The installation ofthis chair will take place atCentenary's Founders' Day Con-vocation, April 18, 1985.The basic and crucial supportto a school is to enhance itsteaching.Įndowing a pro-fessorial chair is the best form ofsuch support, and the endowmentof a chair ensures the provision ofdistinguished teaching inperpetuity.f - COMGLOMERATE - August 30, 1984Editorial:Here We Go Again!Sigma Tau Deltaby Lisa MingSusan LaGroneHello, Welcome to Centenary.You've heard it at least a thou-sand times, right? Well, wemean it. Hurley, a longtimefriend and benefactress ofCentenary. A search commit-tee is in the process of selecting aprofessor to fill the chair.The Ed and Gladys Hurley En-dowed Chair of Music will befunded each year through theestate of Mrs. LeeMorgan was installed as pro-fessor of that chair.The Samuel Guy Sample Chairof Business, established b hisfamily in the fall of 1984, honorsone of North Louisiana's mostprominent and colorfulbusinessmen. Chair ofEnglish was established in 1980by the Browns, whose history ofinvolvement with Centenary Col-lege is legendary. Wor-tham, a Houston businessman.The Willie Cavett and PaulMarvin Brown Jr.
WarrenWhite, was set up by the BrownFoundation of Houston as amemorial to the late Mr. Nolan Shaw was nam-ed the Woolf Professor of Geologysome five years ago.The Gus Wortham Chair ofEngineering, held by Dr. WoolfFoundation to honor the late Mr.Woolf. Woolf Chair ofGeology was founded by thetrustees of the William C. James & Co., Inc., continuing along tradition of support forCentenary.The William C. Jeffrey Trahan was installedin that chair in the fall of 1983,succeeding Dr. A chair may be namedafter the donor or someone thedonor wishes to honor.The seven other endowedchairs at Centenary College are:The Keen Chair of Physics,named in honor of FlorenceGillard and Cornelius D. Provide his salary,fund research projects, or pro-vide special resources andmaterials. Mary Warters, pro-fessor of biology and chairman ofthe pre-med program for 44years.The money will be invested andthe income used to support a pro-fessor, i.e. McPherson also served as aconsultant on a book entitled TheBayous, published by Time-Life,Inc.He is married to the formerPatricia Kay Carpenter, and theyhave three children.students admitted to medicalschool has been extraordinary -over 80 percent - twice the na-tional average.What Is AnEndowed Chair?The Mary Warters EndowedChair of Biology is Centenar圜ollege's eighth endowed pro-fessorial chair.What does that mean?It means that through thegenerosity of over 150 donors, agift of $500,000 has been made toCentenary College in honor of oneof the College's most outstandingteachers, Dr. Bradley McPherson.The author of several papers,Dr. Under his leadership,the percentage of pre-medicalStudents suggered quietly thorugh the long lines atregistrationDr. In addition, heserves as advisor to Alpha Ep-silon Delta, the pre-med honorfraternity. Heteaches a wide variety of coursesranging from principles ofbiology to genetics and com-parative anatomy. McPherson joined theCentenary faculty in 1971. McPherson has alsobeen awarded a summer studygrant from Baylor UniversityMedical School and a Public Ser-vice Training Grant through LSUMedical School, both for hisresearch in Costa Rica.Dr. 'We needto know what insects or animalscarry the disease, and in whatconditions, so that we may beable to prevent it,' Dr.
McPhersontravels regularly to Costa Ricawhere he studies leishmaniasis, adisfiguring disease which strikesman and beast.Ī treatment hasbeen developed, but treating adisease is not the end. It was at this time that hebegan doing research in CostaRica using the findings for hisdoctorate thesis in zoology atSouthern Illinois University.A two-time winner of the Alum-ni Association's FacultyResearch Grant, Dr. McPherson, a collegebasketball player, earned hisbachelor's degree fromSoutheastern Louisiana Collegeand his master's degree fromLSU. President'sConvocation which officiallyopens the 1984-85 academic year,the College's 160th.Dr. Brown Chapel will be thesetting for the 11 a.m. Bradley McPher-son, who will be installed in theMary Warters Chair of Biology atCentenary College Thursday,Sept. McPherson toReceive Honor'Anthing biological' is of in-terest to Dr. 1COLLEGE OF LOUISIANAShreveport, LouisianaAugust 30,1984Dr.
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