LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SPRING COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS GRAND BALLROOM THE MARRIOTT HOTEL 555 CANAL STREET Saturday, May 14, 1983 School of Allied Health Professions School of Dentistry School of Graduate Studies School of Medicine in New Orleans School of Medicine in Shreveport School of Nursing 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 10 A.M. PRESIDING John C. Finerty, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION James H. Knight, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center PRESENTATION OF AWARDS CONFERRING OF DEGREES Martin D. Woodin, Ph.D. President Louisiana State University System OATH OF HIPPOCRATES Howard A. Buechner, M.D. Clinical Professor of Medicine LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans BENEDICTION Dr. Knight RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the ballroom." 3 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 School of Graduate Studies MASTER OF SCIENCE Vicki G. Brooks Department: Pathology Major Professor: Mohan G. Kokatnur, Ph.D. Ana Correa Fick Department: Biometry Major Professor: Robert C. Elston, Ph.D. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Michael James Braun Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Herbert C. Dessauer, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Biochemical vs Morphological and Behavioral Differentation Between Closely-Related Avian Species Richard William Bunch Department: Anatomy Major Professor: C. H. Narayanan, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Analysis of Ontogenetic Events Related to Neural and Behavioral Development Underlying Coordinated Forelimb Movements in the North American Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) Kent E. Vrana Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Robert Roskoski, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Regulation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase by Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Phosphorylation 4 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 School of Medicine in New Orleans DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Sandra Mary Abadie Keith Alan Bourgeois Ronald David Alvarez* Robert Michael Bourgeois Mary Nell Anderson Stephen Raymond Brandt Gregg Keith Arena Nancy A. Branyas Robin R. Ballina Donald Veron Brignac* Kirk Joseph Banquer Walter Lawrence Bringaze III John Samuel Barbara III Daniel Richard Bronfin* Caroline Sue Battles Thomas Walter Brown III James Lawrence Bellone John Michael Burdine Gregory Stephen Bienvenu Harry A. Burglass, Jr. Earl Edward Book Chad Calvin Bushnell *Member, Alpha Omega Alpha, national honor medical society CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 Keith Edward Cangelosi James William Farrell William Louis Case* John Gabriel Finney III Michael David Casey Carolyn Sue Fruthaler* William Morgan Cassidy Susan Maria Garcia Peter George Casten, Jr. Remi Frank Gomila Stephanie Feehan Cave William Pearce Goodger Paul Edward Cenac Paul William Grandon Kenneth John Champagne Paul Henry Gulotta, Jr. Bradley John Chastant Michael Manuel Gutierrez Bradford Edwin Clayton* Michael John Haas Kenneth Charles Coignet Thomas Hunt Hall* Bradley Thomas Collins Haynes Louis Harkey III Charles Everett Cook* Richard McInnis Hodnett John Steven Cooper David William Hoerner Patricia Ann Cran Keith Alan Holmes* Joseph William Crookshank, Jr. Mark Stephen Huffman* Patrick Joseph Daigle Pamela Ann Hymel Dennis Maestri Dale Michael Sherman Jackson Francis Ralph Dauterive, Jr. David Joseph Jewell Robert Scott Davis Jasper Rhea Jones William Eugene Davis Willie John Joseph III Odell Joseph Dean, Jr. Debbie Mary Jurgelsky Oscar Alejandro del Portal Richard Pierce Kennedy Rex D. DeLaune Glen J. Kesler Kevin Pearce DiBenedetto Brett Alison Koder Albert Lewie Diket Nathan Keith Landry James Ray Dollar John Arthur Launius Michael Lawrence Drerup Carl Joseph Lavie, Jr.* Regina Walther Drueding Larry Thomas LeBlanc Robert Eldred Drumm Steven Edward Lee Rory Jude Duffour Cheryl Lynne Leger* Robert Colin Dugan Ann Debra Leslie Robert Wayne Dugas Dolleen Mary Licciardi* David Sterling Dunn Brian Doyal Maher Michael Stephen Durel Deborah Majeau-Chargois Barry S. Edwards Donna Mariene Mancuso Martha Sabatier Edwards* Diane Sue Mayer Walter James Evans Herbert Karl Mayer John H. Fairbanks, Jr. Laura Amanda McIntire *Member, Alpha Omega Alpha, national honor medical society 6 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 Timothy Lapleau McIntire Joseph Daniel Siefker Mark Douglas McLeane* Wayne A. Slocum* Toby Roger Meltzer* Christine Smith Edward Joseph Milligan Kirk Wayne Smith Melissa Meyers Moen Lisa Romero Smith Harry Joseph Molligan Earl John Soileau, Jr. Glen P. Morehead Phillip Charles Sokolsky Gerard Leo Murtagh Thomas Rayford Spruill Harry Alcus Muslow Govind Srinivasan