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

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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end- But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill, November, 1942 At this moment in our lives, as at all others, past, present and future are thoroughly interwoven. On graduation, we cannot help but regard our formal edu- cation as being a part of our past. But what is past is prologue. This is especially true of education, which must be dynamic and never-ending. We are, of course, intimately concerned with the present. Our marriages, our homes, our practices are all of immediate personal import. As for the future, all the plans that we are carefully and hopefully formulating are for the future, so that we will have our say in influencing the course of our profession. Research is for future application. Our work would have no meaning if it were not to be continued into the future. Progress is of essence to dentistry, and progress implies nothing if it does not imply future. A sense of history, of continuity of time, is built into each of us. It is our reason and our excuse for being what we are. We need a sense of one-ness with time past and the time to come. We must realize that the past has made us what we are, and that upon us now is the responsibility of providing a basis for new worlds. We are conscious that our chosen profession is, like the world, dynamic, not static; that 7U ' ™ s foundation. fFHtrrimy I v L rl M. ' s potential and TOMORROW s promise

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I MORTON SOBEL Editor-in-chief RICHARD S. TURNER Photography Editor MICHAEL H. ROGOW Business Editor PAUL J. HOFFMAN Literary Editor MICHAEL C. WOLF Associate Literary Editor DAVID M. SCHLESER Layout Editor DR. JOSEPH C. DE LISI Faculty Advisor c o L u M B I 1963

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are no more separable than foundation, potential and promise of an individual. They are integral and play upon each other. It would be as useless to try to separate them as would an attempt to separate the art from the science of dentistry. Yet professions are not like individuals. An individual is born, grows, and dies. A profession — our profession — like Topsy, just grows. Perhaps it is because we can clearly visualize neither beginning nor end that past, present and future seem to be united as one. We are only what we have been and can hope to be — no more. Thus we feel it is fitting that the theme of the 1963 Dental Columbian be entities of time: the that we have learned from; h TODAY that we live in; and the TOMORROW that we work toward.