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Louisiana State University

Medical Center

Shreveport

School of Medicine in Shreveport

School of Allied Health Professions

School of Graduate Studies

Commencement

Strand Theatre 10:00 A.M., Saturday, June 6, 1998

Program

The audience is requested to remain seated during the processional

PROCESSIONAL

PRESIDING

RALPH J. HENDERSON, Jr., Ph.D.

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, School of Medicine in Shreveport

NATIONAL ANTHEM

MICHAEL RAGGIO, Class of 1998

INVOCATION

LARRY E. SLAY, M.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

MARILYN L. ZIMNY, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dean, School of Graduate Studies Louisiana State University Medical Center

IKE MUSLOW, M.D.

Vice Chancellor and Interim Dean, School of Medicine in Shreveport

RALPH J. HENDERSON, Jr., Ph.D.

MATTHEW CHAMBERLAIN President, Class of 1998

ADDRESS

JAMES "RED" DUKE, M.D.

Professor of Surgery

The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Director of Trauma, Hermann Hospital

PRESENTATION OF THE

ALLEN A. COPPING EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARDS

PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES JOHN R. SNYDER, Ph.D. • Dean, School of Allied Health Professions

ROBERT CHERVENAK, Ph.D.

Assistant Dean, School of Graduate Studies

IKE MUSLOW, M.D.

CONFERRING OF DEGREES

MARILYN L. ZIMNY, Ph.D.

OATH OF HIPPOCRATES

BENEDICTION

LARRY E. SLAY, M.D.

RECESSIONAL

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

LSU MEDICAL CENTER

1998

MASTER OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

Ashley Renee Catanese* Jeffrey Allen Dear* Suzanne Hamilton*

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Richard Dale Childress* - Cellular Biology and Anatomy Major Professor - Robert D. Specian, Ph.D.

Ruth Ann Franks* - Cellular Biology and Anatomy Major Professor - Robert D. Specian, Ph.D.

John Gilbert Himes* - Cellular Biology and Anatomy Major Professor - Laurence Hardy, Ph.D.

Donald Chad Wilkerson - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor - Sidney Grimes, Ph.D.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Kristen Biber* - Microbiology and Immunology Major Professor - R. Michael Wolcott, Ph.D.

Carol Farr - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor - Stephan N. Witt

Karl James Franek - Microbiology and Immunology Major Professor - Robert P. Chervenak, Ph.D.

Mingxing Gao* - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major Professor - Robert E. Rhoads, Ph.D.

Kim Marie Moscatello - Microbiology and Immunology Major Professor - R. Michael Wolcott, Ph.D.

* In absentia

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

LSU MEDICAL CENTER

1998

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Matthew Mack Abraham Rebecca Lee Antee Scott Brian Babin Skipper Joel Bertrand Kevin Paul Blanchard Christine Marie Braud Beau P. Brouillette Gina L. Waltman Brouillette Alan Brown Brian Keith Calhoun Gregory Wayne Carpenter Robert Bruce Carroll Kristine Marie Carter Lawrence Clarence Carter, II Brett Stewart Carver Christina Wallis Chamberlain Matthew B. Chamberlain Michael Scott Chanler Stephen Michael Charbonnet Marc Justin Chitty Robin Lee Dauterive Ricky G. Davidson Stephen G. Divers Patrick Delery Drennan Charles Ronald Ducombs

Jherie Demouy Ducombs

Christopher Michael Earnhardt

Steven Farquhar

Christopher P. Ferguson

Kenneth Carl James Fitzgerald, III

Trent James Fogleman

Brian Paul Ford

Arthur Tomlinson Fort, IV

Laura Welch Fuseler

Kyle Charles Girod

Brian Jackson Glymph

John T. Griffin

Andrew Dabadie Guidroz

Julio Cesar Guillen, Jr.

Sherin Hanna

Charles Geron Hargon, Jr.

