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

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t THf STUFF T H magnificent for the time, for they appeared in italics. By 1887, though, the school had grown so that larger and better quarters were found necessary, and so the Philadelphia Dental College was moved to Cherry Street below 18th Street where it was associated with the Medico-Chirurgical College. Here, the school continued to grow in prominence, so that once more the need for expansion was felt. Then, in 1896, grounds were purchased at 18th and Buttonwood Streets and a new school building was erected in 1897. The new building having a frontage of 200 feet ori Buttonwood Street with a clear and unobstructed northern light, and its equipment were considered the most modern and up-to-date building for the teaching of dentistry at that time! Even at this time further growth of the institution necessitated the erection of the hospital building located on Hamilton Street adjoining the college. In 1907 the Philadelphia Dental College and Gorretson Hospital of Oral Surgery were by mutual agreement, taken over by Temple University. Since then, the only change in the physical make-up of the school concerned the conversion of the building occupied by the Garretson Hospital to the laboratories for the pre-clinical sciences taught in the dental school. 1947 marks the Golden Anniversary of our present Building. Philadelphia Dental College has remained at its present site longer than at any other location. For many years it has been apparent that, our school has required greater physical facilities. After half a century, under the aegis of Dean Timmons, they are being acquired. Let's peek into the future and see what the new school” holds in store. The new home of Temple University School of Dentistry is to be on Broad Street, north of Allegheny Avenue and just a little more than a square south of Temple Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine. The building contains 200.000 square feet of floor space—about four times the present floor space. The front of the four-story building is of limestone while the sides and rear are of brick. The main entrance will be on Brood Street. Immediately within the main entrance will be a large lounge and reception room for visitors. It will have a tile floor and a small decorative pool in the center. Administrative offices for the Dean and his staff will be located to the right of the reception room. A dental museum will be locoted adjacent to and connected with the reception room.

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Todoy this building exists substantially the same at S28 Arch Street. After four sessions conflict between the faculty and the corporators on a motter of ethics resulted in the resignation of the entire faculty and the first dentol school in Philadelphia closed its doors. However, the retiring faculty with the exception of one, reorganized the school, renamed it the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, and located it at the old site. Nevertheless, in the fall of 1862, Dr. John Hugh McQuillen, then holding the class of Operative Dentistry and Physiology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, resigned from the faculty and began working to secure a charter for the dental school in Philadelphia. Despite considerable opposition from within the profession and certain outside sources, he was finally able to obtain a charter and the Philadelphia Dental College, locoted at 108-110 North Tenth Street, come into existence in 1863. An Annual Announcement of the school at the time proudly proclaimed that The Clinical Department, or Dispensary, consists of two large operating rooms, each fifty feet in length (lighted by twenty windows and a large skylight) ... These dimensions were apparently I I r a A FI

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DREAMS ARE MADE Directly behind the reception room, in the centrol port of the first floor, will be on ouditorium. with sloping floor, seating 800. There will be a stoge and projection devices for audio-visual education. A 40.000 volume library will be located to the left of the auditorium. Here, reading desks will accomodate up to 300 students. Stack space will be ample, and a bindery which will serve the entire University will adjoin the library. The clinical facilities will all be located on the second floor. The patients’ entrance is to be on the south side of the building and the reception room will be on he second floor. Also on this floor will be a diagnostic center connecting directly with the department of Radiodontia. The new children's clinic, expanded to include 24 chairs, will be on the south side of the second floor. Adjacent to it will be a separate clinic for Orthodontics. Completing the roster of facilities on this floor will be the Oral Hygiene School with a 35 chair clinic, laboratories, lecture rooms, and administrative offices; as well as practical clinic laboratory to serve the main adult clinic. On the third floor there will be laboratories for teaching Prosthetic Dentistry. crown and bridge prosthesis, and operative Dentistry at the pre-clinical level. A large well equipped casting room will be located here. A special feature of this section will be a laboratory designed specifically for Ceramics. On the north side of the third floor will be five lecture rooms, each with seating capacity for 125 students, and equipped with facilities for audiovisual education. Connecting with lecture rooms will be a preparation room where the lecturer may organize his material, slides, etc. This floor will also contain a number of seminar rooms to be used for group teaching, refresher and graduate courses. On the south side of the third floor will be the laboratories for the departments of Physiology. Histology and Pathology. Bacteriology. Physiological Chemistry, and Pharmacology. Auxiliary rooms and facilities for research will be provided for these departments. The fourth floor will contain a cafeteria capable of seating 320 persons and a Faculty dining room. We see. then, that our new school will have facilities to make it the most up-to-date dental educational institution. The future of Temple University School of Dentistry is indeed glorious. Once ogain we salute the new school and the man so instrumental in the realization of a dream, our Dean. Dr. Gerald D. Timmons.