LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER WINTER COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS KIEFER UNO LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana December 13, 1990 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 New Orleans SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Shreveport SCHOOL OF NURSING New Orleans Professional photographers will record each graduate as the diploma is presented and color portraits will be available for purchase, if desired. Program PROCESSIONAL PRESIDING Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Dean of the School of Graduate Studies Louisiana State University Medical Center OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM* INVOCATION Myrtis J. Snowden, Dr. P.H. Professor of Nursing Louisiana State University Medical Center School of Nursing WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Perry G. Rigby, M.D. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Dr. Joan Blondin State of Louisiana Board of Regents Associate Physician Internal Medicine and Nephrology Monroe, Louisiana CONFERRING OF DEGREES Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Dr. Snowden RECESSIONAL The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the arena *Audience participation Invited, see page 10 for lyrics 1 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 School of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, Dr. P.H., Dean ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Catherine Ferguson Harrell Debbie Ann LeBlanc Camille Joanne Labit Brenda Bell Portis BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Terry Ann Barcena Lauren Elaine Holmes Dianne K. Bresnahan Evelyn Marie Jenkins Cathy Lynn Bueche Mary Frances Khoury Darlene Renee Bunderson Donna I. Kucera Cheryl Avegno Callerame Kellie Ann Kugelmann Melissa Dawn Campbell Patricia Elisabeth Laiche Karen Jeanette Canady Michelle Christine Lemoine Kimberly Dawn Carr Sonia Nadine Minor Lisa LeaAnne Ward Dilmore Michelle Ann Monteilh Christopher Emile Earles Deirdre Ann Porter Kelly Elizabeth Erwin Tracey P. Risi Kim Nolan Federico Jo Ann Roberts Carol McDonald Foster Stephanie Martina Serpas Tammy Skinner Francipane Peggy Mechelle Shirley Andrea Denise Francis Laura Catherine Spear Patrick Michael Fried Laura Deckert Valentine Jean Genzale Therese Trevonne Williams Allison Eileen Goetz MASTER OF NURSING Jonnie Lee Baxter Sylvia D. Hartmann Catherine Helen Bernosky Joycelyn Gondolfo Jeansonne Tamie Geraldine Robinson Bressler Elizabeth Eadie Mangham Sonya Alleman Briggs Deborah Keller Muniz Martha Pike Fleming Phyllis Gayden Peterson Jolie Marie Harris Susan Karen Steele 2 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 DOCTOR OF NURSING SCIENCE Bonnie S. Davis Major Professor: Dr. Linda C. Jones Dissertation Title: Mothers and Adult Daughters: Self-Differentiation, Attachment, and Mental States Jean Anne Haspeslagh Major Professor: Dr. Mervell Bracewell Dissertation Title: Recovering Nurses' Preception of Job Re-entry Mary L. Tobin Major Professor: Dr. Linda C. Jones Dissertation Title: The Self-Dialogue Assessment Questionnaire for Women: Testing a Semantic Differential Cognitive Assessment Instrument CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 School of Medicine Presented by Robert S. Daniels, M.D., Dean DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Monty Anthony Glorioso CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 School of Dentistry Presented by Jack H. Rayson, D.D.S., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL HYGIENE Danielle Anne Bourgeois* Susan Hebert Bourgeois * * in abstentia 5 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 School of Allied Health Professions Presented by Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CARDIOPULMONARY SCIENCE Debra Dionne Gooden-Rodriguez BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Rachel Rachal Gremillion David W. Simmons Chiquita Dennise Kize MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Alexis Finalet Gorbea Program: Speech Pathology Michelle Ann Hollier Program: Speech Pathology Alicia Ann Moore Program: Speech Pathology MASTER OF HEALTH SCIENCES William Frederick Reinhard Department: Medical Technology Major Professor: Dr. Ogden Hall Jeffrey H.Wall Department: Medical Technology Major Professor: Dr. Ogden Hall 6 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 School of Graduate Studies Presented by Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D., Dean MASTER OF SCIENCE Jennifer Pearce Carlton Department: Pathology Major Professor: Dr. Avery Ragan Jeffrey Brent Robertson * . Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Dr. Peter Zuber * In Absentia 7 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Timothy F. Burke Department: Pharmacology Major Professor: Dr. Joseph Moerschbaecher Dissertation Title: Effects of Benzodiazepines on Behavior and Binding in the Mouse Bangzheng Chen Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Dr. S. M. Jazwinski Dissertation Title: Aging in Budding Yeast S. Cerevisiae Yongwei Chien Department: Physiology Major Professor: Dr. Edward D. Frohlich Dissertation Title: Role of Atrial Natriuretic Factor in Congestive Heart Failure Theresa Real Cooper * Department: Biometry Major Professor: Dr. Robert Elston Dissertation Title: Computational Aspects of Pedigree Linkage Analysis Betty Jean Dowty Department: Physiology Major Professor: Dr. Judy A. Spitzer Dissertation Title: Effect of In Vivo Administration of Endotoxin on Signal Transduction Mechanisms for Superoxide Anion Release by Rat Alveolar Macrophages * In Absentia 8 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1990 Jia-San Fu Department: Pharmacology Major Professor: Dr. Joseph Moerschbaecher Dissertation Title: Effects of Opioids on the Acquisition and Performance of Discriminations in Squirrel Monkeys Kailas Nath Nandi* Department: Anatomy Major Professor: Dr. John A. Beal Dissertation Title: Spinal Neurogenesis and Axon Projection - A Correlative Study Quan Zhu* Department: Biochemistry Major Professor: Dr. Richard J. Courtney Dissertation Title: Chemical Cross-Linking Studies of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Glycoproteins * In Absentia 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 10 DR. JOAN BLONDIN Dr. Joan Blondin is an Associate Physician in the partnership of Internal Medicine & Nephrology in Monroe, Louisiana. She is currently serving a six-year appointment to the Louisiana Board of Higher Education, the BOARD OF REGENTS. She was confirmed by the Senate in August, 1989. Formerly, Dr. Blondin was an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport from 1978 to 1989 and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine from 1974 to 1978. Dr. Blondin received her B.S. degree from Louisiana Tech University, her Master of Nursing Science degree from Cornell University in New York and her Doctor of Medicine degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Dr. Blondin completed her internship and residency in Medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to medical school, Dr. Blondin was an Assistant Specialist in Nutrition at LSU, a Research Associate in Nutrition at Cornell University and an Instructor in Nutrition at the University of Alabama. Dr. Blondin has the distinction of membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi Honor Societies. She is a member of the American College of Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine, American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Louisiana State Medical Society, American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the Council on Hypertension of the American Heart Association. Dr. Blondin is on the Board of Trustees at North Monroe Hospital and was Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 1989. She is on the Council on Federal Legislation for the Louisiana State Medical Society, and she is on the Executive Committee of the Ouachita Parish Medical Society. Dr. Blondin was President of the End Stage Renal Disease Network Coordinating Council for Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma for six years and served on its Medical Review Board in 1988. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the National Kidney Foundation of Louisiana. In addition to her appointments and memberships, Dr. Blondin has authored over thirty professional journal publications. 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 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, because 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 that represents that particular 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 mortarboard 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 wom with any Doctor's gown. The Hood. The heraldic hood is an inverted shield with one or more chevrons (an insignia consisting of a V-shaped bar or bars) 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 12