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ETA PHI BETA SORORITY
INCORPORATED

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HISTORY OF CHI ETA PHI SORORITY, INC.

An international sorority of registered nurses, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. was founded in 1932 in Washington, D.C. by Aliene C. Ewell, together with eleven other charter members: Clara Beverly*, Lillian Moseley Boswell, Gladys L. Catching, Bessie Cephas, Henretta S. Chisholm, Susan E. Freeman*, Ruth Garrett*, Oliver Howard*, Mildred Wood Lucas, Clara Belle Royster and Katherine C. Turner. There are sixtynine (69) chapters throughout the United States and West Africa.

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.

MOTTO: SERVICE FOR HUMANITY

PROGRAMS:

1. FUTURAMA
Chi Eta Phi Soroity [[Sorority]], Inc. has long been aware of the continuing problem of the obtainment of basic and advanced educational advancement due to ever increasing financial requirements. it has therefore made as one of its major focuses in its plan of service to humanity the provision of scholarship funding to those candidates deemed to meet the criteria developed by the sorority.

2. TUTORIAL PROGRAMS
To help reduce functional illiteracy, provide opportunity to increase educational preparation for entrance into Nursing and Allied Health Fields, increase retention of students in nursing and increase the success rate in state board examinations.

3. CHI CARE CALLS (CCC)
Provides a checking system for the well being of senior citizens.

4. TUBMAN DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL PROJECT (TDS)
Chi Eta Phi provides much needed milk and vitamins to the 1200 students attending The Tubman Demonstration School in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa and maintains the school's health clinic.

5. HEALTH SCREENING
To identify potential and actual health problems in target populations and establish appropriate referrals for medical supervision.

6. HEALTH EDUCATION
To identify health needs of the community and develop a plan of action for attacking those problems.

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Transcription Notes:
First referred to on page as Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc, and later as Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.