Evelyn was born and educated in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA., where she was refused a Nursing Education although she rated second highest among those students in her high school desirous of becoming Nurses. She was told that colored girls were not accepted for an education into the nursing profession. She later applied to Howard University in Washington, D.C. and was accepted into the former Freedmen’s Hospital School of Nursing, now Howard University School of Nursing. She is a R.N. Cum Laude having taken the National Licensing Boards with white students from George Washington and Georgetown Universities and scoring the second highest in the District of Columbia, as recorded in the Washington Post. She attended Catholic University of America and received a B.S.N. and P.H. N. from California State University at Los Angeles. She has vast Nursing experience in the practice of Nursing, Nursing Administration and Teaching. She was privileged to have served as a Surgical Operating Room Nurse with the eminent Dr. Charles Drew. He was the Physician-Surgeon-Scientist that developed the previously much sought after method of separating plasma from blood, preserving the plasma and setting up the first blood bank, thus saving millions of lives through out the world.