LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AUTUMN COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue Thursday, December 15,1988 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 takingphotographs 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. Mary L. Landrieu, B.S. Treasurer State of Louisiana 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 1 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1988 School of Allied Health Professions Presented by Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Cynthia Patrice Hall BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY Cynthia Hubbell Nasser Angela Davis Netterville MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Cecilia LaBorde Berry* Program: Speech Pathology Cheryl Smith Kirkland Program: Speech Pathology Christie Lattier McBride* Program: Speech Pathology Sandra Lynne Pruett* Program: Speech Pathology MASTER OF HEALTH SCIENCES Elizabeth Lynne Theriot Department: Medical Technology Major Professor: Patricia M. Williams, Ph.D. Elizabeth Fisher Williams Department: Medical Technology Major Professor: Donald J. Lartigue, Ph.D. *In Absentia 2 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1988 School of Graduate Studies Presented by Robert F. Dyer, Ph.D., Dean MASTER OF SCIENCE Xiangdong Bu* Program: Biometry Major Professor: Joan E. Bailey-Wilson, Ph.D. Wendy Lynne Hitch* Program: Medical Parasitology Major Professor: Patrick J. Lammie, Ph.D. *In Absentia 3 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1988 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Minnetta V. Gardinier Program: Biochemistry Major Professor: Wendy Macklin, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Myelin Proteolipid Protein Gene Expression in Normal and Dysmyelinating Mutant Mice, Jimpy and Jimpy MSD Christoph Von Ritter* Program: Physiology (Shreveport) Major Professor: D. Neil Granger, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: The Role of Neutrophilic Mediators in Acute Inflammation of the Gut Barry Douglas White Program: Physiology Major Professor: Johnny R. Porter, Ph.D. Dissertation Title: Regulation of the Morning Concentration of Serum Corticosterone in Obese Zucker Rats * In Absentia 4 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1988 School of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, Dr. P. H., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Gigi Marie Abadie Janel Ann Lemaitre Paula Suzanne Alford Sandra Rae Lemoine Michelle Marie Bellevue Patti A. Lopitz Erin Deeves Bernard Stephanie DeRossett Nelson Elizabeth Andree Berner Nancy Lynn O'Donley Theresa Anne Bond Kim McGrath Ohmer Julie Foley Clark Cheryl Denyse Planchet Kelly Lynn Clement Penny Bridevaux Rojas Rebecca Lynn Cromp Cherie Jeanne Roper Yvonne Marie Flores Gretchen Lynne Sarbeck Herman P. Frank Julie Jakway Schnell Karen Ann Franz Ashley Scott Smith Sonya Ranee Furr Laureen S. Spanier Elise Marie Gallmann Harriet Avery Springgate Leslie Susan Goldsmith Michelle Renee Sumrall Michelle Marie Greschner Erin Ann Sutherland Charles E. Holliday, Jr. Lisa Ann Washington Melissa Marie Jennings Leslie Merritt Wingerter Janene Marie Kampe Rebecca Ann Wood Bernadette Marie Kingsley Lori Russell Wright Christine Herzog LeBoeuf 5 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1988 MASTER OF NURSING Rosalind Ann Albarado Barbara Jane Lofton Cynthia Alisa Bautista* Pamela Johnson Martin Karen Lynell Beavers Rebecca Jean Messenger Carolyn Sue Brown Catherine Isola O'Byrne* Fang-Mei Chen Mary Blanchard O'Flarity Christine Elizabeth Cobb Judith Ann Peck* Debra Beach Copeland Norma Staples Porter Judith Vinsant Coxe Melissa Anne Ramsay Pamela Renia Dixon Cynthia N. Rittenberg Lynette Rose Eidem Phoebe Lynn Ritter* Donna Marie Celentano Gray Norma Cuellar Robbins Sheila Gwendolyn Haynes Mary Nicolette Rosinia Karen Lynn Hinrichs Betty Ann Arboneaux Sharpe Sharon White Hutchinson Kathleen Ann Smardo Maria J. Janssen Thelma Lazo Sonza Sharon Donohue Kappel Donna Kay Teague Martha J. Koen Cynthia Halley Travis Suzanne Olivier Lane Leslie Ernst Triana Lisa Jane Linville* DOCTOR OF NURSING SCIENCE Mary Ann Sanfilippo Nemcek Major Professor: Mervel L. Bracewell, Dr. P.H. Dissertation Title: The Relationship of Health Beliefs, Health Locus of Control, Health Value, and Breast-Cancer Knowledge To the Frequency of Breast Self-Examination Practice in Adult Black, Lower Socioeconomic Status Women *In Absentia 6 THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER MARY LORETTA LANDRIEU B.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1977 Treasurer of the State of Louisiana The 1974 Constitution of the State of Louisiana, Article 4, Section 9, provides for a Department of the Treasury. "The treasurer shall head the department and shall be responsible for the custody, investment, and disbursement of the public funds of the state, except as otherwise provided by this constitution ", "and shall report annually to the governor and to the legislature at least one month before each regular session on the financial condition of the state, and shall have other powers and perform other duties authorized by this constitution or provided by law." Ms. Mary L. Landrieu, 33, of Baton Rouge, is the person selected by the electorate of Louisiana to perform the duties outlined above, and is now the youngest woman holding state-wide public office in the United States, as well as the fifth woman to hold state-wide public office in Louisiana. A native of New Orleans, Ms. Landrieu served in the Louisiana Legislature from 1979 to 1987, representing District Number 90 in the House of Representatives. She assumed the duties as Louisiana State Treasurer on November 30, 1987. A Democrat, Ms. Landrieu was a delegate to the 1980 and 1988 National Democratic Conventions and in 1985 was selected by the Democratic National Chairman to serve on the National Democratic Policy Commission. Bom into a family with a long history of interest and success in politics, Ms. Landrieu is one of nine children, and her father, Moon Landrieu, New Orleans attorney, has served in the Louisiana Legislature, and as a district councilman and councilman-at-large of the City of New Orleans, as well as Mayor, and also as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of the United States in the administration of President Jimmie Carter. Ms. Landrieu's brother, Mitchell Landrieu, succeeded her as the member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 90, in uptown New Orleans. Ms. Landrieu is married to E. Frank Snellings of Monroe, a member of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury. 7 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 degrees, their families, and other special commencement guests, are sincerely requested to honor America in the singing of OUR NATION ANTHEM, the lyrics of which follow: O say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad strips 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 8 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 Principle 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 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, Bachelor's or Master's degree 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 a 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 face 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