LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AUTUMN COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue Thursday, December 14, 1989 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 Professional photographers will record each graduate as the diploma is presented and color portraits itnlCbe available for purchase, if desired. Program PROCESSIONAL PRESIDING A. Carter Lewis, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Graduate Studies School of Allied Health Professions 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 Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D. Head of the Department of Anatomy and Acting Dean for the School of Graduate Studies Louisiana State University Medical Center CONFERRING OF DEGREES Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. President The Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Dr. Allen RECESSIONAL *Audience Participation Invited, see page 11 for lyrics 'The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left The Arena' 1 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1989 School Of Allied Health Professions Presented by Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Wayne Vignes BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY Marie Elizabeth Burke* MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Sharon Marie Bell Madelyn Shiplov Price* Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Renee Aizen Legendre Julie Miller Savage* Program: Audiology Program: Speech Pathology SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY Presented by Jack H. Rayson, D.D.S., Dean Bachelor Of Science In Dental Hygiene Tinsley Ohlsen Ford* *In Absentia 2 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1989 School Of Graduate Studies Presented by Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D., Acting Dean MASTER OF SCIENCE Debra Lynn Bartelt Program: Microbiology Major Professor: Dr. John A. Mayo Kee-Tak Chan* Program: Microbiology Major Professor: Dr. James J. Thompson Debasis Mondal * Program: Microbiology Major Professor: Dr. Ronald Luftig Jeffrey Brent Robertson* Program: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor: Dr. Peter Zuber * In Absentia 3 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1989 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Kari Ellen Blaho Program: Pharmacology Major Professor: Dr. Louis Allen Barker Dissertation Title: The Effects of Early Sepsis on Cardiovascular Beta-Receptors. Karl Maximilian Doetsch Program: Pathology - Clinical Chemistry Major Professor: Dr. Paul Roheim Dissertation Title: A New 'Capture' Elisa Immunoassy for Human Lp(a) Lipoprotein. Mahmood Mosaddeghi* Program: Pharmacology Major Professor: Dr. Reuben Gonzales Dissertation Title: Hydrolysis of Phosphatidylinositol May Mediate Some of the Central Effects of Cocaine. Anne Christine Petropoulos Program: Pharmacology Major Professor: Dr. Louis Allen Barker Dissertation Title: Studies of the Regulation of the Guinea Pig Gastric Mucosal Histamine H2-Receptor. Jeremy Paul Springhom* Program:: Biochemistry Major Professor: Dr. William C. Claycomb Dissertation Title: Enkephalin Biosynthesis in Rat Ventricular Cardiac Muscle *In Absentia 4 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1989 School Of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, Dr. P. H., Dean ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Kathy Lee Abreo Brenda Bell Portis - Out BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Christine Cecilia Albright Lauralee Louis Sherry Johstono Augustine Vivian Page Mears Jeannine Anne Bares Dana Merwin-Wineski Stacey Ann Blanchard Maria Ann Miceli Carmel M. Bocage Jeff Allen Moffatt Laura L. Bresnahan Lacey Ann Montgomery Michele Mia Dagani James William Ohlenforst Rhonda Lynn Dunn Paula Mary Olano Mary Anne Fischer Nancy Lynn Price Terri Lynn Flemmings Lisa Marie Richoux Dorothy Lynn Fortson Kimberly P. Schaive Hazel Corkern Gaudet Donna E. Smith Julie Capella Giovingo Julian Alan Smith, Jr. Donna A. Isenmann Lucy Gaye Smith Allison Ray Johnson Stephanie Lynn Sonnier Melissa Rose Kelly Gretchen Ann Steppe Kathryn Elizabeth Kives Lisa Michele Stokes Kelly McDonald Lacrouts Pamela Ann Turlich 5 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1989 MASTER OF NURSING M. Susan Bertrand Dorothy Dorsett Joseph John S. Bertucci Richard J. LeBlanc Peggy B. Bourgeois Ann Berni Lockhart Celestine Carter Carllene Brown MacMillan Sylvia Anne Cartullo Joan M. Meadows Merilyn Russell Charlton Bonnie Juve Meeker Elizabeth Meyer Christensen Teresa Mary O'Neill Anne Marie Chick Demetrius James Porche Terrie Arlene Deere Corinne Kauffeld Rougeau Daphne Pajeaud Ferdinand Wendy Marie Sabadie Barbara Wood Ferguson Sally Liuzza Shapiro Laureen Rene Galatas Margaret L. Tanner Jacqueline R. Harrison Rose Manchon Taylor Elaine S. Hinojosa Janeen Marie Whitmore Cynthia Louise Horton TrezMarie Zotkiewicz Janice Marie Johnson DOCTOR OF NURSING SCIENCE Joan Marie Sullivan Major Professor: Dr. Linda C. Jones Dessertation Title: Adjusting Expectations: A Theory of Maternal Thinking 6 The Commencement Speaker 8 Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D. Dr. Marilyn Zimny, Acting Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, is a remarkable woman of outstanding achievements. Her affiliation with LSU Medical Center began in 1954 and has been marked by an enviable record of accomplishment. After earning her Ph.D. from Loyola University in Chicago, Dr. Zimny joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy as an Assistant Professor. She rose through the ranks of Associate Professor, Professor, Acting Head of the Department, and has served as Head of the Department of Anatomy since 1976. She was appointed Acting Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in 1989. Dr. Zimny has been awarded 15 grants and has authored 120 abstracts and publications. Dr. Zimny's scientific activities have been many and varied. She was invited by the Office of Naval Research to participate in the First and Second Symposia of Mamalian Hibernation at M.I.T. and in Helsinki, Finland, respectively. She was a Visiting Professor in Anatomy at the University of Costa Rica. In 1966, she took a sabbatical leave to work in electron microscopy at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska. She served on the Biology Committee of the World Book Encyclopedia. She was a Councillor to the Pan American Association of Anatomists from the American Association of Anatomists. She was a member of the Executive Committee, American Association of Anatomy as well as serving as president of the Association of Anatomy Chairmen in 1983. She was elected President of the Southern Society of Anatomists. Dr. Zimny is a recognized authority on sports medicine, having been invited to speak at a conference at the Houston Sports Medicine Foundation as well as being asked to chair a Satellite Conference on sports medicine at the American Association of Anatomists' annual meeting last spring. She was a Section Officer of the American Association of Dental Schools' Section on Anatomical Sciences. She served as President of the Louisiana Society for Electron Microscopy in 1975 and also holds membership in the American Physiological Society, the Electron Microscopy Society of America and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Dr. Zimny has been elected to a four-year term as Program Secretary of the American Association of Anatomists. She is the first female ever to hold this position in the 102-year history of the Association. Her term will begin in 1990. Dr. Zimny has been listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Two Thousand Women of Achievement, Outstanding Educators of America, The World Who's Who of Women, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. She was named the School of Medicine's Best Pre-Clinical Lecturer for three consecutive years. She received the Distinguished Faculty Service Award for 1969 presented by the LSU Alumni Federation. She was voted Most Popular Teacher by LSU School of Dentistry's Class of '79 and is an honorary member of the Theta Kappa Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon and Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Zimny was honored by the LSU Foundation, receiving the Distinguished Faculty Award in 1987. Perhaps her greatest contribution, however, has been to her students and through them to the medical and scientific communities at large. She is a beloved faculty member whose influence is felt years beyond those spent in the classroom. LSU Medical Center is fortunate indeed to call her our own. 9 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 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 twilight'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 11 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