Tylerite 1st Med School Graduate

              Will Serve Internship at Army Hospital
Tylerite 1st Med School Graduate
By MARGARET MARTIN
Times Medical Writer
Dr. Frank Peter Brinkman III
of Tyler, Tex., was the first
student to receive a degree
from the Louisiana State tjni-v
e r s i t y Medical School at
Shreveport yesterday at gradua-tion
e x e r c i s e s at the Civic
Theater.
Thirty-one students received
degrees.
Brinkman, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank P. Brinkman, will
serve a surgical internship with
the U.S. Army, Madigan, Wise,
General Hospital, where he will
be a captain.
Brinkman was also awarded
the Upjohn Award, given to a
senior student in excellent aca-demic
standing and with overall
competency in his medical per-formance.
AWARDS PRESENTED
Graduating tops in his class
academically, was William Ed-ward
Haley, who received the
Pfizer Award, given for person-al
attributes and a c a d e m i c
excellence. Haley remained first
in the class each year for four
years.
Other awards were: Daniel
John Moller Jr., the Lewis
Gottlieb Scholar Award, given
to a senior student who most
clearly manifests by scholarship
and devotion to patients the
ideals of Dr. Edgar Hull, first
dean of the LSU Medical School
at Shreveport; Carl J o s e p h
Richard, the Shreveport Medi-cal
Society Award, given to a
senior displaying the most de-sirable
attitudes of a physician
towards his patients, as selected
by members of the graduating
class and the clinical faculty:
Willard Frederick Washburne,
the Shreveport Pediatric Society
Award. given to a senior student
who, in the opinion of the
Department of Pediatrics, has
shown the most interest, enthu-siasm
and appreciation to the
snecialty of pediatrics: David
William' Law, the Family Prac-tice
Award, given by the Wom-an's
Auxiliary of the Louisiana
Academy of Family Practice to
a graduating senior -whose inter-ests
coincide with the highest
ideals in family practice medi-cine,
and Oeorpe Kenneth Har-rison,
the Bick Award, given to
a graduating senior displaying
interest and outstanding ability;
in the field of psvehiatry.
Jeri Lynn Rasch, a sopho-
I more, received the Sherman E.
Matthews Pathology Prize, giv-en
iii memory of Sherman E.
Matthews, a member of the first
class who was killed earlier this
year, to the student who at-tained
the highest scholastic
mark in the basic s c i e n c e
sophomore course in pathology.
H a r r i s o n , president of the
class, announced that the grad-uating
class was setting up the
Edgar Hull Scholarship to be
given to a s t u d e n t at the
beginning of his senior year who
is in financial need and Who
best exemplies the characteris-tics
and attributes of Dr. Hull.
Paying tribute to Hull. Harri-son
said to the students, "he
*-PS rot iust dean oi the medical
school. He means more to all of
us. He was open to us all day
every day, helning us with
every conceiveable problem."
He was not iust "an ivory
tower dean." Harrison said, but
"he called us into his office to
nsk how were classes or just
how we were in general." :
Dr. William T. McElroy, as-sociate
dean, presided.
Dr. Martin D. Woodin con-ferred
the degrees.
EDWARDS TELLS HERITAGE
Addressing the c l a s s , was
Goy. Edwin W. Edwards who
said "from this moment
forward, yours is truly a herit-age
of commitment, a heritage
of service, a heritage of trust, a
heritage that must guide your
hands, your minds, your total
efforts throughout a lifetime."
The f u t u r e is not
secure, he told the young
doctors" . . . for each of you
here today, the race has just
begun. As new physicians, you
perhaps bear a greater respon-sibility
than other new gradu-ates
of any other school or
college in the LSU System — a
responsibility for life itself."
"From this moment forward,
your's is truly a heritage of
commitment, a h e r i t a g e of
service, a heritage of trust, a
heritage that must guide your
hands, your minds, your total
efforts throughout a lifetime,"
he said.
It is probable, the governor
told the graduates, that "your
responsibilities to society ex-ceed
thoise of any other physi-cians
who have come before
you."
Many diseases have been
brought under control and pre-ventive
medicine has revolution-ized
the health standrads and
life expectations of entire na-tions,
he said.
"The overall result of medical
advancements of the past 50
years has been a new vision, a
new expectation, of the quality
of man's existence," Edwards
said.
But he said there is still work
to be done — the cure or
prevention for the common cold,
heart disease and cancer, and
" . . . somewhere, perhaps in
this graduating class or one like
it, may be found the necessary
combination of knowledge, skill,
perseverance and creative gen-ius
that will unlock the myster-ies
of these age old maladies."
He urged them to have the
ingredients that "can swing the1
balance from failure to success
— a willingness to dare, a
willingness to travel the difficult
path where no one has ever
trod."
GRADUATES LISTED
The list of 31 g r a d u a t e s
follows: Frank Peter Brinkham
III, Tyler, Tex.; Thomas Drew
Carey, Minden; David Cooksey,
Delhi; Michael David Cox, Ba-ton
Rouge; Oliver Mayo Fletch-er
III, Shreveport; Harold Jo-seph
Gauthier Jr., DeRidder;
Martha Rojas Gauthier, Lake
Charles; James Michael Geiger
Jr., Alexandria; William Ed-ward
Haley, Baton Rouge, and
Robert Eugene Harper, Ring-gold.
George K e n n e t h Harrison,
Shreveport; T i m o t h y Mark
Hart, Shreveport; Gregory Mid-dleton
Heroman, Baton Rouge;
Jackson Riley Holland, Monroe;
Jeffery Lynn James, Buras;
Stephen George J e n k i n s o n ,
Shreveport; R i c h a r d Conrad
Kamm, Ph.D, E a r 1 e, Ark.;
Leonard Barry Rancher, New
Orleans; David William Law
Florien, and Robert Wray Little
New Orleans.
James Carson M c D o n a l d ,
Jonesboro; Tandy Wilson Mc-
Elwee Jr., Natchitoches; Daniel
John Moller Jr., Baton Rouge;
Paul Keith N a b o u r s , Lake
Charles; John Malcolm Reaux,
Baton Rouge; Carl Joseph Ri-chard,
Arnaudville; James Vin-cent
Richardson, M a r s h a l l ,
Tex.; Barry Michael Rills, Ad-dis;
Thomas Yves Soileau, Ville
Platte; Willard Frederick Wash-burne,
Delhi, and Mark Seth
Wicks. Wilmette, 111.
Frank Peter Brinkman III of Tyler,
Tex. (second from right) was the first
graduate of Louisiana State University-
Medical School at Shreveport. Congra-tulating
him prior to the ceremonies at
the Civic Theater are dignitaries who
participated in the exercises (left to
right) Dr. William H. Stewart of New
Orleans, chancellor of the LSU Medi-cal
Center; Dr. Edgar Hull, dean of the
LSU Medical School at Shreveport, and
Dr. Martin D. Woodin. of Baton Rouge,
president of the LSU System, who pre-sented
the diplomas. (Times Photo by
Ken Aclin)