Med Schools Accept Ten From Centenary

              May 1973 S'portTimes
FOUR A THE SHREVEPO
Standards High—
Med Schools Accept
Ten From Centenary
As more and more students
apply to the nation's medical
schools, forcing these institu-tions
to raise their entrance
requirements, Centenary Col-lege
students continue to fare
well before the admissions
committees of these schools.
This year, ten students have
been accepted. This is not a
record, but is an unusually
high number for a small
liberal arts college with fewer
than a thousand students.
FOUR OF THE students,
Galen Sanders, Mark Greve,
John Waterfallen and James
Cotter, all of Shrevpeort, have
been accepted at the LSU
School of Medicine in Shreve-port;
Barrett Haik, New Or-leans,
and Fredrick Bentley,
Shreveport, have been accept-ed
at the LSU School of
Medicine in New Orleans;
James Salisbury, Monroe, and
Walter Steinmetz, Shreveport,
have been accepted at the
Tulane School of Medicine,
High G i l m o r e , Dallas has
been accepted at the Universi-
:y of Texas School of Medicine
at Houston and Pat Speck,
Houston, has been accepted at
;he Texas Tech School of
Medicine at Lubbock.
The four students who will
attend the Shreveport medical
school, Sanders, Greve, Cotter
and Waterfallen, are complet-ing
their j u n i o r year at
Centenary under the 3-1 pro-gram
and will receive their
Dachelors degree from Cente-nary
next year following the
successful completion of their
irst year in medical school.
G i l m o r e graduated from
Centenary in 1971 and has
since been doing research
work at the M. D. Anderson
Hospital and Tumor Institute
in Houston. He is one of the
authors of a paper of leuke-mia
published in Volume 33 of
Cancer Research, the most
widely accepted publication
on cancer research in the
United States.
STEINMETZ WAS accepted
at two schools, the LSU School
of Dentistry, in addition to
Tulane, but chose the latter
school.
Another of the students,
Fredrick Bentley, is an Eng-lish
major at Centenary, while
the rest have more traditional
pre-med majors in biology,
chemistry and physics.
Dr. C h a r l e s B. Lowrey,
adviser to pre-medical stu-dents
at Centenary, said unu-sually
high scores on their
MCAT (Medical College Apti-tude
Test), plus a high overall
grade point a v e r a g e , are
responsible for the good ac-ceptance
rate of Centenary
students. "One reason our
MCAT scores are high is
because the Centenary faculty
use some of their Saturdays in
the fall and spring before the
tests are given to tutor the
students in English, chemis-try,
biology, and physics in
order to better prepare them
for this e x a m , " he said.
Members of the h 0 n 0 r a r y
medical student fraternity,
Alpha Epsilon, Delta Chapter,
also help with the special
tutoring sessions, he said.
THIS YEAR'S students are
the last to be started on their
medical careers by Dr. Mary
Warters, the former chairman
of the Biology Department at
Centenary who retired three
years ago. She said she was
not surprised to learn that
Centenary was continuing as a
leader in pre-medical training.
"This has been a Centenary
trademark down through the
years and I certainly expect
it to continue in the future,"
she said.
Sanders is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Zack J. Sanders. 803
Whittington S t r e e t , Bossier
City; Greve is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bertrand J. Grvee,
754 Lindholm Street, Shreve-port;
Waterfallen is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. J a m e s B.
Waterfallen, 2758 Elmhurst
Street, Shreveport; Cotter is
the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W.
Cotter, 7604 Cresswell Street,
Shreveport; Haik is the son of
Dr. and Mrs. George Haik,
New Orleans; Bentley is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R.
Bentley, 1807 Dolphin Street,
Sfhireveport; Salisbury is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Salisbury, Monroe; Steinmetz
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Steinmetz, 2070 Holly Oak
Street, Shreveport; Gilmore is
tihe son of Mr. and Mrs.
Vardaman C. Gilmore, Fort
Worth, Texas; and Speck is
the son of Dr. and Mrs.
Norman Thomas Speck, Hous-ton,
Texas.