Frederick Rutledge Nusbickel Carmen Kay Steigman David Reed O'Bryan June Caro Steinvorth Isabel Lockwood Ochsner Mark Evan Stoker John Otemaa Chandrashekar V. Subramaniam* John J. Palermo Dennis Michael Sullivan James A. Paulson Steven Harvey Sykes Paul E. Peach Angelo Anthony Tarver Charles Vincent Perniciaro* Robert Louis Tassin, Jr. James Douglas Perry* Robert Wayne Taylor Michael Norton Pittman Gwen M. Teekell David Anthony Pomierski Thaddeus Roland Temple John Frank Prestigiacomo Arthur Gerard Tribou* Paul Bradley Rachal* Paul R. Verrette Susan Rhoads Harold Matthew Voss, Jr. Christopher John Rich Clarence Edward Ward Elliott Clifton Roberts, Jr. Michael Carney Ward William Henry Robichaux* Renick Patton Webb Kathleen Barrett Rockwood Thomas Lane Weeks Randolph Louis Rodrigue Robert Warren Weien Gerard A. Romaguera Kevin Lawrence Weiss James Allen Rusch Leah Gardner Wilkinson Glenn Gerard Russo* Shirley Roffe Willeford Richard Anthony Sachitano Charles Joseph Winters* Dale Graham Salatich* Glen Ray Wyant Richard Jerome Sanders, Jr. Thomas Lamar Yearwood* David L. Schneider Catherine Leigh Yost Russell A. Scholl James Allen Zachary Joseph Albert Shirer, Jr.* *Member, Alpha Omega Alpha, national honor medical society 7 THE OATH OF HIPPOCRATES* I do solemnly swear by whatever I hold most sacred, that I will be loyal to the profession of medicine and will be just and generous to its members and will teach those who follow after me in this profession. That I will lead my life and practice my art in uprightness and in honor. That into whatever home I shall enter it shall be for the good of the sick and of the well and to the utmost of my power I will hold myself aloof from wrong and from corruption and from tempting others to vice. That I will exercise my art solely for the cure of my patients and for the prevention of disease. I will give no drugs or perform no operation for a criminal purpose, and will never recommend such a thing. That whatever I shall see or hear that concerns the lives of my patients which is not fitting to be spoken, I will keep forever secret. These things I do promise and in proportion to the degree that I am faithful to this oath, may happiness and good repute be ever mine, and may the opposite befall me if I am false to my word. *Pertaining to or described by Hippocrates, a Greek physician, born on the island of Cos, in the Aegean Sea in 430 B.C., and called the "Father of Medicine". He taught the "humoral theory" of disease, and from his students he extracted an oath that they would never abuse their trust by criminal practice nor disclose professional secrets. This oath appears in one of the 87 writings forming the so-called "Hippocratic Collection", and has been the ethical guide of the medical profession for the past 23 centuries. It appears above in an English contemporary-use translation. 8 Program 1P.M. PRESIDING John C. Finerty, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION Mark G. Barry Student, Dental Laboratory Technology Program LSU School of Dentistry WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center PRESENTATION OF AWARDS CONFERRING OF DEGREES Martin D. Woodin, Ph.D. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION James R. Weir, D.D.S. Graduate, Doctor of Dental Surgery Program LSU School of Dentistry RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the auditorium." 9 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 School of Allied Health Professions MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Cathy Schroder Chauvin Alisa Ann Koder Kathleen Hart Gilbert Windie Vignes Muller Melissa Jo Wiegand Hall School of Dentistry ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL HYGIENE Julie Ann Faller Michelle Ann Nault Mary LaForge Fink Angela Kay Parker Marilyn Jean Miguel Kristine Ann Zaunbrecher ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY Mark Gerard Barry Nancy Diane McClellan Richard Keith Chafin David Joseph Menendez Jessica Anne Griffin Mary Beth Simms Neverlyn Age Maheia Charles John Wagner BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL HYGIENE Gaylyn E. Barton Pamela Landry Guillot Sharlee Ann Blackman Elizabeth Anne Laville Tara Scott Brian Geri-Ann Theresa Mason + Alice Marie Buller Gracie Mary Matise Lisanne Sims Burk Margaret Gena Morrell Karen Renee Campbell Dorothy Lentz Palmer Deborah Ann Carona Sally Ann Sansing Catherine Marro Chadwick Wendy Marie Sarbeck Dawn Elise Davis Valerie Elaine Schaeffer Dana Arden Duplechin Debra Kay Senay Ann Marie Foster Mary Elizabeth Shamp Shannon Kimberly Gordon Kathleen Clare Shea +In Absentia 10 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 DOCTOR OF DENTAL SURGERY Melanie Jean Andrews Jeffrey Michael Kadair Mervin Patrick Ardoin II James Timothy Kauffman Martin Hathorn Baker, Jr. Corliss Kell William Wiley Baldridge, Jr. Kimon Kosmitis Jean Pierre Barbe Kathy Jean Krook* Morris Glenn Barnett Frank Albert Kruse III John Barry Benton, Jr. Robert Louis Lamb Harry David Berger Lamar Wadsworth Lane, Jr. Randall August Bergeron Ann Kathleen Laurent Charles August Bernard III Davis Michael Lewis William Allison Bolinger Maurice Anthony Lonergan III Lindy V. Bollen, Jr. Gary David Marchand* Craig John Brandner Randy James Marse Gary Lamar Caskey Ronald Grady Martin Jeffrey Kim Chandler Stanley C. Maskas Phillip Ray Coates George V. Millett III James Michael Cotton Daniel Judson Moore* Gabriel Ferdinand Daroca III Joseph Martin Morris, Jr.