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

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I. Norman Broomell, D.D.S., L.L.D., F.A.C.D. Dean of the Dental School Professor of Dental Anatomy and Dental Histology 10

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IN APPRECIATION The Class of 1940 extends their gratitude to you in behalf of your outstanding accomplishments in the field of education and in due respect to the help that you have afforded to the advancement of dental education. 9

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m E S S A G E F R 0 m THE DEflll It is with a feeling of genuine pleasure that I comply with your request to contribute a few lines to be included in your Book of Memories. First, I offer my most hearty congratulations and express the hope that your professional life will be one of successful satisfaction. To achieve this, you should fully appreciate the significance of the term com' mencemcnt” as applied to the closing days of a college career. You should appreciate the fact that six years devoted to pre-professional and professional training has merely laid the foundation upon which your future success depends. You should not encourage the thought after having received the coveted degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery that your professional training is completed and that the future is secure. To ensure this, you should not cease to be a student. Modern Dentistry as it is and as it promises to be, affords to properly qualified and ambitious graduates every opportunity for professional growth and advancement. Also, it affords, as few professions do, the opportunity to satisfy the creative instinct which, in the last analysis, probably, is the greatest of human ambitions. You will find, in the practice of dentistry, a full expression for your faculties and you can look forward to a cultural, as well as a professional development. From the material standpoint, the present'day dental graduate, if well qualified and progressive, may be assured of an adequate living, which is especially true if he is willing to leave the crowded city and locate in a less thickly populated community. In the large cities, except in the outlying districts, competition is keener and while, in general, competition is the life of trade this applies more aptly to commercial rather than to professional life. In Dentistry, as in other professions, there is always room at the top and having reached this point, there are opportunities for specialization which are both financially rewarding and professionally satisfying. May the future have the best in store for each one of you. 11