LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AUTUMN COMMENCEMENT AUDITORIUM "C" SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WILLIAM PITCHER PLAZA 1100 FLORIDA AVENUE, NEW ORLEANS 4:30 P.M., Thursday, December 17, 1981 It is respectfully requested that relatives and friends of the graduates not disrupt the ceremony by taking photographs in the aisles. A professional photographer will record each graduate as the diploma is presented and color portraits will be available for purchase, if desired. Program PRESIDING John C. Finerty, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS "The Second Law and You" Hulen B. Williams, Ph.D., Dean College of Chemistry and Physics Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge CONFERRING OF DEGREES Martin D. Woodin, Ph.D. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D. RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the auditorium" 3 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1981 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL HYGIENE *Francine Raymond Foglesong *Clara Redman McMullin *Dana Barksdale Hastings *Sandra Ann Tusa BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY David Keith Appel *Susan Jane Norkus Tammy Anita Bolton John Joseph Ochsenfeld Patricia Ann Brooks Sandy Marie Provenzano Karen Lee Brown Gerri Lou Rehbein Catherine Marie Camburn *Kenwood Victor Richard Sharon Stephenson Cox Glenda Louise Roby Valinda Lea Jackson Amy Elizabeth Rogers Mary Katherine Kirk Martha Jane Schlesinger Suzanne Marie LaPlace *Nellie Lee Speaks Marcia Kay Mulvehill BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Shari Lee Labourdette BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Martha Longawa Polovich Alida Newton Wyler Cynthia Ann Scheyd MASTER OF NURSING Patricia Kathryn Borowiak Graham Joseph McDougall Jr. Ellen Rose Brooks Gail Parker Poirrier Catherine Lynn Bush Eloise Sandifer Marilyn A. Byrd Oneata Elaine Stewart Laurence Benjamin Dunigan Nancy G. Townsend Susan Ilene Franklin Dorothy K. Volz Sara Lynne McCall MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS *Elizabeth Ruth Crutchfield Kathy Coleman Patterson Janice Marie Forstall John A. Risey Jr. Cynthia Marie Miranne Virginia Salow Rivera *In absentia 4 MASTER OF SCIENCE Karen E. Collura Department: Microbiology and Immunology Major Professor: Joe E. Coward, Ph.D. *David Lawrence Hilton Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Shreveport) Major Professor: Michael N. Blackburn, Ph.D. Cynthia Belcher Peterson Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Shreveport) Major Professor: Michael N. Blackburn, Ph.D. Deborah June Rogers Department: Physiology and Biophysics (Shreveport) Major Professor: Robert K. Wong, Ph.D. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY John Gerold Delamatre Department: Physiology Major Professor: Paul S. Roheim, M.D. Dissertation Title: Effect of Cholesterol-Feeding on Apolipoprotein Metabolism in the Rat Llewellyn Denison Densmore III Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Herbert C. Dessauer, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Biochemical and Immunological Systematics of the Order Crocodilia Vicky Colvin Hall Department: Microbiology and Immunology (Shreveport) Major Professor: Robert M. Wolcott, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Modulation of the Growth of Leukemia Cells by Thymus Extracts Kwang Ho Ko Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Shreveport) Major Professor: Phillip C. Jobe, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Monoaminergic Transmission in the Regulation of Seizures in Genetically Epilepsy-Prone Rat Karen Adler Storthz Department: Microbiology and Immunology Major Professor: Lawrence A. Wilson, Jr., Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Cellular Cytotoxicity in Normal and Herpes Simplex Virus-Infected New Zealand White Rabbits *In absentia 5 ACADEMIC HERALDRY: THE SYMBOLS OF LEARNING The college or university commencement procession today, in this nation and abroad, is a pageant, alive and bright with the dress and ceremony inherited from the medieval European universities of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. To preserve their dignity and meaning it early became necessary for those 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 of 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 any 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 institution. 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 Blue: Philosophy Lilac: Dentistry Yellow: Science Apricot: Nursing 6