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

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In 1X65 Professors Kingsbury and Morton resigned, and were succeeded by Dr. Geo. V. Ellis and Alfred R. Leeds. A. M. In 1866 Professor Kllis resigned and Professor King bury resumed his former chair. In 1867 Professor Wardcll resigned, and Dr. D. 1). 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. Dr. James E Garretson was chosen incumbent of the former and Dr. Harrison Allen of the latter. In the following year. 1868, Professor Garretson and Leeds resigned, and Dr. S. B. Howell was elected to succeed Professor Leeds. 1S69 Professor Kingsbury resigned his chair and was made Emeritus Professor, and Dr. T. C Stellwagcn was chosen his successor. In rS;o Professor Flagg resigned his chair, and it 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 Professor Garretson resumed his chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. I Icnry I. Door was nude Adjunct Professor of Practical Dentistry. In 1879 the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics was established. Professor Flagg was chosen to fill it. Owing to the lamented death of Professor McQuillcn during this year, some changes in the chairs were nude necessary. Professor Stellwagcn succeeded Professor 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 Professor H. I Door was chosen to fill it. In 1831 Professor Smith resigned, and Dr. S. II. Guilford was elected incumbent of the chair of Operative and Prosthetic Dentistry. In 1889 Professor Door's chair was changed to that of Practical Dentistry, Anaesthesia and Anars-thetics. From then until the death of Professor Garretson, in October, 1895. a period of fourteen years no changes occurred, but after his death Dr. II. C. Boenning was elected to the chair of Anatomy and Surgery, and Dr. M. H. Ayer, for many years the assistant of Professor Garretson. was chosen Adjunct Professor of Oral Surgery. Iu January. 1896, Professor S. II. Guilford was elected Dean of the Faculty. In the spring of the same year, Professors Door and Flagg, resigned ow ing to ill health. Dr. Leo

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Greeiibuum was thereupon chosen to succeed Professor Door, and the chair changed to include Materia MciJica, Anesthetics and Odontotechny. Dr. II, II. Burchard was also chosen to fill the place of Dr. Flagg and made Special Iectureron Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. After serving the school most acceptably for three years. Dr. Burchard's failing health compelled Ins resignation. In October. i8r », Dr. Ayer resigned to accept a position in the Dental Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In May, 189:1, Dr. A. II. Thompson, of Topeka. Kansas, and Dean of the Kansas City Dental College, was chosen to succeed Dr. Kurchard, and the chair was extended to include Comparative I )ental Anatomy. 1.1 May, 1900, Dr. Thompson resigned, to resume his former professorship in the Kansas City Dental College: and Dr. Otto E. highs was elected Special Lecturer on Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. In October, 1901. Dr. Boom succeeded Dr. L. It. Howell, who became Professor Emeritus ot Chemistry, Physics and Metallurgy. At this time also Dr. Otto E. Inglis was elected to the chair of Dental Pathology and Therapeutics. Few changes have occurred in the Dcanship of the institution. Professor McQuillcn held the position from the establishment of the school in 1869 until his death in 1879. lie was succeeded by Professor Smith, who held the office for two years. Professor Garrctson assumed the office in 1881. and retained it until his death. 189$; after which Professor 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 lion. James Pollock. LL. D.cx Governor of Pennsylvania, who retained the office during the remainder of his life; after which Gen. James A Beaver, LL D.. ex Governor of Pennsylvania, was elected to the Presidency . which position he Mill so worthily fills. At the time of the incorporation of the Philadelphia Denial 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 nrc in the United States more than fifty instituti ms in which dentistry is regularly taught, with a total yearly attendance of about five thou —19-