LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FALL COMMENCEMENT NEW ORLEANS KIEFER UNO LAKEFRONT ARENA UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS 6801 Franklin Avenue DECEMBER 14, 1995 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* Melissa A. Schwander Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Nursing INVOCATION Jessica L. Cook Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Nursing WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS Mervin L. Trail, M.D. Chancellor Louisiana State University Medical Center ADDRESS Mrs. Laura A. Leach Chairperson-elect Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors CONFERRING OF DEGREES Allen A. Copping, D.D.S. President Louisiana State University System BENEDICTION Barbara Jo Anderson Candidate for Master of Nursing God Bless America Melissa A. Schwander RECESSIONAL "The audience is requested to remain seated until the graduates have left the Arena" * Audience Participation Invited, see page 9 for lyrics. 1 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 School of Medicine Presented by Robert L. Marier, M.D., Acting Dean DOCTOR OF MEDICINE Tara Broyard-Hammond* John Douglas Stover Sanket Ashwin Vyas* School of Allied Health Professions Presented by John Dolan, Rh.D., Acting Dean BACHELOR OF SCIENCE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Teresa Terrebonne Russo* MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS Karen M. Bush*..................................Speech Pathology Gina Nicolle Easterly*.......................Speech Pathology Kathryn Bradley Flurry*...................Speech Pathology Stephanie Ann Martin*.....................Speech Pathology Gina Marie Parker*............................Speech Pathology Christi Rene' Ratcliff*........................Speech Pathology Angela M. Tapp*................................Speech Pathology Robert J. Tepper*................................Audiology Toyia Digilormo Urbaniak*..............Speech Pathology MASTER OF HEALTH SCIENCES Candace Capelan Kemper*..............Physical Therapy Kathleen Aycock Loper*...................Medical Technology Norman Lynn Wilson*......................Medical Technology John Bradford Zamjahn....................Cardiopulmonary Science * In Absentia 2 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 School of Graduate Studies Presented by Marilyn L. Zimny, Ph.D., Dean MASTER OF SCIENCE Leslie Dawn Causey* Program: Pharmacology & Therapeutics Major Professor: Dr. Donard Dwyer Jessalyn Camille Dupree* Program: Microbiology & Immunology Major Professor: Dr. Robert Chervenak Kimberly Anne Haley Department: Anatomy Major Professor: Dr. Joseph B. Delcarpio Kathryn Hanson Department: Biometry and Genetics Major Professor: Dr. Alexander F. Wilson Laura Miller* Department: Biometry and Genetics Major Professor: Dr. Mary V. Pelias Gerald Stevens Department: Pathology Major Professor: Dr. W. D. Scheer E. Bart Tarbet* Program: Microbiology & Immunology Major Professor: Dr. Dennis J. O'Callaghan Zhong-you Wei* Program: Pharmacology & Therapeutics Major Professor: Dr. Sandra C. Roerig * In Absentia 3 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Thomas Joseph Barrett Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor: Dr. Wayne V. Vedeckis Dissertation Title: Coordinate Regulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor and c-jun Gene Expression Renee Marie Bergeron Department: Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Major Professor: Dr. Wayne L. Backes Dissertation Title: Regulatory Factors Influencing the Ethylbenzene- Mediated Expression of Cytochrome P450 Isozymes Michelle Casteigne Callegan Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology Major Professor: Dr. Richard J. O'Callaghan Dissertation Title: Pathogenesis and Chemotherapy of Staphylococcus auerus Keratitis Clarence Frederick Colle III* Program: Microbiology & Immunology Major Professor: Dr. Dennis J. O'Callaghan Dissertation Title: Equine Herpesvirus Type \ Strain Kentucky A: Characterization of Unique Short Genes and