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

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NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY ONE THIRD TRIMESTER: February 27 - Ma y 19 (11 Week. — — 1 1 — i :

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Waddaya mean they feel a little bulky?

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HISTORY thetics LecU (7-207) Surgery Lect. (7-207) rosthetics w Bridge Clinic Surgical Prosthesis Lecu 10-11 (7-207) (8-Lab.) 10-12:45 ■rative Clinic sc. A, B, D dontics Clinic Sec. C Operative Clinic Sec. A, B, C • Pedodontics Clinic Sec. A The pre-game ceremonies began sometime in Sep- tember, 1957, with grand pep talks from distinguished members of the pre-clinical coaching staff. To many of the forty members of the team who suddenly found themselves at the kick-off of their chosen profession, these words at that time may have seemed to be unre- lated to a dental career. What did all this forthcoming study of kidney and liver cells have to do with a tooth- ache? Who cared about the anatomy of the gluteus maximus? (From a dental standpoint. ) At any rate, we tried power plays to get through microscopic anatomy but injuries ran rampant. Thanks to a good trainer and coach everyone survived with nothing more than badly bruised stratified squamous epithelium and protruding eyeballs. Many a ligament was torn in gross anatomy but fortunately the age of our opponents made it easy to score. We were playing the belly series at the right time but the head and neck plays may have served us better later in the game. The opposition was tough, however, and it kept throwing in such razzle-dazzlers as embryology, biochemistry, and some strange options such as dental anatomy, C and B, and operative, just to give us a hint of what was to come. During a couple of time-outs the coach sent in neuroanatomy and dental materials but our signals got crossed somewhere in the pons and the referee tossed in a gutta percha football. The first period ended with several of the boys stagger- ing from exhaustion brought on from breaking training and one was knocked so senseless he left to study Greek. All of us had heard from the shock troops who had played this game before that the second period was the roughest, toughest, and meanest, and anyone who let up for a minute would be carried out of the Dean ' s office on his burlew. It started out in typical fashion with broken down handpieces, centuries-old slides, and worn out Joe Dandys. Microbiology had us running laterally across the field so all we could do was punt and hang on. It was at this point that the other team used dirty tactics and completely ruined our cultures, not to men- tion the poor rabbits who gave up their carrots to prove virus pneumonia was intimately connected with caries. About midway in the second period the opponents pulled out all stops and hit the team with everything but Pierre Fauchard ' s denture in the form of pharma- cology. They even went so far as to call signals in some strange language at times. Our offense bogged down completely and our bodies were spewing out acetylcho- line instead of epinephrine, adrenergic nerves became cholinergic, smooth muscle became striated, and signals became completely botched up in the sympathetic cen- tral autonomics. 25