LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER COMMENCEMENT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AUDITORIUM NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 4:30 P.M. Thursday, August 5, 1976 Program PRESIDING John C. Finerty, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION Leo T. Happel, Jr., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Neurosurgery Louisiana State University Medical Center WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy Louisiana State University Medical Center CONFERRING OF DEGREES Martin D. Woodin, Ph.D. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Leo T. Happel, Jr., Ph.D. RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to be seated until the graduates have left the auditorium" CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1976 ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Gloria Gay Artus Renee T. Longmire Linda H. Backes Dolores Daigle Lusignan Wendy Kreller Barrios Shelia Ann Major Sandra Ratcliff Blood worth Susan Barrios Majorie David Michael Boudreaux Gayle Harrison Miller James Burks Suzanne Marie Morreale Andra Lee Carriere Susan Combes Nicaise Thomas J. Claybourne Susan Norton Donna M. Corum Nancy Marie Oliphant Randal Paul DeFatta Lynn Joseph Philippe Eric Paul DeLaune Ralph Mountague Price, Jr. Rebecca Ann Anderson Desmond Sister Patricia Quintero, S.M. Robin Smail Dietrich Alicia M. Silverman Faye Elizabeth Dyer Beth Janine Smith Janis M. Elliott Dorothy M. Strasser Janet Friend Folse Lynn Roth Swegel Jacqueline L. Gay Jean Marie Tartaglia Nancy V. Gibbs Terry Grant Taylor Kathy L. Guidroz Beverly Crowley Trauth Patricia Reece Hartness Diane Clark Trippi Maria Denise Hoerner Ramona Ann Verdun Lana Jean Jones Marilyn Luella Whiting Blanche Alice LeBlanc MaryKay Wilson MASTER OF NURSING Mary Magdelene Durald Barbara LaGraize Morvant CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1976 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CYTOTECHNOLOGY Rebecca Anne Bass BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Karen Leah Afsharnejad Jessica Lancaster Harold Thomas Billiodeaux, Jr. Jane Thompson Langenstein Margaret Urilda Boe Arthur Joseph LeBlanc Lena Louise Bujol David George Leslie Sheree Blanchard Carter Richard Scott Nolan Myron Paul Chatelain Susan LaCour Peluso Mark B. Guidry Charles Lawrence Surbeck Kathryn Louise Harlan Rose Ann Sanchez Taylor Stewart James Juneau Marianne Toner Jane Louise Lacour BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY Richard James Giglione MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Lynn Marie Bani Myra B. Duplantis Joan Sullivan Barron Ann M. Fleischer Kathleen June Bartels Kim Paulette Gant Marcia Maumus Bourgeois Shanta Dennis Hollier Gloria Guillory Childress Patti Rae Mosman Sherry Clay Compton Aloma Vincent Reed Thomas Victor Ducombs Donna Marie Simmons CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1976 DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Gerald Joseph DeRouen MASTER OF SCIENCE Kirk Michael Rousset Department: Microbiology Major Professor: Richard J. O'Callaghan, Ph.D. Brian M. Susskind Department: Tropical Medicine Major Professor: Lionel G. Warren, Sc.D. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Ronald Clark Auvenshine Department: Anatomy Major Professor: C. H. Narayanan, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: An Experimental Inquiry into the Relation Between Structure and Function in the Development of the Squamoso-mandibular Joint of the Rat. Paul Andrew Guse Department: Pharmacology Major Professor: John C. Hancock, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: A Comparison of the Antiarrhythmic and Elec-trophysiologic Properties of Sodium Allopurinol and Quinidine Sulfate. ACADEMIC HERALDRY: THE SYMBOLS OF LEARNING The college or university commencement procession today, in this country and abroad, is a pageant, alive and bright with the dress and ceremony inherited from the medieval universities of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. To preserve their dignity and meaning it early became necessary for these universities to set rules for academic dress. American universities agreed on a definite system in 1895 and set up a suitable code of academic dress for the colleges and universities of the United States. In 1932 the American Council on Education presented a revised code which for the most part governs the style of academic dress today. The principal features of academic dress are three: the gown, the cap, and the hood. The Gown. The Flowing gown comes from the twelfth century. It has become symbolic of the democracy of scholarship, for it completely covers any dress of rank or social standing beneath. It is black for all degrees with pointed sleeves for the Bachelor's degree; long closed sleeves for the Master's degree, with a slit for the arm; and round open sleeves for the Doctor's degree. The gown worn for Bachelor's or Master's degrees has no trimmings. The gown for the Doctorate degrees is faced down the front with velvet and has three bars of velvet across the sleeves, in the color distinctive of the faculty or discipline to which the degree pertains. For certain institutions the official colors of the college or university may appear on the gown or its decorations. The Cap. The freed slave in Ancient Rome won the privilege of wearing a cap, and so the academic cap is a sign of the freedom of scholarship and the responsibility and dignity with which scholarship endows the wearer. Old poetry records the cap of scholarship as square to symbolize the book, although some authorities claim that the mortar board is the symbol of the masons, a privileged guild. The color of the tassel on the cap denotes the discipline, although a gold tassel may be worn with a doctoral gown. The Hood. Heraldically the hood is an inverted shield with one or more chevrons of a secondary color on the ground of the primary color of the college. The color of the facing of the hood denotes the discipline represented by the degree; the color of the lining of the hood designates the university or college from which the degree was granted. COLORS DISTINCTIVE OF CERTAIN DISCIPLINES AND PROFESSIONS Green: Medicine Dark Blue: Philosophy Lilac: Dentistry Yellow: Science Apricot: Nursing