Doctors to be Honored March 30

              SHREVEPORT JOURNAL Tuesday PM Your Health SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY, LA., MARCH 2, 1982
Doctors to be honored March 30
Shreveport Medical Society Auxiliary
members have set in motion their plans for
Doctor's Day held annually on March 30. Mrs.
Floyd Peninger is chairman of this year's
observance; Mrs. W. H. Carroll and Mrs. John
Greer are her co-chairmen.
Dr. David Swearingen Sr., who is celebrat-ing
50 years in the profession, will be honored
at all ceremonies held in conjunction with
Doctor's Day. On March)
26 at the East Ridge
Country Club, during the
auxiliary's Las Vegas
Night dinner and cocktail
party honoring their hus-bands,
Dr. James
Bergeron, president of the
Shreveport Medical Soci-ety,
will present Dr.
Swearingen with a pro-clamation
from Gov.
David Treen. Swearingen
As a memorial to all physicians, both living
and deceased, a magnolia tree, donated by
Clyde Gorum, will be planted at the Barnwell
Garden and Art Center on March 30. Taking
part in the tree-planting will be Mayor Bill
Hanna, Dr. Bergeron, Mrs. Peninger, Mrs.
James Cotter, Mrs. Charles Stamper and Mrs.
W. Juan Watkins, president of the Shreveport
Medical Society Auxiliary.
Traditionally, all hospitals honor their staff
physicians with red carnations, coffees and
luncheons during the last week of March.
Willis-Knighton Medical Center will hold its
annual breakfast on March 26, while the
others will celebrate March 30. Doctors' Hos-pital
will serve coffee and doughnut holes
along with the carnations; Schumpert Medical
Center will have a continental breakfast;
Highland will honor its doctors at a luncheon;
and P&S will have a gourmet luncheon using
favorite recipes of the hospital staff. LSU
Hospital, Brentwood and the VA Medical
Center also are making plans to honor their
staff doctors on March 30. Auxiliary members
serving as chairmen of these events are Mrs.
John Leopard, Willis-Knighton; Mrs. Durell
Hiller Jr., Doctors'; Mrs. Willis Coylar, High-land;
Mrs. Clint Jones, LSU; Mrs. Peninger,
P&S; Mrs. Simeon Wall, Schumpert; Mrs.
James Cotter, VA; and Mrs. Edward
Leatherman, Brentwood.
In addition to the special honoree, all physi-cians
who received their license to practice 40
or more years ago are being honored during
March. They include Dr. Charles Anderson,
Dr. Nathan Bender, Dr. Charles Black Sr., Dr.
C. E. Boyd, Dr. Louis Breffeilh, Dr. Wallace
Brown, Dr. Frank Bryant, Dr. Jack Carlisle,
Dr. Wynton Carroll, Dr. Albert Clark, Dr. John
Cobb, Dr. Howard Cohenour, Dr. Penn Crain
Jr., Dr. John Crenshaw, Dr. Richard D. Crow,
Dr. Jasper Custer, Dr. Stuart DeLee, Dr.
Edwin Dilworth, Dr. William Drummond, Dr.
James Eddy Jr., Dr. John Eschenbrenner, Dr.
Ernest Flake, Dr. Henry Gallager, Dr. Edgar
Galloway, Dr. James Gavin, Dr. Samuel Gill,
Dr. Thomas Glass Jr., Dr. William Hall, Dr.
William Harris, Dr. Isaac Hawkins, Dr. John
A. Hendrick Jr., Dr. John V. Hendrick, Dr. W.
J. Hill Jr., Dr. Alice Holoubek, Dr. Joe Holo-ubek,
Dr. Charles Holt, Dr. John Jackson, Dr.
Kenneth Jones Sr., Dr. Bernard Kalstone, Dr.
David Kennedy, Dr. Douglas Kerlin, Dr. Wil-liam
Kerlin, Dr. David Kimball, Dr. Harold
Levy, Dr. Robert Lucas, Dr. Keith Mason Sr.,
Dr. Morgan Matthews, Dr. George Meneely,
Dr. Abraham Nicholas, Dr. Stuart Nicholas,
Dr. William Norfleet, Dr. Donald Overdyke,
Dr. Floyd Peninger, Dr. Ralph Riggs, Dr.
Joseph Shavin, Dr. Charles Sias, Dr. Lewis
Robinson, Dr. B. P. Smith Jr., Dr. Thomas
Smith, Dr. Jesse Stamper, Dr. Dudley Talbot,
Dr. Thomas Tooke, Dr. Clarence Webb, Dr. B.
E. Trichel, Dr. Percy Worley and Dr. Murphy
Yearwood.
On March 30, these doctors will receive,
along with their red carnations, handwritten
notes prepared by the Doctor's Day commit-tee
to acknowledge this milestone in their
careers.
Mrs. Charles Stamper, chairman of memo-rials,
will deliver sympathy notes to the wives
of deceased doctors on this special occasion.
Other members of Mrs. Peninger's commit-tee
are Mrs. John Chidlow, Mrs. John Henry,
Mrs. Keith Mason Jr., Mrs. J. C. Jones and
Mrs. Felix Prakasamm.
Journal Photo by Gu* Gustovich
Mrs. Floyd Peninger, who is serving as chairman of the Shreveport Medical
Society Auxiliary's Doctor's Day observance, pins a red carnation to the lapel of
her husband, Dr. Peninger, during a break in her volunteer duties at the P&S
Hospital.