Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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WM. KAV. D.D.S. Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry © PRANK PAYMENT Assistant Demonstrator of Dental Technics R. W. VAN WAGNER Assisimit Demonstrator of Dental Technic It. K I.ATUAM Assistant Demonstrator of Porcelain WolL COMUY SHOEMAKER Faculty Clerk HENRY A KLT2. D.U.S Demonstrator of Operative Dentistry 16

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Dr. McQuillen was elected Dean and held that office continuously until his death. In 1865. Profs. Kingsbury and Morton resigned and were succeeded by Dr. Geo. W. Ellis and Alfred R. Leeds, A.M. In 1866, Prof. Ellis resigned and Prof. Kingsbury resumed his former chair. In 1867, Prof. Warden resigned and Dr. D. D. Smith was elected to succeed him. The same year two new Chairs were created, one of Principles and Practice of Surgery and the other of Anatomy. D. James E. Garretson was chosen encumbent of the former, and Dr. Harrison Allen of the latter. In the following year. 1868, Profs. Garretson and Leeds resigned and Dr. S. B. Howell was elected to succeed Prof. Leeds. In 1869. Prof. Kingsbury resigned his chair and was made Emeritus Professor, and Dr. I. (.. Stellwagen was chosen as his successor. In 18 0. Prof. Flagg resigned and his chair was divided among the others. Thus far some change had taken place in the personnel of the Faculty each year but one. During the succeeding eight years no change occurred, but in 1878 Prof. Garretson resumed his chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. Henry I. Door was made Adjunct Professor of Practical Dentistry. In 1879. the cltair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics was established, and Prof. Flagg was chosen to till it. Owing to the lamented death of Professor McQuillen during this year, some changes in the chairs were made necessary. Prof. Stellwagen succeeded Prof. McQuillen in the chair of Physiology, and his former chair of Operative Dentistry was united to that of Mechanical Dentistry. At the same time a new chair of Clinical Dentistry was established and Prof. H. I. Door chosen to till it. In 1881. Prof. Smith resigned and Dr. S. H. Guilford was elected incumbent of the chair of Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry. In 1889, Prof. Door’s chair was changed to that of Practical Dentistry. Ana;$thesia and Anesthetics. Front then until the death of Prof. Garretson in October. 1895. a period of fourteen years, no changes occurred, but after his death, Dr. H. C. Boenning was elected to the chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. M. H. Cryer. for many years the assistant of Prof. Garretson. was chosen Adjunct Professor of Oral Surgery. In January, 1896. Prof. S. H. Guilford was elected Dean of the Faculty. •5

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In the Spring of the same year, Profs. Door and Flagg resigned, owing to ill health. Dr. Leo Greenbaum was thereupon chosen to succeed Prof. Door, and the chair changed to include Materia Medica, Anaesthesia and Odontotechny. Dr. H. H. Burchard was also chosen to till the place of Dr. Flagg and made Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. After serving the school most acceptably for three years, Dr. Burchard’s failing health compelled his resignation. In October, 1896, Dr. Cryer resigned to accept a position in the dental department of the University of Pennsylvania. In May, 1899. Dr. A. H. Thompson, of Topeka. Kansas, and Dean of the Kansas City Dental College, was chosen to succeed Dr. Burchard. and the chair was extended to include Comparative Dental Anatomy. In May, 1900. Dr. Thompson resigned to resume his former professorship in the Kansas City Dental College. and Dr. Otto E. Inglis was elected Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. Few changes have occurred in the Deanship of the Institution. Prof. McQuilien held the position from the establishment of the school in 1863 until his death in 1879. He was succeeded by Prof. Smith, who held the oflice for two years. Prof. Garretson assumed the oflice in 1881 and retained it until his death. 1895. after which Prof. Guilford, the present incumbent was elected to the position. The College has witnessed but few changes in the Presidency of the Board of Trustees. The first incumbent was Rev. Richard Newton, D.D. At his death he was succeeded by the Hon. James Pollock. LL.D., ex-Govemor of Pennsylvania, who retained the oflice during the remainder of his life, after which Gen. James A. Beaver, LL.D., cx-Govemor of Pennsylvania, was elected to the Presidency, which position he still so worthily tills. At the time of the incorporation of the Philadelphia Dental College there were but three other Dental Schools in the country, one in Cincinnati, one in Baltimore and one in Philadelphia, with a combined attendance of less than one hundred students. To-day there are in the United States more than fifty institutions in which Dentistry is regularly taught, with a total yearly attendance of about five thousand students. 17