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Category: Service to Humanity

A nurse for 40 years, Jettiva S. Belton began her career at Columbia Hospital (now Richland Memorial), where she initiated the first Radiation Therapy Department Nursing Service Program.  In 2006, she retired from the W.J.B. Dorn VA Medical Center where she is recognized for creating the first Nursing Home Care Unit in a hospital setting.  She has served as alternate member of the S.C. Silver Haired Legislative Board, member of the Columbia Christian Health Care Auxiliary, Basileus for Delta Eta Chapter of CHI ETA PHI Sorority, Inc., member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and president of the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing Alumnae Association.  At the time of her induction, Belton was president of the Nurses Auxiliary at Zion Canaan Baptist Church and Parish Nurse for the congregation.  She is a 1961 C.A. Johnson High School graduate and holds a Diploma in Nursing from the Columbia Hospital School of Nursing and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of South Carolina.

During his 16-year tenure as president of the Columbia branch of the NAACP, Frank B. Washington was dedicated to fighting discrimination and the under representation of African-Americans in public life.  He served four years on the National Board of Directors and led the NAACP in pressuring the City of Columbia to change the way its city officials were elected, which allowed Columbia’s large black population to be adequately represented.  In 1986, Washington retired from the S.C. Department of Education after 35 years of dedicated service.  He has been president of the S.C. Insurance Commission, a member of the Board of Trustees at Richland Memorial Hospital and vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees at Voorhees College.  In 2006, he was featured in the S.C. African-American History Calendar and was named to the S.C. Black Hall of Fame.  A 1945 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, Washington earned a Bachelor of Psychology from Allen University in 1949.  At the time of his induction, he was owner and manager of Frank Washington Realty, Inc.