(Posted 8-10-99)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Service Contact: Brian Long, 336-334-4314
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GREENSBORO -- Tamara N. Johnson of Asheville, a recent graduate of the School of Nursing at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has received the National Beta Image Award from Chi Eta Phi, a nursing sorority.
The award recognizes an outstanding undergraduate student’s academic achievement, leadership and creativity.
Johnson, of 40 High Meadow Road, Asheville, represented the Southeast Region in the awards competition.
The award was presented at the sorority’s 54th national conference, held in July in Pittsburgh. Johnson was unable to attend the meeting, so LaToya N. Lowery, a 1999 nursing graduate from Thomasville and UNCG’s delegate to the conference, accepted the award for her.
Other conference attendees from UNCG were Dr. Joan Jones-Mathews, a retired clinical associate professor of nursing and the faculty adviser for UNCG’s Sigma Chi Alpha Beta undergraduate chapter of Chi Eta Phi; Cora Waddell, a staff nurse with UNCG Student Health Services and sponsor of the Sigma Chi Apha Beta undergraduate chapter; and Arrie Smith, president of Sigma Chi, the local graduate chapter of Chi Eta Phi. The Sigma Chi chapter provided funds for Lowery to attend the conference.
Chi Eta Phi is an organization of registered professional nurses and nursing students with more than 8,000 members in the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands and West Africa. Founded in 1932 as an African-American nursing sorority at Freedman’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., today it is racially mixed and includes male and female members in more than 78 graduate and 38 undergraduate chapters.
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