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                                                 CONTACT:  Katherine Jackson
                      U.VA. MEDICAL SCHOOL STUDENT AWARDED
                   YEAR'S TUITION AND FEES AS BOWMAN SCHOLAR

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., Oct. 12--The coveted C. Richard Bowman Memorial
Scholarship at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has been awarded 
to medical student Katharine H. Taber of Springfield.
	The fourth-year student will receive a year's tuition and fees.  
Taber was selected for her integrity, enthusiasm and genuine compassion for 
the ill--qualities that distinguished the late Dr.Bowman.  Dr.Bowman was a 
Staunton native who graduated from the U.Va. School of Medicine in 1974 and 
died in a sailing accident in 1977.  The award is presented annually.
	Formerly, a financial analyst at the First Boston Corporation in 
New York, Taber earned her B.A. in mathematics and computer science in 1988 
from Wellesley College.  She plans to pursue a residency in obstetrics and 
gynecology.  In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering in medical settings, 
teaching and bicycling. 
	The scholarship will be presented Thursday at the Bowman Lecture, 
"Issues in the Prevention and Management of Endocarditis," given by 
Dr.A.W.Karchmer, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of 
Infectious Disease at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. It will 
be held at 12:30 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium. 
	Taber is the eighteenth recipient of the Bowman Scholarship.
	Faculty members nominate five fourth-year students for the award each 
year.  Others nominated for this year's scholarship were Kimberly Leann 
Cathey of Sterling, Aklil Getachew of Springfield, Maria Cozzi Mascolo of 
Annandale, and David Cloid White of Princeton, N.J.
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                                                October 12, 1995