LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AUTUMN COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue Thursday, December 17, 1987 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 "Health-Science Education: Is it Worth It?" Sharon Beard, B.S. Acting Commissioner for Higher Education State of Louisiana Board of Regents CONFERRING OF DEGREES Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. President The Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Dr. Allen RECESSIONAL *Audience Participation Invited "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left The Arena" CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1987 School of Medicine in New Orleans Presented by Robert S. Daniels, M.D., Dean DOCTOR OF MEDICINE John Wesley Emison Brian A. Guillory School of Allied Health Professions Presented by Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Angele Marie Caster Marc Eric May Hilda Chellappan Marietta Plessy Carol Romance Fleeman* Gwendolyn Marie Steib Joycelin Taulli Hepburn Ombe John Tene* Lisa Maria Malbrough-Galan BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Ramona Layne Miley Denise D. Oxenreiter BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY Joan M. Thiels* MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Denise Lenard* Lisa Mary Radziwanowicz Alice Florence Mohr Kathleen Harris West* *In Absentia CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1987 School of Graduate Studies Presented by Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D., Dean MASTER OF SCIENCE Mark Clifton Griffin Program: Microbiology Major Professor: Ralph L. McDade, Jr., Ph.D. Mei Lu Program: Human Genetics Major Professor: Bronya J. Keats, Ph.D. Rana Shafiq-Hoda Program: Human Genetics Major Professor: Robert C. Elston, Ph.D. Pamela Cory Wagaman Program: Microbiology Major Professor: Richard J. O'Callaghan, Ph.D. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Neil Edward Jeansonne Program: Biochemistry Major Professor: Bhandaru Radhakrishnamurthy, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Study of Extracellular Matrix Proteoglycans of the Arterial Wall CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER School of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, Dr.P.H., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Lisa Ann Adams Elizabeth Ann Hessburg Michelle Marie Austin Tammy Keyes Hodgins Sharon Lynn Barger Kimberly Dale Hubbard Carlyn Ann Bettinger Rhonda Ruth Jenkins Krupa Addanki Lakshmi Bhandaru Simone Tropez Joshua Mary Beth Brennan Peggy Jewel Lacoste Mary Ellen Burns Kelly Michelle Laper Rebecca T. Childress Elizabeth Anne Maness Lauren Dee Davis Teresa Maria Maristany Toni Lynn Diguardi Timothy Clayton Laurent Moore Cheryl Ann Ebel Stacey Dane Nielsen Laura Pauline Ecuyer Kelley Denise Prutzman Vonda Lynette Gaitor Loren Ann Roussel Lisa Ann Gegenheimer Sharon Marie Seeger Paula Ann Gonzales Melissa Michelle St. Amant Jill Anne Guillory Ann Lessley Stricker Margaret Elizabeth Harmon Donna Lynn Talbot Tracey Hope Harris Debra Hampton Theriot Gail Pamela Wendy Hay Robin Lee Toups Rodney Evans Headrick Reginald Louis Vicks Janet Marie Hernandez Dorothy Ramos Walsh *In Absentia CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1987 MASTER OF NURSING Marie Mangin Adorno Rebecca P. Manuel Frances Sullivan Allain Kathleen Honer Marshall Cynthia Hoppe Allen Allene Womack McCann Connie Sanders Arceneaux Kathy Jane McCoy Carol Brian Backstedt Donna Denise McDaniel Marian F. Banks Melanie Mitchell McEwen Marsha Jane Bennett Lorraine O'Sullivan McLaughlin Marie Martina Billings Patricia Loftus Miller Diane Kay Brynsvold Faye Ann Mitchell Jennifer Wren Charpentier Martha Longawa Polovich* Mary Christine Coburn Mary Evonne Robinson Joanne Fawcett Costello Lisa Sehrt Rodriguez Jill Augustus Dapremont Marsha Lynn Semon* Laura Darnell Easterling Joyce Fultz Smith Claire Doody Glaviano Wanda Raby Spurlock Fred R. Hampton Sharon McCann Stanchi Aleata Joy Holland Lee Ann Thomas Diane Patricia Huffman Renee Diane Tkach* Deborah Haynes Johnson Anne Romig Tucker Amy Louise Johnston Karen Lee Wilkins Patricia Ann Keller Jayne Patterson Willingham Julie Ann Maddox Frances Lovett Wise Bonnie O'Brien Maestri *ln Absentia ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Music appropriate to the occasion of commencement, both vocal and instrumental, has been provided, traditionally, by members of the faculties, student bodies, and staff of the Louisiana State University Medical Center, and appreciation is hereby extended to those performing in today's ceremonies. All participants in this program, candidates for degree, their families, and other special commencement guests, are sincerely requested to honor America in the singing of OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM, the lyrics of which follow: O say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twlight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming And the rocket's red glare The bomb bursting in air Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave Francis Scott Key SHARON BEARD B.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1958 Acting Commissioner for Higher Education STATE OF LOUISIANA Board of Regents 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 gray for the associate degree, and black for all other degrees, with pointed sleeves for the Associate's and 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 Associate's, 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 a 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