* Jane Auzine Davis Andrew Grey Murphy John Allen Davis, Jr. Peter H. Nasser* Margaret Elizabeth Degges Alvin Wayne Neff Laura Ellen DeRouen James Ray Nichols, Jr. Brian Nelson Dyess* Dennis Stephen Norris* Kirk Gerard Ellender Robert Edward Oliver Michael O'Day Feavel Kenneth Wayne Parks Leon Albert Flettrich III Kirby Adams Perry Carol Joseph Galliano II Robert Parke Phillips Mark Wesley Garon Mark Embry Pickett Jaime R. Garza Paul Coleman Riley Jan Kathleen Hanvey Steven Edward Ripple John Timothy Harvey Jack Francis Rowley, Jr. Marshall Mans Hawkins Charles Marion Sampognaro James H. Hebert William T. Shepherd Glenn Eugene Hummel* Stephen Lee Sherman Stephen C. Iannazzo Howard Lee Snider, Jr. Darrell Ivan Jobe, Jr. Michael A. Sonnier Jerry Lamar Johnston Thomas J. Spranley William Charles Johnston William C. Stentz Jr.* *Member, Omicron Kappa Upsilon, national dental honor society 11 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 Keith David Stillwell* Jean Marie Wedemeyer Scott Anthony St. Romain James R. Weir Stephen H. Taylor Christopher Wiley Werner Roy Perry Theriot Brock Buchanan Westover Carl Tilghman Turpin, Jr. John Beal Whitley, Jr. Paul Dean Vidrine George Randall Wright Cliff Ernest Voltapetti Louis Ignatius Ybos III Robert L. Ward* Michael Dennis Zweifler John Harvey Watts DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS HONORIS CAUSA Edgar Wilfred Borrow FARMER, INVENTOR, DAIRYMAN, AGRICULTURAL ENTREPRENEUR, Leading Citizen of Portsmouth, England, your humanitarian efforts to improve the dental health and nutritional well-being of children in all parts of the World are hereby recognized by the Louisiana State University Medical Center by the awarding of the Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, on this fourteenth day of May in the year, nineteen hundred and eighty-three. Through effective use of your extraordinary talents to solve practical problems you have become a benefactor to old people as well as to young, to your local environment and to research and public service in many nations, both developed and underdeveloped, throughout the World. On behalf of those the quality of whose lives is being enhanced by your interests, we salute you. Member. Omicron Kappa Upsilon, national dental honor society 12 Program 4 P.M. PRESIDING John C. Finerty, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center PROCESSIONAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION Rev. John W. Zimmer, Jr., Co-Pastor Saint Clement of Rome Catholic Church Metairie, La. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Ingeborg Mauksch, Ph.D. Lecturer-Consultant in Nursing Fort Myers, Fla. PRESENTATION OF AWARDS CONFERRING OF DEGREES Martin D. Woodin, Ph.D. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Rev. Larry E. Miller, Th.M., Pastor Berean Bible Church New Orleans, La. RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the auditorium" 13 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 School of Nursing ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Michelle Lairmore Bennett Jane Dolores Kiley Vanessa Cheryl Jackson Audrey Fruge Thomas BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Paul Louis Albares* Jan Marie Grundmeyer* Janet Embry Alost* Karen Riordan Haile Deborah Ann Angell* Sharye K. Hardesty* Joy Stiglets Angle Maria Hatty Jeanne Marie Balencie K. Ellen Hazard* Karen Lynell Beavers* Ruthmary Heyd Monica Ann Becnel* Sharon Theresa Hubert Rebecca Sue Boese Sharon White Hutchinson Patricia Triche Bracey Patricia Lynn Ivon* Rhett Michael Brown* Donna Gayle Jennings Cynthia Bertha Bunch Stephanie Elizabeth Jennings Cynthia Lynn Burkert* Juliet Elizabeth Jones Lynette Carol Castanza* Theresa Ann Joseph* Cathy Marie Chifici Jonell Flynn Julavits Courtney Ariane Clement Holly Wakeley Kattengell Anne Kelley Curtis Gaye Rando Keim Wayne Robert Deykes Mary Diane Khachaturian* Annette Kay DiLeo Kim Ann Kussmaul Claudia Ann Drivon Carol Ann Lamkin Fred Lawrence Duracher, Jr. Elsie Marie Lavender Leslie Marie Ernst* Nantawadee Po-Kaew Lee Thomas M. Fabacher Patrice Ann Lirette Linda Ann Fielding Marsha Spencer Louviere* Victoria Louise Fleetwood Janet Marie Maassen Elizabeth Ann Freshney Betty Ferris Macias* Jane Elizabeth Friedrich* Jeannett Brumfield Maker Joanna Maria Gagliano Sophie Msiza Makhubu Mary Elizabeth Gamble Valerie Poche