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

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1 • tr • i iiik w f Dean M. L. Moss

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Gentlemen, you are now two weeks behind It was the opening of classes, and with those words, Dean Moss and the graduates of 25 years ago greeted the graduates of four years hence. Unfortunately, the words were true. If the entering freshmen were two weeks behind as school began, the formulation of the core curriculum was never more than a short jump ahead of us. Four years have now passed. They have been four years of trial, for us and the curriculum. They have been four years featuring many events. As significant as a school-wide strike brought on by our re- vulsion to the invasion of Cambodia and the resulting murders at Kent and Jackson State. As ridiculous as an ice-cream eating contest at which the apparent winner was stripped of his title for failing to retain all that he had consumed. It has been one year of grueling work, one year of running in place, and two years of trying to be- come decent clinicians before we are released on an unsuspecting public. We have been preached to and cursed at by a demanding staff for four years as THEY have tried to make us in THEIR images. They will now be looking over our shoulders only as much as our consci- ences allow. We have come a long way at Columbia, but like all grad- uates, we have a long way to go after we leave. For those of us who strive to reach the utmost of our capabilities, it seems like we will always be two weeks behind.

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m Assistant Dean Dr. George L. O ' Grady