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

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CLASS OFFICERS SENIOR CLASS President JOSEPH LEAVITT Vice-President RICHARD CARSON Secy.-Treas . ' . THOMAS SWEENY STUDENT COUNCIL JOHN KANYA ALBERT BUCKELEW PAUL SEXAUER ARTHUR KAFKA you know any good prayers? I ' m casting my partial . . . Dr. Young, my plate just bit the sink and broke a tooth . . . which can jump the furthest? a rest, a facing, or a flea — our money was on the rest — Dental anatomy days came back to haunt us . . . how many cusps has a lower first molar? . . . finishing lines . . . Death, where is thy sting? . . . C B, or B C — those were our grades . . . Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle . . . the Cardinals were no longer a baseball team — merely principles of soldering. Shadows and substance . . . go back and do it over means reray . . . two years of pent-up hot air was released against our fellow students. — We treated the bunnies gently (mustard) . . . So you went to Fordham — your Latin is atrocious . . . if you had a ton of acetyl salicylic acid, how many 5mg. tablets could you make? . . . and a rat was too quick for Kafka, who subsequently found out about hospital administration — Psychiatry . . . Oh, Nuts! — The Bureau of Standards was ' way off, according to our results . . . Grauer slept in class once too often . . . our friends, the advertisers . . . the best filling material . . . Wait a minute, the ' phone ' s ringing . . . The Maoris became our bosom com- panions . . . names, dates, faces, — Kafka compiled an index to the J. A. D. A. The social crystal is rather hazy, for we were too busy to be very sociable. There was a testimonial dinner to that grand old man, Dr. Gillett . . . When I went to dental school the only entrance requirement was to be able to ' dig down in your jeans ' and pro- duce $200. JUNIOR— We became Mohammedans — a 1ooth for a tooth, a dam for a dam . . . why not use atropine? . . . clamps — separators — Wow! ... a patient at last! . . . two days to get ihrough the enamel and two seconds to reach the pulp (the apex, must be some- where close by) . . . But Doctor, I want ' silver, ' not amalgam . . . If I could have made a small incision in the neck, it would have been simple to fill that one . . . that melodious sound when a kit was dropped — 2 gross of burs scattered over 20 square feet of floor . . . how insulted we felt when they took patients with nice class III foils away from us Pai don me, Joe, while I ram this red-hot Dentacoll down your throat . . . What a big mouth you have, Grandma . . . Carson ' s ridgeless patient — Dr. Young hung the plate from the epiglottis . . . Sure you ' ll have the teeth by Christmas — (but the year was unspecified) ... I don ' t know how they ' ll work; I ' ve never worn full dentures . . . Who managed to turn in his original C B casts??? ... we melted our previous year ' s inlays to finish our crowns . . . If I could get my ' bands ' around Dr. Richmond ' s neck ... a check is not necessarily a completed step in your work; it may mean just starting over again. Eskimos . . . the sperm and the egg again . . . third degree burns . . . the solder kept getting in the half-round tubes . . . the appliance moved the teeth off the models . . . tabiespoonfuls of ' whipped cream ' for the little kiddies ' ... Acute chronic open closed partial total pulpitis is my diagnosis . . . and it ' s a cyst because it ' s on page 5 in the large gray book ... we held the power of life and death — over teeth . Oh, glorified prophylaxis! . . . pyorrhea means periodontoclasia . . . Gottlieb rides again . . . scaling, scaling, over those endless roots. — Porcelain (straight) jackets . . . Can I go in with you? — Gillett partials — the wire goes round and round, and it comes out here — maybe!! . . . the new motors in H lab sounded like Yankee Clippers. We began to correlate and apply what we had reputedly learned in our first two years . . . i took 1 4 pictures and the occipital bone showed up in every one . . . Lights!!! — No, the other way ' round — the beaks grasp the tooth . . . Let me try it for a second (i. e. Let me do it ) . . . It ' s only a little prick. — We met our old friends, Anatomy, Bacteriology, and Pharmacology again and our teach- ers flattered us by assuming that we had remembered something of their subjects . . . We played with crayons in Oral Path and stamped our own drawings, passed . . . We joined the Seniors in exploring the possibilities of improper housing vs. mental dullness vs. sleepy students . . . the annual inefficiency due to sickness in Milwaukee is appalling . . . How many dull round burs were resharpened in I9I3? . . . billions for defense, but not one cent for dentistry . . . We became conscious of Ethics, then ethical. — Having moved down from H. floor we found that we had actually moved up in the world and Dr. Gillett introduced us to spotlessly clean equipment and jackets — gone were our cherished, plaster-spattered lab coats . . . your pans should be clean enough to cook soup. We got our first taste of requirements 28

