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

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We learn all about the Eskimos and practice making miniature hairpins that encircle the teeth . . . Kunin, Blinn and Scheck try out their own appliances and end up with malocclusion . . . And in this corner we have a bite of 350 lbs. . . . Wilson cuts Oral Path to try and collect old accounts . . . Dr. Hoyt warns that you cannot solder into a hole and Katz goes to the lab and proves that he is right . . . We set up our first set of teeth and Young and Smith Co. tear them down. Hamberg does the first class III foil and it stays in for a whole week . . . Mason is elected president and McGannon starts to do his gold work during lunch hour . . . The grades in Round Wire Tech. are handed out and we find that there is only one letter in the alphabet — C . . . Eisenberg has a blessed event and promises cigars, factory throw- outs . . . Granetz dodges around corners to avoid Ziskin and so save his teeth . . . Crown and Bridge in the raw, where a mistake cannot be rectified upon the payment of 43 cents to Morris . . . Dr. Brichner gives a lecture on Migraine and its occurrence in very intelligent people and 51 students suddenly develop all the symptoms . . . The new Medical Health Building is being constructed and we find it easier to locate the instructors as they intensely watch the excavations . . . Special courses serve a good purpose, they break up the monotony and give us a well needed breathing spell . . . Amid the hustle and bustle of the school the mad race for operative points becomes greater and greater ... A pretty figure now doesn ' t always mean a girl . . . The class affair at the Hotel New Yorker and the boys are broker . . . Final exams amid the stifling heat of the beginning summer and another year is over . . . Back from vacation, bronzed, rested and ready for the last quarter . . . The thrill of occupying the chairs in the senior section of operative den- tistry . . . Once more the mad scramble for points in operative dentistry . . . Our first class III foil and the ego is knocked out of our sails . . . We try our pneumatic plugger for the first time and it runs away from us . . . Dr. Oman speaks, Yes, with a well misdirected blow you knocked out the foil . . . Practice of medicine which brings to our attention how much we used to know . . . Children ' s Dentistry and we become neurotic from seeing how well our applied psychology fails . . . Morris again asks for more mazuma and we stay home a few weekends . . . The requirements are posted and no one smiles any more . . . The clinic re- sembles 42nd St. on a Saturday afternoon . . . The new system in operative and you can see Mrs. Recast on Wednesday if you aren ' t scheduled for Diagnosis or Surgery, or perio, or what have you, and if your Dr. Do-It-Over is on the floor that day . . . The class forks over for a wedding present and Greehberg takes unto him a wife ... J. Fried- man tries to adjust the rubber dam for his root canal patient only to find that she is edentulous . . . McCrossen is given enough rope to hang him- self but instead he plugs a colossal class III . . . Dr. Smith speaks, Are you proud of this crown Granetz? No! Well start it over! . . . Schoene- man spends three hours trying to green stick his vulcanite trays only to find that he is working on Lefkowitz ' s by mistake . . . Scheier ' s class III be- comes loose so he devises the technique of cement- ing it back as an inlay and no one is the wiser, until now ... At Letchworth we will never forget Rothstein with the Finkel Enigma on his head . . . The Letchworth Football Team sign up Katz after he gets off a sixty-five yard run . . . Scheier makes a brilliant flying-tackle of the latter and ruins his suit . . . Senior theses become due and we untangle our date . . . Dental Jurisprudence and Eisenberg becomes Assistant Professor . . . The grades are received and the smiles again dis- appear for some . . . Members of the tardy club, Peiser, Cunningham, Lefkowitz, Singer and Scheier; they manage to arrive at Dr. McBeath ' s lecture on time . . . Dr. Gillett takes his daily walks leaving volumes of notes in his wake . . . The class affair and student and professor rugcut on the floor to- gether . . . Ellison gives free dinners and the year book really gets under way . . . Bonime drops an inlay on his toes and sports crutches for a month . . . Those midnight lectures continue as the audience dwindles . . . Room F207 Tuesday at 5 P.M. Step right up gentleman, be careful of the bombs and shell torn field, see the largest nerve in captivity . . . The Senior Dinner was one of the high spots of the year . . . The entertaining show, especially the imitations, will long be remembered . . . We will never forget Dr. Mc- Laughlin blowing his whistle on the clinic floor . . . Much credit is due Scheier, the committee chair- man, and his capable committee of Friedman, Peiser, and Finkel . . . Work and more work and we feel that we are becoming better and more able to carry on the crusade for healthier individuals ... To the faculty we extend our sincere thanks for their tireless efforts in trying to carve us into finer and more proficient members of our profession . . .

