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

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remember Herb ' s infectious laugh and Grift ' s philosophy that it was inevitable and you might .is well sit hack and enjoy it. You thought the Junior year was rough and you were probably right alter 10 points in C B, three dentures and over 300 points in Operative. And you said to yourself that the Senior year couldn ' t be any harder. Well, now you ' ve been through it and you ' ve courted a duodenal gumboil and your let t shoul- der is lower than your right from lugging a weasel kit and you ' ve wondered if anything short of attainment of Heaven is worth all the blood, sweat, and tears you ' re putting forth ... if the oreat Winston Churchill had been one of us he o probablv would have said, Never have so many- done over so much so often. Oh, the first trimester is a snap. You can even earn 7 on a normal relationship with your family for the first seven or eight weeks but after that the pot begins to boil. It hits you all at once and it doesn ' t let up until it ' s all over. It engulfs you like a huge angrv wave and it presses you down until you forget which way is up. And if for some strange reason (like hard work and a good break) vou should begin to see the rainbow, along will come someone to hand you a rebase or repair and vou are back down under again. Gone are the lunch hours in the cafeteria . . . in fact, gone are the lunch hours. Greenier rAiy stopped bringing lunches ... it hurt him to waste the food. Yes it is quite a year, the senior year at Colum- bia. The Comprehensive case and the worry that the patient would keep his appointments, pay the fee on time so you could get the gold or the teeth or that he wouldn ' t quit because you took so long to get things done. The Class III foil and getting that gingival bar of gold to stick . . . and then successfully plugging it, only to rock it loose in finishing. Re- member? And so here you are, a bunch of old men as dental graduates go: you ' ve made it. It was hard and long and if you were asked if the four years seemed short, if the time had gone quickly you ' d find it difficult to answer. In many ways it was long in coming. But you have to admit that you were so completely occupied at all times that it seems the time did go quickly. And you feel a wonderful sense of accomplishment because it didn ' t come easy but it ' s so worthwhile. You ' re a dentist. . . . Frank O ' neil 25

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ter core. In the milling around that comes so easy to uninitiated Juniors the plaster gun was transferred rather ineptly from one student to the other and in the process about half the plaster in the gun discharged into the patient ' s ear and hair. She was a selected case ... a woman who spoke only Greek and it would be inter- esting to know just what she said when she was suddenly hit in the ear with this cold, wet plas- ter. . . Dr. McBeath ' s Medicine classes were weekly stimulants . . . the intelligent approach to med- ical terms by way of derivations and root words and O ' Connor ' s 6 years of Latin and 4 years of Greek making the rest of us look good at the game, and our staying on the ball for the unan- nounced oral quizzes. And do you recall how he ' d steam up just a little when some disoriented senior would burst into our Junior Medicine lecture? Don ' t you wonder now how many times we stupidly stum- bled in on his classes during our senior year and moved him to pity us? You certainly recall the lad who used to bring a smile to your wrinkled brow with his tighten up men, you ' re too relaxed or Moschella ' s do it over . . . and what must be the last word in explanations when Cohen said, I can ' t go now, I ' m waiting for a partial to cool! And do you remember that Eddie Friedman wore that ortho- dontic appliance for a year before we discovered that he wasn ' t interested in moving teeth but that it was the only way he could get Channel 13 in his section of Brooklyn. Then there was Mel- low ' s story of the birth of his first-born and his other tales of his days with the Flying Tigers in China . . . and the unusual coincidence that threw Lenny Seidenberg together with Bill Houser ' s brother in a bomb group in the 20th Air Force in the Pacific while Bill ' s older brother was Group Navigator with O ' Neill in a bomb group in the 8th Air Force in England . . . and to further the coincidence. Bill ' s first bombing mission over Germany on Januarv 14th, 1945 was O ' Neill ' s last. If you were to go to school for the rest of your life you ' d never get such a real belly laugh again as the day Tripodi put the lights on for the lec- turer using the switch at the rear of 7-207 while the lecturer snapped them out at the front of the room and we all sat there in the dark for a long second until the lecturer said Oh! and again whirled and put them back on as he wanted them in the first place. Probably the best laugh of the year for all of us, lecturer included. How often did you sit and listen to Victor Riviera and wonder how he could have spent four years in New York and sound worse than he did in the first year. Speaking of listening, 24

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ROGER P. ADAMS Roger is one of the New England Adamses, and true to the Maine tradition, became a seafaring man in time of national danger. After seeing service in the Pacific Theater as a radar officer, he was dis- charged as an Ensign. Roger the dodger attended Holderness Preparatory School in New Hampshire, and went on to get his A.B. from Bowdoin after attending Bates as a Navy V-12. Roger is a member of Psi Omega fraternity and was a Student Council Representative during his freshman, sophomore, and junior years. It became prettv rough for Roger to hitch-hike all the way to North Carolina so fre- quently during the freshman year to see Justine, so he married her and brought her to the North and settled on North Brother Island. He is now the proud father of a young son who, we may be sure, will continue in the great tradition of the New England Adamses. Toward this end, Roger hopes to rejoin the Navy as a Dental Officer upon gradua- tion. EUGENE A. COHEN Gene is the one we have most to thank for having a yearbook this year. As Business Manager of the 195 1 Dental Columbian, it has been his responsi- bility to see that there were as few reluctant dragons as possible in the taking of advertisements and in the purchasing of yearbooks. The burden was his, and the credit for success should also be his. Gene is an alumnus of Brooklyn College, having received his B.A. there in 1948. He was also a resident of the Borough of Churches until the middle of the Sophomore year when he married Anne, and simul- taneously changed his, voting address to the Bronx. Gene was in the Army Signal Corps as a 1st Lt. and served in the Philippines and in Japan. In dental school, in addition to a penchant for waxing up partials, his activities included membership in the William Jarvie Society. Gene enjoyed the bene- fits of a junior internship at Fordham Hospital last summer and plans either a full internship, or a sub- urban New York practice upon graduation.