Seven girls were among the 68 graduates of the LSU Medical School who took the Oath of Hippocrates Saturday morning at Charity Hospital.
Some of them have medical backgrounds, with a mother or some other member of their family already a doctor.
They will receive their diplomas on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge on June 3.
The seven are Agnes Burt Caraway, Mignon Jumel, Katie Goetz, Neysa Phares, Elizabeth Crisp, Bettie Powell and Jean Persons.
Miss Caraway graduated from medical school almost 40 years to the day that her mother, Margaret Caraway, became an M. D.
Her father was the late Dr. A. F. Caraway of Gulf port and her brother a practicing physician in Jacksonville, Fla.
Miss Jumel, the daughter of Dr. Allen Jumel of New Orleans, was the only girl in the class to make Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical Phi Betta Kappa.
She also was elected to the Undergraduate Surgical Society and the Society of Medicine.
Miss.Goetz, who has been teaching technology at Loyola University during the four years she has been in medical school, also was elected to the Undergraduate j Surgical Society.
Another girl with a medical background, Neysa Phares had a grandfather and great-grandfather who were doctors. Jean Persons' father is the Episcopal minister in Bastrop, La.
Twenty - two - year - old Bettie Powell was the youngest member of the class.
Dr. Margaret Caraway, who is 73, was asked to give the girls some advice.
"Get married," was her reply.