Assessment of Pathogenicity in the Mouse Model Adele C. Gafka Department: Anatomy Major Professor: Dr. Theodore G. Weyand Dissertation Title: Corticostriatal and other Neurons in the Frontal Eye Field of the Awake, Behaving Cat Hildegardo H. Garza, Jr. Department: Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology Major Professor: Dr. Daniel J.J. Carr Dissertation Title: HIV-1 Transactivator: Transgenic Model of Immune Subversion * In Absentia 4 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Michael E. Kovach* Program: Microbiology & Immunology Major Professor: Dr. Kenneth Peterson Dissertation Title: Identification and Characterication of the Vivbrio Cholerae Pathogenicity Island that Encodes a Larger Cluster of Environmentally Regulated Colonization Determinants Pornprot Limprasert Department: Biometry and Genetics Major Professor: Dr. Bronya Keats Dissertation Title: Molecular and Linkage Studies in Autosomal Dominant Spinocerebellar Ataxias Anastas Petrov Nenov Department: Physiology Major Professor: Dr. Richard Bobbin Dissertation Title: The Acetylcholine Activated Potassium Channel in Cochlear Outer Hair Cells Margaret Sharon Rowe Parker Department: Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology Major Professor: Dr. H. Adele Spence Dissertation Title: Biologic Differences Among Influenza C Virus Strains and their Relationship to Persistent Infections Ying Ye* Program: Pharmacology & Therapeutics Major Professor: Dr. James M. O'Donnell Dissertation Title: Regulation of Rolipram-sensitive, Low-Km Cyclic AMP Phosphodiesterase by Noradrenergic Neurons in Rat Cerebral Cortex * In Absentia 5 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 School of Nursing Presented by Helen A. Dunn, D.P.H., Dean ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Sandra Kay Allen Lynda McArdle Douglas Yinna Lynnee Fontenberry Marcie j. Jackson Dianne McAdams Smith Fannie Bryant Williams BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING Mindi Renee Armstrong Kelly Kimball Fitzpatrick Lisa Annette Battley George Panos Giannakos Jill E. Beck Shawn Kevin Glendening Jennifer Helen Black Joseph P. Guillory Peggy Vizzini Bodet Rebecca Ann Himel Kerrie Elizabeth Bourg Lisa Lanette Hudman Mitchell Marist Bourg Tracey Lee Keller Sharon Brown Bourg Lindsay Madeline Kersker Cathy Lynn Callihan Christy Ann Krail Charlene Ann Casanova Michelle Lynn LeBlanc Julie Elizabeth Casey Jeffrey Charles Lemaire Kara Casseri Gabriel Jason Loup Suzanne Clair Cazayoux Heather Elizabeth Macdiarmid Merrie Kathleen Christmas Sandra Ann Martin Valona Michelle Cole Kim Christine Meany Jessica Ladd Cook Jennifer Alice Midkiff Aaron Calvin Crabtree Erin Eileen Miller Jennifer Winters Culotta Jodie Durand Morise Josephine Antonina D'Amico Jean Marie Nichols Melinda Chauffe DeLand Paul Steven O'Neal Cristie Dufrene Denaburg Bert Timothy O'Rourke Karen Arp Dietschy Kaye Michelle O'Shea Rachel Elizabeth Dodson Yamilet Parellada Jennifer Marie Dorand Robert Scott Patterson Kelly Shalon DuBois Linda C. Payne-Scown Holly Watson Edwards Holly Rea Payton Nikki Elizabeth Evans Scott Thomas Phillips Maria Elise Favie Donna Lynn Quatrocci * In Absentia 6 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 Claire Elizabeth Reinhardt Patricia Liliana Simmons Jean Gabriel Richard Rachelle Indovina Simpson Judith Marin Ronan Scott B. Slocum Melissa Marie Rovira James Kenneth Sticker, Jr. Anne-Marie Elizabeth Russo Gretchen Hope Stiehl Aaronnetta Ann Saltalamacchia Kevin Joseph Trosclair Rosalie Marie Schell Stacey Gail Vaccaro Sarah Marie Schneider Wendi Wetzel Williams Melissa Ann Schwander MASTER OF NURSING Barbara Jo Anderson............................Adult Health Nursing Marsha B. Arabie..................................Nursing Service Administration Brenda Anne Arceneaux......................Nursing Service Administration Diane Marie Badeaux...........................Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Jennifer S. Becnel (Badeaux)................Parent Child Health Nursing Penny W. Blanchard.............................Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Joanne M. Bullard.................................Adult Health Nursing Cynthia Gabrielle Cunningham*........Psychiatric Community Mental Health Nursing Lori Ann Dohmann..............................Adult Health Nursing Debra Clayton Fierke...........................Parent Child Health Nursing Elaine Dennette Fleming.....................Adult Health Nursing Elizabeth Thibodeaux Fortier.............Adult Health Nursing Andrea Miller Grishman.....................Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Sandra T. Knight...................................Adult Health Nursing Colleen Brahney Lemoine...................Adult Health Nursing Gayle Roberts Martin...........................Adult Health Nursing Dianne David McCaulley....................Adult Health Nursing Patricia Inabinett McGauly.................Adult Health Nursing Patricia M. Pitt.......................................Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Frances M. Ponte-Sanchez*................Parent Child Health Nursing - Abs. Darelle Elizabeth Robbins...................Parent Child Health Nursing Irene Evelyn Robicheaux.....................Neonatal Nurse Practitioner George Joseph Rome III.......................Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Darlene Frances Seiler..........................Nursing Service Administration Karen Silady..........................................Adult Health Nursing Dr. Patricia Beare, First Reader Beulah Patrice Vance............................Nursing Service Administration Sandra Layman Wade..........................Adult Health Nursing Nancy Morris Wood.............................Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Nancy L. O'Donley (sub.too late for printing) * In Absentia 7 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES LSU MEDICAL CENTER 1995 DOCTOR OF NURSING SCIENCE Moh'd Said Alkhalil* Major Professor: Dr. Jacqueline McNally Dissertation Title: Altered Nutrition: Less than Body Requirements: Validation of a Nursing Diagnosis Roberta Linden Benton* Major Professor: Dr. Linda Jones Dissertation Title: Meta-Analysis of Gerontologic Nursing Intervention Research Rosie Lee Calvin Major Professor: Dr. Patricia Lane DissertationTitle: Preoperative Uncertainty and State Anxiety in Adult Development Stages of Orthopaedic Surgical Patients Richard A. Corriveau Major Professor: Dr. Marie DiVincenti Dissertation Title: Rejuvenation: A Phenomenological Study of Nurse Executives from Acute Care Hospitals Lola J. Case Sasser Major Professor: Dr. Lee Kraft Dissertation Title: Caregiver Burden and Uncertainty of the Primary Family Member Caring for a Chronic Illness/ Disability * In Absentia 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 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 9 The Commencement Speaker 10 The Speaker Mrs. Laura A. Leach of Lake Charles, appointed to the LSU Board of Supervisors by Governor Edwards, began her six year term in June 1994. She was selected as the Chair Elect in July 1995 and will assume the Chairmanship of the Board in July 1996. She is also serving on The Management Council For The Baton Rouge Community College and as a member of The Board of Directors of The Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation. Additionally, Mrs. Leach serves on the Governor's Commission to the Pro-Action Committee For Higher Education. Locally she is Secretary/Trea-surer of The Sweet Lake Land And Oil Company, Inc., The North American Land Company, Inc., Board of Directors of Calcasieu Marine National Bankand the Lacassane Company, Inc. Mrs. Leach volunteers on the Board of Directors of the Lake Charles Symphony, American Cancer Society, and United Way. Her activities include serving on the Vestry of The Episcopal Church of The Good Shepherd, the Episcopal Day School Board and, chairing the long range planning committee for the church. 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 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