One-hundred ten candidates, six of them women, will receive the degree of doctor of medicine at commencement ceremonies of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine here Friday at 3 p. m. in Municipal Auditorium.
Dr. Charles Cameron Sprague, dean of the Tulane University School of Medicine, will be commencement speaker. His address will be entitled "The Citizen Physician."
Degrees will be conferred by Dr. John Anderson Hunter, president of LSU, following presentation of candidates by Dr. Edgar Hull, professor and leacTof the Department of Medicine and acting dean of the LSU Medical School.
Dr. Hull will also administer the traditional "Oath of Hippocrates" to the new physicians.
Representatives of more than 50 colleges and universities throughout the world will be included in the faculty academic procession which will accompany the graduation candidates to commencement ceremonies.
Dr. Robert L. Simmons, associate dean of the School of Medicine and director of student affairs, will present the' Scholarship Award of the LSU Medical Alumni Association to the graduating senior who has attained the highest academic average in the Class of 1964
during the four years of study in the School of Medicine.
Recipient of the award is Albert Richard Corne Jr. of Saint} Martinville, with an average 90.42.
Friday's graduation, the 33rd since founding of the LSU school of Medicine in 1931, will bring
to 2,656 the total of LSU medical degrees earned.
The complete list of candidates for graduation follows:
