Carrie Marie Sharpe
Carrie Marie Sharpe (1881-1967) was the founder and first president of the State Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, later Old Dominion Graduate Nurses Association. A role model for African-American nurses, Sharpe was actively involved in professional nursing associations on a national level and in her native Virginia. Her accomplishments were recognized in 2001 when she was one of ten nurses inducted into the newly created Virginia Nursing Hall of Fame.
--Jodi Koste, Archivist, MCV Campus.