Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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The College of Life Sciences and Technology takes its role seriously in preparing students for vocational careers while also providing them with firm academic footholds. Specifically the college strives to stimulate intellectual curi- osity, develop opportunities for individual and group research, prepare the student for immediate employment or advanced study vvhile also instilling in him an interest in aca- demic and community functions. Dr. Margaret Jolley, professor of economics, serves as the dean of the College ot Life Sciences and is the only woman academic dean on campus. Departments in her college include Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Home Economics and Nursing. Along with bachelors' degrees in biology, agriculture, engineering technology and home economics, the university awards associate of science degrees in engineering technol- ogy, food service management, nursing and sugar cane technology. Pre-professional curricula in agricultural engineering, den- tistry, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy and veterinary medicine are also offered by the college. These prepare students for transfer to a professional school without loss of credit. In fact Nicholls had 15 graduates of the biology depart- ment enrolled in state medical schools during the past year. The four schools included Louisiana State University School of Dentistry, LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport and the University of Mississippi. Students enrolled in the College of Life Sciences and Technology have a variety of academic-related activities to participate ini These range from the Ag student who cooks hamburg- ers at Western Week to the food services majors vvho pre- Ctllltglf 0l lilt SCICIICC Dr, Margaret Jolley, dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology, served as head of the Home Economics Depart- ment before her appointment as dean, illlll Tttlllltlltlglgl Jolley appointed deang sugar cane technology degree approved Max Hardberger stands by as students question a speaker from the LSU Medical School, in a lecture sponsored by the Pre-Professional Medical Associ- anon W' 43 35 ti II Cuenca 1 f oll ge of Life Sciences Z' .

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Ny. -..S Z Pulitzer prize winning writer Paul Green of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, wrote The Louisiana Cavalier about Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, the French explorer who founded Natchitoches in 1714. Students performing were Tody Ber- nard, Randy Cheramie, Julie Hebert and JoEllen Cheramie, who doubled as the company nurse. Besides learning to step on stage and become someone else, speech students also learn to step forward and defend or attack a point in organized debate. The Nicholls Debate Team offered the opportunity, competing in three debates at Southeastern La. University, the Uni- versity of Southwestern La. and Pearl River Junior College in Pearl River, Miss. Social Sciences Department The national investigation in Washing- ton of the CIA came close to home, when two investigators from the Senate sub- committee of Sen. Frank Church came to interview Hunter Leake, assistant profes- sor of government and a former employe of the agency. Such out of state attention to the Social Sciences Department wasn't unusual, as department head Dr. William Adams attended a Library of Congress Sympo- sium in Washington on the impact of the American Revolution. Adams wrote reviews of the books The Rise of Sports in New Orleans and Paul Leslie, besides working on a biog- raphy of Earl K. Long, served as director of the South Central Planning and Devel- opment Commission's historical and cul- tural inventory for a six-parish area. Mack Nolen did research in Scotland for his doctorate and was appointed assistant to the dean. Alexander Simpson served as advisor to Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Sigma Kappa. Thomas Becnel, selected to head the Bicentennial Lafourche Heritage Project, received the Peter Fell Award for out- standing American history teacher in the southern district of Louisiana. Jim Barnidge, working with the Foreign Study League, helped to send 45 stu- dents on a tour of Paris, London, Rome, Florence, Venice and Madrid. The Nicholls Players: Seated: Julie Hebert, Nov- ella Smith, Joan Chadwick, Dr. Mel Berry, Beth LaBarbara and Rita Dantin. Kneeling: Richard Bar- rios, Alan Fomorin, Tommy Dantin and Loyal Duet. Standing: Bunster Avera, Doug Stire, Billy Foster, Tody Bernard and Randy Chermaie. MEF! The Nicholls Debate Team: Ned Beary, coach, Roger Burrel, Mary Anne Cannon, Kirk Granier and Aaron O'Neil, coach. Western River Transportation. John Rochelle, while on leave working toward his doctorate, published an article in the East Texas State Historial Journal on Port Arthur. James Kerrigan attended the annual meeting of the Louisiana Political Science Association in Lafayette in the spring. Each semester the department spon- sors a social in the Century Club room for students majoring or minoring in history, government or sociology. College of Liberal Arts 241

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pare meals weekly to be served to eager participants in the Home economics lab. Department of Agriculture Although the Department of Agriculture does not have the largest group of faculty members in the college, it does have active participation, both from its faculty and its students. Carroll Falcon, a Nicholls graduate himself, heads up the department, along with other members l-lerman Heck, Robert Falgout and Carlo J, Marcello. Students in agriculture become equipped with broad train- ing in business principles applicable to modern agriculture and rarely have trouble finding employment upon gradua- tion, according to faculty reports. These students are also prepared for positions in farm management as well as in business or industries related to agriculture such as insurance, banking, finance, farm -.. , UIQ a-47' L-2.4, xigzg, ' 'J'Q.f-'-, ,l S. mai ff-lQ'.'u, machinery, supplies, markets, feeds, processing and others, ln addition to assisting the Ag Club with Western Week activities, the faculty also co-sponsors the Home Gardening Forum with the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, a program which concentrates on various aspects of garden- ing and judging of floral arrangements by local clubs. Dr. Ftobert Falgout, professor ot plant science, journeyed to Central America last tall as a consultant to El Salvador. l-le also serves as a consultant to the sugar cane industry in Louisiana and other sugar producing states in the South and Southwest. Sugar cane technology was destined to take on new importance at Nicholls in the coming years because of a new sugar cane technology program approved for the fall of 1977. At that time Nicholls will begin the only course of its kind offered in the United States. M-Qi' ' 'Jfrv J i .,, , --?t'f2z 23 WWW' , 33:'?ts: J' A ,Q iff we V' ,L 1 Z . -, - 1 , Out of the classroom and back offshore, oil field workers have the opportunity to earn a degree in petroleum technology when they are not on an oil rig. A good bath always helps out, as Casmin Davis washes down one of the animals kept at the Nic- holls Experimental Farm. The farm is used as a work and study area for students. College of Life Sciences 243