Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

Page 29 text:

CI asses

Page 28 text:

I will plant companionship thick as trees.

Page 30 text:

Cfhe Dental Columbian for • nineteen • thirtu • three V J. Irving Graham David N. Levine Vice-President President Mario Franzone Richard S. Silver Student Council Representative Student Council Representative Max Levy Secretary-Treasurer Samuel X. Kaplan Student Council Representative History of the Senior Class The class of 1933 pauses a brief moment in its arduous climb toward graduation to indulge in a little pardonable retrospection. As it fondly dwells on the events of the past years and again enjoys their memories, the idea slowly crystallizes that 1933 has a history of its own. Nearly four years have elapsed since that momentous morning when, with pale faces and fluttering pulses, the members of the class huddled around the rostrum in the anatomy laboratory to receive their baptism of professional study. Only a brief introduction, a happy lack of ceremony, and their work was begun. Histology that afternoon was of special moment since it signified the group ' s first excursion to the medical school where they spent the greater part of their next two years. Of interest, too, is the fact tiiat it was from this laboratory that they obtained their first glimpse of the early construction work on that monumental span across the Hudson, whose slow growth to completion was to strangely parallel their own in dentistry. The close of the fitst year was of unusual significance since it marked the beginning of the splitting off from the class of that intrepid group of twelve students who elected to take the three-year course of continuous work and were graduated in September, 1932. These men have already taken their places in the professional world and are doing their share to add to the growing prestige of the class of 1933. As sophomores, the class continued its incursions into medical knowledge with courses in pathology, pharmacology, and bacteriology. During this crowded year, the students also began their work in operative and prosthetic technique and were intro- duced to active clinical work in prophylaxis. The third and fourth years were spent in the clinics, where the technical talents of the group manifested rhemselves to best advantage. Their work was uniformly good and bespoke a sound training in the fundamentals of dentistry and a confidence in applying it. Pjge Twenty-six