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

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Senieti (}!$$$ i CLASS OFFICERS President Joseph H. Sheppe Vice-President Walter P. Strang Secretary Kenneth K. Kline Treasurer John J. Mayer Historian David Troup Sergeaiit-at-Amts Paul M. Mitchell Standing: P. M. Mitchell, J. J. Mayer, D. Troup. Seated: K. K. Kline, J. H. Sheppe, W. P. Strang. ( laJd rristori y Every graduating class considers itself unique. We are different. We are unique. In 1945, the Second Great War ended. In 1946, we entered the Baltimore Col- lege of Dental Surgery as Freshmen. Freshmen, perhaps, in the sense that we were starting another new venture. Freshmen, perhaps, in the sense that a new and strange pe- riod of life faced us; but certainly not typical prewar Freshmen proceeding a step fur- ther in a leisurely education. The majority of us were veterans: ex -privates and ex-majors; ex-pilots and ex- clerks; ex-sailors, soldiers, and marines. Some of us had sweated out the war under combat conditions; some of us had fought with typewriters. But all of us — except for lounge-bred, coffee-stimulated reminiscences (in which each man won the war single- handed) — were forced to forget our war experiences in the press of dental school activities. The rest of us were youngsters — real youngsters — who had carried tremendous, continuous study loads without surcease during the tense, accelerated war years. We, too, forgot age differences and service differences in the constant struggle to maintain the pace. A 12 r