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...
