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

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Willard Cole Rappleye, A.M., M.D., Sc.D., Dean

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A Message TO THE CLASS OF 1947 We welcome the 1947 edition of the Dental Columbian. It symbolizes for us our emergence from the shadows of the dreary war years. You can step now firmly and confidently into the broad light highway which is your future in a peaceful world. As seniors, you are well equipped by training and experience to enter the profession which you have chosen to follow. For all of you I wish a happy and successful life with rewards commen- surate with your abilities and your efforts. You have chosen well. You will find in the profession of dentistry a worthy challenge to all your skill and all your talents. As a class, you have been a source of pride. Among you there are many who possess outstanding ability. You are well prepared to carry on in the tradition of those from this school who have gone before you. Let none ever do less than his best. In this way you help to build the reputation of Columbia men. In doing this you are justifying the faith we as a faculty have in you. In this way you honor yourself and your profession. As one of your teachers I have had the great privilege of sharing in the responsibility of helping to guide you in your early professional life. I hope my influence has been for good — by precept and by example. It was Emerson who said, The man may teach by doing and not otherwise. If he can communicate himself he can teach, but not by words. He teaches who gives, and he learns who receives. You have dedicated this volume to me: this is an honor which I shall cherish above all others which can come or may come to me. A luncheon club to which I once belonged has as its motto He who seeks to serve another, best serves himself. ' In seeking to serve you then, I have received a truly rich reward. As the years go by it is my hope to serve better and more faithfully those who come under my influence. Now that you have satisfied all the conditions that the faculty have imposed upon you and you are about to take your leave, I bid you a reluc- tant farewell. You take with you all my best wishes for a successful career. Carry with you the inquiring mind and the teachable spirit and you will find your lives rich and full. Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. Carl R. Oman

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Bion R. East, D.D.S., Associate Dean for Dental and Oral Surgery