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

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DR. FREDERIC JAMES, L.M.M.S.S.A., D.D.S. Faculty Adviser 12

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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

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TO 11 IE CLASS OF 194( For four years you have strived to attain the goal which this year has culminated in the realization of your dreams. These years have been exacting in many respects, but the reward which comes to you on this occasion has been fully earned, and it goes without saying that your faculty is justly proud to have you numbered among its ranks of professional men and women, and we hope that you will carry the banner of your Alma Mater, by becoming active Alumni in the growth of Temple University Dental School. Always remember that year by year changes will be effected to main-tain the highest standards in education that you will be proud, as you are now, to say that, “I am a Temple graduate. ' These four years have been stepping stones to a splendid professional career, and you are to be congratulated on the profession you have chosen. It is truly said that our knowledge of the sciences is inversely as our direct interest in them. Whatever you have learned is the foundation upon which to build additional knowledge by association with your fellow men. When the ordinary uneducated man speaks his thoughts in simple, straightforward language, perfectly intelligible to his companions, whose minds arc as healthy and act as naturally as his own, he is not forced into a straight jacket of technicalities. You who are educated and lettered have earned the right in your profession to practice a very important branch of the healing art and to be a credit to your respective communities. To have been your adviser during the past two years has been an honor 1 deeply appreciate and my wish at this time, since you end your student days, and become men in the Practice of Dentistry is to offer you the hand of friendship and wish you all the success in the world. You have earned it for the many sacrifices made both by you and your parents. May God bless your future. 13 F. James, Class Adviser, 1940