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

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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

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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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Wall Memorial and Showcase y ' I JJR. M. Whilldin Foster was born in Philadelphia on May 17, 1837. After preliminary education he began the study of dentistry in 18 54 as a private pupil of Dr. Jesse Green. He later attended the Philadelphia Dental College for one session. Follow- ing this he practiced dentistry for two years in Indiana and Pennsylvania. In 1861 he moved to Baltimore and practiced five years in partnership, then established his own practice which he maintained for more than forty years. When the Maryland Dental College of Baltimore was created in 1873, Doctor Fos- ter was made professor of dental mechanism and metallurgy. In 1879 when this school was merged with the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, he was elected professor of pathology and therapeutics and was given the honorary degree of D.D.S. In 1894 at the death of Dr. R. B. Winder, Dr. Foster became dean of the B.C.D.S. He occupied this post until a short time before his death on June 3 0, 1914. The showcase contains a large number of extracted teeth which are of interest be- cause of various anomalies. These are made up of contributions from students and faculty alike for the past few years. Page Twenty