Local Med School Hosts South Carolina Visitors

              SHREVEPORT TIMES -- JULY 30, 1971
South Carolina's lieutenant governor Earle E. Morris
Jr. (right) presents some South Carolina peaches to
Dr. William Stewart of New Orleans, chancellor of the
Louisiana State University Medical Center, during a
lull in a factfinding tour of the local medical school
facilities by some 60 South Carolinians yesterday.
(Times Photo by Billy Upshaw)
Local Med School Hosts
South Carolina Visitors
Some 60 South Carolina busi-1 the University of South Caroli-na.
The University of South Caro-lina
officials are studying the
possibility of setting up a second
medical school in South Caroli-na,
anticipating opposition from
officials of the only school in the
state now, at Charleston.
Hull advised the use of local
practicing physicians as teach-ers.
He said, "The best person
to teach medicine is the person
who practices medicine."
Both Lanford and Gardner
emphasized the importance of
the backing of local physicians.
Lanford advised, "Don't leave
a stone unturned," and "Get
everything in order and keep
the people informed."
In an interview, Morris said
he had been impressed with the
cooperative approach "to pro-vide
another medical training
facility (in Louisiana) on the
most economical basis," and to
find that "the leadership came
from the grass roots to acquire
the facility."
In a press conference yester-day,
Jones said he feels that on
the basis of what he saw in
Shreveport "we can trim any
figure I've seen in half."
Marchant said he feels the
LSU Medical School facility
"can be duplicated to some
degree in South Carolina, al-though
he emphasized that "we
can't put up a sign and open the
door tomorrow."
nessmen, educators and mem-bers
of the General Assembly
came to Shreveport yesterday to
learn from professionals "how
to get a medical school start-ed."
Advising them were a handful
of people who should know —
Dr. Joseph Holoubek and Dr.
Charles Black, who were among
the leaders in establishing the
local school; Dr. Edgar Hull,
dean of the s c h o o l and a
longtime advocate of a Shreve-port
medical school, and Dr.
William Stewart of New Or-leans,
^chancellor of the LSU
MedicaTCenter.
Others talking to the delega-tion
were T. B. Lanford, chair-man
of^the Confederate Memo-rial
Medical Center Board of
D i r e c t>o r s; James Gardner,
president of the Chamber of
Commerce, who gave credit to
the grass roots movement in
starting the school, and Leroy
Lamm, i regional medical direc-tor
for Veterans Administration
Region' 2, who discussed the
VA's rote in such a program.
Among the top members of
the delegation were South Caro-lina
Lt. Gov. Earle E. Morris
Jr., T. Eston Marchant, chair-man
of the Board of Trustees of
the University of South Caroli-na,
Columbia, S.C., and Dr.
Thomas F. Jones, president of