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(Posted 5-13-04)
Contact: Steve Gilliam, 336-334-5371

UNCG to Present Alumni Distinguished Service Awards May 15

 GREENSBORO – Dr. Cynthia Howard and Patricia Shore Clark, graduates with records of service in the fields of medicine and government and business, will receive the 2004 Alumni Distinguished Service Awards at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro during alumni reunion activities.

The presentations will be made during commencement weekend at the UNCG Alumni Association’s 111th annual meeting, set for noon on Saturday, May 15, in
Cone Ballroom of Elliott University Center. The awards recognize alumni who have contributed to the "liberal arts ideal" through service. This year’s recipients are:

• Howard, a pediatrician who lives Baltimore, Class of 1974. Howard has served children while working at the U.S. Army Hospital in Berlin, Germany, and as a consultant pediatrician at the Baptist Medical Centre in Nigeria. She has taught at the University of Maryland Medical Center as a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, and as a general pediatrician at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. She continues her international activities as program director for Pediatrics Overseas Uganda with Health Volunteers Overseas. Most recently, Howard has been in the news as the physician who identified a set of conjoined twins in Uganda two years ago and arranged for their transport, separation surgery, and care at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Following their return to Uganda, the twins continued to struggle, and Howard recently arranged for their return to the U.S. and has adopted the twins.

• Clark, of Winston-Salem, Class of 1958. Clark has enjoyed a distinguished career in both the public and the private sectors. After her graduation from Womans College (now UNCG), she worked in the office of U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin, from his election in 1954 until his retirement in 1974. She then served as director of the North Carolina State Office in Washington from 1977 to 1984. While there, she and four other women founded the organization Women Executives in State Government. Clark entered the private sector as director of state and local government relations for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. Clark has served on the UNCG Board of Trustees, and on the boards of directors of UNCG’s Alumni Association and its Excellence Foundation. She is a member of the North Carolina and the international women’s forums, and she serves on the board of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation.
 
 

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