LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FALL COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS KIEFER UNO LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue DECEMBER 16, 1993 4:00 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* Kimberly A. Van Name Candidate for Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing INVOCATION Lydia H. Rose Candidate for Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Perry G. Rigby, M.D. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Dr. Elenora A. Cawthon, Member Board of Supervisors Louisiana State University CONFERRING OF DEGREES Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Margaret L. Redmond Candidate for Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seasted until the graduates have left the Arena." * Audience Participation Invited, see page 9 for lyrics. 1 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 School of Medicine in Shreveport Presented by Arthur M. Freeman, III, M.D., Dean DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Rashmi Sabu* School of Allied Health Professions Presented by Stanley H. Abadie, Ph.D., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CARDIOPULMONARY SCIENCE Billy Todd Daniel* BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Kyra Leslie Lee MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Claire Anne Amedee John Kyle Meades Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Kimberly Ann Mitchell Blair Allison Louise Miles Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Deborah Deloney Mary Shea Miller Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Stacey Flotte-Stemke Susan Mary Molaison Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Yvette Graff Melissa Angela Ourso Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Lisa Michele Henderson Shannon Leigh Sullivan Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology Kathleen Oran McCrocklin Elizabeth Marie Wilkes Program: Speech Pathology Program: Speech Pathology * In Absentia 2 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 MASTER OF HEALTH SCIENCES Beth Daanen Drury Tamatha Alana Foster Mary Katherine Hoover Rhonda Gremillion Laizer Gail Marita Pearce* R. Michelle LeBlanc Wall School of Dentistry Presented by Eric ]. Hovland, D.D.S., Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL HYGIENE Linda Oser Ramelli* BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN DENTAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY Charles Raphael Hantz, Jr.* School of Graduate Studies Presented by Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D., Dean DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Kristine Phillips Bienvenu* Department: Physiology Major Professor: Dr. D. Neil Granger Dissertation Title: Mechanisms Underlying Shear Rate-Dependent Leukocyte Adhesion and Interstitial Migration Seewoo Lee* Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor: Dr. David S. Gross Dissertation Title: Functional and Structural Analysis Pesition effects Mediated by a Distant Transcriptional Silencer Element on the Yeast HSP82 Heat Shock Gene * In Absentia 3 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 Christopher C. Nabors Department: Anatomy Major Professor: Dr. Kenneth E. Kratz Dissertation Title: Medial and Lateral Subdivisions of the Cat Basal Forebrain Projection System Yih-Horng Shiao Department: Pathology Major Professor: Dr. W. Douglas Scheer Dissertation Title: Distinct Mechanisms of p53 Alterations Between Black and White Breast Cancer Patients Murry A. Stein* Department: Microbiology Major Professor: Dr. Dana Diedrich Dissertation Title: Membrane Interactions of Attack-Phase Bdellovibrio Bacteriovorus with its Escherichia coli Host John Douglas Stover Department: Anatomy Major Professor: Dr. Murray A. Matthews Dissertation Title: Immunocytochemical Characterization of Degeneration and Neuroplastic Reorganization within the Feline Spinal Trigeminal Subnucleus Caudalis due to Selective Deafferentation Jiayan Sun Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor: Dr. S. Michal Jazwinski Dissertation Title: Involvement of RAS Genes in Yeast Longevity Bruce Eric Wright Department: Physiology Major Professor: Dr. Johnny R. Porter Dissertation Title: The Antiobesity Agent Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in the Zucker Fatty Rat: Evidence for a Central Mechanism of Action * In Absentia 4 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 School of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, D.P.H., Dean ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Faith Guillot Boudreaux Constance Marie Gros Kathy Ann McCurdy Kay Hebert Rodriguez BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Stephanie Ann Barbera Pamela Jeanne Heller Larry Clark Bates Nancy Elizabeth Hotard Bethany Kay Bellows Gary Lynne Lipani Helen Cecelia Book Margaret E. Magoun Rebecca Lynn Borne Gina Marie Marchese Raquel Marie Bossier Shannon Lenore Martin Tanya Louque Bourgeois Molly Elizabeth McRae Michael Joseph Calcagno Taanda Welborn Michel Cynthia Marie Caronia Colleen Patrice Nichols Tina Marie Cashio Wayne James Noveh, Jr. Tiffanie Nicole Catoire Shri Lea Pierre Sharon Colwet Chauvin Trace Wayne Pourciau Keeley Marie Clark Christine Marie Powell Karen Marie Combe Margaret Lee Redmond Wendi Ann Coney Tracy Brahney Roig Jeannine Ellen Cusimano Lydia Haas Rose Rhonda B. Delger Eunsoo Sim Rebekkah Lynn Dellaccio Marie Helene Spitzfaden Aimee Lynn Falgout Stephanie Ann Swanson Stacey Lynn Foret Kimberly Ann VanName Edith Marie Gabor Ellen Louise Williams Michelle Marie Galland Victoria Lee Zamjahn Gina Maria Gebbia Melinda Marie Ziegler Wylea Marie Gray * In Absentia 5 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 MASTER OF NURSING Michele Clemons Baker Program: Public Health Community Health Jill Riddell Bellone* Program: Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Cicely Ann Campbell Program: Public Health Community Health LyCricia Faith Criss Program: Public Health Community Health Dell Fortinberry Donham Program: Public Health Community Health Larry Lee Foster Program: Adult Health and Illness Diane Novak Gardner Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Frances Loftin Hawkins Program: Public Health Community Health Jean Yvonne Jackman Program: Parent Child Health Nursing Diana Jeanne Ketterling Program: Nursing Service Administration Stacie Gold Lafitte Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Donna L. Leger-Lindsey Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Shirleen B. Lewis-Trabeaux Program: Public Health Community Health Lynette Louise Little Program; Adult Health and Illness Sharon Ann Maney Program: Adult Health and Illness Ellen Williams Manieri Program: Parent Child Health Nursing * In Absentia 6 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 Gerry Farrell Matranga Program: Neonatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Denise L. Mitchell Program: Adult Health and Illness Betty Avery Norton Program: Adult Health and Illness Cynthia Jeannette Preis Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Donita T. Qualey Program: Adult Health and Illness Catherine L. Rausch Program: Public Health Community Health Judy Pitts Reed Program: Public Health Community Health Rebecca Fruge Reed Program: Adult Health and Illness Henrietta M. Riddiford Program: Nursing Service Administration Judith Ruiz Program: Nursing Service Administration Yolanda Ruiz-Isales Program: Nursing Service Administration Jacqueline Rice Schexnayder Program: Psychiatric Community Health Health Nursing Jane Finlay Sumner Program: Public Health Community Health Tammy Dorothy Tate Program: Nursing Service Administration Anne Dolores Troy Program: Public Health Community Health Etrice R. Turnage Program: Nursing Service Administration Gail Martina Wilson Program: Adult Health and Illness 7 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1993 Waneda K. Wolfe Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing DOCTOR OF NURSING SCIENCE Dianna Hutto Douglas Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Major Professor: Dr. Myrtis J. Snowden Dissertation Title: The Bereaved Individual's Lived Experience of Loss Sudha C. Patel Program: Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Major Professor: Dr. Myrtis J. Snowden Dissertation Title: Perceived Family Adjustment, Family Strength and Alienation Among Homeless Persons Residing in a Metropolitan City of Louisiana 8 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 the 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 9 The Commencement Speaker 10 Elenora A. Cawthon, Ed.D. Dr. Elenora Cawthon, following the path of her academic career, has journeyed far from its beginnings in a two-room rural school in Mission Valley, Texas. Along the way, Dr. Cawthon has earned professional as well as personal recognition for her academic contributions and her extensive civic activities. After earning A.A., B.S., M.Ed., and Ed.D. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Cawthon taught for 8 years in the Texas public school system. She had faculty appointments at the University of Texas and Arkansas Tech before joining the faculty at Louisiana Tech. Serving for 33 years, Dr. Cawthon is currently Dean Emeritus, Student Services at Louisiana Tech. Dr. Elenora Cawthon is also a member of the LSU family. Named to the LSU Board of Supervisors in 1990, she chairs the Faculty-Student Affairs Committee. Dr. Cawthon has held all offices including president of the Louisiana Placement Association, the Southwest Placement Association, and the national College Placement Council. At Louisiana Tech, she was a member of the Louisiana Tech Faculty Club and served as president of the Louisiana Tech Faculty Senate. She was faculty advisor to the Student Government Association for 19 years. Dr. Cawthon is a member of the Administrative Council as well as of Steering Committees for Self Study for Southern Association Accreditation in 1960-61, 1971-72 and 1982-93. Dr. Cawthon was Chairman of the Lincoln Parish Committee for Blood Supply from 1977-1990 and will serve as Chairman of the Board of the Louisiana Blood Center until 1997. She was board member and then president of the Lincoln Crisis Line. Dr. Cawthon is Publicity Chairman of the Mayor's Commission of Women as well as Club Service Chairman of the Ruston Rotary Club Board. She is a member of the Ruston/Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Publicity Chairman of the Veterans' Party Committee, and an officer of the American Association of University Women. Dr. Cawthon also holds membership in the Business and Professional Women's Club, The Pierian Club, Delta Kappa Gamma Society, the Louisiana Tech Alumni Association, the Board of Directors of the North Louisiana Rehabilitation Hospital in Ruston, and the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission. Dr. Cawthon was married to the late John Ardis Cawthon. Their daughter, Dr. Elisabeth A. Cawthon, is following her mother's tradition of academic service as a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. 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 Educational 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 and 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 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 12