LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER COMMENCEMENT GRAND BALLROOM BRANIFF PLACE HOTEL 1500 CANAL STREET NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 4:30 P.M. Thursday, August 4, 1977 Program PRESIDING John C. Finerty, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION E. Raworth Allen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy Louisiana State University Medical Center WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D. Dean, School of Allied Health Professions Louisiana State University Medical Center CONFERRING OF DEGREES Martin D. Woodin, Ph.D. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION E. Raworth Allen, Ph.D. RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the auditorium" CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1977 ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Jency Phillips Anderson Ramona Lee Bailey Becky Ann Becker Bente Elisabeth Berdichevsky Olga Maria Blackwell Deirdre Helene Boucree Arthur Jerome Callegari Shirley Shaw Clark Melody Ann Coffey Marsha LaCroix Dameron Ann Ragusa DeVillier Linda Rico Diestro Nancy Marie Domico Lois Ann Ducombs Milton Nicholas Dudenhefer, III Mary M. Flaherty Margaret N. Frey Belinda Ann Geisinger Thomas B. Goldenberg Judith Lea Grattaroti Nancy Marie Healy Mary Lynne Heath Opal Knight Hickman Karen Chesley Hill Rebecca Claire Hubble Inez Margaret Julien Pammalier Fisher LaCour Shelley Stewart Leaumont Mary Jane Lesher Luciana Greco McCarley Sharon Virginia Mitchell Michael Joseph Nolan Louis Thomas Pena Beatrice Manno Ponson Amartha Karen Posner Clifton Martin Richardson, Jr. Karen Nagim Rodriguez Buna Lawson Rule Karen Kronenberger Sansovich Victoria Klein Sawicki Barbara Ellington Staub Carmelina Culotta Stewart Mary Susette Tuminello Marsha Becker Zander MASTER OF NURSING Charlene Yasiunas Gibson Ruth Hill Wohn CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1977 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CYTOTECHNOLOGY Beverly Marie Sellers Beverly Elizabeth Smith BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Dixie E. Avera Paula Ann Jenevein Antoinette Proctor Baechle Yvonne Kay Kojis Regina Lynne Balestrino Cynthia Marie Labatut Karen Marie Barnes Anita Jo Law Mary Elizabeth Benson Myrtis Elsie Maxwell Maria Alice Bertaut Jacqueline McWhorter Nolen Janet Blumberg James Baxter Orr Lisa Becnel Boudreaux Susan Rae Osterhold Melanie Ann Breaud Billy Ray Parker Desiree Dupont Buquoi Linda Ann Price Mary Hyland Butler Nancy Carol Reagan Valarie Margaret Cantwell David Randolph Rizzuto Wanda A. Cazenave Hyacinth Marie Rodney Mollie Marie Chandler Barry Michael Rome Mamie Chin Jeanne Elizabeth Smith Karen Diane Delahoussaye Marsha Lynn Smith Anne Kimble Eaton Laura Marie Thomas Karen Frances Eckelmann Wilhelmina Marie Thorgeson Mary Catherine Guyote Karen Kaaz Vantine Suzanne Marie Vaz Harbin Susan Louise Vaught Glenda Kay Henderson Madeline Maggio vonAlmen Dierdre Josanne Hotard Randall John Watson Ollie Beatrice Hudson Kathryn Sue Williams Linda Ann Hulmes Diane Jeanine Wyatt Deborah Ann Inchaustegui Stephanie Ann Yesso MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Jacqueline Marie Babin Charlotte Ann Holcomb Janet Marie Barnett Kerry Ann Kenney Audrey Lee Barr Brenda Buel Kobiernicki Jane Duhe Box Mary Sheila Leach Janette Sue Brown Kay Frances Morales Mary Ann G. Butler Denise Hayes Nagim Mary T Heffron deBrueys Dianne Therese Prejean Leslie Willhite Easton Jean Marie Robbina Catherine Lee Faust Ronna Ann Rodriguez Cynthia Anderson Harlan Henry Paul Trahan 4 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1977 DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY James Wellington Briggs III DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Marcia A. Kahn Glenda Johnson Richardson MASTER OF SCIENCE Alva Wayne Garlington Department: Microbiology Major Professor: Rodney D. Berg, Ph.D. Larry M. Hummel Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Jack D. Herbert, Ph.D. Rebecca Lynn Davis Lyle Department: Microbiology and Immunology Major Professor: Harry E. Gilleland, Jr., Ph.D. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1977 MASTER OF SCIENCE Timothy Albert Robert Department: Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Major Professor: Ernest A. Daigneault, Ph.D. Lawton Anthony Seal Department: Microbiology Major Professor: Richard M. Jamison, Ph.D. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Nancy Kaye Harkess Department: Microbiology Major Professor: Michael L. Murray, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Characterization of R Plasmids in Clinical Isolates of Selected Gram Negative Bacteria. Amir Pelleg Department: Physiology Major Professor: Howard M. Randall, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Cytophysiological Studies of Isolated Glomeruli, Tubules and Cells of Mammalian Kidney. Lynn Elizabeth Posey Department: Pathology Major Professor: Lee Roy Morgan, Jr., Ph.D., M.D. Dissertation Title: A Non-Invasive Technique for Monitoring Response to Chemotherapy in Human Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. 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. Heradically 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