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MEDIA ADVISORY :
August 4, 1997
Contact: Donnë Florence, PIO, 956-7522

Gwen Naguwa, JABSOM, 956-8300

Juliana Woo, JABSOM, 956-5087


White Coat Ceremony Welcomes New University of Hawai'i
Medical Students



When: Friday, August 8, 6 p.m.
Where: UH Manoa Orvis Auditorium
Who: John A. Burns School of Medicine Class of 1976 and Class of 2001, plus families,
friends and faculty. The ceremony and reception afterward are sponsored
by the Dean, Faculty and Alumni Association of JABSOM.
What: Physicians who graduated in 1976 welcome incoming JABSOM students to the
medical community by presenting them with their first white coats, also
called "cloaks of compassion." Physicians in attendance may join
in as the newest doctors-to-be take the Hippocratic oath for the first time
in this memorable ceremony.

 Tips: Traditional: The sponsoring physicians at the ceremony will be celebrating
the 25th anniversary of their own graduation just as this Class of 2001
graduates from the John A. Burns School of Medicine. The alumni may remain
involved in the educational progress of those they sponsor, and joint festivities,
including the 2001 Graduation Lu'au, are planned. By sponsoring the White
Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2001, the Class of 1976-which was the second
to graduate from JABSOM-continues a tradition begun last year by the medical
school's first graduating class.

Silver: The White Coat Ceremony highlights the approaching 25th anniversary
of the Class of 1976, and elicits memories of the medical school's 25th
anniversary, as well. Each of the white coats a sponsor presents has an
embroidered emblem with the logo of the John A. Burns School of Medicine;
the logo-which evokes both the traditional caduceus of the medical profession
and the UH lamp of knowledge-was designed by former UH Regent Momi Cazimero
to celebrate the school's silver anniversary last year.



Forward-Looking: One fortunate student at the August 8 ceremony will become
this year's recipient of a medical-education scholarship funded by the estate
of Wanda Jane Pavela Kaspari. Soon after Kaspari and her husband retired
to Hawai'i in 1972, a Honolulu Advertiser article about the need for cadavers
in medical education prompted her to will her body to the still-new John
A. Burns School of Medicine. After her husband's death in 1990, Kaspari
finalized a plan that, after specific bequests (including props and costumes
for the UH Department of Theatre and Dance and Kennedy Theatre), left her
residual estate to support the training and education of medical doctors
in Hawai'i. Though Kaspari was never an exceptionally wealthy woman, her
careful early planning enabled her to leave an estate that will support
one medical student in each graduating class (1997-98 resident tuition and
fees: $10,691 per year). By 1999, when the Class of 2003 recipient is named,
Kaspari's estate will be assisting as many as four medical students each
year.

-UH-


University of Hawai'i University Relations Media & Publications Honolulu, HI 96822	(808) 956-8856 Telephone (808) 956-3441 Facsimile ur@hawaii.edu E-Mail
MEDIA ADVISORY :	August 4, 1997
Contact: Donnë Florence, PIO, 956-7522 Gwen Naguwa, JABSOM, 956-8300 Juliana Woo, JABSOM, 956-5087

When:	Friday, August 8, 6 p.m.
Where:	UH Manoa Orvis Auditorium
Who:	John A. Burns School of Medicine Class of 1976 and Class of 2001, plus families, friends and faculty. The ceremony and reception afterward are sponsored by the Dean, Faculty and Alumni Association of JABSOM.
What:	Physicians who graduated in 1976 welcome incoming JABSOM students to the medical community by presenting them with their first white coats, also called "cloaks of compassion." Physicians in attendance may join in as the newest doctors-to-be take the Hippocratic oath for the first time in this memorable ceremony.
Tips:	Traditional: The sponsoring physicians at the ceremony will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their own graduation just as this Class of 2001 graduates from the John A. Burns School of Medicine. The alumni may remain involved in the educational progress of those they sponsor, and joint festivities, including the 2001 Graduation Lu'au, are planned. By sponsoring the White Coat Ceremony for the Class of 2001, the Class of 1976-which was the second to graduate from JABSOM-continues a tradition begun last year by the medical school's first graduating class. Silver: The White Coat Ceremony highlights the approaching 25th anniversary of the Class of 1976, and elicits memories of the medical school's 25th anniversary, as well. Each of the white coats a sponsor presents has an embroidered emblem with the logo of the John A. Burns School of Medicine; the logo-which evokes both the traditional caduceus of the medical profession and the UH lamp of knowledge-was designed by former UH Regent Momi Cazimero to celebrate the school's silver anniversary last year. Forward-Looking: One fortunate student at the August 8 ceremony will become this year's recipient of a medical-education scholarship funded by the estate of Wanda Jane Pavela Kaspari. Soon after Kaspari and her husband retired to Hawai'i in 1972, a Honolulu Advertiser article about the need for cadavers in medical education prompted her to will her body to the still-new John A. Burns School of Medicine. After her husband's death in 1990, Kaspari finalized a plan that, after specific bequests (including props and costumes for the UH Department of Theatre and Dance and Kennedy Theatre), left her residual estate to support the training and education of medical doctors in Hawai'i. Though Kaspari was never an exceptionally wealthy woman, her careful early planning enabled her to leave an estate that will support one medical student in each graduating class (1997-98 resident tuition and fees: $10,691 per year). By 1999, when the Class of 2003 recipient is named, Kaspari's estate will be assisting as many as four medical students each year.