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

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JOHN J. LUCCA, D.D.S. Clinician Educator Friend

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to achieve and even surpass the high standards of his predecessors with less expense of effort. The Dentist, like all members of society, is guided in his endeavors by the usual obligations to himself, his family and mankind. But, because he has been awarded, through specialized study, the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, certain further obligations are imposed upon him. He is in a position to diagnose and treat specific diseases which are outside the realm of every other branch of the medical sciences. Since he has the duty to care for these problems, he must provide himself with knowledge and skill concomitant with the best that Dentistry can offer at any particular moment. The advances in research, these new machines, these new methods, are the fruits of the labors of men dedicated to the alleviation and ultimate eradication of disease. This is the end to which they should be applied. The Dentist must take cognizance of these findings and use them, not for excessive financial gain, but for the benefit of his patients. This is the ideal to which we of the Class of 1957 now dedicate ourselves. unish-bom Andre Uiant 1543 treatise on anatomy, I)e humani corporis fabrica. Wesel. belter known as Vesalius dared medieval prejudice against dissection and eliminated many ancient misconceptions.

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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