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

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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

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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 Scene of Many An Excavation 1 HE general operative dentistry clinic comprises the largest portion of the clini- cal wing of the School. The entire northern wall is devoted to window space which provides ideal lighting and affords a view of the University Hospital rising fifteen floors above. The clinic is equipped with sixty-live chairs, units, and case stands. Since there is a like number in the senior class, each student is assigned to a chair which is his own office for the year. Here the student conducts his operative practice under the direct supervision of the operative faculty. Immediateh ' adjoining are the pathology and pedo- dontia clinics. The other clinical departments are close at hand, affording all facilities for student instruction and patient care. It is here that as juniors with nervous anticipation we received our first patients and began our clinical practice. Here we confronted practical problems, made mistakes, learned to correct them, garnered invaluable advice from our experienced instructors, and enjoyed the satisfaction of work well done. As we go into our own olfices we shall remember fondly those two, long, memory-laden years spent in the operative clinic. Paf i- Nineteen