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

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. .- 'f-4.':ls.., Ex ft. , 0 . :-n ' I K .f 3'- 5 '.'fxi'x ' ' -'. . - . - SJ-P .YI 'ii 31 5 '19 SY- ' ' 193:-.:rL,,-ftw w. 5. . 4. Qs. QAWI. As I look back on the last four years I have to laugh. It was hell to go through, but we certainly had some good times. I would definitely do it again, for dentistry means that much to me. For those who helped me I say thank you. However, I will never understand the chronic unpro- fessionalism among a large piece of the teaching staff. There is no rational reason for a dental student, one of the chosen few, to be belittled to the extent that he is, and the day after graduation to be an equal among his peers. There is no reason for the female staff to push stu- dents around the way they do. And most of all, there is no reason for the lack of communication between the students and the high administration. I believe that the end results of all the jagging is a disregard for continuing education on the part of the new graduate. His dental school fear of failure can prohibit further learning. This must not be allowed to happen. If all the forces realized that to upgrade the profession they must start in the schools, dentistry would truly be the leading medical field. As to my future plans, they are simple. I am going into the practice of general dentistry with my father in Chi- cago. Being recently married, there .are no plans yet for children. I would like to do some traveling first. Perhaps in four or five years, if I can afford it, I will come back to teach, the sole purpose being to restore dignity to the dental student and make him feel professional. Stuart J. Appel! . - 1 V .,-5.4-S 11635454 .j ,, ,v- . 1,,,-.-1.-- X M ,, i'1iv..K

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Sitting down to write this brief biography brings back some thoughts from the first year of dental school. When we were told that year that this would be the fastest four years of our lives I just couldn't believe it. But now as a senior l realize how true this statement was. Learning the basic medical sciences the first two years did not leave much time for anything other than study. Much was learned, but unfortunately, too much was forgotten mainly because of lack of clinical correlation of these dis- ciplines. For example, in order to correlate pharmacol- ogy, we should have been exposed to much more anes- thesia experience which is very important to us as den- tists. The current dental clinical training is much too standardized and rigid. Through elective clinical areas more emphasis should be placed on learning and motiva- tion and less on doing procedures with little academic value. l plan after graduation to continue in the specialty of oral surgery. I will be taking my internship and residency at Cook County Hospital. The reason l picked the spe- cialty of oral surgery is because I feel this is the only specialty in which the highly sophisticated biological and scientific training that we have acquired in the last four years can be more practically applied, and the capabi- lities of my degree will be used more efficient and more often, as a doctor of dental surgery. Paul T. Akers s . , 1 i ,ef ' f ' -- - N fi. . l .E-5 M , . Q Ar- - ff 1 i i y . I 1 . Z A X I 45,-.- t lj 7- b .,.,: ' -'G-'pa V v A ' k

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WHY SOME MEN DROP DENTISTRY AND TAKE TO RUNNING ELEVATORS AFTER THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR Q1913j Watt Certificate ....... ...................... ...... S 5 .00 Books ...................... ................ . .. 40.00 Registration Fee ........ 5.00 Breakage Fee ................... ...... 5 .00 General Ticket ..................... ...... 1 50.00 Prosthetic Technic outfit ,...,... 25.68 Operative Technique Outfit ....... ...... 3 2.14 Board and Room ..................... ...... 2 00.00 Miscellaneous ....,...........,..... ...... 2 50.00 1 Dentos .......,.... ..... 1 .50 714.32 Chuck Arakaki