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

Page 10 text:

Bdwwistration GILBERT P. SMITH, D.D.S. Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for Dental and Oral Surgery Executive Officer, Department of Dentistry Professor of Dentistry

Page 9 text:

Dedication Devoted to his family, devoted to his students, devoted to his profession ... an unselfish man. We, the senior class, in deep appreciation, honor Dr. John J. Lucca with the dedication of the 1957 Dental Columbian. An outstanding member of the profession, Dr. Lucca is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontists, a member of the American Dental Society, the youngest associate member of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics, a prosthetic consultant to the Veterans Administration and the U. S. Public Health Service, a member of the teaching staff of the First District Dental Society and a member of the Bergen County Dental Society. Dr. Lucca was born in 1921 and graduated from Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1947. While a student, he was elected to the William Jarvie Society and became a member of Psi Omega Fraternity. He is now Assistant Executive Councilor of Psi Omega. He and his wife, Mary Ann, were married in 1946. After graduation, he remained at Columbia in a research capacity for two years through a Stern grant conducting research on precision attachments. Upon completion of this work, he then went on the full-time teaching staff and has been an assistant professor since 1952. Since this time, Dr. Lucca has been giving an ever increasing number of lectures, clinics and courses and will be a member of the group who will lecture at t he International Dental Congress in Rome this coming August. This year, Dr. Lucca is celebrating his tenth anniversary as a dentist. The past ten years have been fruitful ones for the Luccas. They attribute their success and good luck to having four daughters (Diane, Eileen, Denise and Nancy). We, the senior class, feel certain Dr. Lucca will continue to grow in professional stature in the years to come. Faster than a speeding bullet Lucca ' s corner Family portrait

Page 11 text:

Congratulations to the Class of 1957 upon successful completion of the course of study in Dentistry. It has been a long, difficult and, we trus t, a worthwhile experience. Columbia, as in all fields, has endeavoured to establish an excellence in dental education of which she and you can be proud. In you is embodied the measure of her success. Beginning with the biological sciences you have been given a broad base upon which to build professional experience. A sound train- ing in the techniques of restorative dentistry prepared you for early clinical activities. The biological sciences were integrated and cor- related with the clinical aspects of dentistry giving you an appreciation of the relation of the oral cavity to the human body in its en- tirety. Training in the diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases, the preservation of oral tissues and in the preventive phases of dental treatment have given you the means of meet- ing the responsibility of a practitioner of an important health service. This foundation in the biological sciences and in clinical dentistry represented by the four years of training that you have completed is only a beginning to the career that you have selected. To continue to meet your obligations to mankind you must keep abreast of develop- ments in your chosen field. Dentistry is enter- ing upon an era of intensive research and this seeking of scientific truths will add greatly to the profession ' s knowledge. It will be incum- bent upon you to assimilate these findings and put them to practical clinical use. Your in- terest should be broad, thus keeping you informed on all phases of dentistry. Giving of his knowledge Sincere norker o ur prayer that God may look with favor upon his future efforts goes to Gilbert P. Smith, D.D.S. Associate Dean Smith has in the past shown him- self to be an outstanding clinician, a devoted edu- cator and a respected leader in the dental profession. But, more than this, he is a sincere man who asks for no more than he himself is willing to give.