Mays Margaret Maxine Gardiner Leslie Grace McCants Ruth Belton Glaser Karen Hymel Michel* *Member, Sigma Theta Tau, national honor society for nursing 14 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1983 Elizabeth Ann Montgomery Joli Anne Scalise Terri Lynn Morris Cynthia Marie Schuth* Judy Morrow* Robin Marie Smothers Lisa Ann Naccari* Sheryl Jean Stafford Annette Catherine Nowak Suzanne Ruth Strahan* Theresa Ann Ory Susan Marie St. Romain Tamara Hall Owen Natalie Ann Thomas Geralyn Oettli Palermo* Julie Naff Timm Pamela Carter Parker* Sherri Brister Tucker Darcell P. Pawloski Susan Guess Tufts Carsten Anthony Pennier* Bambi Lynn Wells Deborah Robertson Pennier Cheryl Brown Whitehurst Lauren Perret Poynot Ann Jefferson Willis Maureen Lucy Reinhardt Karen Ann Wilson Donna Lynn Rhodes Gail Armstrong Winkler Randall Gene Richard* Clarence D. Wolbrette Gina Marchese Roussel Nancy Jeannette Wyman Mary Laura Russ MASTER OF NURSING Patsy Lynn Anderson Pamela Barovechio Egan* Paula Cassidy Broussard* Charlotte Sharmaine Hurst *Member, Sigma Theta Tau, national honor society for nursing 15 THE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM The Louisiana State University System is composed of those public institutions of higher education located throughout the State which have been assigned by the Constitution or by the Legislature to be governed by the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. It has the mission of creating an environment of learning and exploration which will provide the people of Louisiana with the opportunities and benefits of a full-scale university endowed with special responsibilities of a land-grant institution to effect improvement in the quality of life of the people in the State. This mission involves development of the highest levels of intellectual and professional endeavor in programs of instruction, research, and service. The System, therefore, serves the people as an instrument for discovery as well as in the transmission of knowledge. Each campus has a unique but complementary role in the overall mission of the System. This principle of geographic as well as academic differentiation allows the campuses to extend basic as well as unique programs to citizens throughout the state. The Board of Supervisors exercises its authority through the University System Offices. The President is the principal administrator and the chief executive officer of the Louisiana State University System. Component institutions, each headed by a chancellor, now included within the Louisiana State University System are: Louisiana State University at Alexandria Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge Louisiana State University at Eunice Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans and Shreveport Louisiana State University in Shreveport University of New Orleans THE LSU MEDICAL CENTER The Louisiana State University Medical Center has teaching, research and health-care functions statewide, through its six professional schools, as well as the more than one-hundred hospitals and other health-science related institutions throughout the State, Region, Nation, and the World, with which they maintain affiliations, providing care for approximately 75 percent of Louisiana's indigent population. Component professional schools, each headed by a dean, which now comprise the Medical Center include, in order of their establishment: The School of Medicine in New Orleans, 1931 The School of Graduate Studies of the Medical Center, 1965 The School of Dentistry, 1966 The School of Medicine in Shreveport, 1966 The School of Nursing, 1968 The School of Allied Health Professions, 1970 THE SCHOOL OF ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS, New Orleans and Shreveport The goal of the School of Allied Health Professions is to provide adequate numbers of high-quality health professionals in all areas of the State. At the present time, the School offers baccalaureate programs leading to degrees in Cardiopulmonary Science, Cytotechnology, Medical Technology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Rehabilitation Counseling, and professional masters-degree programs in Communication Disorders, plus a Master of Health Sciences degree. In addition, a one-year certificate program in Electroencephalographic Technology is offered. All of these programs are fully accredited at the national level, where such accreditation is available. The offerings of the School are available in New Orleans, and to a limited extent at this time, at the LSU Medical Center's Shreveport units. The expansion of allied health programs is proceeding in an orderly fashion, and as funding is made available, additional programs will be offered. An extension of Physical Therapy is now in operation. Under the terms of a recent desegregation consent decree, plans are now being developed for the extension of Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Counseling and Cytotechnology to Shreveport, to be added to the existing Shreveport programs in Communication Disorders, Medical Technology, Physical Therapy, and Cardiopulmonary Science. 