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Class of ' 47 OFFICERS President — Jesse W. Field Vice President — Herman I. Scheiner Secretary-Treasurer — Irving Rifkin
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. . . super glazed Senior Class Once upon a time there gathered in an amphitheater a group of over-awed people who were about to enter a new profession. The exact date was January 3, 1944; the place was the School of Dental and Oral Surgery. A hush fell across the room as a dignified man entered and proceeded to welcome the group to the school. Memory fails me as to the exact words that were spoken but that makes little difference. The importance of the event was that it was the first official meeting of the class of June 1947. We plunged into the difficult task of digest- ing Gray ' s Anatomy, Bailey ' s Histology, and trying to associate our classmates ' names with their faces. The names were soon straightened out, but I doubt if anyone has completely straightened out the rest. With the aid of fre- quent demonstrations, we dissected, memorized and were subjected to many shirt-cuff and pencil arterial maps, the result being a maze of lines and dots of which no one, not even the artist, had any inkling of the meaning. The big topic of conversation for the next few weeks was the immediate marriage of Leo Golub. Leo took that Navy V-12 marriage re- striction literally and picked the very first oppor- tunity to get hitched immediately after entering professional school. We had our first class elec- tion, and Ched Jurka was named president and thereafter rested on his political laurels and remained the elder statesman. The A. S. T. P. and V-12 boys began their weekly drill sessions and the most pressing problem at that moment was our impatience while awaiting the arrival of the midshipman uniforms. That Navy group was impressive, with the transfers from other units in bell-bottoms, and the newcomers in civilian clothes. But uniform trouble was not the only problem that faced this valiant group. There was a little course called Dental Anatomy which had, as part of the requirements, the task of carving a set of teeth from wax blocks. The number of wax teeth out on 168th Street, where they were tossed by the students who happened to compare theirs with the teeth carved by Joe Thomson, must have been tremendous. But life as a freshman wasn ' t too bad. We were told how to do this and that by those ever present sophomores; we were mellow and be- yond at a class beer party and helped the Physi- ology Department celebrate its good fortune in finally getting rid of us with a rousing party at the Psi Omega house. But with the coming of October we were no longer neophytes. The memo- ries of the horrors of first year exams had passed, and we looked ahead to the beginning of our study of actual dental subjects which up to this time had been limited to those wax teeth. Gentlemen and ladies, this is a tooth ! We were dentists of the first degree. They handed us a myriad of instruments and told us to memo- rize the numbers. They put a handpiece in our hands and told us how to drill an extracted tooth that was held in a vise. That was fun ' til they began that mesio-lingual and bucco-occlusal routine. We are still looking for the mesio-linguo- axial cavo-surface angle! Yet, they did not give our gray matter a chance to unlax! They also dug up a little chore called prosthetics. You made a set of false teeth (pardon, dentures) from a set of master metal models. If our pa- tients could have seen us then they would have preferred to have all their teeth removed and just go without. The law of averages did not hold in the taking of ridge impressions. We mixed plaster with such gusto, and in such abundance, that Dr. Junemann was forced to repeat time and again: Want a derby hat? It will never be known how many of us felt tempted to reply that 27
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