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[[image - black and white photograph of Dr. Edward C. Mazique and Dr. Claude L. Cowan]]
[[caption]] OUTGOING AND INCOMING PRESIDENTS of Howar dUniversity Medical Alumni Association - Dr. Edward C. Maziue (left) and Dr. Claude L. Cowan. [[/caption]]


HOWARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
102nd Anniversary Reunion - May 6-12, 1973
Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
ANNUAL BANQUET, MAY 19, 1973

in conjunction with

ASSOCIATION OF FORMER INTERNS
AND 
RESIDENTS OF FREEDMENS HOSPITAL
and HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER REUNION

DR. COWAN NEW PRESIDENT OF HU MEDICAL ALUMNI

DR. CLAUDE L. COWAN of Washington, D.C., was chosen as President of the Howard University Medical Alumni at its annual reunion on May 30, 1972 at the Shoreham Hotel. Dr. M. Lorenzo Walker, '55 of Philadelphia, Pa., was elected Vice President. New members elected to the Executive Board were Drs. Nolan N. Atkinson, '34, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Andrew W. E. Bassette III, '44, Hampton, Va.; Reginald C. Jackson, '45, Richmond, Va., and Warren J. Strudwick, '52, Washington, D.C. The annual banquet and dance was held in the Regency Ballroom of the Shoreham Hotel with more than 650 persons in attendance. Among the attendees were the Governor General of Barbados, West Indies, Sir Winston Scott and Lady Scott. He received the M.D. degree from H.U. in 1925. They were accompanied by His Excellency Valerie Theodore McComie, the Ambassador from Barbados to the United States. Dr. Edward C. Mazique, retiring president of HUMAA, was master of ceremonies.

Dr. Cowan was born in Knoxville, Tenn. and received the B.S. degree from Knoxville College in 1927. In 1931 he earned the M.D. degree at H.U. and interned at Freedmen's Hospital, 1931-32. He did advance study in Ophthalmology at the New York Post-Graduate School, Boston's Ophthalmological Council, the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, the Manhattan Eye & Ear Hospital, and New York Post-Graduate Medical School. In 1965 he attended a course in Ophthalmology at Barraquer Institute, Barcelona, Spain. Presently he is Clinical Professor and Chief of the Division of Ophthalmology at H.U.

During July of 1962, Dr. Cowan was visiting eye surgeon at the Sudan Interior Mission Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria. He was visiting ophthalmology surgeon at Belize City Hospital, British Honduras, Central America in 1964, Jan. 1966, July 1967, and June-July 1969.

Dr. Cowan is a member of the Medico-Chirugical Society of Washington, D.C., the National Medical Association, American Medical Association, and many other professional and civic organizations. He is chairman-elect of the Section of Ophthalmology of the D.C. Medical Society, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Knoxville (Tenn.) College. He has attended sessions of the International Congress of Ophthalmology in Brussels, Belgium, and medical/surgical sessions in Vienna, Austria; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Helsinki, Finland; Budapest, Hungary; Kiev, Odessa, Leningrad and Moscow, U.S.S.R.

He is the author of a number of published articles on Ophthalmology. Dr. and Mrs. Cowan's son, Claude L., Jr., received the M.D. degree from H.U. in June 1972.

[[image - black and white photograph of a group of African-American men seated at a head table, with one man standing at speaker's podium, and more men seated at other tables]]
[[caption]] HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S DEAN OF ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS holds Luncheon. At podium is Dr. Charles S. Ireland, Director of Freedmen's Hospital. At left is Dr. Carlton P. Alexis, Vice President of Howard University for Health Affairs. At right is Dr. E. C. Mazique, president of HUMAA, who presided. [[/caption]]

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