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

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EWING CLEVELAND McBEATH, D.D.S., B.S., B.M., M.D. Ewing C. McBeath was born in the Lake Superior district of Wisconsin in 1884. High school and a short business course were already things of the past when at the turn of the century he became connected with the office of the district attorney. Soon he became court reporter for that section of the state. After some years spent in that fashion he decided to become a dentist and enroled at the University of Minnesota. In 1910 he received his D.D.S. and started in practice at Spokane, Washington. For five years he practiced there giving special attention to Dentistry for Children — one of the first men in the country to do so. The value of a thorough and rounded education, especially for a health practitioner, was ever apparent to him. — And so he went back to his Alma Mater and obtained a B.S. in 1919, a B.M. in 1920 and an M. D. in 1921. Then after an interneship plus a year of study at noted European clinics he began the practice of Pediatrics in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1929 he left St. Paul to accept an appointment as Associate Professor of Dentistry at Columbia. In 1936 he was made a full Professor and is at present head of the Divisions of Dentistry for Children and Practice of Medi- cine. It is mainly to Dr. McBeath that our Pedodontia Clinic owes its high standing and from him that Preventive Den- tistry has received great impetus. Recently, in just recogni- tion, Dr. McBeath was elected a Fellow of the American College of Dentists.

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o EWING CLEVELAND McBEATH whose kindly influence, robust pro- fessional ideals and deep devotion to the highest interests of his students has been an aid and an inspiration.

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—-■ V -HOSE who look forward to the practice of dental and oral surgery as a career find themselves increasingly in touch with many of the larger problems of public health. We have only recently begun to learn of the close rela- tionship between general health and disorders of the teeth, however slight. Therefore it is that this particular branch of surgery is one on which just now increasing emphasis should be laid. Preparation for its practice must be thorough and broad, and that general knowledge of medical and surgical science which is so essential as a foundation must underlie the useful practice of this calling. With every good wish for the students of the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, and for their future usefulness, I am Faithfully yours, LJJL