Chicago College of Dental Surgery - Dentos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE DENTOS The Foundation for Dental Research The Foundation For Dental Research of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery was established in the summer of l935, on a budget drawn against the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars or more a year. This amount was donated by a prominent Chicago philanthropist who wishes to remain anonymous. The Foundation is administered by a committee of eight, all of whom are members of our faculty. Dr. W. H. G. Logan is chairman of this committee, Dr. Coolidge vice-chair- man, and Dr. McNulty secretary. Other members are Dr. Puterbaugh, Dr. Kronfeld, Dr. Kanner, and Dr. Zoethout. The advisory committee is composed of the following men: Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, a scientist of world-wide reputation, editor of the Archives of Pathology and the Journal of Infectious Diseases , and director of the John McCormick Institute For Infectious Diseasesg and Dr. R. A. Kuever, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Iowa. The Foundation has been most fortunate in being able to secure the services of Dr: Ruth Tunnicliff, one of the country's most illustrious bacteriologists. Miss Carolyn Hammond is bacteriologic technician for the Foundation. The technical part of tissue preparation is in the hands of Miss Maurine Willman. I Page20 CHICAGO COLLEGE

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THE DENTOS To the Class of 1938 by WARREN WILLNIAN It is impossible for me to escape a feeling of being singularly honored in being asked to write a message to your class for this Dentos that is so uniquely yours. For you, this is an occasion of a life-time: for me. it might be just one more graduation in an annual series that is already growing longer than I like to think about. It might be, but it is IIOI. Your class stands out very distinctly in my mind and will, in all probability, continue to hold that position for many years. You have always distinguished yourselves by many curious superlatives. From my first co11tact with you in the sophomore laboratory. you were certainly the noisiest. wildest bu11ch of hellions I ever met. But sometimes. you know, there is a definite advantage in getting off to a bad start- It leaves such a splendid scope for improvement! And to a man. you have taken magnif- icent advantage ot' that opportunity. Some of you have become real champions. and none of you have failed to better yourselves beyond your faculty's fondest hopes. It would be too much. certainly. to say that the upper class years tamed you exactly. or even quieted you conspicuously: no. by a simple rating in decimals the Class of 1038 will undoubtedly go down in history as The Big Noise. But within that thunderclap there has surely developed a recognizable growth. even if it is still somewhat embryonic. of a mature sense of responsibility. of self-reliance, loyalty, and genuine ambition. The happy hoodlums of under class years are slowly turning into real men. and after that ineffable day of graduation, you may be astonished yourselves at how grim a turn the process will take. ' Separated from each other and your faculty. you will face far more serious problems than those of getting a denture approved or of making a thousand points. And your problems will have to be met and solved by you alone. VVhile you were here in school. every one of you has smarted often from the sting of injustice. Injustices perpetrated by your class- mates. your patients. and even by those of us whose intention it was to help you. When you go out into the world you may expect to encounter rather more injustice. not less. Not that the world is malicious. but just that life is complicated and cannot help working out that way. One philosophical wag has put it this way: When Adam was first created, all tl1e world and all liberty was his. But when Eve appeared. his rights and privileges were cut precisely in half. Now reflect that there are two billion people in this world today, and that explains everything. A recent president of Loyola University once cited a statement that everything that was said nowadays was either bunk or debunk. It certainly does not require the services of a statistician to determine which ol' these elements is usually in preponderance when messages a11d speeches are delivered to graduating classes. Not that a wholesome amount of so-called bunk may not be desirable. Psychologists tell us that. paradoxical as it may seem. men actually lift themselves by their boot-straps when they talk of their noble aims. their lofty ideals. their self-sacrificing purposes. By ultimate analysis these assay as twenty-four carat bunk. but oddly enough, men suggest themselves i11to being better men by pondering these things. Page 22 CHICAGO COLLEGE