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

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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.

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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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EDW RD LI. 1 RII DM I he shadow of a dark and vague mystery hangs over Eddy. It is rumored that he possesses strange powers and Has the secrets of sorcery at his com- mand. How else, it is argued, how else can it he explained, that a dental student in his entire career, from freshman Dental Anatomy through to senior Prosthetics, has never, hut never, been in the build- ing alter 4:45 P.M. Those on the inside, ol course, know that there is nothing supernatural about the affair at all. It ' s just that Evelyn, who is finished with her school duties at three, awaits at home. Eddv. not content with one institution or learning gleaned his pre-dental education from Mount Union College and from New York University. During the war. he served in the Army Air Force as a 2nd lieutenant. He was a navigator and engineer on a B-29 which, he tells me. outdid Daniel ' s feat for danger. Ed is a member in good standing in the William Jarvie Society and is associate photo editor of the ' 51 Dental Columbian. After graduation, he hopes to find a good residencv or internship. I DICRAN GOULIAN JR. Dick hasn ' t onlv one claim to fame, but several. Besides being the white-haired bov of the ' 51 class, he also happens to be the youngest. He has the greatest number of nick-names, he is the only one of us that uses loupes, and he is the only dental student in captivity who has a mother who is a fully quali- fied, if unlicensed, dental technician. Dick is the photo editor of the 1951 Dental Columbian and deserves manv thanks for the hard work involved and the great results that he produced. Dick got his A.B. from Columbia College in 1948 after serving in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman in the Dental Corps. Dick is a member of and official bartender for Psi Omega, a member of the William Jarvie Societv. and is on the staff of Dental Ab- stracts, and the Dental Columbian. He is also unique in regard to his plans for the future. He intends to practice dentistry part time while he attends medical school. His ultimate aim is a spe- cialty in oral and maxillo-facial surgery.