Mary Claire Pastor Haver

Michael Lane Hawthorne

Andrew Thomas Haynes

David Andrew Helft

Melissa Ann Herbst

Bradley Stanton Hood

Essam Manuel Imseis

Glenda G. Johnson

Natalie Inge Johnson

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

LSU MEDICAL CENTER

1998

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Zeina Milad Kalache Anita Kedia Timothy D. Keeler Elizabeth Cheney Knapp Patrick Raymond Krake Tracey Lynn Lakin Huan Quoc Le Jacques Yves LeBlanc Duane John Luke Denisse Marion-Landais Cindy Maliea Martin Richard Lane Martinez Eric Wayne McGraw Dennis McKevitt Elizabeth Wood McLain Casey Clark McVea H. Dale Meade Douglas Terry Mehaffie Ann Marie Mottershaw Kelly Michelle Nations

* Kim John Pansegrau

* Christopher Thomas Patin Charles Lee Powell Holly Chachere Provost Tricia Renee Quinn

Michael Joseph Raggio

John Daniel Reneau

Johnny L. Rhodes

Clifford H. Rice, Jr.

Ellen Elizabeth Woodall Rice

Robert Kirk Saucier

Phillip Rhys Say

Randal John Schoeman

Daniel Christopher Schubert

James William Sikes, Jr.

Lisa Ann Smith

Paul David Speer, Sr.

Catherine Speights

William Eric Spielvogle

Colin Carter Stewart

Chad Wayne Trosclair

Russell Howard Van Norman, III

Gerald Brent Whitton

John Robert Witherow

Patrick Brian Wood

Suzanne Hall Woodard

Ceeccy Yang

*In absentia

MARSHALS

David L. DeSha, Ph.D., Chief Marshal

Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr., M.D.

J. Thomas Cross, Jr., M.D.

Ronald B. George, M.D.

Warren D. Grafton, M.D.

Gerardo S. San Pedro, M.D.

CLASS OF 1998

ALPHA OMEGA ALPHA HONOR MEDICAL SOCIETY

Elected Junior Year

Brian Paul Ford Kyle Charles Girod Tracey Lynn Lakin Stephen G. Divers

Elected Senior Year

Rebecca Lee Antee

Brett Sewart Carver

Michael Scott Chanler

Marc Justin Chitty

Christopher Michael Earnhardt

John T. Griffin

Mary Claire Pastor Haver

Andrew Thomas Haynes

Zeina Milad Kalache

Elizabeth Cheney Knapp

Cindy Maliea Martin

Clifford H. Rice, Jr.

Paul David Speer, Sr.

ACADEMIC HERALDRY: THE SYMBOLS OF LEARNING

The university commencement procession is a pageant, alive and bright with the dress and ceremony inherited from the medieval universities of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

To preserve their dignity and meaning it became necessary for these universities to set rules for academic dress. American universities agreed on a definite system in 1895 and set up a code of academic dress. In 1932 the American Council on Education presented a revised code which governs the style today.

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. It is black for all degrees with pointed sleeves for the 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 Bachelor's or Master's degrees has no trimmings. The gown for the Doctorate degrees is faced down the front with velvet and has three bars of velvet across the sleeves, in the color distinctive of the 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 square to symbolize the book, although some authorities claim that the mortar board is the 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 a doctoral 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. The color of the facing 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.

The Mace. The mace, carried by the Chief Marshal, was in medieval times a weapon of war. Today it is a ceremonial symbol of authority. It is universally carried in academic and ecclesiastical processions.

The mace carried in today's procession was conceived, designed and made by Jesse O. Morgan, a friend of LSU Medical Center in Shreveport.

Oath of Hippocrates

I do solemnly swear by that which I hold most sacred that I will be loyal to the Profession of Medicine and just and generous to its Members.

That I will lead my life and practice my Art in uprighteousness and honor.

That into whatever house I will enter, it shall be for the good of the sick to the utmost of my power.

That, holding myself aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others to vice, I will exercise my Art solely for the cure of my patient and will give no drug, perform no operation for a criminal purpose, even if solicited, far less suggest it.

That whatsoever I shall see or hear of the lives of men which is not fitting to be spoken, I will keep inviolably secret.

These things do I promise. And in proportion as I am faithful to this, my oath, may happiness and good repute be ever mine. In the opposite if I shall be foresworn.

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