LSU Med School Dean Addresses Physicians

              LSU Med School Dean
December 7, 1966
Addresses Physicians
By MARILYN ROBERTSON
Journal Staff Writer
Dr. Edgar Hull, interim dean
of the Louisiana State Universi-ty
School of Medicine of Shreve-port,
last night told more than
250 area physicians and their
wives the new institution is
unique as "the only medical
school anywhere in recent times
to come into being through the
organization and persistent ef-forts
of the physicians of a
community and through those
of other civic leaders."
S p e a k i n g on the topic,
"Preaching, T e a c h i n g and
Guidance," Dr. Hull delivered
the guest address at the 7:30
p.m. annual Christmas banquet
of the Shreveport Medical So-ciety.
Other high points of the
meeting in the Captain Shreve
Hotel included installation of
new officers and presentation of
the second annual Honor Award
to Dr. W. R. Mathews, patholo-gist
at Confederate Memorial
Medical Center since 1929.
DR. HANK Stoer accepted the
award, given each year to a
person who has m a d e out-standing
contributions to medi-cine
in this area, on behalf of
Dr. Mathews, who was unable
to be present. Recipients of the
award are not necessarily phy-sicians
or residents of this area.
Dr. Mathews, a native of
Aquilla, Ala., received his medi-cal
education at the University
of Arkansas and the University
of Alabama. He is a veteran of
World War I and is a past
president of the local Medical
Society.
Last years' award went to Dr.
Clarence Webb, a Shreveport
pediatrician.
TAKING OVER the presiden-tial
gavel for 1967 from Dr. B.
E. Trichel was Dr. J. W. Cotter.
Serving with Dr. Cotter will be
Dr. A. A. Bullock, president-elect;
Dr. L. V. Landry, first
vice president; Dr. Joseph S.
Bianca, second vice president;
Dr. Frank T. Dienst Jr.,
secretary; Dr. Harold J. Quinn
Jr., treasurer, and Dr. Webb,
historian. Mrs. James Shipp is
1967 president of the Medical
Society Auxiliary.
A special plaque recognizing
his "year of faithful service" to
the society was presented to Dr.
Trichel by the group's 1965
president, Dr. Eugene St. Mar-tin.
Dr. St. Martin also offered
a series of brief humorous
sketches on the "medical"
problems encountered by doc-tors
on a duck hunt, which he
described with a soft Cajun
accent.
IN HIS TALK, Dr. Hull
outlined to the physicians the
opportunities and responsibili-ties
that lie before them with
the opening of a teaching
institution. Many now practic-ing
in Shreveport, he said, will
fill a majority of teaching
positions in the new school.
They will be playing major
roles in creating future physi-cians,
said Dr. Hull, adding,
"students learn to practice good
medicine when their teachers
practice good medicine."
Dr. Hull drew a parallel
b e t w e e n the recommended
goals for the teaching doctors to
follow and the writings of
"Jesus of Jerusalem, a learned,
wise, Holy Man who was above
all a student" and author of
works included in Ecclesiastes,
one of the books of the Old
Testament.
The urging of Jesus of
Jerusalem, born 200 years
before Jesus of Nazareth, "to
exhort and explain" in order to
teach can be applied to the
medical profession in its efforts
to instruct, said Dr. Hull.
"IN A FEW short years—less
than three," he told the doctors,
"you will be teaching and
guiding and acting 'as agents of
the Most High' in creating
physicians and making them
worthy of honor."
The school, he continued, is
"a tribute to your altruism,
your wisdom, your steadfast-ness."
He commended the
doctors for seeking the task of
teaching particularly in Louisia-na
and faithfully following their
goal despite obstacles. The
medical school is "entirely
yours in conception and in the
labors of its birth," he told the
doctors. He urged them to keep
the school on the right path.
"To remain unique and be-come
superior" the school
"must not fall into a pattern
and must resist pressure" to do
just that.
"TO BE SURE," summarized
Dr. Hull, "we will encounter
them . . . to reach the ultimate
goal—the lessening of the suf-ferings
of our fellow men by
contributing to the education of
men and women who will follow
in our vocation."
Board members for 1966 are
Dr. Russell Rigby, Dr. Albert
M. Hand, Dr. Herbert Tucker,
Dr. T. B. Tooke, Dr. D. A.
Hiller, Dr. Broox C. Garrett
and Dr. E. C. Simonton.
Delegates to the Louisiana
Medical Society are 1967, Dr.
William M. Hall, Dr. Chales L.
Black, Dr. U. H. Stoer and Dr.
Kenneth Jones; 1968. Dr. James
H. Eddy, Dr. S. L. Gill, Dr. W.
B. Worley and Dr. B. E.
Trichel; and 1959, Dr. Charles
D. Knight, Dr. H. Whitney
Boggs, Dr. J. W. Wilson and
Dr. Russell Rigby.