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

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THE WOMEN OF B.C.D.S. 12 f

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THE SENIORS CLASS OFFICERS President John E. Parent Vice-President Mitchell J. Burgin Secretary George E. O ' Roark Treasurer Charles R. Milne Historian Pedro H. Hernandez Sergcant-at-Arms Norton J. Bloch SENIOR CLASS HISTORY As we raise sails before the wind, exhausted, somber, but serene, our Odyssey slowly nears its end. The swallows meeting our ship announce that soon our eyes will rest upon the longed-for shores of Ithaca, Calypso, Circe, Lotophagi, Polyphemus ... a fearful tetralogy which only a stout determination to survive, a patient wait, a glorious hope, could vanquish. But looking back on four years ' work, the hardships met are but sweet memories which live forever in our souls. They bring us joy and gladness, assurance, faith; a feeling of composure earnestly won. Though we know too well our shortcomings, and how wide and fathomless the ocean of experience is, we wish to answer our conscience when it calls thus: Now seek the strength to use which thou hast spent in getting. We feel that our efforts have not been in vain, for our goal is noble. And on the eve of achievement, when we stop for a moment and look back, in retrospect, on the un- ending hours of redundant work, the anxiety spent in expectation of a passing grade, the iuy