NCCJ Will Honor Cooper Road Clinic

              Carrying out work which won them
the Distinguished Merit Citation from
the National Conference of Christians
and Jews, Inc., are Dr. Allen J. Her-bert
and- Dr. Ralph W. Baucum,
codirectors of the Cooper Road
Medical Clinic. The citation will be
presented to the clinic Feb. 21. (Photo
by Billy Upshaw) ca 1972
NCCJ Will Honor
Cooper Road Clinic
The Cooper Road Medical
Clinic will be honored with the
Distinguished Merit Citation
given by the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews, Inc., at the eighth
annual Citation Dinner
Thursday, Feb. 21 in the Civic
Center.
The clinic and its staff of
volunteer physicians are
being honored "for innovative
service to . the citizens of
Caddo Parish."
Robert G. Pugh, chairman
of Brotherhood Week, and the
NCCJ executive committee,
made the announcement.
The clinic was started
March 15, 1971, under the
direction of Dr. Allen J.
Herbert, who at the (inie was
a pediatwes resident at
Confederate Memorial
Medical Center, and is now in
family practice with the
Green Clinic in Dubach.
In the spring of 1972. Dr.
Ralph W. Baucum Jr., a
member of the staff of
Confederate and associate
professor of pediatrics at the
LSU School of Medicine in
Shreveport, was named
codirector of the clinic.
The clinic was stalled to
serve an area north of
Shreveport with a population
of 17,000.
Seventy • three per cent of
the people in the area have an
income beSjw poverty scale.
Many residents found when
transportation was available
it was too costly and would
put off seeing about small
ailments until they became
serious.
The clinic was established
to provide high quality
medical care on a continuing
basis to low income patients
using volunteer physicians,
nurses and other paramedical
personnel.
Herbert said about the
work, "Sometimes give your
services for nothing, calling to
mind a previous benefactor or
present satisfaction. And if
there be an opportunity of
serving one who is a strang-er
in financial straits, give full
assistance to such. For where
there is love of man, there is
also love of the art."
Baucum said that although
it would be impossible to
acknowledge all those people
who give of their time to the
clinic, he wanted to mention
other LSU faculty members
that frequently volunteered
their services.
These include, he said, Dr.
Joseph A. Little, head of
the Department of Pediatrics;
Dr. Sue R. Chambers, Dr.
John Dixon, Dr. Randy
Eichner, Dr. Ronald George
and Dr. Joseph Paine.
Physicians in private
practice who volunteered
were Dr. A. A. Bullock Jr.,
Dr. Joseph Sarpy, Dr. Melvin
Johnson and Dr. Joseph
R i a n c a, while dentists
parlicipting were Dr. C. M.
Lester, and Dr. .Max
Thornton.
Herbert, a native of Rust on."
is a graduate of LSU Medical
School in New Orleans and
Harvard Medical School,
Boston, Mass.
He did postgraduate work in
pediatrics at Confederate. He
is clinical assistant professor
of preventive medicine and
public health and a clinical
assistant professor of
pediatrics with the LSU
School of Medicine in
Shreveport.
Baucum, a native of
Shreveport, WHS educated at,
LSI! School of Medicine in
New Orleans, and did
p o s t g r a d u a t e w or k i n
pediatrics and cardiology at
Charity Hospital, New
Orleans. He has been on the
staff at Confederate since
1%7.