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As you of the Class of ''♦7 take your leave, I war.t to give you one more task. Yours Is probably the last class that will be graduated from the Dental School as you always have known It. The physical facilities of that school no longer are adequate either for the exacting demands of the profession or for the high standards that are Temple's. This building soon will be relinquished for another structure, newly equipped, that will be as imposing, as spacious, and as modern In its every specification as anything in the field of dental education. Even so, the new probably will never have quite the place In your affection as does the old. Professionally, you have grown up In these environs. Courts and cor-ldors, clinics and laboratories are as familiar to you as the layout of your own home, and the walkways, streets, and student rendezvous of the neighborhood are like old friends. There is a beauty In familiarity that grows core beautiful as time goes by. Members of your faculty and your administrative officers feel that way. too. Every nook and cranny here is a repository of traditions and memories which no architect or craftsman can transplant. These are qualities of the spirit that can be carried over to the new only by human.mind and heart. That is where you come in. I want the Class of ,l»7 to be a link between our past and our future. You are products of the old Dental School, and because you are, I want you to bring to us that part of the old that cannot be moved by van or cartage. You already are bound to the new by your remembrance of its faculty and by your past association and friendships with many who will be its students. I hope you can spare time from what will be a busy and successful career to come to us often in this new home. Come not as a visitor but as a member of the family. Examine our new equipment. See the auditorium, library, museum, lounges, dlnlne hall, laboratories lecture halls. We want you to know that all of this is yours, too. You are part of it. o«’tct ot m miioiNT Temple University eMlLAOELWMIA aa. wa. Robert L. Johnson PRESIDENT
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY 1600 SPRING GARDEN STREET PHILADELPHIA 30. PA. price or rut oxapp TO THE CLASS OF 19 »7» It is with mixed emotions that I write this message to the Class of 19 7. There is a feeling of joy, for you, for having reached the goal which you have sought for so many years, yet there is a feeling of sorrow in seeing you leave because we have been through much together. In October, 19 3 you began your professional education In a sea of turmoil. The whole world was engaged in bloody conflict, all thoughts were centered on the preservation of our way of life, yet you as students were expected to concentrate on the work at hand. The school was undergoing a process of change in an attempt to place it In accord with the altered philosophy of dental education. All of this resulted in confusion, in spite of which you did a good job, and for which I salute you. Finally, the bottles were over and again it became necessary for you to shift your plans. Again you accommodated yourselves to the change in splendid fashion. This could only help to serve as good training because as you proceed in your professional career you will constantly be reminded that to remain static is to retrogress. I am proud of you because you have already begun to learn this lesson and you have done it the hard way. There is much ahead for all of us. You are about to embark on your professional career and the school is about to embark on a new era in Its history. After 82 years of service to humanity, fifty of which have been in the present location, we are looking forward to the occupancy of our new building. If the plans, as laid, are carried out I can promise you that you will be proud to be a graduate, but it takes more than a building to make an Alma Mater. I pledge you that we will exert every effort to make our school outstanding. My pledge, however, is worthless unless we have an Interested Alumni and herein lies your responsibility. To have reached the place the school now occupies, sacrifices have had to be made by interested parties. If It were not for these sacrifices you, perhaps, might never have received your dental education. Because of this you have an Implied, yes an actual obligation, to see to it that the future dental education for others is assured. You do your part and the Faculty and Administration will do theirs. Together we can go far. As you leave, cay I wish for each of you unlimited success. Sincerely yours, G. D. Timmons DEAN
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