Throughout the years the Kappa Chapter, Inc. Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. has given more than $72,000 in scholarship money to nursing students throughout the Pittsburgh area. This year that total grew as Duquesne University nursing students Octavia Anderson and Autumn Ficklin were awarded scholarships during the groups’ annual Mamie Garland Scholarship event themed Building Community Partnerships for Health Equity. The husband of the late Kappa member Mamie Garland established the scholarship.
“We are proud of the accomplishments of all our student members,” said Jessica Wimbush, scholarship chairperson. She noted that Ficklin and a male student Francis Ogbonna attending the University of Pittsburgh have been accepted into the Pittsburgh Veteran Administrations’ Valor Program. They both will work in critical care as VA employees. Wimbush also mentioned that the local organization has chapters on three area college campuses. The University of Pittsburgh-Kappa Beta Chapter established in 1984, the Duquesne University-Kappa Alpha Beta Chapter established in 1996 and the Carlow University- Kappa Beta Beta Chapter, which was established in 2004.
Since May of 1949 the Pittsburgh chapter of the national professional nurses’ organization has been striving to develop a corps of nursing leaders and encouraging continuing education. “There is always going to be a need for nurses,” said Elsie Murray, CRNA Emeritus, MPM Basileus of the Kappa Chapter. Through the scholarship program she says their organization is assisting in developing a new generation of nurses.
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