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OF 1939.. President ROBERT MASON Vice-President WILLIAM KAPLAN Secretary-Treasurer SIMEON BLINN Student Council Reps LESTER FINKEL LOUIS HYMAN HARRY QUAIN MILTON WECHSLER weaseling begins . . . the gypsum market soars and floor H becomes white-washed . . . practical Wechsler resorts to a dignified and fitting white- wing outfit . . . Schoeneman runs out of plaster and cuts chunks out of the ceiling at home . . . we go social and run a never to be forgotten stag . . . Axelrod becomes renowned for his exposition of the ordinary tip . . . Peiser and Scheier have a contest to see who can smoke the most cigars — coming up! . . . We are saddened and shocked by the un- fortunate and tragic deaths of Dean Rowe and Dr. Wiberg. . . . 2 . Before we have time to shake the camphor balls out of our ' scopes Path starts . . . Greenberg diag- noses stomatitis as inflammation of the stomach . . . gumma or tubercle? . . . lectures in pitch black rooms again with everyone fighting for seats next to the slide projector . . . identifying slides by their chipped corners . . . autopsies . . . those confer- ences with Dr. Kesten . . . Schwartz photographing all the slides in his spare time — 3 to 4 in the morning . . . Dr. Rosebury ' s distinctly unknown unknowns . . . the diabolical delight with which cocci apparently turn into bacilli after we ' ve handed in our report . . . typhoid injections . . . Nonchalantly assuring our first prophylaxis patient that she was our fifty-ninth, no more and no less . . . we do our first extraction with a universal scaler . . . spilling iodine on our patient with Dr. Hughes looking on . . . we are introduced to the full upper and lower . . . kindly Mr. Cross bellows at us when we venture down to G floor to vulcanize our case . . . we wax up that upper ten times . . . Eisenberg running around my poor case, my poor case. If I only had another twelve months . . . everybody gathers around to watch some one mis-cast another crown . . . Has anybody seen my Paliney? . . . investing with pumice in- stead of gray investment and then wondering why it didn ' t cast . . . Watching, from the roof, the C B technic being marked ... A says yes. B say no. C disagrees with A and B . . . and with Oral Hygiene we rediscover the library . . . Axelrod enthusiastically crushing bacteria between his teeth . . . Wilson becomes a restaurateur . . . The National Association of Alopetic Dentists is formed . . . Dunn, Kaplan, Katz and Scheck are charter members ... Dr. Lieb demonstrates the proper method of holding Lepus Cunicilus . . . prescrip- tions and the advantages of a classical education . . . the game of rolling pellets and stroking the bunny . . . the efficient Dep ' t. of Sanitation that flitted around the lab. . . . discussing everything but pharmacology in those conferences with Dr. Lieb . . . heat treatment and the modulus of elasticity . . . elated when we all get exemptions in Dental Materials . . . Operative technic starts Scheier in the old gold business . . . we all conduct research on how to fill a ten rope cavity with six ropes . . . the class cheers when Dr. Hunt an- nounces that the class will go on the floor in operative . . . the first sophomore class to do so in the history of the school . . . We find it takes an hour to put on the rubber dam and another hour to find the instructor . . . State boards . . . 3 . Back from vacation and . . . Please, please Mrs. Amy can I have a patient? . . . Still trying to master the technique of applying the rubber dam . . . McCrossen ' s hair begins to turn grey as he pours new art bases in order to make his bridge fit . . . Dr. Rosebury gives his lecture course on dental caries and we stop eating pilot biscuits . . . Skolnick removes his orthodontic appliances and we find that he has teeth . . . Scheier pulls the plug from the X-ray machine while Mulhaus is giving a demonstration on taking radiographs. . . . Friedman makes the startling discovery that green teeth are not really green at all . . . Ellison makes a classic preparation and Dr. Hunt looks it over saying, now extend it into the dentine . . . In diagnosis one of the 55 discover queer eruptions on the tongue only to find out that they are the circumvallate pappilae . . . Kaplan leads the class in recasting and swears off class III inlays . . . Prosthetics, and the dentacoll resembles lava flow- ing out of a volcano . . . Schwartz makes class history as he finishes the first House case . . . and in only four months . . . Round wire technique and Mr. Cross finds that he hasn ' t any more time to himself . . . Dr. Gillett walks by and 51 pots are carried to the sink to be cleaned up . . .

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ISADORE AXELROD 2086 CROTONA AVENUE BRONX, NEW YORK B.S., College of the City of New York Tireless industry and unflagging optimism are the two major ingredients of Axel ' s personality. We ' re certain that in time the balance will become still more favorable to success. We ' ll miss the strident opinions of our col- league Axel, who was always loath to permit a discussion to peter out. SIMEON BLINN 674 WEST 1 61st STREET NEW YORK CITY A.B., New York University Alpha Omega Columbian (4). Associate Editor 3}. Sec.-Treas. Class (4). Si has never been able to deliver an opinion on any matter, however trivial, that was not weighty. We ' ve certainly enjoyed the delightful ambiguity of some of his harangues in Practice of Medicine. This knack of producing indefinite replies to specific questions should stand him in good stead when confronted by a querulous patient.