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

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Class History ISTOM is a methodical record ot important events which concern a community or organization. I will attempt to relate some ot the minor events in the history of the graduating class of Nineteen Hundred and One. Although this class is in itself a history, and holds a much exalted position, it was deemed advisable to enlighten our friends of its truly Wonderful significance by giving them an insight to a few ot the happy instances ot our record as a class. The demonstrators and faculty recognized our ability when we were embryonic dentists, and prophesied a great future for us, as a whole, and individually. This Class has always enjoyed the term • Leader.” and during our college career out members have been foremost in college sports as well as studies. We trace our existence from the first of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, when we entered college in our Freshman year. We were first confronted with whole cases of teeth to be sawed and tiled ; we also had to draw them, not by using force, but representations, to the best of our ability. After organization, as a class, we held a meeting tor the election of class officers for our Freshman year. The following were elected for the various positions: Thomas Longley, President: Frederick Cleeve, Vice-President; Miss Susan M. Skinner, Secretary, and William Petherbridge, Treasurer. 33

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Being freshmen, the rear seats in the lecture rooms were reserved for us, where we could busy ourselves by periodically carrying a Junior “ up ” and depositing him in the rear of the room. We were badly frightened and given a great deal of worry, wondering how we could commit to memory Doctor Stellwagen's two hundred words and several hundred stories. Dr. Frit?, ihen invited us to sojourn in his “ Skeleton Park.” situated on the roof, where we learned, in a few moments, to be expert meat carvers, and where we became famous explorers, looking for nerves, muscles and blood vessels, that seemingly did not exist, only in books of Anatomy. A gloom was cast over the class this year, as our beloved colleague and classmate. Mr. Ernest E. Hess, was taken away by our Creator. A committee was appointed, who sent appropriate resolutions, also flowers, to his home. The seat which he occupied in the lecture halls was draped in mourning to show our respect and bereavement. Being an enterprising class we intended to have amusement of our own. so. therefore, concluded that a rousing smoker where other things besides tobacco and pipes were to be had, would be the proper thing. The officers of the Junior and Senior classes were extended invitations, and were overjoyed at being remembered by such an organization as the Freshman Class. They accepted, with all due haste, and unanimously declared that it was the event of their college life. One of our Professors, Dr. Fritz, attended this smoker. At nine P. M. he received a call, but twelve P. M. found him still—smoking. We have since learned that his patient survived and did nicely. We were being continually overrun in our laboratory by the all-important Seniors, until we Anally concluded to eject one, Parker by name, and he is still moving, they say. The insignificant Junior Class will remember, with sorrow, the occasion we took to push Juniors, blackboard and all. through the door of a lecture room. They apologized to the Professor for passing out of the room so quickly and unceremoniously. Examinations were drawing near, and with warnings and terrible tales from the Junior and Senior classes we proceeded to enter the fray with our false teeth chattering and our knees shaking. It is needless to say we came from the battle royal with flying colors, and thereby ended our Freshmen year, the last of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. The second epoch of our career began the first of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, with some members missing and a few new faces. Some of the missing ones, who, by the way, were conditioned in certain »4