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

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explanation; the canulas; the kymographs; This fisology; Not nu- natomee. (1) Tansky, Joe; Frontal Lobotomy and the Dental Student; Am. Jour, of Idiosyncrasies; June, 1950. Sophomore Year: Bacteriology: Watching Frances; Jack ' s bout with the wee timorous beaste. Pathology: The objections to Saturday morning absences; Bob Gorlin ' s peripatetic lectures; the drawings. Prosthetics: Dr. Pleasure s analogies and request for the Class President; Are you making dentures for a squirrel? Dental Materials: The buckshot; the eutectiforousness of it all. Crown and Bridge: Joe s sodder: Howie s fabrication of an abutment to fit a casting. Partials: AI s feeding partials to the casting machine like quarters to a one-armed bandit. Junior Year: Applied Anatomy: Dr. Shapiro s energy; Petrous portion of the temporal bone. Crown and Bridge: You gentlemen work hard this year and you II be all finished with your requirements early next year: ' the pulps; the lacerated gingivae. Occlusal Dynamics: The shoes; the alginate impression without bubbles. Diagnosis: The x-ray exams. Medicine: A patient walks into your office on his hands: he has two heads, lordosis, high urinary N.P.N, and seven rows of teeth: What do you think of first? You say the fire-escape? That ' s correct! Letchworth Village and the nickel beers ; Joes abject apology that his head wasn t as big as a pumpkin. Surgery: Dowling s subluxations. Senior Year: Gentlemen: We have revised the requirements! Jussim s slow burn at not being able to find anything in his kit — it wasn t even his kit; Lennie s wife contributing to Dental Students Magazine; Herbie ' s dens in impression extractions; Dr. Pleasure ' s quest for the ever-elusive Optical Plane ; and so on, ad infinitum. The staff has sung our praises and damned our inadequacies; they ve called us the best class and the worst. We ' re no different; classes are classes. Instructors don t change either — except their minds. Class histories customarily endow the under-classmen with legacies of a sort, humorous or otherwise. To the underclassmen we leave nothing -what ' s left? We should like to dedicate our history to our wives and families. Let this be said of them: They had to live with us! Arthur J. Nebel

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Class History This is a history of a class and as such it will contain the lighthearted little flashes of experience that people like to remember in thumbing through a yearbook twenty years later. As for the more sober side of the ledger — the ever present personal crises that day after day appeared for each of us — the fears and the intense disappointments — and finally the deeply gratifying satisfactions that compensate, will have to remain hidden between the lines, because no written word is necessary for us to re- member them. i Reducio Ad Absurdum As it must eventually, graduation comes this year to us, too. What is it? Tansky (1) defines graduation as, That climacteric condition, or psychogenic origin, exclusively male incidence, which results over a lour year period from an insidious dissolution of finances, a complete degrada- tion of stability and good humor that is characterized by hypertrophy of the gelatinous fibres of Moral, a thickened stratum corneum, and varied schizoid tendencies. Predisposing factors are; entire necrosis of good sense, neoplastic ambition and the cerebrum being ectopically located in the muscularis layer of the pelvic colon. Cicatrices result- ing are: self-pity, misanthropic personalities, endocrine dysfunction and jaundiced eye. The lesion abates spontaneously, without remission, at which time the patient is apt Comprehensive ' s Today! to remark, ' It wasn ' t so bad! ' (Note afore- mentioned schizoid tendencies.) At this time electro-encephalograms are indicated. If it wasn t so bad it was simply because we never stopped breathing. The low points at best chaotic -the high spots are what we will remember. Freshman Year: Anatomy: The practicals; the anomalies; Dr. Rogers safaris to the tenth floor lab; the lymphatic demonstration; Barlow s galloping in on an injured leg; the odor. Histology: Dr. Copenhaver s quiet consideration; the punctures; the cigarette holders. Embryology: Dr. Detwiler s salamanders waving at the cinema audience. Biochemistry: Jussim s yawning the unknowns; the paraffin. Oral Anatomy: The futility; the moaning; the verse; the geometric blocks; the misery. Neuroanatomy: Also the futility; the decussations; the lights going on all of a sudden; the echo. Physiology: The futility plus the decerebration and decortication; Allen ' s search for something in the sprinkler system; Enid ' s help and

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ARMANDO EDMONDO ANDREOZZI One of Poor Lillle Rhode Island s favorite sons, Eddie is as popular at Columbia as he was at Brown and Tufts. Always busy with extra-curricular activities, Eddie is in Psi Omega and has had the pleasure of holding key positions in his class. Student Council, and Dental Abstracts. His biggest problem is getting to class on time, for he claims the trip from the north side of 16S St. to the south side is awfully long at 9 A.M. Opera- tive is his forte; through his unit pass the most beautiful Class II inlays. Eddie plans a private practice in Providence and no doubt will do very well. CARL MORTON BARLOW Mickey is undoubtedly one of the busiest members of the class. After a day ' s work in the clinic he hops the subway for a quick trip to Hunter College, where he teaches the co-eds physiology, then home to delve into his pile of current literature on dentistry, medicine, and physiology. Always up to date on science, Mick has participated in much research in the P S physiology lab and has had a paper published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology. An NYU grad- uate, member of Jarvie and AO and a con- tributor to Abstracts, Mick may very well make his mark in the research he does so well.