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

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Stomatology; also in this year made an Honorary member of the New Jersey State Dental Society. In 1906 he was elected Professor of Operative Dentistry, Dental Pathology and Therapeutics in the Dental Department of the MedicoChirurgical College, Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was elected an Honorary member of the Southern Dental Society of New Jersey, also a member of the Academy of Stomatology, Philadelphia. In 1911 he was elected an Honorary member of the North Philadelphia Association of Dental Surgery. In 1916 he became Professor of Operative Dentistry, Dental Pathology and Therapeutics in the Dental Department of the University of Pennsylvania under the terms of the merger of the Medico Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, Pa. In 1917 he became an Honorary member of the Georgia State Dental Society. ' In 1918 he was elected Professor of Operative Dentistry in the Philadelphia Dental College, which position he still holds. In 1923 he became a member of the Philadelphia Dental Society. Dr. Faught is a member of the Psi Omega Dental Fraternity. Dr. Faught had the degree of F.A.C.D. conferred upon him at Minneapolis, August, 1928—the highest degree to be attained by any practitioner of Dentistry. When the request came to me to write something for the Record of 1929, I certainly was made the victim of mingled feelings of astonishment and gratitude. That poor me should be so honored made declination impossible, but what could 1 write? The Committee suggested that something of the history of the school would be acceptable. My long service with the College made it seem possible. My thought is to do this in such manner that those who read between the lines may cull from the message a help to govern their own individual lives. Utterances indulged in under circumstances like this afford little opportunity for original observation, and indeed are regarded by many as mere platitudes having little or no meaning. To begin with, I desire to say it has been delightful to establish a relation of friendship with such a body of young men. To feel in my own heart a kindly glow of interest in your aspirations, and to believe that from each bosom there has been a flow of warm interest toward me in its emotions. It is a high and noble privilege to have led such a band. To one who recognizes the grave responsibilities of a teacher there is always a powerful sense of responsibilities devolving. Sir Thomas Watson has said, “Doctrines and maxims, good or bad, flow abroad from a teacher as from a fountain, and his faulty lessons may become the indirect source of incalculable mischief and suffering to hundreds that never heard his voice. Impressed by this, my aim has ever been to avoid a dogmatic manner, and rather to teach you to study, to observe, to think for yourselves and never to be blind followers of authority. Knowledge does not come to the dreamer, or skillful manipulation to the idler. Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son wrote, “When at church do not think of the young lady you danced with at the ball, and when at the ball do not think of the last sermon you heard. He meant Eight

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L. Ashley Faught, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. AS horn at Atlanta, Georgia, March 29th, 1857. He is the son of Luther Reynolds Faught and Mary Jane Faught, of Sidney, Maine. He received his early education in the Public Schools of Philadelphia, graduating from the Senior Class of Lincoln Grammar School in 1872, immediately entering the West Penn Square Academy, primarily for the purpose of acquiring knowledge in Greek and Latin. From this Academy he graduated in 1874, receiving the silver medal and acting as Valedictorian of the class. He entered the Philadelphia Dental College in 1873, graduating in February, 1877, receiving the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Almost immediately after his graduation he began the practice of Dentistry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Odontographic Society of Pennsylvania. In 1878 he became one of the organizers of the first “Dental Quiz in the City of Philadelphia; also in this year was elected Demonstrator of Physiology and Dental Histology in the Philadelphia Dental College and Curator of its Museum. Dr. Faught delivered in this year the first graded course of lectures on Microscopy and Dental HiS' tology ever given in any Dental College. In 1879 he was elected to a Lectureship on Physiology in the Philadelphia Dental College. In 1881 he published a com pend of Physiology. In 1882 he was elected President of the Odontographic Society of Pennsylvania. In 1883 he served as Dentist to the Presbyterian Orphanage. In 1884 he served as Dentist to the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, Radnor, Pa. In 1885 he became Editor of the Dental Practitioner. In 1886 he was one of the organizers of the Philadelphia County Dental Society In 1887 he was elected a member of the Odontological Society of Pennsylvania, also a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Dental Surgeons, and a member of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society. In 1890 he was made President of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society. In 1891 he was elected a corresponding member of the First District Society of the State of New York. In 1892 he was elected an honorary member of the Maryland State Dental Association. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Pennsylvania State Dental Examining Board, becoming its President in 1896. In 1894 he was elected President of the National Board of Dental Examiners, also in this year he was elected a member of the American Dental Association. In 1895 he was elected an Honorary member of the Alumni Association of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery; also in this year an Honorary member of the Central Dental Association of Northern New Jersey. In 1898 he was elected an Associate member of the New York Institute of Seven

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do not be absent-minded. Whether at work or pleasure, have your mind concentrated on what you are doing. Edmund Burke, Bortian’s great orator, has said, Facts are to the mind what food is to the body, and upon the due digestion of these depends the strength of one and the vigor of the other. You cannot be devotees of science and followers of pleasure at the same time. Goethe has said, That you may spend in some direction, you must save in others. I desire also to commend to your reading the seventh chapter of Proverbs. What has been written in the foregoing embodies the principles and character istics which motivated the men who founded the Philadelphia Dental College. I know because I knew them all intimately and personally. I am handing it along to you to whom the future of the College must now be committed. John H. McQuillen conceived the idea in 1862 of founding the Philadelphia Dental College, formed a Faculty, and in November, 1863, opened lectures. This Faculty functioned, with some few changes, until 1870. From this date until 1878 no changes occurred. In 1879 Dean McQuillen died and was succeeded in turn by Prof. D. D. Smith, James E. Garrctson, and Simeon Guilford. During an interregnum caused by the illness of Dean Guilford, Dr. Leo. Grecnbaum acted as Dean. Under these successive administrations the College flourished and gave marked evidence of a progressive institution furnishing the public with some three thousand graduates. In 1907 the school affiliated with Temple University. The College was originally located on the Northwest Corner of Tenth and Arch Streets, but in 1887 moved to Eighteenth and Cherry Streets. At a still later period, 1896, it went to Eighteenth and Button-wood Streets, where at present it is still located. Starting its organization when there were but three other dental schools in the country, it has steadily progressed, witnessing the passing out of these three original companions, and is now the oldest dental school in existence. Its progress has been marked by a constant advancement. Students from every civilized country in the world have studied within its portals. It was the first school to include a course in Oral Surgery in its curriculum. During Prof. Gar-rctson's service it established the Garretson Hospital, devoted to the treatment of lesions and diseases of the mouth and teeth through the medium of Oral Surgery. During the regime of Prof. McQuillen it had a graded course in Histology and Microscopy, being the first in this field, now a required subject in all dental teaching. The Philadelphia Dental College has the unique experience of founding the Medico-Chirurgical College—a Medical College founded by a Dental College. In 1918 the present Dean, I. N. Broomcll, succeeded Dr. Guilford and took charge of the ever-enlarging and progressing dental school. Throughout its whol? existence the school has verified a statement of Robert Louis Stevenson, The true happiness of mankind is not to arrive, but to travel. A statement true of colleges, as of individuals, for all life is an adventure in becoming. Man's life is a succession of striving toward goals near or remote. Lay to your hearts this lesson drawn from the life of your Alma Mater. Life is very simple. It merely consists in learning how to accept the impossible, how to do without the indispensable. how to endure the insufferable. The man who made this statement inquires, What could be more simple? My question is not. what could be more simple? but, what is most desirable in life? Disraeli answers, A continued grand procession from manhood to the tomb. Sincerely, Nine L. Ashley Fauoht.