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diabetic ... Dr. Shaman ' s American ballet at the blackboard ... the question was how could twelve 150 lb. men get into one little centrifuge ... a 5cc. pipette threw water further than a spray bottle. Art reared its ugly head ... the idea was to draw an invisible line ... the wind blew, the dental lymph flew, and the walrus used his teeth for locomotion — . Pyramidal tract vs. the sensory root of the 5th nerve ... we learned to sleep without snoring . . . Har-umphl! Death Valley in a dust storm and an edentulous patient with an iron jaw and a wooden head (oil before using) . . . I ' m forever flowing bubbles . . . ' Go back and do it over . . . retainer plates take off from the polishing wheels like aeroplanes . . . But only a pinpoint of light shows through! . . . Now this yere Christopher Columbus discovered that thar caoutchouc . . . that elongated carnivorous red quadruped, the weasel, became a biped. During the year we wrestled spaghetti with the faculty at Caruso ' s and staged a very swanky dinner dance at the Lincoln. SOPHOMORE— Please pass the plague in the No. 4 test tube ... we found that having spirochetes was no dis- grace . . . the exquisite aroma of hot agar and gas bacilli tubes . . . Meyers was allergic to animals . . . a crash of glass, a mad scramble, a long distance throw with a bucket of carbolic, and back to work . Don ' t! That ' s my sore arm! . . . brushing vs. rinsing — an d the count went up anyway ... we were typed. — Path writeups ... the new lexicon . . . the patient went rapidly down hill and died with puss in his cappewlerys ... our one and, thankfully, our only autopsy (phew) ... we fight for bleachers next to the lantern . . . Inflammation!!!!! . . . put on your coat, Nordstrom, you ' re not in a pool room . . . Sweetbreads, liver and onions, kidney pie, tumors a la mode . . . Clune won the pool on the number of exemptions from the final. Charter ' s method of brushing (hold the brush steady and wiggle your head) . . . massage . . . wrist motion — a patient with a rubber tongue and an aluminum head . . . then, someone called us Doctor — at last! blood letting was an art that didn ' t die out in the Middle Ages . . . was that an inlay I removed, or only some calculus? . . . Meyers chained his patient to the head rest and a necktie party nearly ensued . . . Carson took them in two ' s . . . the diagnosis department will tell you how many cavities you have . . . toothpowder vs. toothpaste. 6-2-5, 3-1-28, 15-80-9-12; shift to the left— signals off — the gold foil fell out ... a straight line angle between 2 point angles was the shortest distance to a I . . . the patient ' s jaw was like a vise . . . pumice was not the fastest setting investment . . . let me cast it for you . . . Our House articulators will have to do until we own castles in Spain . . . the words set ' em up again are heard so often that it sounds like the Astor bar . . . balance was im- portant, but our mental equilibrium suffered . . . Do 2?

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rs rs Q a r r ■ m ttiB ■ ■ -■ [ . f4| So H ' V 41 m l v — M ? A H H H U with a minimum of two full dentures decreed by the Prosthetics department. Plans were made for staying at the school for the summer clinic and some paraded proudly with real honest-to-goodness externships . . . the Senior year was just around the corner — 16 or 18 (so it seemed) final exams. For relaxation we dis- embarked on the S. S. Sylph . . . with Commodore Kanya and Admiral Leavitt at the wheel, the craft went around in circles. Almost everybody was sea- sick, and the Admiral is still in the red. SENIOR— Gone was our callow youth — we were Senior G-men. We had survived the first three years, passed our medico-dental state board subjects, mastered seem- ingly innumerable technics, and had our baptism of fire on the clinic floor. Now, seasoned veterans, we prepared for the last big push, the effort that would see us all safely graduated and through our state boards. We were face to face with the bugaboo of pre- ceding Senior classes — Requirements!!! . . . ' nough said ... we met the new simplified appointment system and became expert at sending gently chiding postcards to patients who failed to show up . . . class Ill ' s by class IV . . . living dentistry . . . polished enamel walls . . . worn out angle formers . . . Where is the instructor? . . . the shades of Homer rose again and voyaged with Ulysses and Dr. McBeath ... we met inflammation again and acquired a class motto — Get in quick; get out quicker . . . Surgery, diagnosis, perio, and practice of medicine, all took their toll of possible regular clinic hours . . . incom- prehensible comprehensives . . . Relax, Rela-ax, Re- laaaax!! (or I ' ll dislocate your mandible) . . . late classes and the expense of suppers away from home ... it was announced that Dr. Crawford was leaving — no more free movies . . . History, ( and 1 ,000,000,- 000,000,000 years ago a dinosaur had a toothache ) jurisprudence, and office management . . . the serious side of dentistry . . . What ' s your senior thesis about? ' 1 . . . What can I work on that won ' t take any time? . . . Mrs. Nadon and Mrs. Amy did their best to aid and comfort us . . . Who needs a complex repair? ... I have a nice 5-tooth bridge . . . Have you enough class III patients? . . . Here ' s a beauti- ful class II for Dr. Hartman ' s exam — We marched bravely up to floor H, impressed our wills on the little darlings, and slunk down again sadder and wiser men . . . the towel method . . . submarine amalgams . . . Where does all the water come from; a dike must have broken! . . . Underclassmen scornfully pointed out that the last year was a bree;.e — a breeze? — a tornado!! . . . Weiss was commonly understood to spend the night on the lab bench in front of his locker ... I ran out oF alcohol and it ' s expensive to heat a No. 7 on the kitchen stove ... we practiced 3-hour setups . . . personally I always took 3 months with Dr. Smith . . . Richmond crowns again and checks and double checks . . . graduation at last!!! ... I only had one handful of hair left (and 7 cents) . . . The 4 year little world war was over, with its thrusts and sallies, little battles and big pushes; we suffered heavy losses in killed and wounded, especially when we were green and failed to recognize the whine of H. E. examinations; and every man who went in emerged forever changed — but for the better — it was a con- structive war. We all feel very, very grateful to our allies, the faculty, the nurses, and to Roge, who have all done so much to make us better men and finer dentists and we will remember that we owe to them much of what we hope to be in the future. . . . 29