16 The School has recently located all of its New Orleans departments in one location in the main business area of New Orleans, in new classrooms and offices especially renovated for that purpose. With these improvements in physical facilities, and with the planned expansion of programs in Shreveport, the potential for growth of the School is greatly increased, and it is anticipated that the health-care needs of the citizens of Louisiana will be better served than at any time in the past. THE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY, New Orleans The School of Dentistry was established in 1966. The first class of 30 dental students was accepted in 1968 while the School was housed in temporary buildings. The planned enrollment of 96 dental students per year was achieved in 1972 when the paresent dental school building was completed. The entering class makeup is now 69 Louisiana residents and, under an agreement with the Southern Regional Education Board, six students from Arkansas. The School now has developed seven advanced-education programs for training of dental specialists. These programs are Endodontics, General Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics, Pedodontics, Periodontics, and Prosthodontics. All are two-year programs with the exception of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, which is four years in length. The School also offers three programs in dental-auxiliary education. The Dental Hygiene Program accepts 30 students per year and offers both associate and baccalaureate degrees. The one-year Dental Assisting Program, which accepts up to 20 students per year, confers a certificate upon successful completion of training. The Dental Laboratory Technology Program offers both the associate and baccalaureate degrees and accepts up to 22 students per year. As part of the educational program, students in dentistry and dental hygiene must treat patients. To accomplish this the School operates a dental clinic housed in the School of Dentistry. Approximately 3,000 dental patients per year are treated by students under the direct supervision of faculty. The students also participate in various health-care programs in elementary schools, oral-cancer screening programs, and health-fair programs. THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES, New Orleans and Shreveport The degrees awarded by the School of Graduate Studies, master of science, and doctor of philosophy, are research degrees in the basic health sciences. They are primarily intended to prepare teachers and researchers in the health sciences and to develop future faculty members with the qualifications and desire to continue scholarly activity. The faculty of the School consists of selected faculty members of other schools of the Medical Center whose research accomplishments and scientific interests qualify them for teaching courses and supervising research, theses and dissertations, for these graduate degrees. Most of the faculty members are from basic-science departments and graduate degrees are awarded in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biometry, Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology, and Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology. Opportunities are available for a few outstanding students in medicine or dentistry, who desire a research background, to undertake a combined program leading to the awarding of both the Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Dental Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Graduate courses are given in Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biometry, Microbiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Pathology (Clinical Chemistry), Physiology and Tropical Medicine (Parasitology). The graduate faculty is a cosmopolitan group having received their highest degree from at least 75 different universities. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN NEW ORLEANS Established in 1931, the School of Medicine in New Orleans has graduated more than 5,000 physicians. Nearly 70 percent of the physicians in Louisiana are alumni of this single School of Medicine. The size of the entering class was increased from 144 to 175 students in 1975. Construction of a new Medical Education Building, now completed, provides the School with additional space, modern educational facilities, and allows for the expansion of teaching and research programs. The curriculum, which was changed in 1980-81, still provides a solid foundation in the basic sciences, early 17 exposure to clinical medicine, and a wide range of clinical experience in the Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans, private hospitals