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

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aginations and were able to concoct something approaching what we were supposed to see. In bio-chem we added that teeny bit of acid, as in- structed by the good Doctor Vanden Bosche, and results were amazing. Physiology was a madhouse— of cats, frogs, terrapins, and kimograph drums, which would always record when the experiment did not require. The Boley gauge was master in our Dental Morphology, and its readings meant the difference between an acceptable carving and one that brought Ernest b. Nuttall, d.d.s. Honorary Chss PrcsiJi ' nf the statement, All right, get another block and start again. After each lab in bacteriology we awaited the symptoms: nausea, vomiting, coma and death — which fortunately or unfortunately failed to develop. Pharmacology was a course in dental ethics and professional mien. Until we delved into pathology, we did not realize that the human body could be plagued with so many maledictions. Operative and Dr. Randolph made point angles, lines of force, cavo-surface bevels, and the thirty-three steps all there was to dentistry. The clinic at last! We thought that setting foot on the floor would be a panacea for all our ills. More disillusionment! Reprimands followed in incessant succession; we did nothing right and everything wrong. Seven hundred points seemed monumental; even prophys were difficult to complete. Patients seemed to take the brunt of it all, having to return six or seven times before the cavity preparation was checked. This spasm of uncertainty passed and we eventually pre- pared the teeth with endoform accuracy. Prosthetics proved to be a nightmare of mistakes and redundant work. Plaster hardened too quickly, bite blocks warped, and centric was only some- thing we read about. Crown and bridge was a matter for the patient fellow; after all the Doctors Dosh and Nuttall had only four hands. There was always a piece of calculus in some hidden gin- gival pocket distal to the third molar that Dr. Biddix would deftly dislodge to the students ' em- barrassment. Assignments in the different departments permitted us welcome mental relaxation from the dreary thought that points meant everything. The Senior year brought a change in the school policy. No more points — at least that ' s what they told us! The strain was just as great; for progress reports had to be compiled and signed each hour, and the thought of having to be busy each minute made many wish that the point system, with its small bit of freedom, would return. As Seniors we had reached the peak of knowledge. The feeling of knowing what it was all about replaced the uncertainty we had shown as Juniors. We were approaching the end with a spirit of exultation, mingled with an almost inconceivable thought of what we would do should graduation find us with too few root canals, too few gold foils, and an over-abundance of amalgam. Disappointments and patients who refused to return to get that Class III foil checked, all made our lives a Uttle more full of anxiety, and put quite a strain on those who in their own minds (no point system, you know) thought that the require- ments of last year ' s senior class were not equalled by the restorations that they had completed this year. Writing of these things seems all too inadequate and expressionless. Reading of these things might give an impression that life at the B.C.D.S. was one horrendous nightmare following an- other. Perhaps it was, and yet in retrospect we feel certain that it wasn ' t. At least, it had become a new way of hfe, and the thought that we shall never see all the familiar faces together again leaves us with a bitter-sweet feeling. R. PosNER, Historian -I 11 y

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ne e emopd Four years completed. Four years in which everyone of us has run the gamut of human emotions. We have passed through periods of occasional joy and have plummeted to the depths of despair. Our human resistance has been tried and stretched to the breaking point; a few fal- tered, but the majority of us are here to taste the fruits of our labor. And labor it was, because there were many independent forces cooperating to make our existence miserable. Many times we felt ourselves slipping, and the struggle appeared so hope- lessly futile that the thought of giving in became easy under the mental and physical strain to which we were subjected. Our mettle was tested, tried, and strained in every manner, form, and fashion imaginable, but was not found wanting. From Dr. McCarthy ' s welcoming speech, to the presentation of our diplomas, we have been in a maelstrom of dental life interrupted here and there by a brief interlude that one could call a vacation. We were the Army and Navy class. Under the circumstances of our service many of us who otherwise would not be here, were given the opportunity to study dentistry. The ad- vantages that were given us had never been dreamed of before, even by the most extreme Utopian mind. We had our tuition paid and were allotted our living expenses. All that was left for us to do was to put in the hours and do our best. On that first morning in the hallway of the anatomy building our hearts missed several beats, and when the door to the dissection room was opened, and we saw those metal tables be- decked with their gruesome burdens, we felt like turning tail and heading for Greene Street. The novelty soon wore off, however, and all of us became wise birds who made playmates of our cadavers, along with becoming very familiar with their innards and outards. In histology we were told that we were not expected to be artists, but only to draw what we saw in the micro- scope. If we had followed this advice our books would still be blank, but we used our vivid im- mm- ' ' »: j i H:j,:,„. r ■- » ' j B ;vK ' ■H w ' a. ..laafe.. R «i« - imm k Wm,M ■;. ,%,.. Im MM i%ik M 1 MXSMU ' f m Spw, m « i ■ ' r fi HI m ■ ■ ■ 1 m ■ ' :- mI 1 p ;: B ; .-„„.. . . » :i ' ■ I ; ■ OFFICERS Picshioif . Edmond Vanden Bosche Vice President Seymour Ash Secretary Robert Mohn Treasurer Alvin Kronthal Sergeaijf-at-Ariiis Charles Cox Historian Robert Posner -I 10 h

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JL Tint Row: J. Baldacchino, E. Lee, L. Rapoport, S. Gottlieb, C. Cox, M. Soltys, R. Alvarez, J. Hughes, S. Ehrenhalt, J. Langley, S. Kotula, W. Hartsock, S. Johnston. Seccu Row: L. Nathans, W. Seifcrt, J. Traylor, C. Isaacson, J. Fritz, W. Roth, F. AscioUa, R, Lamb, J. Hohing, D. Cray, M. Scamp, E. Eckerd, J. Binderman, J. Gill. ThinI Row: C. Olive, R. Mohn, R. Posner, F. Ehrlich, B. deHosson, A. Schaeffer, W. Coleman, R. Nielsen, R. Hepler, T. Sikes, M. DryHenich, R. Eschenburg, C. Hopkins. First Row: W. Couk, G. Cljik, li. Kayc, W. Smitli, R. Giier, M. Fagan, F. McCall, E. Stcinhuf, t. Vandcn Bosche, S. Londeree, A. Kronthal, A. Schwartz. Second Row: W. Talbott, L. Greene, H. Yerger, P. Lambert, R. Dorobiala, E. Gramse, W. D ' Abbraccio, P. Bingham, N. Bookstaver, J. Ballouz. Third Row: J. Belott, R. Flinchbaugh, G. Attanasio, G. Heroux, N. Han nan, C. Beck, J. Bell, J. Vila-Santana, S. Ash, R. Chouinard. Absent: T. Clark, A. Lombardi.