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

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Dedication The 1955 issue of the Dental Columbian has been dedicated to an outstanding mem- ber of the teaching staff of the dental school, Edward V. Zegarelli. Dr. Zegarelli exemplifies the ideal qualifications a teacher of dentistry should have. He is a student of progressive teaching methods, a dynamic and stimulating teacher and lecturer, as well as an active practitioner. In his courses in Diagnosis Dr. Zegarelli continually correlates the basic sciences with clinical experience, giving the student an appreciation of the intimate relationship which must necessarily exist between his theoretical background and clinical future. Dr. Zegarelli ' s personal warmth and enthusiasm have proven to be an inspiration to all. Since he undertook the study of Dentistry, Dr. Zegarelli has steadily walked the path to greater achievements. After receiving an A.B. from Columbia University in 1934, he entered the School of Dental and Oral Surgery, receiving his D.D.S. in 1937. He also received a Master of Science Degree in Pathology from the University of Chicago in 1943; this followed full-time study on a Fellowship which he had been awarded by that University in 1939. Since entering the Division of Oral Diagnosis in 1937, Dr. Zegarelli has risen from Assistant in Dentistry to Associate Professor. He is now head of Oral Diagnosis and Roentgenology, has contributed greatly to research, and is in the process of writing several texts for both medicine and dentistry. Not only has Dr. Zegarelli been active at Columbia, but he has managed to achieve much in the field of dentistry on a national scale. From 1940-50 he was a special con- sultant of dentistry for the Veterans Administration, Bureau of Medicine in Washing- ton. He is a diagnostic consultant in New York City and Regional Head of the North- east sector of the U.S. in dental diagnosis for some sixteen hospitals. He is a fellow of the American College of Dentists and is Secretary-Treasurer of Omicron Kappa Upsilon. If one attends the various society meetings in this part of the country he will undoubtedly have an opportunity of hearing Dr. Zegarelli lecturing to one group or another. Somehow he has found time to be an active participant in his community, having been Chairman of the Good Government Council of North Tarrytown and a Trustee of the Village, acting as Police Commissioner. He has four sons — at least one of whom he says is sure to be a dentist, and he loves to putter around his 3.2 acre farm in his tractor. We of the senior class feel particularly indebted to Dr. Zegarelli because he has broadened our perspectives and personifies the ideals which Columbia has established — namely, the importance of the patient as a complex organism, the mouth being an integral part of that being, whose function depends on the health of the individual and reciprocally whose function affects the health of the individual. We would like to thank him for the very important part he has played in making our dental school careers both stimulating and enjoyable.

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EDWARD V. ZEGARELLI, A.B., D.D.S., M.S. Associate Professor of Dentistry Clinician, Educator, Author

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i 00 W GRAYSON KIRK, Ph.D., LL.D. President of the University •H I ' ' 1 r • » WILLARD COLE RAPPLEYE, M.D., A.M., Sc.D., Med. Sc.E Vice-President in Charge of Medical Affairs; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine