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CHI ETA PHI Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. is an organization or [[of]] registered professional 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. Membership is limited to Registered Professional Nurses and student nurses enrolled in accredited schools - Colleges, Universities, Associated degree programs and hospital based programs. Today, the sorority has sixty chapters and a membership exceeding 1,500 throughout the United States and Monrovia, Liberia. Chi Eta Phi Sorority grew and sparkled for numerous years consisting mainly of Black professional nurses. The changes in time and open progressive minds stimulated changes and 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, throughout civic and cultural activities and through financial contributions to deprived 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 Society 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 Sorority is actively involved in promoting high ideals in the nursing profession, education, civic and community affairs, legislation, economics, and in improving human relations. The Accomplishments of this great sisterhood will continue to be recorded in history. We therefore, wish to extend gratitude to our founders for an organization of such magnitude. PURPOSES of the Sorority To encourage the pursuit of continuing education To have a continuous recruitment program for the health careers To stimulate a close and friendly relationship among members To develop working relationships with other professional groups for the improvement and delivery of health care delivery services. To constantly identify a corps of nursing leaders within the membership who will function as agents of social change on the local, regional and national level. [black and white photo of Verdelle B. Bellamy] VERDELLE B. BELLAMY Tenth Supreme Basileus 1973 - Atlanta, Georgia [black and white photo of 10 women] Executive Board Meeting - The Washington Hilton, November, 1976. Seated left to right: Janice Crouch, Dean of Sponsors; Dana Lopez, NER Director; Verdelle B. Bellamy, Supreme Basileus; Vernice Ferguson, Chief, Nursing Department NIH and Honorary Member; Aliene C. Ewell, Founder; Louise James, First Anti Supreme Basileus and Peola McCaskill, Executive Secretary. Standing, left to right: Eloise Ellis, Editor-in-Chief; Mable Hawkins, Tamias; Helen Miller, Immediate Past Supreme Basileus; Linda Fisher, Basileus Pi Beta chapter,
