Colored Graduate Nurses Association Celebrate Achievements of Prominenet Female Harlem Residents with Luncheon at YWCA
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- Colored Graduate Nurses Association Celebrate Achievements of Prominenet Female Harlem Residents with Luncheon at YWCA
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- Colored Graduate Nurses Association Celebrate Achievements of Prominenet Female Harlem Residents with Luncheon at YWCA Happened Entirely at 179, W 137th St
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- Colored Graduate Nurses Association Celebrate Achievements of Prominenet Female Harlem Residents with Luncheon at YWCA Sole event referenced by Local Graduate Nurses Sponsor Annual Luncheon
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- June 1, 1935
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"Local Colored Graduate Nurses Association sponsored a luncheon Saturday afternoon, June 1, at the YWCA in honor of five women who have achieved signal success during the year. They were Mrs. Lucy Shaw and Mrs Edna B. Malone, both supervisors of nurses, Central Harlem Health Center, Department of Health; Mrs Corinne Sawyer, supervisor, Jefferson branch, Department of Health; Mrs Sylvia Ellis, supervisor, Mott Haven Health Center, Department of Health; and Mrs G. Elise Ayer, principal, P.S. 24. Ninety-five guests came to to hear tribute paid to them by Mrs Lucy Heydon, mistress of ceremonies, and Mrs Ruth L. Roberts, guest speaker"