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Another summer passed, and we came back to school anxious to overcome the last obstacle on the road to our D.D.S. degree .... the senior year. Shades of sophomoritis ! We found ourselves once again racing to meet requirements. But, this time, we weren ' t able to pack the object of our efforts into a weasel kit to catch up. Even our Pedo patient couldn ' t squeeze into that little tin tool box. Never before had so many tried to do so much in so short a time. We soon became thoroughly acquainted with the Comprehensive Case System. After submit- ting our diagnosis and finding out why it was all wrong, we commenced work. Before long, we were working on several prosthetics patients at once, and each morning upon opening our lock- er, we ' d be buried beneath an avalanche of fall- ing models. In Operative, we accumulated points and hunted for Class III foil patients. In Pedo lec- ture we learned that very few children are un- manageable, and in Pedo clinic, two such cases were assigned to us. 1 WAWT To SEE THAT HOfiS£5HO£ B tPG£OH TH£ DIES, fi OM { SrrMULUS--- GO AH ID , TC W SBE TFROM - ZAVOCAI J£ Our once abundant vocabulary deteriorated to about ten words . . . requirements, stools, com- prehensive, dies, gold foil, miscast, graduation, instructor, and double impression. And suddenly, it came to a halt! There was nothing to do over ... no points to get ... no patient to call ... no worry to awaken us from slumber in the quiet night . . . nothing was left except the memories. But memories, like messengers from the past, linger on. And, despite the headaches and disap- pointments each of us experienced in those four eventful years, there are countless happy remem- brances to warm our hearts for the rest of our lives. The parties, the fine friends we made, the oood times we had, our association with men o devoted to dentistry ... all these things and so many more we will cherish. Opening our eyes now from this session of reminiscing, we realize that it ' s not all over by any means. Dental school was only the begin- ning of our professional lives. A whole wonderful future lies ahead. Columbia has given us the very best dental education, of which we are justifiably proud. The rest is up to us. Warren Nadel 23
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times worse! In retrospect, we find it difficult to conjure up specific memories. Instead, we recall just a blur of exasperation, anxiety and bewilder- ment. We bought a dental engine and a weasel kit, stocked our room with mandrels,- burs, lathes, plaster, a casting machine, and a calendar to tell time. We said farewell to mom, dad, and all our friends, and worked until dawn seven days out of every week, only to learn after four months of C and B that we were six months behind and falling farther back every minute. WHO SAID AMALGAM ' S A O GOOD? ) the urge to hide in our locker, we introduced ourselves and started taking compound impres- sions. After several weeks of this, we were be- ginning to run out of explanations for the patient as to why the procedure was being repeated so often. Finally, the instructor whispered those three little words . . . pour it up . . . . and we were on our way. Operative Dentistry and C and B supplied more evidence to us why dental school is four years long. We had much to learn in making IN MY HANDS, THBRE IS Noy WEAE IS NO- - SHADE PROBLEM Just when we were about to go down for a count of ten, Pharmacology reared its ugly head. After that, our mind went blank until a sunny day in June of 1952, when our glassy eyes read a transcript telling us we had passed . . . yes, we had passed! Summer time, and the living was easy ... es- pecially after sophomore year. Many of us jour- neyed far from the city and engaged in a variety of occupations from carpentry to camp counsel- loring, in an effort to mend our wounds and for- get the past. Returning with renewed vigor in the fall of ' 52, we strolled onto the clinic floor (with a cocky junior swagger) and discovered an edentulous patient sitting in our dental chair. Suppressing the transition from typodont to human mouth. It wasn ' t long before we overcame the feel- o ing of guilt which swept over us when we found there was nothing .to do in the evening. So, we said hello to mom, dad, and our friends again, took the TV set out of storage, and settled down to the pleasant task of living a relatively normal life once more. Our days bustled with activity . . . Thera- peutics, Diagnosis, Surgery, Medicine, Perio . . . dozens of courses, and we were eagerly assimi- lating all we could. The junior year was a good year. Yes, Act III will certainly be remembered as the happiest in the four act drama of our dental education. 22
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