For what it's worth, "this particular programmer" was only illustrating how the use of IN would change the code, not providing a complete, recommended solution.
Could I try to place the values in alphabetic order after since I can't figure it out on the SQL query.
Like to a SORT on the returned values from the "fetchrow_hashref"
Do a SORT here in one of the returned values
It is certainly possible to accumulate all the rows returned in an array (of hashes), and then sort that array by whichever hash element you like before output.
I still think what you really want to do is to have one query that returns all the data in the desired order.