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

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T)r. Johnson’s Message A T THE close of a school year that has been marked with difficulties for education everywhere, I greet with pride the students who have persevered through the distractions of troubled days to achieve their goal. Dental surgeons, like physicians, are necessary both to military and civilian defense, a fact to which your government has given recognition. This places under heavy responsibility you who are being graduated this year from the School of Dentistry. Even though you never fire a gun, you may regard yourself as being in the first line of defense. This precious quality that we term morale rests in part on health, and you are one of its guardians. Health is as vital to an army as its weapons, it is as important to war industry as its tools. You, along with practitioners of the other healing arts, must protect it. The diploma that Dental graduates receive is evidence that you have the skill to do this, and the pcrsistance with which you have sought your education shows that you have the will to do it. You may be sure that your University is proud of you, as it is of those who for so many years have gone out from the School of Dentistry, for the service which you will offer, in peace or war, to human health and welfare. As your University President, 1 shall hear with pleasure of your individual successes, and I wish you a full measure of happiness. Robert L. Johnson. 17

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DR. ROBERT L. JOHNSON President of Temple University I)r. Johnson graduated from the Taft School in 1914. He then attended Vale I'nivcrsity where, 1918. he became one of the organizers of the Vale Batteries which later developed into the first important K. 0. T. C. unit in the United States. He left Yale in the spring of his Junior year to serve with the armed forces and after receiving a commission at Plnttsburg, he went to Europe for further training and was then assigned to the First Division. Shortly after the war. Dr. Johnson joined a small group and became one of the founders of Time magazine and he became the first President of that corporation. In 1935 Dr. Johnson took a year's leave of absence to become Belief Administrator in Governor George Earle’s cabinet for one year. At this time he reorganized the relief administration in the State of Pennsylvania. After the year passed he returned to Time, Inc. to help establish tAfe magazine. Dr. Johnson has written a number of magazine articles, the best known being “A Business Man Looks at Relief.” This article appeared in several issues of the Saturday Evening Post early in 1936. In 1937 Dr. Johnson was elected President of the National Civil Service Reform League where, for three years, he directed a drive particularly in state governments, toward developing the merit system in legislation. Dr. Johnson has been and is now, a Trustee of the Boys' Club of New York which is the first boys’ club to have been founded in the country. 16

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C. BARTON ADDIE, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. Dean of Temple Dental School Professor of Crown and Bridge and Orthodontia 18