Centenary Seminar Set on Pre-Med

              Centenary
Seminar Set
On Pre-Med
Two Shreveport physicians, Dr. Rod
M. Yeager and Dr. W. Juan Watkins,
both former students of Centenary
College, head a list of speakers who will
discuss all aspects of pre-medical
education at a seminar for junior and
senior high school students at Centenary
Nov. 9-10. .
Over 150 high school students from a
six state area have already accepted in-vitations
to attend, and registrations are
still being accepted by Dr. Charles
Lowrey at telephone number 869-5146.
There is a $5 per person charge for
meals and materials for the two-day
seminar.
Dr. Watkins, associated with the
medical corporation of Drs. Pou, Quinn
and Watkins and a 1957 graduate of Cen-tenary,
will speak at a dinner meeting at
the Centenary Dining Hall the opening
night on the topic, "Religion, Ethics and
Medicine." His talk will be followed by a
panel discussion on the same topic by
Grayson Watson, director of develop-ment
and church relations, Robert Ed
Taylor, chaplain, and Dr. Webb D.
Pomeroy, chairman of the department of
religion, all from Centenary.
Dr. Yeager, director of the Con-
'.federate Memorial Medical Center and a
1961 graduate of Centenary College, will
deliver the keynote address at a noon
luncheon on the second day.
During the second day morning's
session, five former Centenary pre-medical
students will discuss topics of
interest to high school students
preparing for careers in medicine.
John Salisbury, a 1972 graduate of
Tulane School of Medicine, will discuss,
"Choosing a Pre-Medical College;"
Steve Heard, a junior at Tulane School
of Medicine, will talk on "The Pre-
Medical Curriculum with a Biology
Major;" Peter Kastl, also a junior at
Tulane School of Medicine, will speak on
"The Pre-Medical Curriculum with a
Chemistry Major;" Charles Leach, a
Centenary senior and president of the
Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-medical frater-nity,
will comment on "The Process of
Choosing a Medical School;" and John
Carrington, a senior at the Louisiana
State University School of Medicine in
Shreveport, will discuss "The Medical
School Curriculum."
Following lunch the final day, the
participants will listen to discussions
featuring science professors, medical
students and undergraduate pre-medical
students at Centenary.
Dr. Rosemary Seidler, pre-medical
adviser, Dr. Robert Deufel, chairman of,
Dr. Rod M. Yeager
Dr. W. Juan Watkins
the biology department, and Dr. Charles
Lowrey, registrar, all of Centenary, will
participate.
On the opening day at 9 p.m. there
will be an informal meeting of area doc-tors
and dentists who are Centenary
alumni, with the visiting students and
participants in the program.
The seminar is part of an on-going
Centenary program designed to give
high school juniors and seniors infor-mation
they will find helpful in the pur-suit
of careers in the field of medicine.