LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AUTUMN COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue Thursday, December 19, 1985 4:30 P.M. SCHOOL OF ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS New Orleans and Shreveport SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY New Orleans SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES New Orleans and Shreveport SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN SHREVEPORT SCHOOL OF NURSING New Orleans 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 PROCESSIONAL PRESIDING Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D. Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Louisiana State University Medical Center OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM* INVOCATION E. Raworth Allen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy Louisiana State University Medical Center WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Perry G. Rigby, M.D. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Hon. Corrine C. "Lindy" Boggs, Member House of Representatives Second Louisiana District Congress of the United States CONFERRING OF DEGREES Louis C. Pendleton, D.D.S., Member Fourth Congressional District Board of Supervisors Louisiana State University BENEDICTION Dr. Allen RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left The Arena'' *Audience Participation Invited CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1985 School of Dentistry Presented by Jack H. Rayson, D.D.S., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL HYGIENE Gwen Abadie Bergeron* ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY Marie Steven Almerico* BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY Michael Linn Huband* School of Medicine in New Orleans Presented by Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D., Acting Dean DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Mark Michael Huth School of Medicine in Shreveport Presented by Darryl M. Williams, M.D., Acting Dean DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Arthur Connely Ostheimer* Lisa Karolin Stueben Jamiere Yolande Smith *In Absentia CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1985 School of Graduate Studies Presented by Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D., Dean MASTER OF SCIENCE Jay Hillel Joseph Program: Microbiology Major Professor: James J. Thompson, Ph.D. Jerry Myron Karabin, Out, Absentia Program: Microbiology Major Professor: Lawrence A. Wilson, Jr., Ph.D. Randy L. Talbott Program: Biochemistry Major Professor: Wayne V. Vedeckis, Ph.D. CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1985 School of Allied Health Professions Presented by Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Eloise Rosa Allemand* Helen Hsu Ileana Maria Alonso Cynthia Renise Kemp, out Suzanne Marie Babin David Mark Manuel Donna Lynn Barthel Dorothy L. McCoy Elizabeth Ann Clesi James Scott Moncrief* Betsy Lynn Cogdell* Melida Nigro Vanessa Lynette Dotson Bonnie Ann Rabe Nopporn Duangkhaow* Kelly McGinity Redmann Silvia Meredith Eyster Henrietta Spann Kailas Kishor Gandhi Helen Dargan Steele Mitzi C. Glover Sofia Maristany Weigel Angel Christina Gomez Kimberly Anne Whittington Taylor Lynn Hinshaw BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Donald Daniel Perkins, Jr. Cassandra Small Shirley Ann Serigny* MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Santi Jane Churchill* Denise Borel Malone* Connie Clinton Harriss* Christine Gravois Morgan CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1985 MASTER OF HEALTH SCIENCES Betty Williamson Johnson Program: Cardiopulmonary Science Major Professor: Raymond S. Edge, Ed.D. Christopher Anthony Marchese, May 1986 Program: Cardiopulmonary Science Major Professpr: liaymond S. Edge, Ed.D. Sandra McDonald Shedlarski Program: Medical Technology Major Professor: Maria S. Hardy, Ph.D. Kim Feldmann Simmons, May 1986 Program: Cardiopulmonary Science Major Professor: Raymond S. Edge, Ed.D. Anne Snowden Turnbull Program: Medical Technology Major Professor: Thomas B. Wiggers, M.S. School of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, Dr.P.H., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Carmelite Singleton Allen Jacqueline Robinson Harrison* Theresa Nantume Babiiha Charles Keith Richard Helen G. deGruiter Donna Marie Timphony Christopher Desire Faia *In Absentia CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1985 MASTER OF NURSING Pamela Smart Alexander Daniel Mack Linam Dorothy M. Archie Alice Jean-Tak Yuen Loke Julia Wiegand Aucoin Barbara Bruhl Maxwell Linda Diane Backes Marilyn Cooper McGee Alyne M. Baker Patricia Powers McGinnis Charlotte Ann Bradshaw Ronny Ray Monterio Sharon Young Buras Linda R. Pendergast Patricia Dianna Busby Christine Anderson Pollock Sandra Faye Chaisson Sandra Denise Posey Phyllis Kozma Clayton Nina Kay Rhoton Maureen F. Daniels Esther W. Rushing Denise Mercante Danna Jerilyn Robey Schaller Mary Michele Duvic Laurie Fern Searls-Waterman Kathleen Marie Elliott Janet Sue Sims, out Ramel Lynette Fields Catherine Suzanne Singleton Barbara Ann Gestwicki Patricia A. Suhor Smart Margaret Ann Guthrie Barbara Guillot Stoks Mary Lunn Hales Patricia Sullivan Tankersley Katherine Kay Halpern Cathy Dawnelle Thomas Liesel Ailine Herfarth Carolyn Christian Triay Patricia Anne Hernandez Jessie Bostick Vaughn Bonnie Hunt Hogan* Janice Yvonne Walker Maryann Patterson Ingersoll Judy G. Wise Angela Rose Jones Ann Duncan Witt Janice Kalczynski Beatrice Harrison Zuluaga MaryEllen Kraus *In Absentia THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Mrs. Boggs, universally known as "Lindy", has represented Louisiana's Second Congressional District for more than twelve years. She was first elected on March 20, 1973 in a special election called to fill the vacancy caused by the disappearance of her husband, Thomas Hale Boggs, in a plane flight over Alaska in 1972. At that time Mr. Boggs was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Mrs. Boggs is now in her seventh term in Congress and her period of service has been distinguished by achieving results in legislation of paramount interest to her district through memberships on powerful congressional committees, and by keeping in close contact with a diverse constituency, as well as maintaining strong ties to state and national Democratic Party institutions. She serves on the influential House Committee on Appropriations, which recommends how much money each federal agency and department will receive. She is also a member of three House subcommittees: The Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development; the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Development/Independent Agencies; and the Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch. During her political career Mrs. Boggs has achieved a number of "firsts". She is the first woman to be elected to Congress from the State of Louisiana. By chairing the Democratic National Convention in New York City in 1976, she became the first woman to chair the convention of a major American political party. She is also the first woman to have served as a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and is now a regent-emeritus. Born in New Roads, La., Mrs. Boggs was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy in New Orleans and the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College of the Tulane University of Louisiana, from which she earned a bachelor of arts degree. Before her marriage she taught school in Saint James Parish. She is the mother of three: Mrs. Barbara Boggs Sigmund, mayor of the City of Princeton, N. J.; Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., a Washington, D. C. attorney; and Mrs. Cokie Boggs Roberts, a congressional correspondent for National Public Radio. Mrs. Boggs is also the grandmother of eight. 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 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 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 Doctor's degree 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 doctor's 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 or university. 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