What: Announcement of Antonio and Jane D. Dow Endowed Scholarship
When: 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, 2015
Where: UTEP Health Sciences and Nursing Building, terrace lobby
The University of Texas at El Paso will announce the Antonio and Jane D. Dow Endowed Scholarship during a brief program and plaque dedication.
Antonio Dow, M.D., graduated from the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now UTEP) in January 1943 and graduated second in his class at St. Louis University with a doctorate in medicine. He completed his residency in general surgery at Youngstown Hospital in Ohio, where he met his bride-to-be, Jane Gotti, a surgical scrub nurse.
He opened his general surgery practice in El Paso in July 1953, practicing until his retirement in 1991. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a senior member of the Texas Surgical Society, and certified by the Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery. He was a delegate to the Texas Medical Association for six years, a member of the Council for Member Services for nine years and a member of the El Paso County Medical Society for four decades.
Dow was chief of surgery at Hotel Dieu Hospital, chief of staff and chief of surgery at Sun Towers, (now Las Palmas Medical Center) and R.E. Thomason Hospital (now University Medical Center). He also spent 38 years at Providence Memorial Hospital, serving as chief of staff, chief of surgery and on the board of directors and many committees. His colleagues voted him the most popular and outstanding surgical member of the staff in 1990 at Providence Memorial Hospital. He died in 2012.
Jane Gotti Dow, RN, died May 3, 2015. She was born in Youngstown, Ohio and resided in El Paso for more than 60 years. She had a successful career in nursing. The Dows are survived by their four children – Debbie Dow Amezcua, Sherry Dow Rios, Sandy Dow Mapula, and Charles Anthony Dow, M.D. – and their spouses.
The couple was passionately committed to improving the lives of those they served. Distributions from the endowment will be used to provide scholarships to students pursuing degrees in nursing and the health sciences.
“We are so incredibly honored by the Dow family’s generosity in establishing the Antonio and Jane D. Dow Endowed Scholarship,” said Kathleen A. Curtis, Ph.D., dean of the College of Health Sciences. “This endowed scholarship will provide much needed support for our UTEP health professions students as well as ensuring the continued preparation of a well-prepared health care workforce for our El Paso community, which Dr. Antonio Dow and Mrs. Jane Dow served with distinction throughout their lives.”
Endowed scholarships provide students with funding for tuition, fees and other costs related to academics.
“Because the UTEP School of Nursing started as the Hotel Dieu Training School for Nurses in 1898, the first nursing school in El Paso, this scholarship is especially meaningful and will help us build on our local impact to the quality of health care in our community,” said Elias Provencio-Vasquez, Ph.D., dean of the School of Nursing. “We are grateful for the Dow’s confidence in UTEP. Their foresight in establishing an endowed scholarship ensures that our students are able to focus academically and become the most competent and skilled nurses serving our community.”