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HISTORY OF CHI ETA PHI SORORITY, INC.
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JOSEPHINE ALEXANDER
Historian
Mu Chi, Los Angeles

An international sorority of registered nurses and student nurses, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. was founded in 1932 in Washington, D.C. by Aliene C. Ewell, together with eleven other charter members.

Our purposes are:
1. To encourage the pursuit of continuing education among members of the nursing profession.
2. To have a continuous recruitment program for nursing and the health profession.
3. To stimulate a close and friendly relationship among the members.
4. To constantly identify a corps of nursing leaders within the membership who will function as agents of social change on the national, regional, and local levels.

Our program priorities include continuous recruitment in the health careers; scholarship to students enrolled in schools of nursing; development of skills bank profiles on members; increase political involvement on all levels by becoming more knowledgable in government affairs (on a non-partisan basis); continued liaison representation (NCNW, NAACP, ANA, NLN); increase membership by establishing more chapters.

At this time there are some 42 graduate chapters and 15 undergraduate chapters, with a total membership of about one thousand. Locally and nationally, the organization continues to concern itself with professional, civic, and cultural affairs, working through such associations as NAACP, NCNW, YMCA YWCA, and others. Contributions are being made to Federal Campaign Fund, NCNW, UNCF, NAACP, Urban League, Association for the Blind, Heart Association, Cancer Society, Sickle Cell Foundation, Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Cerebral Palsy Foundation, and others. 

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[[caption]] The sorority has had as its leaders sorors Aliene C. Ewell, Sadie Spradley, Anita K. Bass, Fay O. Wilson, Moezell Dickerson, Minnie J. Whitfield, Fostine G. Riddick, Leota P. Brown, Helen S. Miller, and Verdelle Bellamy. [[/caption]]

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image 1 - photo of Aliene C. Ewell image 2 - photo of leaders named in caption