Real Name: Carrie Marie Sharp
Was Born: November 1, 1881. Saltville, Virginia
Bio: Sharp assembled a small group of nurses in Petersburg for the purpose of forming an organization, the State Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. The organization elected her as the first president and she subsequently held the office of corresponding secretary and treasurer. Sharp served on an advisory committee with the eleven other presidents. In 1932 she was honored by being named "Treasurer for Life or as long as she was eligible." At her suggestion the name of the organization was changed in 1936 to the Old Dominion Graduate Nurses Association (ODGNA). At the annual meeting of the ODGNA on June 14, 1949, Sharp received a scroll inscribed with the following: "presented in recognition of your true leadership, devotion and faithfulness...