Dear Dowites all over the Globe This month on December 10 2013, Dow Medical College will complete 68 years of its existence. It was established on 10th December 1945 when Sir Hugh Dow, Governor of Sindh laid the foundation stone of the new building. The medical college was transferred from Hyderabad to Karachi on December 31 1945, The first principal of DMC was Dr. Kewalram Tarasing Ramchandani. There have been many attempts to keep the Dow Memorabilia like graduation photos through the years, milestones, photos of faculty and principals. We found them scattered in emails, facebook etc and most importantly in alumni albums. Dr. Karatela started the Dow History project in 2005 and was able to publish a great souvenir in 2008 which was mailed to dowites. It is preserved for you in pdf format on this website. I recently joined Rizwan to complete the website called THE DOW DAYS on Wordpress blog. It has now been populated with many photos and articles I had collected through the years and there are many more to add still. But this is not Rizwan and my site. It is for all Dowites to participate. Therefore we are requesting you to send in your memoirs, photos etc. and they will be published by us under your name. You can also simply browse through it and enjoy it and leave comments and suggestions. Consider this work in progress. The most important item is the complete alumni lists from 1951 to 2006. This is Rizwans effort. He hired a person to go over handwritten registers in the Dow Administrative Office and transfer them to excel spreadsheet. I was able to load them up by each year and now they are available for everyone to examine for accuracy and trace their friends. There are some confusing years eg. our class of 1975 graduated in 1977 and so forth. I have tried to place the classes in the year they graduated to keep things simple. If anyone year is missing please let us know. We are trying to figure out how to get an updated graduates list each year starting from 2006 to present. if anyone can help please write to one of us. Please forgive any inaccuracies in names etc. If you believe a photo belongs to you and wrong credit was given we apologize. Please let us know. Here is the link thedowdays.wordpress/ If you forget the address, simply google The Dow Days and it will lead you to the site. It is open to public. Later on we will pay for a named domain and server so that it will be even more easy to find. Please forward this message to your class alumni and facebook status. Dont forget to tweet about it. Regards Authors of The Dow Days Amin H. Karim MD (Dow 1977) globelinker@gmail Rizwan Karatela MD (Dow 1985) rizwan@karatela
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:02:04 +0000
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