in New Orleans and throughout the State, and in other affiliated state-owned hospitals in Baton Rouge, Bogalusa, Lafayette, and Lake Charles. In changing the curriculum, the faculty has instituted an honors program and has sought to strengthen some areas, such as, Introduction to Clinical Medicine; initiate new courses, including nutrition, cost-control, ethics, geriatrics, and, at the same time, allow the student additional time for self-study. A preceptorship program, involving physicians throughout the State, affords students the opportunity to gain experience in family medicine and/or primary care. In addition, the School has postgraduate medical training programs which refine and develop the young physician's medical knowledge, expertise and clinical skills in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, and other affiliated hospitals in New Orleans, as well as in Baton Rouge, Bogalusa, Lafayette, and Lake Charles. These certified programs train family physicians, general internists, and pediatricians, as well as other specialists. With the constant addition of new faculty to provide expertise in the different areas of medicine, the goals of the School remain unchanged. While providing service to the community and care for the indigent patient throughout the State, the School seeks to develop and train physicians who are skilled equally in the art of medicine, in the science of medicine, and in the care of a patient. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN SHREVEPORT The Class of 1983 will be the eleventh to graduate from this young and still-growing medical school. Graduates from the first classes, after completing three to four years of residency training, have now started their medical practice throughout the State. Each year more will follow. In the next decade the ratio of physicians to populations will reach acceptable levels and the health-care needs of Louisiana will be more effectively handled. The School of Medicine in Shreveport is a young institution which grew to a class size of 100 entering students in 1978. The expansion related to the availability of new quarters provided at an expense of over $30 million immediately adjacent to its primary teaching hospital, LSU Hospital-Shreveport, (formerly the Confederate Memorial Medical Center). The pre-doctoral study program leading to the doctor of medicine degree is four years in length and retains much of what was good in traditional approaches to medical education, including sound basic-science exposure during the first two years. It also assures abundant clinical experience during the last two years, in blocks of time devoted to inpatient and outpatient care, in each of the major disciplines and a substantial program in family medicine and comprehensive care. Elective preceptorial experiences with practicing family physicians and a wide variety of other elective courses are offered. These cover both basic-science and clinical areas. Residency training programs in all of the clinical fields provide fine support for the pre-doctoral program but also provide post-doctoral education and training to a considerable portion of the graduates. Both pre- and post-doctoral programs are being expanded also in the Veterans Administration Medical Center which furnished a home for the School of Medicine until its new quarters were completed. THE SCHOOL OF NURSING, New Orleans The School of Nursing is concerned with the demand for increasing numbers of hospital-employed nurses in Louisiana. In response to the need for well-educated competent registered nurses, the School is actively recruiting applicants who have the academic background to complete the curriculum. The School prepares competent practitioners at three levels of nursing practice. The Associate Degree Program educates a bedside nurse to provide care for hospitalized patients. In response to community need the Program has increased the annual enrollment to 85 students. The Baccalaureate Degree Program prepares nursing and managerial skills. To accommodate the more mature students and diploma graduates returning to School to earn a baccalaureate degree, it is desirable for the School to admit students at more-frequent intervals than in the present practice. The Graduate Degree Program now offers four options of study leading to a Master of Nursing degree. These are: Adult-Health and Illness Nursing; Psychiatric/Mental-Health Nursing; Parent-Child Nursing; and Nursing-Service Administration. Graduates are prepared to assume leadership roles in providing health care. The increased demand for nurses prepared in advanced nursing practice has resulted in a very rapid growth in student population. 18 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 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 feature 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 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