University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Our Professional Library i HE early libraries of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and the Dental Department of the University of Maryland consisted of but a few donated volumes. However, when Dr. J. Ben Robinson became Dean of the combined Dental Schools, in 1924, he Immediately united the libraries of both schools and arranged means for ex- pansion. Meanwhile, the Clarence J. Grieves Library Foundation was established on May 4, 1926, by the Maryland State Dental Association. The books from this founda- tion were housed with those of the Dental School Library, and the resulting collection was called the Clarence J. Grieves Library Foundation. During the past year, the re- sources of the original Foundation were placed entirely under the control of the Univer- sity of Maryland. Throughout its relatively short history, the library has expanded so rapidlv that it now ranks among the best of its kind. Its 7100 bound volumes and many unbound publications are housed in the stack-room adjoining the spacious reading-room. The library is managed by a staff of skilled librarians. The reading-room is an ideal locale for the enjoyment of recreative reading as well as for the pursuance of intensive study and research. Page Seventeen

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The Harris-Hayden Plaque from the Stairway W In REiMEMBRANCE of Chapin A. Harris and Horace H. Hayden, the above plaque was placed on the wall facing the door of the main entrance to the Dental School. To these two men the dental profession owes an everlasting debt of gratitude, since they realized the importance of dentistry as a definite branch of medical science and founded the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first organized dental school in the world. Both Horace Hayden and Chapin Harris practiced dentistry in Baltimore; and, at one time. Dr. Hayden delivered a scheduled series of lectures on dentistry to the student body of the University of Maryland Medical School. In 1840 Harris and Hayden, in conjunction with several other outstanding dentists of the time, obtained a charter from the State of Maryland and founded the first dental school. This plaque was executed by Ernest W. Keyser, who modeled in life-size relief, after two fam ily portraits, likenesses of the heads of these two men. Two tablets were cast in bronze and dedicated in the winter of 1901-1902, one being placed in the old B. C. D. S. and the other in the Dental Department of the University of Maryland. Pasc Six c,

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Where We are Interviewed by the Dean i It was in this room that we first made the acquaintance of Dr. Robinson, and many of us can readily recall the anxiety and nervousness which accompanied our first appearance here, and how soon it left us after the friendly and reassuring greeting of the Dean. It is in this office that many students have found help and encourage- ment, simply because our Dean is always ready to give help to the students who bring their problems to him. The Dean ' s office is comfortably furnished. Upon the walls are a number of portraits of early figures in Dentistry, portraits which are of great value and impor- tance to the School. These portraits include those of Doctor John Greenwood, by Charles W. Peale, Doctor Horace Hayden, Doctor Chapin Harris, Doctor Eleazer Parmly, and many others. One very interesting item, which aside from being valuable is unusual, is an oil painting of Doctor A. J. Volck, B.C.D.S., 18 52. This painting was done by Doctor Volck himself upon a porcelain plate. Doctor Volck was an eminent painter, sculptor, art critic, and dentist. The portrait was presented to the Clarence Grieves Library Foundation by the Association of Dental Surgeons of Baltimore, through Doctor George E. Hardy, Sr. Page Eighteen