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

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C. BARTON ADDIE, D.D.S.. F.A.C.D. Acting Associate Dean Professor of Orthodontia and Crown and Bridge Fourteen

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10 THE CLASS OF 1938 It is indeed a pleasure for me to inscribe these few lines in your yearbook since the relationship I have had with your class throughout the past four years has been pleasureable in the extreme. In my opinion each succeeding class which leaves this institution is in some way superior to its predecessors, and your class is by no means an exception. I have followed each one of you, tracing your record from the formative days of your freshman year to the present, marking each achievement and success, and have no doubt in expressing the opinion that the class of 1938 of Temple University Dental School will be a credit to the profession. Each one of you now stands at the doorway of his life's work, at the threshold of a profession which for a great many years has devoted itself to the service of mankind. Dentistry, as a specialty of the healing art, has made tremendous strides toward the conservation of human health. The responsibility for its continuation to do so rests upon your shoulders and you must cultivate a full understanding and thorough appreciation of dentistry's obligation to the community in order that you may aid in some measure the progress and advancement of dental science. As the class of the seventy-fifth year of this school's existence, I feel certain that you will carry on the fine traditions of your forbears and bring naught but honor to your alma mater. I give you my best wishes for a long, happy, fruitful career. I. NORMAN BROOMELL. Thirteen

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10 THE CLASS OF 1938 Again it is my privilege to wish to an outstanding group of deserving young men a hope for a self-satisfying future of public service devotion. In your chosen profession probably more than in any other is the opportunity for you to perform services which will enable humanity to enjoy the riches of health with which most of us are endowed. Keep this always in mind, for it is dentistry's prime purpose, as is true of all medicine, to aid Nature and to supplement Nature when such be the need. Upon arrival at this point in your respective careers you have undoubtedly become aware that the practice of good dentistry is unswerving devotion to Ideal. Unfortunately it is not man's lot that he shall always attain his goal. But if there is to be advancement and accomplishment there must b© an aim; mark you my confreres, that aim is your own choosing: aim high, aim low, but by all means aim. Your embarkation upon active practice comes at a period both disadvantageous and advantageous to you. Your public is concerned with economic frustrations from which they will emerge only by your efforts of impartial, honest, and personal interest. Yet your public is daily becoming more respectful of your possibilities and more dependent upon your ideals and ability to approach those ideals. Do not betray them for so much of their future comfort, peace of mind, and health literally lies in your hands. I wish you godspeed and among your memories of days at the school remember that the college is your home port, your return to which shall always be welcomed and where you shall always find gathered good friends to greet you. C. BARTON ADDIE, SR.. D.D.S.. F.A.C.D., Associate Dean. Fifteen