appointed Tom Dixon, PGP, and Harold MacIntire, PP, to serve on the Website Committee with Renee as WebMaster. Renee set up an information session with Bro. Tom and Bro. Harold, and the three of them have continued the website work since that time. Sister Glenda felt Renee had covered the website charges long enough, and Sister Glenda began making the monthly payments in 2006. In 2008 Geocities raised the monthly charge to $6.95 monthly.
For several years now, your Website Committee, Renee Perry, PM, Web Master; Tom Dixon, PGP, GGCCM; and Harold MacIntire, PP (and Sister Glenda, PGM, not on the committee), have enjoyed serving you in this capacity. Please enjoy your Grand Chapter website.
Update, March 2, 2014
- April 26, 2013: Sister Renee Perry entered her Heavenly Home.
- December 2013 (at Arkansas Grand Chapter): the Grand Chapter of Arkansas picked up the expense of this website for 2013. The reimbursement was made to Sister Glenda Peyton, PGM.
- January 25, 2014: Sister Carol Ann Roberson, PGM, was appointed to this committee.