the few journalists the North Vietnamese government invited to inspect the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison that housed American Prisoners of War. On April 30, 1975, Rowan was one of the final foreign journalists evacuated from Saigon by helicopter. Rowan was friends with President Gerald Ford and in 1975 interviewed the then-sitting President for his book on the Mayaguez crisis. In 1977 Rowan returned to the U.S. to take a job as one of Fortune magazine's senior writers, penning some sixty five major articles, which included an exclusive 15-page exposé on the top fifty Mafia leaders in America, before resigning in 1980 to freelance write and author books. In 1990, he disguised himself as a homeless man and spent two weeks on the streets of New York for a ten-page article in People magazine. In 1974, Rowan was diagnosed with a lethal form of melanoma, requiring radical surgery. Hospitalized for two weeks, he wrote a 6,000-word article about how he thought positive thinking could enhance his immune system. He later turned this into his book Never Too Late. Rowan was a long-standing member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China (now located in Hong Kong) as well as president of the Time-Life Alumni Society, the Overseas Press Club of America, and the Dutch Treat Club. Rowan also enjoyed many years as an active member of The Century Association in New York City where his memorial was held on February 3, 2017. Rowan died at a Greenwich, Connecticut, hospital on 13 September 2016, at 96. No cause was given. Awards In 1995, Hartwick College awarded Rowan an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters. The citation for the honorary doctorate may be found on the OPC website. In 2004, he received the Henry R. Luce Award for lifetime achievement in journalism. Roy Rowan Scholarship (OPCF) Roy Rowan was president of the Overseas Press Club from 1998 to 2000. Immediately following the concluding year of his presidency, family, friends and admirers established and funded an Overseas Press Club Foundation (OPCF) scholarship in his name. Don Underwood, a former executive at Time, Inc and Merrill Lynch, was instrumental in helping organize and secure initial contributions to the scholarship fund. The scholarship is awarded annually by an OPCF scholarship committee to an aspiring young reporter usually in the final year of undergraduate or graduate school. The scholarship award provides a stipend in support of an OPC-arranged overseas