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

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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.

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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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IRVING BONIME 25 EAST MOSHULU PARKWAY BRONX. NEW YORK B.S., College of the City of New York Sludent Council (I), (2). If we measure a man by those who admire him, Irv cer- tainly rates high, since he possesses more than enough of the basic qualities which all men need for success. His intelligence and levelheadedness gain the respect of all. JAMES GROWNEY CUNNINGHAM 6 BAYSIDE TERRACE JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY B.S., St. Peter ' s College (New Jersey) Jim is one of those men who is calm and unruffled both exteriorly and interiorly. It will embarass him to learn he is a thoroughly likable fellow, above speaking III of his brother student, and possessing talents which will enable him to go far in dentistry.