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[[caption]] At the gravesite of Mary Eliza Mahoney [[text cut off]]irst Professional Nurse in the U.S.A. [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] Alpha Beta Alpha Chapter, National Soro[[text cut off]] Eta Phi, Washington, D.C. April 1972. [[/caption]]

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[[caption]] Left to right—Madeline Haym[[text cut off]] ola H. McCaskill, Aliene C. Ewell, 
Founder, Father Joseph C. Rodney [[text cut off]] lon S. Miller, Supreme Basileus. [[/caption]]

[[caption]] BLESSING OF SORORITY HOUSE [[/caption]]

HISTORY OF CHI ETA PHI SORORITY, INC.

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Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. is an organization of registered nurses. The organization was founded October 16, 1932, by Mrs Arlene Carrington Ewell with the assistance of eleven other nurses. The original twelve organized Alpha Chapter at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C., with the two-fold purpose of elevating the plane of nursing and increasing interest in the field of nursing. In May of 1934, Alpha Chapter was incorporated into the laws of the District of Columbia.

Chi Eta Phi Sorority grew and sparkled for thirty-six years consisting mainly of Black professional nurses. However, the changes in time and open progressive minds stimulated changes that have resulted in a radically integrated sorority of graduate nurses working together in SERVICE TO HUMANITY.

Chi Eta Phi's Service to Humanity has spread over the United States and into Africa through civic and cultural activities and through financial contributions to deprived people. Contributions were also made to those civic and social organizations working to help make America a better place to live for all people.

Specific achievements and contributions made by Chi Eta Phi Sorority for the past decades are recorded in the first edition of THE HISTORY OF CHI ETA PHI SORORITY, INC. 1932-1967, by Helen S. Miller, published in 1968, by the Association For The Study of Negro Life and History, Inc.

Three years after the publication of the History of Chi Eta Phi was completed, the National Sorority House was purchased in Washington, D.C. The House was dedicated July 11, 1971.

The accomplishments of this great sisterhood will continue to be recorded in history. We therefore wish to extend gratitude to our Founder for an organization of such magnitude.

JOSEPHINE ALEXANDER
National Historian

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